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Highlights from the President's FY15 Department of Interior Budget Request
Enacted FY14 funding is used for comparisons unless otherwise noted.
The administration’s FY15 budget request for the Department of the Interior (DOI) would provide $11.7 billion (0.3 percent increase) in discretionary funding. DOI would receive $888.7 million (7.3 percent increase) for research and development activities. Of the proposed R&D budget, $94.8 million (3.5 percent increase) would be allocated to DOI’s Powering Our Future initiative, which supports renewable energy projects on federal lands and waters.
DOI would receive $140 million of its R&D funding through the administration’s Opportunity, Growth and Security Initiative (OGSI). OGSI-supported research would target energy and mineral development; climate resilience; landscape scale ecosystem management, restoration and protection; water resources management; and, species protection and health.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), DOI's lead research bureau, would receive $1.1 billion (4 percent increase).