United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 2712 (100th)
A bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1988, and for other purposes.
Introduced
18 June 1987
Last action
22 December 1987 · Committee
Status
For Further Action See H.J.Res. 395.
Sponsors
Rep. Yates, Sidney R. [D-IL-9]
Subjects
Taxation
Source updated
14 January 2025
Summary
Title I: Department of the Interior - Makes appropriations for FY 1988 within the Department of the Interior for the Bureau of Land Management for management of lands and resources, construction and access, payments in lieu of taxes, land acquisition, Oregon and California grant lands, range improvements, service charges, deposits and forfeitures, and miscellaneous trust funds. Sets forth uses and limitations of appropriations made to the Bureau of Land Management. Appropriates funds for: (1) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for resource management, construction, anadromous fish, the Migratory Bird Conservation Account, land acquisition and the National Wildlife Refuge Fund; (2) the National Park Service for the operation of the National Park System, recreation and preservation programs, the Historic Preservation Fund, construction, land acquisition and State assistance, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission; (3) the Geological Survey for surveys, investigations, and research; (4) the Minerals Management Service for leasing and royalty management; (5) the Bureau of Mines for the conduct of inquiries, technological investigations, and research of mines and minerals; (6) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement for regulation and technology, and the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund; (7) the Bureau of Indian Affairs for the operation of Indian programs, construction, road construction, miscellaneous payments, tribal trust funds, the revolving fund for loans, and the Indian Loan Guaranty and Insurance Fund; (8) the Office of Territorial and International Affairs for administration, for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and for the Compact of Free Association; and (9) the Secretarial offices, including the Office of the Solicitor for salaries and expenses, the Office of Construction Management, and the Office of the Inspector General. Sets forth the uses and limitations on appropriations made available by this title. Makes such appropriations available for expenditure or transfer for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of aircraft, buildings, utilities, or other facilities or equipment damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable causes. Makes funds available for the suppression or emergency prevention of forest or range fires on or threatening lands under the Department of the Interior jurisdiction, for emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands, emergency actions related to earthquakes or volcanoes, and emergency reclamation projects. Makes appropriations available for the operation of warehouses, garages, shops, and similar facilities, wherever consolidation of activities will contribute to efficiency or economy. Makes appropriations available for the hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, hire of passenger motor vehicles, purchase of reprints, payment for telephone service in private residences in the field, and the payment of certain dues when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior. Makes appropriations available for uniforms or allowances. Limits the use of appropriations for services or rentals to contracts not exceeding 12 months. Prohibits the use of funds for the preparation for, or conduct of, pre-leasing and leasing activities of lands within a certain area of the Outer Continental Shelf off the coastline of Massachusetts. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to finance the changing of the name of Mount McKinley. Makes available appropriations to provide insurance on official motor vehicles, aircraft, and boats operated by the Department of the Interior in Canada and Mexico. Prohibits the use of funds to detail any employee to an organization unless in accordance with Office of Personnel Management regulations. Requires that oil and gas exploration or production equipment used on the Outer Continental Shelf be at least 50 percent American made as to construction and materials, except as specified. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1988 for the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service for forest research, State and private forestry, the National Forest System, construction, land acquisition, the Range Betterment Fund, acquisition of land for national forests, and miscellaneous trust funds. Makes appropriations for the Department of Energy for the clean coal technology reserve, fossil energy research and development (including transfer of funds), naval petroleum and oil shale reserves, energy conservation, economic regulation, emergency preparedness, the Energy Information Administration, the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve), and the SPR Account. Makes appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for the Health Resources and Services Administration for Indian health services and facilities. Appropriates funds to: (1) the Department of Education for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for Indian education; (2) the Navajo and Hopi Relocation Commission for salaries and expenses; (3) the Smithsonian Institution for salaries and expenses; (4) construction and improvements at the National Zoological Park; (5) restoration and renovation of buildings owned or occupied by the Smithsonian Institution; (6) construction at the Fred L. Whipple Observatory; (7) salaries and expenses of the National Gallery of Art (NGA); (8) repair, restoration, and renovation of buildings of the NGA; and (9) salaries and expenses of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Makes appropriations for the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities for: (1) expenses and matching grants for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and for national capital arts and cultural affairs; (2) the Institute of Museum Services; (3) salaries and expenses for the Commission of Fine Arts, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the National Capital Planning Commission, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission, the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation (as well as for public activities and projects); and (4) the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Title III: General Provisions - Limits procurement contracts for consulting services obtained through appropriations made by this Act to those contracts where expenditures are a matter of public record. Prohibits the use of appropriations by the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior for the sale of unprocessed timber from Federal lands west of the 100th meridian which will be exported from the United States or which will be used as a substitute for timber from private lands which is exported by the purchaser. Prohibits the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from using such funds for leasing of oil and natural gas by noncompetitive bidding on public lands within the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois. Prohibits the use of such funds for any activity that tends to promote public support for or opposition to legislative proposals on which congressional action is incomplete. Declares that no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. Provides that none of the funds appropriated to any department or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to any officer or employee of such department or agency unless otherwise provided. Provides that none of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be obligated for any aspect of the processing or issuance of permits or leases pertaining to exploration for or development of coal, oil, gas, oil shale, phosphate, potassium, sulphur, gilsonite, geothermal resources on Federal lands within any component of the National Wilderness Preservation System or within any Forest Service RARE II areas recommended for wilderness designation or allocated to further planning. Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to evaluate, consider, process, or award oil, gas, or geothermal leases on Federal lands in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, State of Washington. Prohibits assessments from being levied against any program, budget activity, or project funded by this Act without approval by the Committees on Appropriations. Provides that employment funded by this Act shall not be subject to any personnel ceiling or other personnel restriction for permanent or other than permanent employment except as provided by law. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and Energy, and the Smithsonian Institution to enter into contracts with State and local governments for procurement of services in the presuppression, detection, and suppression of fires. Prohibits the use of funds for deer hunting in the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. Prohibits the use of funds to implement the proposed jurisdictional interchange program until the enactment of legislation.
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Timeline
6 January 1987
Introduced
Referred to House Committee on Appropriations.
Source: IntroReferral
6 January 1987
Referred
Referred to Subcommittee on Interior.
Source: Committee
4 February 1987
Committee
First Day of Subcommittee Hearings.
Source: Committee
18 February 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
20 February 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
3 March 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
10 March 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
19 March 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
24 March 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
27 March 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
1 April 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
2 April 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
8 April 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
21 April 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
22 April 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
23 April 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
28 April 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
30 April 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
30 April 1987
Committee
Final Day of Subcommittee Hearings.
Source: Committee
5 May 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held on the subject prior to measure being received from the House.
Source: Committee
4 June 1987
Committee
First Day of Subcommittee Mark-up.
Source: Committee
18 June 1987
Calendars
Placed on Union Calendar No: 98.
Source: Calendars
18 June 1987
Reported
Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-171.
Source: Committee
18 June 1987
Reported
Reported to House by House Committee on Appropriations. Report No: 100-171.
Source: Committee
18 June 1987
Reported
Ordered to be Reported.
Source: Committee
18 June 1987
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
18 June 1987
Committee
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.
Source: Committee
18 June 1987
Floor
Committee on Rules Granted a Rule Waiving All Points of Order Against Consideration of the Bill.
Source: Floor
18 June 1987
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
18 June 1987
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
23 June 1987
Passed
Rule Passed House.
Source: Floor
24 June 1987
Floor
Called up by House as Privileged Matter.
Source: Floor
25 June 1987
Vote
Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 295 - 115 (Record Vote No: 218).
Source: Floor
25 June 1987
Vote
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 295 - 115 (Record Vote No: 218).
Source: Floor
30 June 1987
Introduced
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Source: IntroReferral
20 July 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Hearings held.
Source: Committee
18 September 1987
Committee
Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations. Approved for full committee consideration with amendments favorably.
Source: Committee
22 September 1987
Calendars
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 322.
Source: Calendars
22 September 1987
Reported
Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Source: Committee
22 September 1987
Reported
Committee on Appropriations. Reported to Senate by Senator Byrd with amendments. With written report No. 100-165.
Source: Committee
29 September 1987
Floor
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
Source: Floor
30 September 1987
ResolvingDifferences
Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Byrd; Johnston; Leahy; DeConcini; Burdick; Bumpers; Hollings; Reid; Stennis; McClure; Stevens; Garn; Cochran; Rudman; Weicker; Nickles; Hatfield.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
30 September 1987
Floor
Considered by Senate.
Source: Floor
30 September 1987
Vote
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 92-4. Record Vote No: 288.
Source: Floor
5 October 1987
Floor
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Source: Floor
15 October 1987
Passed
House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
15 October 1987
Passed
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
Source: NotUsed
15 October 1987
Passed
House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Yates, Murtha, Dicks, Boland, AuCoin, Bevill, Whitten, Regula, McDade, Lowery (CA), Conte.
Source: ResolvingDifferences
22 December 1987
Committee
For Further Action See H.J.Res. 395.
Source: Committee
Votes
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Passed Senate amended
summary · EN · 30 September 1987
Passed House amended
summary · EN · 25 June 1987
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Introduced in House
summary · EN · 18 June 1987
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Sponsors
- Rep. Yates, Sidney R. [D-IL-9] · D · Sponsor
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Related records
- related to → A joint resolution making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1988, and for other purposes.
- amends ← An amendment to cut $25 million which is earmarked for certain energy conservation research and development projects.
- amends ← An amendment to cut $85.9 million earmarked for fossil energy research and development projects.
- amends ← An amendment to allow the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire 2,000 acres of land in California in exchange for reductions of aggregate outstanding loan balances with respect to loans made by the Farmers Home Administration.
- amends ← An amendment to provide an across-the-board cut of half the increase over the FY 1987 level which would result in reducing the bill's funding by approximately $300 million.
- amends ← An amendment to earmark $247,000 for the Forest Service's Forest Economic Research Unit in Duluth, Minnesota.
- amends ← An amendment to provide $1,000,000 in funding for the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.
- amends ← An amendment to earmark $50,000,000 for expenditure toward petroleum and gas research and development activities.
- amends ← An amendment to provide that $50,000,000 from the amount appropriated for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve shall not be obligated unless future fiscal year 1988 pay cost increases for accounts in this Act are provided within the allocations of the fiscal year 1988 Congressional Budget Resolution.
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Sources
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/100th-congress/house-bill/2712
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