Chesapeake Bay Watershed Appropriations

Chesapeake Bay

Appropriations
Selected programs related to the Chesapeake Bay have been summarized in the chart below. Fiscal Year 2008 Appropriations bills included various rescissions which are reflected in figures below.

Congressional Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force Documents

Appropriations
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force's appropriations requests for FY 2009 (all subcommittee requests are in the document below)
Letters

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force's appropriations requests for
FY 2008 (by sub-committee)
Interior Letter
Energy and Water Letter
Commerce, Justice, Science Letter
Agriculture Letter

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force's appropriations requests for FY 2007
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force's appropriation letter for FY 2007

Budget
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force's request to OMB for the President's FY 2009 budget
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force's request to OMB for the President's FY 2008 budget

2009 Appropriations (Millions)

Program	Final FY08*	President's Request FY09	Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force Request (House)	*Chesapeake Bay Delegation (Senate)*	House	Senate	Final FY09
EPA Chesapeake Bay Program -base	$20.672m	$21.001m	$26m	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program (EPA)	$1.969m	$0	$4m	-	-	-	-
Targeted Watershed Program/Non-point reductions the Bay watershed (EPA)	$7.875m	$8m	$10m	-	-	-	-
Clean Water SRF (EPA)	$689.08m	$555m	$2 billion	-	-	-	-
Section 106 grants - includes money for River Basin Commissions (EPA)	$218.2m	$221.7m	-	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Multi-Species Management (NOAA)	$0.352m	$0.495m	-	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Studies - CB office base budget (NOAA)	$1.92m	$2.026m	$3.5m	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration (NOAA)	$1.786m(MD)	$0.842m	$5m for MD and VA	-	-	-	-
CBIBS/John Smith Interpretive Buoys (NOAA)	$0.446m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Bay Watershed Ed and Training BWET (NOAA)	$7.3m (national)	$0	$7.3m (national)	-	-	-	-
Striped Bass / Bluefish/Menhaden Monitoring & Assessment (NOAA)	>	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Trawl Survey (NOAA)	$0.447m	$0	$0.5m	-	-	-	-
Susquehanna River Flood Forecasting (NOAA)	$1.78m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Blue Crab Research (NOAA)	$0	$0	$5m	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Studies - Priority Ecosystem Science (USGS)**	$1.3m	$1.3m	$10.361m (national)	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Studies - Geographic Analysis and Monitoring (USGS)**	$0.4m	$0	$16.266m (national)	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Studies - Fisheries (USGS)**	$0.4m	$0.4m	-	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Studies - Other USGS programs (USGS)**	$1.2m	$1.2m	-	-	-	-	-
Controlling Non-Native Species and Assessing Emerging Contaminants (USFWS)	>	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Nat'l Fish Hab Init/Ches Bay Priority Area Fish Passages (USFWS)	>	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Land Acquisition Blackwater Wildlife Refuge (USFWS)	$0.394m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Forestry Stewardship (US Forest Service)	$0.935m	$0	$1m	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Program (NPS)	$1.67m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Support for Chesapeake Bay Activities on Farms (NRCS)	$4.198m^	$0	$6m	-	-	-	-
Agricultural Management Assistance (USDA)	$7m	$0	Uncapped	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Native Oyster Restoration, Virginia and Maryland (COE)	$1.968m	$0	$4m	-	-	-	-
SAV Restoration R&D (COE)	^^	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Ches Bay Shoreline Erosion - MD Coastal Management (COE)	$0.246m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Ches Bay Shoreline Erosion - Sediment Model (COE)	$0m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Elizabeth River Restoration (COE)	$0.098m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Dorchester/Blackwater Wetlands Restoration/ MD Marshlands (COE)	$0.197m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Anacostia River Plan (COE)	$0.5m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Mid-Bay Islands Study (COE)	$0.405m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Environmental Restoration, MD 510 (COE)	$1.999m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Improvements MD, VA, and DC (COE)	New in WRDA 2007	$0	$4m	-	-	-	-
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Education (DOE)	$0.407m	$0	-	-	-	-	-
DC WASA Long Terrn Control Plan CSO (DC)	$8m	$14m	$14m	-	-	-	-

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*There were various rescissions taken at a sub-committee level in the FY08 Omnibus Appropriations bill. These rescissions are reflected in the table above. These rescissions included, 1.56% cut to all activities in the Interior bill (EPA, USGS, USFWS), 1.6% cut to congressionally directed projects and activities in the Energy and Water Bill (COE), 0% cut to the Commerce, Justice, Science bill (NOAA), 0.7% cut to the Agriculture bill and 1.747% cut to section 528 of the Labor/HHS bill (DOE). Of the funds provided to the Bay Program (Bay Program base, small and targeted watershed grants) and the Administrator of the EPA, $5 million in administrative funds shall not be available until 60 days after the EPA Administrator submits a report to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees and to the Comptroller General stating that EPA has implemented the recommendations contained in the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report from October 2005.
** The USGS Chesapeake Bay Studies Program is a combination of funds across several different USGS program areas.
^Note: This figure is not an additive allocation, it is included in funds already appropriated to NRCS
^^Note: Although no dollar amount is specified in the bill, the overall R&D budget for the Army Corps is increased and the report language indicates that the SAV program should be continued.
> Although these programs did not receive direct funding, it is possible that they will receive funding through other agency funds.

Review of Fiscal 2008 Appropriations
Review of Fiscal 2007 Appropriations
Review of Fiscal 2006 Appropriations

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