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Witnesses:

• Brendan M. Owens, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment
• Rachel L. Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy, and Environment
• Meredith A. Berger, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations, and Environment
• Ravi I. Chaudhary, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, Installations, and Environment
• Elizabeth A. Field, Director of Defense Capabilities and Management, Government Accountability Office

• Budget request for military construction: $16.7 billion
• Base realignment and closure plan
• Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program budget request: $634 million

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Witness:

• Bill Nelson, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration FY2024 budget request is $27.2 billion, including $2.5 billion for earth science.

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Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.)

Witnesses:

Witnesses Panel I

• Brendan Owens, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment, Department of Defense
• Vice Admiral Ricky Williamson, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Fleet Readiness and Logistics, United States Navy
• Lieutenant General Edward Banta, Deputy Commandant, Installations & Logistics, United States Marine Corps

Panel II

• Lieutenant General Kevin Vereen, Deputy Chief of Staff, United States Army
• Lieutenant General Tom Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Engineering, and Force Protection, United States Air Force
• Bruce Hollywood, Associate Chief Operations Officer, United States Space Force

• Budget justification: $16.7 billion

Hearing on the Department of the Army Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Request.

Witnesses:

• Christine E. Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, U.S. Army
• General James C. McConville, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army

The FY2024 Army budget request is $185.5 billion, of which $1.4 billion (0.7%) is climate-related.

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Chair Chris Coons (D-Del.)

Witness:

• Samantha Power, Administrator, United States Agency for International Development

Budget request for USAID: $2.3 billion

• $1.9 billion for operating expenses, including $183 million for the Global Development Partnership Initiative
• $0.3 billion for the USAID Capital Investment Fund

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Witnesses

• Dawn O’Connell, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response
• Dr. Lawrence Tabak D.D.S, Ph.D, Performing the Duties of the Director, National Institutes for Health
• Dr. Rochelle Walensky M.D, M.P.H, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Budget request of $51.1 billion for National Institutes of Health, including $938 million for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Budget request of $4.3 billion for the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, including $130 million for the National Disaster Medical System

Budget request of $11.6 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including $88.6 million for vector-borne diseases and $421 million for environmental health, which includes $21 million for the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) Cooperative Agreement

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• Budget request: $1 billion

Hearing on the “U.S. Tax Code Subsidizing Green Corporate Handouts and the Chinese Communist Party.”

Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.)

The hearing’s argument is aligned with the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.

Witnesses:

• Daniel Turner, Executive Director, Power The Future
• Drew Horn, CEO, GreenMet
• Kenny Stein, Policy Director, Institute for Energy Research
• Vance Ginn, Senior Fellow, Americans for Tax Reform
• Ben Beachy, Vice President of Manufacturing and Industrial Policy, BlueGreen Alliance

Hearing for the purpose of receiving testimony from The Honorable Michael Regan, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Chair GT Thompson (R-Pa.)

On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources will hold an oversight hearing titled “Examining the President’s FY 2024 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior”.

Chair Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)

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Witness:

• Deb Haaland, Secretary, Department of the Interior

The Department’s 2024 budget totals $18.9 billion in current authority ($18.3 billion in net discretionary authority)—an increase of $2.0 billion, or 12 percent, from the 2023 enacted budget.

The budget for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management provides $72.3 million for conventional energy programs to support OCS planning, leasing, and oversight.

The 2024 budget for the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement includes $217.1 million for conventional energy programs to support OCS permit application reviews, regulation and standard development for offshore activities, verification and enforcement of operator compliance with all applicable environmental laws and regulations, technical reviews of planned operations and emerging technologies to properly identify and mitigate risks, a robust inspection program employing an annual inspection strategy that includes risk-based inspections, and incident investigations. BSEE’s budget also includes $30.0 million to fund the decommissioning of orphaned offshore oil and gas infrastructure.

The 2024 budget includes $123.5 million for the Bureau of Land Management’s Oil and Gas Management program, an increase of $10.6 million from the 2023 enacted amount. The BLM budget also includes $51.0 million for Oil and Gas Inspection Activities and proposes to offset the cost of this program through the establishment of onshore inspection fees.

The 2024 BOEM budget includes $6.6 million in Conventional Energy and $2.3 million in Environmental Programs to establish a dedicated team, train existing staff, hire additional specialized experts, and fund environmental studies, scientific research, data collection, and other activities critical to the establishment and implementation of the new program. The 2024 BSEE budget includes $1.5 million to prepare for regulating and overseeing safe and effective offshore carbon sequestration activities. The budget includes $3.4 million to start an onshore carbon sequestration program in BLM.