Funds the Interior Department, EPA, Forest Service and related agencies for fiscal 2025

§1What it does

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This bill would provide funding for the 2025 fiscal year (October 2024 through September 2025) for the Department of the Interior, including the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Forest Service and the Indian Health Service.^2,3 It would also fund related cultural agencies such as the Smithsonian Institution and the national endowments for the arts and humanities, and it sets conditions and limits on how the money may be used.^2,3 Before passing the bill in July 2024, the House adopted dozens of floor amendments, many of which bar the use of funds for particular EPA and Interior rules, land management plans, new national monuments, environmental justice activities, and diversity, equity and inclusion programs, while others shift or reduce money for specific accounts.² The Congressional Research Service summary on file describes the committee version, before those amendments were added.²

§2Status

§3How Congress voted

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