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handle is hein.crs/crsuntaafzd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS22386 Updated December 11, 2006 4 CRS Report for Congress Environmental Protection Agency: FY2007 Appropriations Highlights David M. Bearden and Robert Esworthy Resources, Science, and Industry Division The 109' Congress adjourned without completing FY2007 appropriations for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and many other federal agencies. As signed by the President, H.J.Res. 102 provides funding through February 15, 2007. In the second session of the 109' Congress, the House had passed the FY2007 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill (H.R. 5386, H.Rept. 109-465) on May 18,2006, recommending $7.58 billion for EPA. The Senate Appropriations Committee had recommended $7.53 billion for EPA in reporting its version of the bill (S.Rept. 109-275) on June 29, 2006. Both amounts were more than the President's request of $7.32 billion, but less than the FY2006 appropriation of $7.64 billion. Congress made a total of $7.72 billion available to EPA in FY2006, including $80 million in certain rescinded and redirected funds from prior years. Differences in the above proposed funding relative to FY2006 are greater when accounting for these funds. Among individual activities, both the full House and the Senate Appropriations Committee approved decreases and increases throughout EPA's eight appropriations accounts in their respective versions of H.R. 5386, when compared with the President's FY2007 request and the FY2006 appropriation. The table on the next page indicates the following amounts for each of EPA's eight accounts: the enacted FY2006 appropriation, the FY2007 request, and proposals in H.R. 5386 during the 109th Congress. Also see the EPA section in CRS Report RL33399, Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies: FY2007 Appropriations, coordinated by Carol Hardy-Vincent and Susan Boren. Of the many EPA activities, funding for water infrastructure generated broad congressional interest. The full House and the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the President's request to cut funding below FY2006 for state grants to support Clean Water State Revolving Funds (SRFs), and approved the President's request for a relatively small increase for state grants to support the Drinking Water SRFs. States use these funds to issue low-interest loans to communities for water infrastructure projects. The full House and the Senate Appropriations Committee also designated funds for water infrastructure projects in specific communities, often referred to as earmarks. As in past requests, the President's FY2007 budget did not include funding for such projects. The adequacy of funding for the cleanup of hazardous wastes at Superfund sites was another issue. The full House, the Senate Appropriations Committee, and the President proposed similar funding for the Superfund account, all of which were more than Congressional Research Service w The Library of Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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