Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies are being funded by P.L. 110-5 , the Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution for FY2007. The law continues funds at the FY2006 account level, unless otherwise specified. The law, enacted on February 15, 2007, required that agencies and departments submit an allocation of funds below the account level within 30 days of enactment. The submissions are to be sent to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. The annual Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill includes funding for agencies and programs in three separate federal departments, as well as numerous related agencies and bureaus. It provides funding for Department of the Interior (DOI) agencies (except for the Bureau of Reclamation, funded in Energy and Water Development appropriations laws), many of which manage land and other natural resource or regulatory programs. The bill also provides funds for agencies in two other departments: the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture, and the Indian Health Service in the Department of Health and Human Services, as well as funds for the Environmental Protection Agency. Further, the annual bill includes funding for arts and cultural agencies, such as the Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities, and for numerous other entities and agencies. In recent years, the appropriations laws for Interior and Related Agencies provided funds for several activities within the Department of Energy (DOE), including research, development, and conservation programs; the Naval Petroleum Reserves; and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. However, at the outset of the 109 th Congress, these DOE programs were transferred to the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees covering energy and water, to consolidate jurisdiction over DOE. At the same time, jurisdiction over the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and several smaller entities, was moved to the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees covering Interior and Related Agencies. This change resulted from the abolition of the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies, which previously had jurisdiction over EPA. The FY2006 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations law contained three primary titles providing funding. The regular, annual FY2007 legislation ( H.R. 5386 ) followed a similar organization, and this report is organized along these lines. Accordingly, the first section (Title I) provides information on Interior agencies; the second section (Title II) discusses EPA; and the third section (Title III) addresses other agencies, programs, and entities. A fourth section of this report discusses cross-cutting topics that encompass more than one agency. The report does not contain FY2007 enacted levels for agencies, programs, and activities because these funding levels are being determined by the agencies, as provided under P.L. 110-5 . In general, in this report the term appropriations represents total funds available, including regular annual and supplemental appropriations, as well as rescissions, transfers, and deferrals, but excludes permanent budget authorities. Increases and decreases generally are calculated on comparisons between FY2007 funding levels for the most recent action on H.R. 5386 , and those requested by the President for FY2007 and appropriated for FY2006. The House Committee on Appropriations is the primary source of the funding figures used throughout the report. Other sources of information include the Senate Committee on Appropriations, agency budget justifications, and the Congressional Record . In the tables throughout this report, some columns of funding figures do not add to the precise totals provided due to rounding. Funds for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for FY2007 are contained in P.L. 110-5 , the Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution for FY2007. Continuing funding is needed to fund agency operations and activities because Congress did not enact a regular FY2007 appropriations bill for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. P.L. 110-5 provides funds though September 30, 2007, which is the rest of the fiscal year. It continues funds at the FY2006 account level, except where otherwise specified. The law requires that agencies and departments submit an allocation of funds below the account level, for example for programs and activities, to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. The submissions are due within 30 days of enactment, which occurred on February 15, 2007. Prior to the enactment of P.L. 110-5 , continuing funds were provided to Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies through a series of laws to continue funds at the lower of either the FY2006 level or the House-passed level for FY2007. However, projects and activities that were included in the FY2006 appropriations law, but not in the FY2007 House-passed bill, were funded at a level not to exceed the FY2006 rate. The last action on the FY2007 regular annual appropriations bill, H.R. 5386 , occurred on June 29, 2006, when the Senate Committee on Appropriations reported the bill ( S.Rept. 109-275 ). The bill provided $26.05 billion for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for FY2007, $110.8 million (0.4%) above the House-passed level ($25.94 billion). The Senate Appropriations Committee-reported level would have been a $384.0 million (1%) decrease from the FY2006 enacted level of $26.44 billion, but a $522.8 million (2%) increase over the President's request for FY2007 of $25.53 billion. Among the proposed decreases in the Senate Appropriations Committee-reported bill for FY2007, from the FY2006 level, were the following: $-209.5 million (9%) for the National Park Service (NPS); $-153.5 million (10%) for the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); $-123.6 million (3%) for the Forest Service (FS); and $-108.5 million (1%) for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Among the increases for FY2007 were the following: $147.5 million (5%) for the Indian Health Service (IHS); $50.2 million (3%) for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM); and $29.3 million (5%) for the Smithsonian Institution. The Senate Appropriations Committee adopted a few amendments in addition to a Manager's package. One sought to require the Secretary of the Interior to re-negotiate leases for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas lease sales where no royalties are currently being paid, and to include the price thresholds that were inadvertently left out of leases from 1998 and 1999. A second amendment, similar to House-passed language, prohibited funds in the bill from being used to issue new lease sales to current OCS oil and gas lessees who do not have price thresholds in their leases. In earlier action, on June 27, 2006, the Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and agreed to H.R. 5386 , without amendment. On May 18, 2006, the House passed H.R. 5386 , providing $25.94 billion for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for FY2007. The House-passed level would have been a $494.8 million (2%) decrease from the FY2006 enacted level of $26.44 billion, but a $412.0 million (2%) increase over the President's request for FY2007 of $25.53 billion. The House had considered many amendments to H.R. 5386 , and agreed to a number of them. They included amendments to prohibit funds in the bill from being used for the sale or slaughter of wild horses and burros, building roads in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska for harvesting timber, limiting the outreach programs of the Smithsonian Institution, and issuing new lease sales to current Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas lessees who do not have price thresholds in their leases. The House also retained the moratoria on OCS leasing, and increased funds for the NEA, NEH, and Payments in Lieu of Taxes program, among other changes. Previously, on May 15, 2006, the House Appropriations Committee reported H.R. 5386 ( H.Rept. 109-465 ), also with $25.94 billion for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for FY2007. The House Appropriations Committee adopted a number of amendments during its markup before ordering the bill reported. Table 1 below shows the budget authority for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies for FY2004-2006. See Table 25 for a budgetary history of each agency for FY2004-FY2007. One issue debated in this appropriations cycle was the distribution of proceeds from land sales under the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA). This issue is covered briefly in the " Bureau of Land Management " section, below. Also debated was the sale of certain National Forest System lands. This issue is covered briefly in the "Forest Service" section, below. The President's FY2007 budget assumed enactment of legislation to open part of the Coastal Plain in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration and development. This issue is covered briefly in the " Fish and Wildlife Service " section, below. (For more information, see CRS Report RL33872, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): New Directions in the 110 th Congress , by [author name scrubbed], [author name scrubbed], and [author name scrubbed].) Controversial policy and funding issues typically have been debated during consideration of the annual Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.