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handle is hein.crs/govbgyv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FF.ri E~$~ & January 10, 2020 Offshore Energy Agency Appropriations, FY2020 Three entities in the Department of the Interior (DOI) share responsibility for managing the nation's ocean energy resources, which cover approximately 1.7 billion acres on the U.S. outer continental shelf (OCS). The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) administers offshore energy leasing and mineral development; the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) oversees offshore operational safety and environmental protection; and the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) manages public revenues from federally regulated offshore and onshore energy and natural resource projects. BOEM, BSEE, and ONRR receive appropriations in the annual Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. Issues include determining the aggregate and program- level appropriations for each entity and considering related legislative proposals by the Trump Administration. P.L. 116-94, enacted on December 20, 2019, contains FY2020 appropriations for BOEM, BSEE, and ONRR. P.L. 116-59 and P.L. 116-69 had provided continuing appropriations at FY2019 levels prior to enactment of P.L. 116-94, because appropriations were not enacted by the start of the fiscal year. In earlier action, on June 25, 2019, the House had passed a version of H.R. 3055 with FY2020 consolidated appropriations (also see H.Rept. 116-100 on H.R. 3052, an earlier stand-alone House bill). On October 31, 2019, the Senate passed its version of H.R. 3055 (also see S.Rept. 116-123 on S. 2580, a stand-alone Senate bill). Total budget authority for BOEM's and BSEE's operations includes both discretionary appropriations and offsetting collections derived from a portion of OCS rental receipts, cost recovery fees, and (for BSEE) inspection fees. The discretionary appropriation for each fiscal year is reduced by the amount of eligible receipts and fees that are collected, so that the final amount appropriated to each agency is the net of those collections. Discussions of account- and activity-level funding in the sections below refer to total budget authority, regardless of offsets. ONRR's funding does not include offsetting collections. The Trump Administration requested $193.4 million in total budget authority for BOEM for FY2020. This represented an increase of 8% over the total FY2019 budget authority of $179.3 million in P.L. 116-6 (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019). Net of estimated offsetting collections, the FY2020 request was $133.4 million, 3% more than the net appropriation of $129.5 million for BOEM in P.L. 116-6. P.L. 116-94 provided $191.6 million in total budget authority for BOEM, 7% more than the FY2019 total budget authority and 1% less than requested by the Administration (Table 1). House-passed H.R. 3055 would have provided $182.8 million in total budget authority, and Senate-passed H.R. 3055 contained $193.4 million. Net of offsetting collections, P.L. 116-94 provided $131.6 million for BOEM, 1% less than requested and 2% more than enacted for FY2019. The House-passed bill would have provided $122.8 million as the net appropriation, and the Senate-passed bill would have provided $133.4 million. BOEM's appropriations are contained in a single budget account, titled Ocean Energy Management. Within this account, the Conventional Energy budget activity ($61.8 million FY2019; $64.1 million FY2020 request; $63.0 million enacted) funds administration of oil and gas leasing, including the development of forward-looking five-year leasing programs. BOEM had requested additional funding to support agency evaluation of proposed sales for its 2019- 2024 program, described by BOEM in its FY2020 budget request as the largest number of proposed lease sales in the history of the OCS leasing program. The Renewable Energy activity ($20.7 million FY2019; $21.3 million FY2020 request; $23.3 million enacted) supports BOEM's management of renewable ocean energy resources. Congress provided more funding than BOEM requested and stated in the joint explanatory statement for P.L. 116-94 that the increase was for additional offshore wind permitting and environmental staff. The Environmental Assessment activity ($79.8 million FY2019; $85.1 million FY2020 request; $82.5 million enacted) supports BOEM's responsibilities for assessing the environmental impacts of ocean energy activities to inform planning and policy decisions. BOEM stated that its requested funding increase would primarily support environmental studies for the 2019-2024 leasing program. The Executive Direction activity ($17.0 million FY2019; $17.1 million FY2020 requested and enacted) covers leadership, budgeting, technology, and related activities. In its budget request, BOEM proposed redirecting some funds to support leasing efforts in the field. Also in FY2020, appropriators provided funding through a new BOEM budget activity titled Marine Minerals ($5.7 million requested and enacted). BOEM proposed the new budget activity to support work on offshore non-energy minerals, particularly sand and gravel, and to assess the supply of critical minerals on the OCS. kB\SE E A p ro pr h,,t iok-, The Administration requested $200.5 million in total budget authority for BSEE for FY2020, a decrease of 1% from the FY2019 total budget authority of $202.1 million in P.L. 116-6. The requested net appropriation after offsetting .O 'T p\w -- , gn'a', goo mppm qq\ a , q 'S I 11LULANJILiN,

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