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handle is hein.crs/crsuntaaiwk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS22386 Updated March 16, 2007 SCRS Report for Congress Environmental Protection Agency: FY2007 Appropriations Highlights David M. Bearden and Robert Esworthy Resources, Science, and Industry Division The 110th Congress completed action on FY2007 appropriations for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the enactment of the Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution for FY2007 (P.L. 110-5, H.J.Res. 20). P.L. 110-5 provides funding through the end of the fiscal year for EPA and other federal agencies not funded in the appropriations laws for the Department of Defense (P.L. 109-289) and Homeland Security (P.L. 109-295). P.L. 110-5 provides funding for EPA in FY2007 at the same level, and under the authority and conditions, specified in the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY2006 (P.L. 109-54), unless otherwise specified in P.L. 110-5. As for other agencies, P.L. 110-5 did not indicate a total dollar amount for EPA, but specified dollar amounts only for certain agency activities. The two EPA activities specified in the law received an increase above the FY2006 appropriation. The law provided $1.25 billion for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites under the Superfund program, and $1.08 billion for capitalization grants for Clean Water State Revolving Funds (SRFs). Other EPA activities would be funded at the same level as in P.L. 109-54, including the 0.476% across-the-board rescission required in that statute, and the 1% government-wide rescission required in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for FY2006 (P.L. 109-148). Emergency supplementals in FY2006 would not continue in FY2007. EPA received $15 million in FY2006 supplementals to respond to leaking underground tanks in hurricane-damaged areas in the Gulf Coast region. With the exception of Superfund and Clean Water SRF grants, the determination of FY2007 funding at the FY2006 level applies to activities specified in P.L. 109-54. Within that statute, Congress specified funding for the eight accounts that fund EPA, and for relatively few program activities in those accounts. Congress specified funding for most program activities in the accompanying reports, rather than in the statute. Therefore, EPA may have some discretion in allocating funding to such activities in FY2007. Further, P.L. 110-5 states that any language specifying an earmark in reports accompanying an FY2006 appropriations act shall have no legal effect on FY2007 funding. The law also states that within EPA's State and Tribal Assistance Grants Account no funds shall be available for making special project grants in FY2007 for water infrastructure, which were identified in the conference report on the FY2006 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill (H.R. 2361, H.Rept. 109-188). Congressional Research Service The Library of Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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