1、 https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated March 30, 2019Bureau of Land Management: FY2019 AppropriationsThe Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages 246 million acres of land, nearly all in the West, under a multiple use mission. Uses of BLM land include livestock grazing, recreation, and preservation.
2、 The agency also administers onshore federal energy and mineral resources covering nearly 700 million acres of federal subsurface mineral estate, and it supervises the mineral operations on about 60 million acres of Indian trust lands. Issues for Congress included determining the amount of funding t
3、o provide for BLM programs and activities for FY2019, the terms and conditions of such funding, and whether to enact related Trump Administration proposals. Discretionary appropriations for BLM were enacted (P.L. 116-6, Division E) on February 15, 2019. The enacted appropriation was $1,346.2 million
4、, a $14.3 million (1.1%) increase over the FY2018 appropriation of $1,331.9 million. The FY2019 enacted amount also was an increase of $322.9 million (31.6%) over the Administrations FY2019 request ($1,023.3 million) and of $2.8 million (0.2%) over the FY2019 Senate-passed level ($1,343.4 million),
