What’s in the stimulus for the environment

List of environment-related spending items of note in the recently signed stimulus package:

• $4.125 billion for flood control and water management construction, regulation and investigations
• $1 billion for water reclamation and reuse projects
• $650 million for renovation of forest roads, bridges and trails, remediation of abandoned mines, removal of barriers to fish and other critical habitat
• $375 million for Mississippi River and tributary construction
• $280 million for the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service for refuge operations and maintenance
• $100 million for clean-up of ‘brownfield’ former industrial sites

This is not a complete list by any means. Estimates have “energy and environment” totals at $50.8 billion, heavily weighted towards the former, “outdoors, Indian reservation and arts” spending at $10.9 billion, and “transportation and housing” at $61.8 billion.

Sources: Congressional Budget Office, Wall Street Journal, H.R.1