H.R. 8998 – Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025

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En blocs receive up to twenty minutes of debate. Standalone amendments receive up to 10 minutes of debate.

Green indicates amendments en bloc. Black indicates standalone amendments.

En Bloc #1, offered by Simpson (R-ID), ADOPTED BY VOICE

Adams (R-NC) – Amendment No. 1 – Increases and decreases funding to the African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Program by $3 million. Expresses support for funding at amount authorized to be appropriated 

Beyer (D-VA) – Amendment No. 5 – Increases and decreases funding for U.S. Geological Survey by $1 million to support a wildlife corridors mapping team 

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 12 – Transfers $2 million from the EPA Environmental Programs and Management account to the Holocaust Memorial Museum account 

Buchanan (R-FL) – Amendment No. 26 – Provides $1 million to the Prescott Grant Program to provide for more funding into the rescue and rehabilitation of manatees. Reduces funding for the DOI Office of the Secretary

Buchanan (R-FL) – Amendment No. 27 – Provides $1 million to the Environmental Protection Agency for continued research into the harmful health effects of harmful algal blooms 

Buchanan (R-FL) – Amendment No. 28 – Provides $2 million to the National Water Quality Program to bolster research into harmful algal blooms 

Budzinski (D-IL) – Amendment No. 29 – Increases and decreases funding for the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement by $1,000,000 to be used for mine subsidence prevention activities

DeSaulnier (D-CA) – Amendment No. 31- Increases funding for the funding for the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board by $1 million to support activities authorized under the Clean Air Act 

Dingell (D-MI) – Amendment No. 32 – Increases and decreases the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) by $82,000,000 

Dingell (D-MI) – Amendment No. 33 –  Increases and decreases EPA’s Brownfields Program funding by $9,708,000 to emphasize the need for increased investments to provide grants and technical assistance to communities, states, tribes, and others to assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse contaminated properties 

Duarte (R-CA) – Amendment No. 34 – Increases and decreases funding to the Environmental Programs and Management account of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study on whether any wastewater treatment plants are failing to comply with the Clean Water Act and associated federal regulations, including those related to point source pollution into major bodies of water, such as rivers, lakes, estuaries, and river deltas, and report its findings to Congress

Feenstra (R-IA) – Amendment No. 35 – Increases and decreases funding for EPA salaries by $1 million to emphasize that the EPA should not promulgate any new rules that would affect over 50% of American farmland without explicit congressional approval 

Garbarino (R-NY) – Amendment No. 36 – Increases and decreases funding for the National Recreation and Preservation Account by $15 million with the intent to provide $15 million for 9/11 Memorial Act grants 

Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) – Amendment No. 37 – Increases and decreases funding for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program Account to emphasize the critical importance of supporting our nation’s drinking water and wastewater infrastructure 

Gottheimer (D-NJ) – Amendment No. 38 –  Increases funding for the Holocaust Memorial Museum by $5 million to study Holocaust education efforts in public schools nationwide; determine which states and school districts require or do not require Holocaust education in their curriculum; determine which states and school districts offer optional Holocaust education; identify the standards and requirements schools mandate on this Holocaust education; identify the types and quality of instructional materials used to teach; and identify the approaches used by schools to assess what students learn 

Gottheimer (D-NJ) – Amendment No. 39 –  Increases and decreases funding to prohibit the National Park Service from designating any part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area as a National Park. 

Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) – Amendment No. 49 –  Increases and decreases funding by $3 million for the Department of the Interior Office of the Secretary for a Work Environment Survey for the Department of the Interior and all of its bureaus that will generate data that can be directly compared to the Work Environment Survey done at Interior and the National Park Service in 2017 by the Federal Consulting Group and the CFI Group. The survey is necessary to determine whether progress has been made after years of efforts by the Department to address sexual harassment, discrimination, and other workplace satisfaction issues, and to determine how to target resources for future efforts

Kennedy (D-NY) – Amendment No. 50 – Increases and decreases funding by $748 million for the State and Tribal Assistance Grant program 

Kennedy (D-NY) – Amendment No. 51 – Increases and decreases the U.S. Geological Survey by $81 million to ensure that research and monitoring activities for harmful algal blooms in freshwater bodies continue 

Lawler (R-NY) – Amendment No. 52 –  Increases and decreases funding for the Hazardous Substance Superfund with the intent of further comprehensive tests of water contaminants in the Lower Hudson River 

Lawler (R-NY) – Amendment No. 53 –  Provides a $5 million increase to the National Recreation and Preservation Account to support NPS Heritage sites nationwide, including the Maurice D. Hinchey Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area in the Hudson River Valley. Offset by a $5 million reduction to the DOI Office of the Secretary 

Lawler (R-NY) – Amendment No. 54 –  Provides a $5 million increase to the State and Tribal Wildlife Grants to protect and enhance the Atlantic Sturgeon population in the Hudson River. Offset by a $5 million reduction to the DOI Office of the Secretary 

Lawler (R-NY) – Amendment No. 55 –  Increases and decreases funding for the National Park Service to enhance outdoor recreational access to the Appalachian National Scenic Trail 

Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 58 – Increases FWS by $2 million to support the Delaware River Basin Restoration Program. Offset by a $2 million reduction to the Office of the Secretary

Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 59 – Increase rural water technical assistance authorized under the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Act by $4 million. Offset by a $4 million funding reduction to the Office of the Secretary

Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 60 – Increases the National Recreation and Preservation Account by $2 million to support NPS Heritage sites across the country, including the Erie Canal National Heritage Area in Upstate NY. Offset by a $2 million reduction to the Office of the Secretary

Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 61 – Increases and decreases State and Tribal Assistance Grant funding by $4 million to highlight the importance of the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund programs for assisting rural water systems 

Molinaro (R-NY) – Amendment No. 62 – Increases the Toxic Substances Superfund account by $13 million to support the cleanup and restoration of deeply contaminated sites across the country, including the Hudson River PCB Superfund Site. Offset with a $13 million reduction to the Science and Technology Account 

Moylan (R-GU) – Amendment No. 63 – Increases and decreases funds by $5 million made available to the Operation of the National Park System account of the National Park Service to allow for restoration and improvement projects of the War in the Pacific National Park in Asan, Guam, in commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Guam, and to honor those U.S. Service Members who made the ultimate sacrifice in the Battle of Guam between July 21, 1944, and August 10, 1944 

Moylan (R-GU) – Amendment No. 64 – Increases and decreases the funding made available under the Resource Management account of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide $1,000,000 in assistance to the Guam Department of Agriculture for programs supporting native bird species, university based fisheries research, and technical assistance and support 

Moylan (R-GU) – Amendment No. 65 –  Increases and decreases the State and Tribal Wildlife Grants account of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide critical funding for Guam’s native species conservation programs 

Moylan (R-GU) – Amendment No. 66 – Increases and decreases by $600,000 the Salaries and Expenses account of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to provide for a study on sites of cultural and historical significance across Guam and recommendations on the designation of such sites as National Historic Sites or National Historic Landmarks

Moylan (R-GU) – Amendment No. 67 – Increases and decreases by $1 million the appropriations made to the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund to emphasize the importance of the critical financial support provided under this account in conserving Guam’s endangered wildlife, including the Ko’ko’ (Guam Rail)

Moylan (R-GU) – Amendment No. 68 – Increases and decreases the Salaries and Expenses account of the Smithsonian Institution to emphasize the important role of the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in conserving Guam’s native species and to encourage deeper collaboration with the Guam Department of Agriculture, University of Guam, and other relevant agencies to conserve and protect Guam’s native species 

Moylan (R-GU) – Amendment No. 69 – Increases and decreases the salaries and expenses account of the Smithsonian Institution to encourage expanded procurement, display, and educational outreach detailing the indigenous cultures of the United States’ Pacific Islands, including the CHamoru culture, which is indigenous to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands 

Neguse (D-CO) – Amendment No. 70 –  Increases and decreases the EPA’s Environmental Programs and Management account by $12 million to support the EPA’s Office of Noise Abatement and Control

Neguse (D-CO) – Amendment No. 71 – Increases and decreases funding for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to highlight the additional funding needed to support these programs at the President’s Budget Request level 

Norton (D-DC) – Amendment No. 74 – Increases and decreases funding for the National Park Service’s operations account by $1 million to direct NPS to submit a report to Congress identifying statutes and regulations that inhibit active use of urban parks in the National Park System. Active use is defined as use that prioritizes current enjoyment by people and improves quality of life, and includes playgrounds, pedestrian- and bicycle friendly infrastructure, sports and recreation facilities, community events, programming, and concessions

Schweikert (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 86 – Increases funding at the Indian Health Service by $7 million for the Produce Prescription Pilot Program to ensure tribal communities have access to healthy food

Stanton (D-AZ) – Amendment No. 87 – Adds funds to the Indian Health Service with the intent to increase the salary of the Director to put them on par with the level of Assistant Secretary. This recognizes the importance of Indian health and the goal to improve Native American health outcomes

Titus (D-NV) – Amendment No. 94 – Increases and decreases the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program budget by $11 million to emphasize the need for increased use of humane, reversible fertility control to manage wild horse populations 

Tlaib (D-MI) – Amendment No. 95 – Increases and decreases State and Tribal Assistance Grants by $1.5 billion to highlight the importance of annual lead water service line removal appropriations 

Vasquez (D-NM) – Amendment No. 96 – Increases and decreases the Bureau of Indian Education account by $2 million to prioritize addressing the teacher shortage in BIE and Tribally-controlled schools 

Wittman (R-VA) – Amendment No. 97 – Increases and decreases funding for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Courts Program to ensure that recently recognized Tribes across the country have access to funding to establish and operate judicial services

Arrington (R-TX) – Amendment No. 2 – Prohibits funding from being made available for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s final rule using an endangered species designation of several types of freshwater mussels, federalizing over 1,500 miles of Texas rivers 

Arrington (R-TX) – Amendment No. 3 – Prohibits funding from being made available for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s ‘‘Final Land Protection Plan & Environmental Assessment Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge.’’ This plan aims to increase the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge in Texas from 6,400 acres to 700,000 acres

Bentz (R-OR) – Amendment No. 4 – Prohibits the use of any federal funds to create National monuments in Malheur County, Oregon under the Antiquities Act 

Bice (R-OK) – Amendment No. 6 – Prohibits federal funding for drag shows at the Smithsonian Institution

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 7 – Reduces the salary of Michael S. Regan, Administrator of the EPA, to $1

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 8 – Reduces the salary of Melissa Schwartz, Director of Communications of the Department of the Interior, to $1 

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 9 – Reduces the salary of Elizabeth Klien, Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, to $1  

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 10 – Transfers funds from EPA bureaucrats to the Forest Service for active management 

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 11 – Transfers funds from EPA bureaucracy to the inspector general to combat waste, fraud, and abuse 

Boebert (R-CO)  – Amendment No. 13 – Prohibits funds made available by this Act to be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule titled ‘‘Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process’’ 

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 14 –  Prohibits funds made available by this Act to be used for a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Council at the Department of the Interior 

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 15 –  Prohibits funds made available by this division to be used to carry out the Bicycle Subsidy Benefit Program of the Department of the Interior

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 16 – Prohibits funds made available by this Act to be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the draft resource management plan and supplemental environmental impact statement referred to in the notice of availability titled ‘‘Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Management Plan and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Colorado River Valley Field Office and Grand Junction Field Office Resource Management Plans, Colorado’

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 17 – Prohibits made available by this Act to be used to declare a national monument with the use of the antiquities Act in Montrose County, Colorado; Mesa County, Colorado; Monezuma County, Colorado; San Juan County, Colorado; or Dolores County, Colorado 

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 18 – Prohibits funds for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund 

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 19 – Reduces the salary of Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, to $1 

Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 20 – Reduces the salary of Tracy Stone-Manning, Director of the Bureau of Land Management, to $1 

Brecheen (R-OK) – Amendment No. 21 – Prohibits the Indian Health Service from using appropriated funds to provide sex-transition surgeries or treatment 

Brecheen (R-OK) – Amendment No. 22 – Reduces funding for the National Endowment for the Arts to FY2019 levels – REJECTED BY VOICE

Brecheen (R-OK) – Amendment No. 23 – Reduces funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities to FY2019 levels 

Brecheen (R-OK) – Amendment No. 24 – Defunds the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and moves its $12 million in appropriations to the Spending Reduction Account 

Brecheen (R-OK) – Amendment No. 25 – Prohibits funding for any diversity, equity, and inclusion program or office

Cammack (R-FL) – Amendment No. 30 – Prohibits funds from being used to finalize any rule or regulation that has resulted in or is likely to result in an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more 

Griffith (R-VA) – Amendment No. 40 – Prevents the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement from enforcing perpetual deed restrictions on Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization program projects 

Hageman (R-WY) – Amendment No. 41 –  Prohibits the Bureau of Land Management from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing its proposed Western Solar Plan 

Hageman (R-WY) – Amendment No. 42 – Prohibits the Bureau of Land Management from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan in Wyoming

Hageman (R-WY) – Amendment No. 43 –  Prohibits the EPA from establishing or operating the Office of Agriculture and Rural Affairs 

Hageman (R-WY) – Amendment No. 44 – Prohibits the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing the proposed Resource Management Plans by the BLM’s Buffalo Field Office in Wyoming and the Miles City Field Office in Montana 

Harshbarger (R-TN) – Amendment No. 45 – Prohibits funding for the U.S. Board on Geographic Names

Huizenga (R-MI) – Amendment No. 46 – Prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the EPA final rule ‘‘Determinations of Attainment by the Attainment Date, Extensions of the Attainment Date, and Reclassification of Areas Classified as Marginal for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards’’ with respect to Berrien, Allegan, and Muskegon counties in Michigan 

Jackson (R-TX) – Amendment No. 47 – Reduces funding for the Fish and Wildlife Service to FY21 levels

Jackson (R-TX) – Amendment No. 48 – Ensures no funding from this bill can be used by the Fish and Wildlife Service to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce its proposed rule to list the Texas Kangaroo Rat as endangered and designate 600,000 acres as critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act

McCormick (R-GA)  – Amendment No. 56 – Reduces funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Programs and Management account by $7 million. Reallocates $5 million to the EPA OIG for increased oversight of the EPA 

Miller (R-IL) – Amendment No. 57 – This amendment would reduce the salary of Ya-Wei (Jake) Li, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pesticide Programs to $1 

Miller (R-IL), offered on behalf of Norman (R-SC) – Amendment No. 72 –  Prohibits funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Workgroup 

Miller (R-IL), offered on behalf of Norman (R-SC) – Amendment No. 73 – Prohibits funding for rule titled “Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles: Heavy- Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards”

Obernolte (R-CA) – Amendment No. 75 – Prohibits any funds made available by this Act from being used by the Environmental Protection Agency to approve a waiver for the California Air Resources Board’s In-Use Locomotive Regulation. 

Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 76 –  Prohibits funds to carry out the provisions of section 50262 of Public Law 117- 169 (Inflation Reduction Act) 

Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 77 – Prohibits funds for the Environmental Financial Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency 

Ogles (R-TN) – Amendment No. 78 – Prohibits funds to be used by the Environmental Protection Agency for the U.S. Global Change Research Program 

Palmer (R-AL) – Amendment No. 79 – Prohibits the EPA from using funds to arm agents as part of the agency’s criminal enforcement division 

Palmer (R-AL) – Amendment No. 80 –  Prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule entitled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Lime Manufacturing Plants Technology Review” 

Perry (R-PA) – Amendment No. 81 –  Prohibits the use of funds to give formal notification under, or prepare, propose, implement, administer, or enforce any rule or recommendation pursuant to, section 115 of the Clean Air Act 

Perry (R-PA) – Amendment No. 82 – Prohibits the use of funds for EPA to take any “backstop” actions related to the Chesapeake Bay TMDL

Perry (R-PA) – Amendment No. 83 – Eliminates funding for CEQ and moves this funding to the spending reduction account

Perry (R-PA), offered on behalf of Pfluger (R-TX) – Amendment No. 84 – Prohibits EPA from redesignating the Permian Basin as in nonattainment for ozone

Perry (R-PA), offered on behalf of Roy (R-TX) – Amendment No. 85 – Prohibits funds made available by this Act to be used for environmental justice activities

Stauber (R-MN) – Amendment No. 88 – Ensures States and other cooperating entities that provide search and rescue services on Federal lands can receive reimbursement 

Stauber (R-MN) – Amendment No. 89 – Prohibits any funds being used to designate the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness as a national monument under the Antiquities Act 

Stauber (R-MN) – Amendment No. 90 – Prohibits any funds from being used to expand the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness 

Tenney (R-NY) – Amendment No. 91 –  Reduces the salary of the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality Brenda Mallory to $1

Tenney (R-NY) – Amendment No. 92 – Prohibits funding for Executive Order 14019, relating to Promoting Access to Voting 

Tiffany (R-WI) – Amendment No. 93 – Strikes funding for the removal of roads that are no longer needed