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).