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handle is hein.crs/govelil0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional Research Service inforrning the legislative debate since 1914 0 April 20, 2023 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Appropriations: FY2024 President's Budget Request Since FY2006, Congress has funded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriation acts. For FY2024, the President requested $12.08 billion for EPA. The request was $1.95 billion (19.2%) greater than the $10.14 billion FY2023 regular enacted appropriations for EPA provided in Division G: Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, Title II of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (P.L. 117-328), including rescissions. Division N, Title VII, of P.L. 117-328 provided $1.67 billion in supplemental appropriations for EPA for FY2023 in 2 of EPA's 10 appropriations accounts. Division J, Title VI of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA; P.L. 117-58), enacted on November 15, 2021, provided an additional $11.21 billion for EPA in emergency supplemental appropriations for FY2023 and $11.61 billion for FY2024. The FY2024 request was $202.43 million (1.7%) more than the FY2023 request of $11.88 billion for EPA. Requested and enacted appropriations for EPA since FY2015 are shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. EPA Discretionary Appropriations, FY2015- 2023 Enacted and FY2024 Requested Nominal $ in billions R Requested M Enacted $25 $20 $15 $10 $5 IL tD f. Na `r o CAA c4 c I Source: CRS, using information from the Congressional Record; House, Senate, and conference reports; and EPA's FY2024 Congressional BudgetJustification. Enacted amounts include rescissions, supplemental appropriations, and advanced appropriations. P.L. 117- 169 provided $41.46 billion in permanent appropriations for EPA in FY2022 not shown above. H istory of E PA Budget Authority Figure 2 presents EPA discretionary budget authority since FY1976 in nominal dollars and adjusted for inflation. EPA's budget authority is provided through annual appropriations and constitutes the amount of funding available to the agency for obligation in a fiscal year to carry out a specific purpose authorized in law. Figure 2. EPA Total Discretionary Budget Authority, FYI 976-FY2022 Actuals, FY2023 and FY2024 Estimated in billions z2. o $00 So $0.0 Source: CRS, based on the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Budget of the United States Government Fiscal Year 2024, Historical Tables, Table 5.4. OMB histories do not include fiscal years prior to FY 1 976. CRS adjusted for inflation using OMB deflators presented in Table 10.1. Actual amounts reflect regular annual and supplemental appropriations, including supplemental appropriations in P.L. 111 -5, IIJA (P.L. 1 17-58), and other supplemental funding. FY2023 and FY2024 estimated amounts include IIJA emergency supplemental appropriations and the President's request for new appropriations. Funding for discretionary spending is annually appropriated to EPA among 10 statutory accounts established by Congress over time. These include State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG), Environmental Programs and Management (EPM), Hazardous Substance Superfund (Superfund), Science and Technology (S&T), Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program, Buildings and Facilities, Office of Inspector General, Inland Oil Spill Program, Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest System Fund, and Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program accounts. As indicated in Figure 3, the proportional distribution of funding among these accounts has remained similar for more than a decade, except for the fiscal years in which EPA received IIJA supplemental appropriations. The STAG and EPM accounts have received the largest share of funding, followed by the Superfund and S&T accounts. The STAG account funds grants for water infrastructure, brownfields site assessment and remediation, diesel emissions reduction, targeted airsheds, and categorical grants to delegated states and tribes for implementing environmental statutes. The EPM account funds additional grasand many cross-cutting agency activities. The Superfund account supports the environmental remediation

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