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Interior

State LWCF Grants Eliminated, but new water program proposed

The Interior budget proposal again calls for eliminating stateside Land and Water Conservation Fund grants, reducing federal land acquisition, and cutting historic preservation. Overall budgets for USGS and the National Park Service are generally unchanged. The budget calls for a new "national water census" and new grants for "water conservation and basin studies." The budget continues to calls for expanded oil and gas drilling, including in ANWR.

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