The measure was enacted into law on December 8, 2004 ( P.L. The bill includes funding for the Department of the Interior (DOI), except for the Bureau of Reclamation (funded in Energy and Water Development Appropriations laws), and for some agencies or programs in three other departments—Agriculture, Energy, and Health and Human Services. Many controversial issues arose during consideration of the FY2004 Interior and related agencies appropriations bill. FY2005 Budget and Appropriations

		Current Overview

Annual appropriations for Interior and related agencies were included in P.L. 108-447 , the Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY2005. The law contains a total of $20.09 billion for Interior and related agencies, including two across-the-board rescissions in the law, of 0.594% and 0.80%. The total includes $493.1 million for emergency firefighting if certain conditions are met. 4568 , the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations bill for FY2005, was passed by the House (334-86) on June 17, 2004. The bill also contained $20.03 billion. H.R. On September 14, 2004, the Senate Committee on Appropriations reported its bill ( S. 2804 , S.Rept. 108-341 ) with $20.26 billion, including $500 million in supplemental fire funds. Both the House-passed and Senate Committee-reported bills reflected an increase over the President's FY2005 request ($19.69 billion), but a decrease from the FY2004 enacted level ($20.51 billion). Similarly, both the House-passed and Senate Committee-reported bills included $500 million for emergency firefighting for FY2005; emergency funds would become available if certain conditions are met. Prior to enactment of P.L. 108-447 , a series of continuing resolutions were enacted to provide temporary funding for FY2005 for Interior and related agencies. The FY2005 law includes changes to wild horse and burro management on federal lands. Yukon Flats Land Exchange

The appropriation for Land Acquisition provides funds to FWS for acquisition of lands for waterfowl habitat in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and the related conveyance of federal lands and interests in the Refuge to Doyon, Limited, an Alaska Native Corporation. These funding levels represent a slight increase over FY2004 levels. Another provision in the FY2005 law pertains to categorical exclusions for grazing. Other provisions were considered but not enacted. FY2005 funding for other fire operations totals $671.8 million, $17.4 million (3%) more than the Senate Appropriations Committee recommended, and $12.2 million (2%) less than the House-passed level. For FY2005, Congress enacted $138.1 million for NEH, a decrease of (3%) from the House-passed bill ($142.0 million) and of 15% from the FY2005 budget ($162.0 million), but an increase of 2% over the FY2004 appropriation and the Senate committee-reported bill (both $135.3 million). House Committee on Appropriations http://appropriations.house.gov/
Senate Committee on Appropriations http://appropriations.senate.gov/
CRS Appropriations Products Guide http://www.crs.gov/products/appropriations/apppage.shtml
Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/
General Accounting Office http://www.gao.gov
House Democratic Caucus http://www.dems.gov/
House Republican Conference http://www.gop.gov/
Office of Management and Budget http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
Senate Democratic Conference http://www.democrats.senate.gov/
Senate Republican Policy Committee http://rpc.senate.gov/

		Title I: Department of the Interior16

Department of the Interior (DOI) http://www.doi.gov/
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) http://www.blm.gov/nhp/index.htm
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) http://www.fws.gov/
Historic Preservation http://www2.cr.nps.gov/
Insular Affairs http://www.doi.gov/oia/index.html
Minerals Management Service (MMS) http://www.mms.gov/
National Park Service (NPS) http://www.nps.gov/
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) http://www.osmre.gov/osm.htm
Office of Special Trustee for American Indians http://www.ost.doi.gov/
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) http://www.usgs.gov/

		Title II: Related Agencies

			Departments

Agriculture, Department of (USDA) http://www.usda.gov/
Department of Agriculture: U.S. Forest Service http://www.fs.fed.us/
Energy, Department of (DOE) http://www.doe.gov/engine/content.do
Energy Budget http://www.mbe.doe.gov/budget/05budget/
Energy Conservation Programs http://www.eere.energy.gov/
Fossil Energy http://www.fe.doe.gov/
Naval Petroleum Reserves http://fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/npr/
Strategic Petroleum Reserve http://fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/spr/
Health and Human Services, Department of (HHS) http://www.dhhs.gov/
Indian Health Service (IHS) http://www.ihs.gov/

			Agencies

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation http://www.achp.gov
Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development http://www.iaiancad.org/
Institute of Museum and Library Services http://www.imls.gov/
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts http://Kennedy-Center.org/
National Capital Planning Commission http://www.ncpc.gov
National Endowment for the Arts http://arts.endow.gov/
National Endowment for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/
National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov/
Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu/
U.S.
The Interior and related agencies appropriations bill includes funds for the Department of the Interior (DOI), except for the Bureau of Reclamation, and for some agencies or programs within three other departments—Agriculture, Energy, and Health and Human Services. It also funds numerous related agencies. H.R. 4568, the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations bill for FY2005, was passed by the House (334-86) on June 17, 2004. The bill contained $20.03 billion. The Senate companion bill, S. 2804, was reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations (S.Rept. 108-341) on September 14, 2004 and would have provided $20.26 billion. Both the House passed and Senate committee-reported bills reflected an increase over the President's FY2005 request ($19.69 billion), but a decrease from the FY2004 enacted level ($20.51 billion). Both FY2005 bills included $500 million for emergency firefighting for FY2005, with emergency funds available if certain conditions are met.
FY2005 appropriations for Interior and related agencies ultimately were included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY2005 (P.L. 108-447; December 8, 2004). The law contains a total of $20.09 billion for Interior and related agencies, including $493.1 million for emergency firefighting if certain conditions are met. These figures reflect two across-the-board rescissions in the law, of 0.594% and 0.80%. The FY2005 total is a decrease of $424.6 million (2%) from the FY2004 level, but an increase of $403.3 million (2%) over the FY2005 request. Also, the FY2005 total is more than ($59.4 million, 0.3%) the House passed level, but less than ($167.3 million, 0.8%) the amount reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations. Prior to enactment of P.L. 108-447, a series of continuing resolutions were enacted to provide temporary funding for FY2005 for Interior and related agencies.
The House, Senate, and conference committee debated many controversial policy issues during consideration of FY2005 funding. They included the appropriate funding level for wildland fire fighting, land acquisition, and the arts; agency competitive sourcing activities; agency maintenance backlogs; Indian trust fund management; Outer Continental Shelf leasing; filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR); alteration of the Abandoned Mine Lands fund; snowmobiling in Yellowstone National Park; management of wild horses and burros on federal lands; categorical exclusions for grazing on Forest Service lands; and Missouri River management. Other contentious provisions related to lands and resources in Alaska, such as development of roads in the Tongass National Forest (AK); challenges to logging projects in Alaska; and an exchange of lands in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge (AK). Some of the controversial provisions (both general and Alaska related) were not enacted into law.