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H.R. 4821 — what changed

Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024

From Reported in House to Engrossed in House. 5 sections amended, 52 added, and 1 removed between Reported in House and Engrossed in House.

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Sec. 445

changed None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate or allow for the introduction of American bison (Bison bison) on the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge (as originally established in Executive Order No. 7509, renamed in Public Land Order 2951, and redesignated in Public Land Order 5635).

Sec. 447

None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to consider or incorporate the social cost of carbon—

(1)
as part of any cost-benefit analysis required or performed pursuant to—
(A)
any law;
(B)
changed Executive Order No. 13990 (86 Fed. Reg. 7037; relating to protecting public health and the environment and restoring science to tackle the climate crisis);
(C)
changed Executive Order No. 14094 (88 Fed. Reg. 21879; relating to modernizing regulatory review);
(D)
the Presidential Memorandum entitled “Modernizing Regulatory Review” issued by the President on January 20, 2021;
(E)
changed any revisions to Office of Management and Budget Circular A-4 proposed or finalized under Executive Order No. 14094; or
(F)
“Technical Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide Interim Estimates under Executive Order 13990,” published under the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, in February of 2021;
(2)
in any rulemaking;
(3)
in the issuance of any guidance;
(4)
in taking any other agency action; or
(5)
as a justification for any rulemaking, guidance document, or agency action.

Sec. 454

changed None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be made available to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out Executive Order No. 13985 of January 20, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7009, relating to advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities through the Federal Government), Executive Order No. 14035 of June 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 34593, relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the Federal workforce), or Executive Order No. 14091 of February 16, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 10825, relating to further advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities through the Federal Government).

Sec. 458

Section 6 of the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C. 3505) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

changed “(e) Borrow Site—Section source—Section 5 shall not apply to Federal expenditures or financial assistance relating to for the use of funds to use a borrow site source located within the System if such site borrow source, or a portion thereof, has been in use used as a borrow site source by a coastal storm risk management project for a period of more than 15 years.”at least once prior to December 31, 2008.”

Sec. 493

changed $0For “United States Geological Survey” to implement the Saline Lake Ecosystems in the Great Basin States Assessment and Monitoring Program, there is hereby appropriated, and the amount otherwise provided by this Act for “Departmental Offices—Office of the Secretary—departmental operations - (including transfer of funds)” is hereby reduced by, $5,000,000.

Sec. 494

added
(a)
added For “Department of the Interior—Office of the Secretary—Departmental Operations - (including transfer of funds)” for carrying out section 4 of the Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act (Public Law 117–114), there is hereby appropriated, and the amount otherwise provided for by this Act for “Department of the Interior—Office of the Secretary—Departmental Operations - (including transfer of funds)” is hereby reduced by, $5,500,000.
(b)
added For “Department of Agriculture—Forest Service—Forest Service Operations - (including transfer of funds)” for carrying out section 4 of the Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act (Public Law 117–114), there is hereby appropriated, and the amount otherwise provided for by this Act for “Department of the Interior—Office of the Secretary—Departmental Operations - (including transfer of funds)” is hereby reduced by, $5,500,000.

Sec. 495

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the National Park Service to place any limitation on the number of air tours at national parks.

Sec. 496

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to promulgate new rules that the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget finds has resulted in or is likely to result in—

(1)
added an annual effect on the economy of $100,000,000 or more;
(2)
added a major increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, Federal, State, or local government agencies, or geographic regions; or
(3)
added significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, or the ability of United States-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises in domestic and export markets.

Sec. 497

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Rock Springs RMP Revision, Wyoming, referred to in the notice of availability titled “Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Rock Springs RMP Revision, Wyoming” published by the Bureau of Land Management on August 18, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 56654).

Sec. 498

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the establishment or modification of a national monument in Colusa County, California, under chapter 3203 of title 54, United States Code (commonly referred to as the “Antiquities Act of 1906”).

Sec. 499

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the National Park Service to enact the terms of NPS Lease#L-GATE912-2023, as executed on September 15, 2023.

Sec. 500

added

added $0 (increased by $28,000,000) (increased by $15,000).

Sec. 501

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule titled “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for Salina Mucket and Mexican Fawnsfoot and Designation of Critical Habitat” (88 Fed. Reg. 47952; published July 25, 2023).

Sec. 502

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the establishment of a national monument in Malheur County, Oregon, under chapter 3203 of title 54, United States Code (commonly referred to as the “Antiquities Act of 1906”).

Sec. 503

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Draft Resource Management Plan or Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement referenced in the Notice 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” (88 Fed. Reg. 51855; published August 4, 2023).

Sec. 504

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule titled “Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process” (88 Fed. Reg. 47562; published July 24, 2023).

Sec. 505

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to carry out the Bicycle Subsidy Benefit Program of the Department of the Interior.

Sec. 506

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce—

(1)
added the proposed rule titled “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Revision of Regulations for Interagency Cooperation” (88 Fed. Reg. 40753; published June 22, 2023);
(2)
added the proposed rule titled “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing Endangered and Threatened Species and Designating Critical Habitat” (88 Fed. Reg. 40764; published June 22, 2023); or
(3)
added the proposed rule titled “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Regulations Pertaining to Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants” (88 Fed. Reg. 40742; published June 22, 2023).

Sec. 507

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement or enforce the final rule of the Environmental Protection Agency titled “Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act” and published December 15, 2009 (74 Fed. Reg. 66496).

Sec. 508

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement Executive Order No. 14057 (relating to Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability) (86 Fed. Reg. 70935; Dec. 8, 2021).

Sec. 509

added

added None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be made available to finalize any rule or regulation that meets the definition of section 804(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code.

Sec. 510

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the cancellation or suspension of oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

Sec. 511

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule titled “Management and Protection of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska” and published September 8, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 62025).

Sec. 512

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule titled “Amendments to the North Atlantic Right Whale Vessel Strike Reduction Rule” (87 Fed. Reg. 46921; published August 1, 2022).

Sec. 513

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to reduce the number of oil and gas leases issued by the Secretary of the Interior.

Sec. 514

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency for community-scale ambient air monitoring.

Sec. 515

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize or implement a Commercial Services Strategy for the Crab Island Area of the Gulf Islands National Seashore.

Sec. 516

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Presidential Proclamation 10606 of August 8, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 55331, relating to the establishment of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni–Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument).

Sec. 517

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management or the Director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement to implement the terms of the “Stipulated Agreement to Stay Proceedings” (July 21, 2023; Docket No. 8:20-cv-03060-DLB) entered into by the Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, and Turtle Island Restoration Network and the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries of the National Marine Fisheries Service, including the “Notice to Lessees and Operators of Federal Oil and Gas, and Sulphur Leases in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf; Expanded Rice’s Whale Protection Efforts During Reinitiated Consultation with NMFS” (BOEM NTL No. 2023-G01; August 17, 2023).

Sec. 518

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to develop, finalize, issue, or use assessments under the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS).

Sec. 519

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, revise, implement, administer, or enforce the notice of interim guidance entitled “National Environmental Policy Act Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change” published by the Council on Environmental Quality in the Federal Register on January 9, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 1196).

Sec. 520

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement or enforce the final rule of the Environmental Protection Agency, titled “Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification Improvement Rule”, and published on September 27, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 66558).

Sec. 521

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed rule titled “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for Texas Kangaroo Rat and Designation of Critical Habitat” (88 Fed. Reg. 55962; published August 17, 2023).

Sec. 522

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Draft Resource Management Plan or Draft Environmental Impact Statement referenced in the notice titled “Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Redding and Arcata Field Offices and an Associated Environmental Impact Statement, California” (88 Fed. Reg. 67344; published September 29, 2023).

Sec. 523

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the Solar For All competition of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Sec. 524

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the shooting of cattle in the Gila National Forest or any other National Forest.

Sec. 525

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the American Climate Corps.

Sec. 526

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement or enforce the final rule titled “Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles: Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Standards” published in the Federal Register by the Environmental Protection Agency on January 24, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 4296).

Sec. 527

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases.

Sec. 528

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act made be used to fund the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Workgroup of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Sec. 529

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency for the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP).

Sec. 530

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to enforce any COVID–19 mask mandates.

Sec. 531

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out section 216 of Executive Order No. 14008 (86 Fed. Reg. 7627, relating to tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad).

Sec. 532

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule titled “Reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter” and published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on January 27, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 5558).

Sec. 533

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out Executive Order No. 14037 of August 5, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 43583; relating to strengthening American leadership in clean cars and trucks), Executive Order No. 14057 of December 8, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 70935; relating to catalyzing clean energy industries and jobs through Federal sustainability), or Executive Order No. 14096 of April 21, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 25251; relating to revitalizing our Nation’s commitment to environmental justice for all).

Sec. 534

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the Environmental Financial Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Sec. 535

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any recommendation of the Interagency Working Group on Mining Regulations, Laws, and Permitting of the Department of the Interior contained in the report titled “Recommendations to Improve Mining on Public Lands” (published September 12, 2023).

Sec. 536

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out the powers granted under section 3063 of title 18, United States Code.

Sec. 537

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 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 (42 U.S.C. 7415).

Sec. 538

added

added The amount otherwise made available by this Act for “Environmental Protection Agency–Environmental Programs and Management” for the Office of Air and Radiation is hereby reduced by 50 percent.

Sec. 539

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, apply, enforce, or carry out any plastic straw prohibitions.

Sec. 540

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used implement or enforce the final rule of the Council on Environmental Quality titled “National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions” and published April 20, 2022 (87 Fed. Reg. 23453).

Sec. 541

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule of the Council on Environmental Quality titled “National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions Phase 2” and published July 31, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 49924).

Sec. 542

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to develop, finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Ocean Justice Strategy referenced in the Notice titled “Ocean Justice Strategy” (88 Fed. Reg. 37518; published June 8, 2023).

Sec. 543

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce section 50262 of Public Law 117–169 (commonly known as the “Inflation Reduction Act”).

Sec. 544

added

added None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for environmental justice activities.

Sec. 545

added

added None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to implement any of the following executive orders:

(1)
added Executive Order No. 13990, relating to Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis.
(2)
added Executive Order No. 14008, relating to Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.
(3)
added Section 6 of Executive Order No. 14013, relating to Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs To Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration.
(4)
added Executive Order No. 14030, relating to Climate-Related Financial Risk.
(5)
added Executive Order No. 14057, relating to Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability.
(6)
added Executive Order No. 14082, relating to Implementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
(7)
added Executive Order No. 14096, relating to Revitalizing Our Nation's Commitment to Environmental Justice for All.