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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaqci0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRON- MENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- PRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:09 a.m., in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Lisa Murkowski (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Murkowski, Hoeven, Daines, Udall, Leahy, Tester, and Merkley. UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE STATEMENT OF TOM TIDWELL, CHIEF ACCOMPANIED BY TONY DIXON, DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PLANNING, BUDGET, AND ACCOUNTABILITY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR LISA MURKOWSKI Senator MURKOWSKI. Good morning. We will call the committee to order. We are here today to review the fiscal year 2017 budget request for the United States Forest Service. Chief Tidwell, it is good to have you back before the subcommittee. Thank you for being here. I would also like to welcome Mr. Tony Dixon, who serves as the Director of the Office of Strategic Planning, Budget, and Account- ability there at the Forest Service. I just remind colleagues that my hope is that we will be able to do several rounds of questions here this morning, 6-minute rounds, but we do have a vote at 11 o'clock. So we will figure out how to deal with that when we get to the 11 o'clock hour. To the budget request itself, the Forest Service has asked for $4.8 billion for fiscal year 2017. That is 13 percent or $730 million less than the current enacted level, primarily because of the addi- tional $593 million Congress provided above the 10-year average for fire suppression in the event of a severe fire season in fiscal year 2016. Again, the Forest Service has requested an additional $864 mil- lion for a wildfire disaster cap adjustment to bring the total fire spending authority at the agency to over $1.7 billion. I am pleased the request builds upon the increases the sub- committee included last year for hazardous fuels management. I also appreciate the funding proposed for the Forest Inventory Anal-

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