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handle is hein.crs/crsuntaaccp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS22386 February 21, 2006 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web Environmental Protection Agency: Highlights of the President's FY2007 Request David M. Bearden and Robert Esworthy Resources, Science, and Industry Division The President's FY2007 budget request includes $7.32 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), $390 million less than the $7.71 billion that Congress appropriated in FY2006. Although the President's FY2007 request for EPA is an overall decrease compared with the enacted FY2006 appropriation, funding for some agency activities would increase. Proposed changes in funding for selected activities in which there has been broad congressional interest are characterized below. The following table indicates specific amounts for EPA's eight accounts and compares the President's FY2007 request with appropriations enacted by Congress each year since FY2004. Although the President's budget would cut funding for a number of EPA activities, most of the overall decrease is attributed to water infrastructure projects within the State and Tribal Assistance Grants (STAG) account. In particular, funding would decline for grants to states to support clean water State Revolving Funds (SRFs). States use these funds to issue low-interest loans to communities for wastewater infrastructure projects, such as upgrades for municipal sewage treatment plants. As in past Administration requests, the President's budget does not include funding in the STAG account that Congress earmarked in FY2006 for water infrastructure projects in specific communities. However, grants to states to support the drinking water SRFs would increase slightly. States use these funds to issue low-interest loans to communities for projects needed to meet federal drinking water standards and for related purposes. The President's budget would increase funding for the Science and Technology account, which supports scientific research on human health and environmental effects of pollutants. This research is used to inform EPA decisions on preventing, regulating, and abating pollution. Funding would increase within multiple accounts for EPA's homeland security responsibilities and other ongoing activities. The President's budget also includes funding for new initiatives that focus primarily on air and water quality. Although overall funding for the Superfund account would also increase, support for actual cleanup of hazardous waste sites would decrease, and the funding would continue to come from general Treasury revenues. A trust fund supported by taxes on industry had funded most activities within this account. However, the taxing authority expired at the end of 1995, and the trust fund balance was essentially expended by the end of FY2003. This report will be updated to track action on the FY2007 appropriations bill for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, which will include funding for EPA. Congressional Research Service +0 The Library of Congress

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