Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027

The National Park Service would get $2,874,162,000 to run and care for parks. The money covers the budget year ending September 30, 2027. It pays for rangers, campgrounds, visitor centers, and daily upkeep.

The Indian Health Service would get $402,930,000 more for 2027. Another $5,192,661,000 opens on October 1, 2027. Clinic and hospital building gets about $1.2 billion more. Contract support costs are paid on top of that.

Federal firefighters hit a yearly cap on overtime and other extra pay. The bill would waive that cap for 2021 through 2026 and every year after. A long fire season would no longer cut their pay.

Temporary seasonal jobs at the National Park Service are capped at 6 months, or 1,040 hours. The cap would rise to 9 months, or 1,560 hours. Seasonal staff could work longer each year.

Interior could hire people who live near a field unit straight into jobs at grade GS-9 or below. Merit rules and public job notices would still apply.

Some people hold that marriage is one man and one woman. The government could not punish them for saying or acting on it. The ban covers tax status, grants, contracts, benefits, and use of federal property.

Some ranchers hold water rights under state law. Federal land agencies could not ask them to give those up to get or keep a permit or grazing lease.

Gray wolves would come off the endangered species list. So would two grizzly bear groups, in Yellowstone and along the Northern Continental Divide. No court could review any of the three.

The Park Service could not use this bill's money to house anyone who lacks legal immigration status.

To sue over a Forest Service or Interior decision, you must first finish the agency's own appeal. That rule was set to end after 2027. The bill would make it last for good.

A 2024 land bureau rule raised the money companies must set aside to clean up wells on federal land. It also changed leasing and royalty steps. No funds could run or enforce it.

Water and sewer projects paid for by the state revolving funds would need U.S.-made iron and steel. EPA could waive that rule. A waiver applies if U.S. supply falls short or costs rise more than 25 percent.

Offshore drilling sites pay inspection fees. At least half of what the safety bureau spends from those fees would go to expanding capacity and speeding up drilling permit reviews.

The bill writes the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act into law. A mining company could use public land for waste rock, tailings, and support work. It would not have to prove valuable minerals sit under each site.

The bill sets 2027 inspection fees for offshore sites. A hands-on check of a wind turbine or substation would cost the operator $72,800. A yearly visual check costs $15,400.

National monuments have boundaries as they stood on January 20, 2001. No funds could go to oil, gas, or mineral leasing inside them. The order creating a monument can still allow it.

Extra wild horses and burros could go to government agencies as work animals. Those agencies could not sell or kill them for commercial products. A vet would have to advise before one is put down.

Agencies could not use the social cost of carbon at all. That figure puts a dollar value on harm from greenhouse gases. The ban covers cost studies, rules, guidance, and any other action.

Listing rules would be frozen for the greater sage-grouse, lesser prairie-chicken, northern long-eared bat, wolverine, and Canada lynx. Seven Texas mussel species are covered too. So are three broader 2024 rules.

Gray wolves would come off the federal endangered list. So would grizzly bears in Yellowstone and along the Northern Continental Divide. Interior would have 60 to 180 days to act.

Livestock give off carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor. No funds could be used to write or run a rule making farms get clean air permits for them.

Today Interior can pull federal land out of mining and leasing on its own. This bill's money could not be used that way. Congress would have to pass a law first.

No funds could be used to limit lead in ammunition, ammunition parts, or fishing tackle. The ban covers the toxic substances law and every other law.

EPA's risk system writes the reports that say how toxic a chemical is. No funds could be used to write, finish, or put out those reports.

Agencies funded by this bill owe Congress many reports. They would have to post them on their public website. That applies when the agency head finds it serves the national interest. Security and trade secret reports are exempt.

Interior would have 60 days to bring back Secretary's Order 3368. That order set disclosure rules for legal settlements and consent decrees. Money from this bill could not be used to cancel it again.

Some rules make farms report the greenhouse gases from manure systems. No funds could be used to carry out that reporting.

Section 443 makes three House-passed bills law, word for word. One is the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act. One puts Tennessee land in trust for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. One lifts deed limits on land in Paducah, Kentucky.

State water fund money is usually spread by formula. Here $525,486,678 on the clean water side and $506,395,022 on the drinking water side go to projects named in the committee report.

Two hardrock mineral leases sit in the Superior National Forest, near the Boundary Waters. Interior would have to bring them back. No court could review it.

Some land in North Topsail Beach, North Carolina is zoned for building, not conservation. It would come off the maps of a federal coastal barrier system within 30 days. Land inside that system is cut off from federal money for building.

No money in this bill could be spent on the Lava Ridge Wind Project. That covers a right-of-way, and any step to approve building or running it.

The Presidio Trust runs the Presidio park in San Francisco. No funds from this bill could go to it.

Public Law 119-21 changed the rules on moving a space vehicle. The Smithsonian could not use this bill's money to carry those changes out.

On January 1, 2013, hunting, fishing, and target shooting were allowed on much federal land. Agencies could not bar them where that was true. Short closures are still allowed: 30 days, plus one 90-day extension.

A ban on lead ammunition or tackle would need two things. Interior would need data showing lead is the main cause of a wildlife drop on that land. The state would have to agree.

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin would become a National Park and Preserve. Hunting and trapping would be barred in the park part. Tribal treaty rights still apply. The preserve part keeps hunting as it is.