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handle is hein.crs/crsuntaabrg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS22064 Updated August 16, 2005 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web Environmental Protection Agency: FY2006 Appropriations Highlights David Bearden and Robert Esworthy Resources, Science, and Industry Division Title II of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY2006 (P.L. 109-54, H.R. 2361) provides $7.73 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), subject to an across-the-board rescission of 0.476%. Section 439 of Title IV indicates that the rescission is to be applied proportionately among each account, program, project, and activity specified in the law, accompanying reports, and the President's budget request. The total FY2006 EPA appropriation includes an additional $80 million in unobligated funds rescinded from past appropriations, as noted in the following table. P.L. 109-54 provides more funding for EPA than the Administration's FY2006 request of $7.52 billion, but less than the FY2005 appropriation of $8.03 billion. Among individual programs, P.L. 109-54 reflects decreases and increases throughout the various EPA appropriations accounts when compared to the FY2006 request and the FY2005 funding levels. Considerable debate focused on funding for the State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) account, particularly the adequacy of funding for assistance to states and communities for State Revolving Funds (SRFs). These funds provide loans to communities for sewage treatment plants and for meeting drinking water standards. P.L. 109-54 provides $900 million for the clean water SRF. As passed by the House, H.R. 2361 would have provided $850 million (including $100 million in rescinded funds from prior years). The Senate-passed version of H.R. 2361 would have provided $1.10 billion. The Administration's request would have reduced funding for the clean water SRF from $1.09 billion in FY2005 to $730 million in FY2006. P.L. 109-54 provides $850 million for the drinking water SRF, the same as the House and Senate proposed and the Administration requested, and is similar to the FY2005 appropriation. Other prominent issues of debate included the adequacy of funding for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites under the Superfund program, the cleanup and redevelopment of certain commercial and industrial sites referred to as Brownfields, EPA's homeland security activities, congressional project priorities or earmarks, and EPA's use and consideration of intentional human dosing studies. The following table indicates amounts in P.L. 109-54, the House and Senate-passed versions of H.R. 2361, the Administration's FY2006 request, and the enacted appropriation for FY2005, by the eight EPA appropriations accounts. (For further discussion, see CRS Report RL32856, Environmental Protection Agency: Appropriations for FY2006.) Congressional Research Service x The Library of Congress

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