Fiscal year 2006 budget request for the Department of the Interior: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, to receive testimony on the president's proposed FY 2006 budget for the Department of the Interior, March 1, 2005 |
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Page 18 - partnerships. Our goals become reality through the energy and creativity efforts of our employees, volunteers, and partners. They provide the foundation for achieving the goals highlighted in our 2006 budget. This concludes my overview of the 2006 budget proposal for the Department of the Interior and my written statement. I will be happy to answer
Page 63 - with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce to meet the water supply requirements of irrigators, municipalities, and others while still taking necessary steps to meet the requirements of the Endangered Species Act throughout the West. An example of this type of collaboration (which also includes States and other entities) is the
Page 66 - Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) which authorizes Reclamation to enter into contracts to furnish water from its projects provides at Section 9(e): "Each such contract shall be ... at such rates as in the Secretary's judgment will produce revenues at least sufficient to cover an appropriate share of the annual O&M cost and an appropriate share of such fixed charges as the Secretary deems proper.
Page 8 - enactment of legislation to open the 1002 area of the coastal plain in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration and development. The US Geological Survey estimates that the entire ANWR assessment area contains a mean of 10.4 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil.
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Page 126 - a comprehensive long-term solution to the complex and interrelated problems in the Bay-Delta, the watersheds that feed it, and the areas served by waters diverted out of it. A consortium of Federal and State agencies fund and participate in the CALFED program, focusing on
Page 10 - 2006 budget request for current appropriations is $10.8 billion. Permanent funding that becomes available as a result of existing legislation without further action by the Congress will provide an additional $4.2 billion, for a total 2006 Interior budget of $15 billion.
Page 10 - of healthy lands and water, thriving communities, and dynamic economies. We look forward to working with Congress to advance these goals. Thank you. [The prepared statement of Secretary Norton follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. GALE A. NORTON, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Good morning. I am pleased to be here