Congress would fund the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Forest Service, the Indian Health Service, and related cultural agencies for the budget year ending September 30, 2027. Headline amounts include $2.87 billion for National Park Service operations, about $2.1 billion for EPA clean-water and drinking-water State Revolving Funds, $1.21 billion for the Bureau of Land Management, $1.36 billion for the Fish and Wildlife Service, $1.88 billion for the National Forest System, and roughly $5.9 billion for the Indian Health Service across this year plus an advance for next year. It also pours money into wildfire work, with more than $1.16 billion for Interior's wildland fire operations and a separate $380 million suppression reserve. Beyond the dollar figures, the bill carries dozens of policy 'riders' — standing instructions that change how agencies may act. Several roll back or freeze environmental rules: agencies could not use the 'social cost of carbon' in cost-benefit analysis, could not require Clean Air Act permits for methane from livestock, could not regulate lead in ammunition or fishing tackle, and could not enforce a 2024 Bureau of Land Management oil-and-gas leasing rule or a new Endangered Species listing for six Texas mussel species. Other riders reinstate two hardrock mineral leases (the Twin Metals leases) in Minnesota's Superior National Forest 'not subject to further judicial review,' bar Interior from withdrawing federal land from mining without an act of Congress, and enact the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act, which confirms miners' use of public-land claims for waste and tailings without first proving a valuable mineral discovery. The bill blocks funds for diversity, equity, and inclusion training and for any program promoting Critical Race Theory, and bars federal 'discriminatory action' against people who hold that marriage is a union of one man and one woman. Conservation provisions appear too: oil and gas leasing stays banned inside national-monument boundaries, wild horses and burros gain protection against slaughter, and Wisconsin's Apostle Islands National Lakeshore would be redesignated a National Park and Preserve.
Corporate Benefits
- Oil and gas bonding and royalty requirements — 2024 BLM leasing-rule update blocked from enforcement
- Domestic iron-and-steel sourcing — Required for State Revolving Fund water projects
Average Household Impact
- National Park Service operations — Appropriated at $2.87 billion for FY2027
- Drinking-water and clean-water State Revolving Funds — Appropriated about $2.1 billion
- Indian Health Service — Appropriated about $5.9 billion across FY2027 and an FY2028 advance
- Fish and Wildlife Service operations — Appropriated $1.36 billion
Civil Liberties
- Judicial review — Removed for the Minnesota mineral-lease reinstatement
- Religious-belief protections — Federal action barred against defining marriage as one man and one woman
Environmental Concerns
- Social cost of carbon — Barred from federal cost-benefit analyses and rulemakings
- Clean Air Act permits for livestock emissions — Barred for methane and CO2 from livestock production
- Lead regulation for ammunition and fishing tackle — Barred under the Toxic Substances Control Act
- BLM oil and gas leasing rule — 2024 fluid-mineral rule blocked from enforcement
- Endangered species listing for six Texas mussels — 2024 listing-and-critical-habitat rule blocked
- Emission rules for small remote incinerators — Suspended for Alaska units
- Executive land withdrawals — Barred without an act of Congress
- Oil and gas rulemaking in Allegheny National Forest — Barred for private mineral rights
- Oil and gas leasing in national monuments — Prohibited within 2001 boundaries
- Forest biomass carbon-neutral treatment — Agencies directed to recognize bioenergy as carbon neutral
- Hardrock mineral leases in Superior National Forest — Two Minnesota leases reinstated
- Mining claim use on public lands — Confirmed for waste and tailings without proof of mineral discovery
- Offshore drilling permit capacity — Half of inspection fees directed to expedite OCS development
- Wild horse and burro protections — Slaughter and commercial-product destruction barred
- Aerial fire retardant use — Federal ban on its use prohibited
Transparency & Accountability
- Greenhouse gas reporting — Mandatory manure-system emissions reporting blocked
- EPA chemical risk assessments — IRIS program barred from issuing assessments
- Public posting of agency reports — Required when the agency head finds it in the national interest
Congressional Summary
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027This bill provides FY2027 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and several related agencies.The bill provides appropriations to Interior forthe Bureau of Land Management,the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,the National Park Service,the U.S. Geological Survey,the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement,the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement,the Bureau of Indian Affairs,the Bureau of Indian Education,the Bureau of Trust Funds Administration,the U.S. Wildland Fire Service,Departmental Offices, andDepartment-Wide Programs.The bill also provides appropriations to the EPA and the Forest Service.Within the Department of Health and Human Services, the bill provides appropriations forthe Indian Health Service,the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, andthe Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.The bill provides appropriations to several related agencies, includingthe Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality,the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board,the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development,the Smithsonian Institution,the National Gallery of Art,the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,the National Endowment for the Arts,the National Endowment for the Humanities,the Commission of Fine Arts,the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.the National Capital Planning Commission,the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, andthe U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission.Additionally, the bill sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations acts.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2026-06-05
- Date Added
- 2026-06-19
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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