Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50102: Offshore oil and gas leasing Executive Summary Section 50102 is a major offshore fossil-fuel expansion provision. It requires the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, to hold at least 30 Gulf of America offshore oil and gas lease sales through 2040 and…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50101: Onshore oil and gas leasing Executive Summary Section 50101 is a federal onshore oil and gas leasing expansion provision. It does not appropriate new money, create a grant program, or rescind unobligated balances. Instead, it changes the statutory rules that govern Bureau of Land Management onshore oil…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 40011: Rescission of amounts appropriated to Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Executive Summary Section 40011 permanently rescinds $850 million from unobligated balances previously made available under section 106(a) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 for the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund.[1] The affected program is administered…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 40010: Treatment of unobligated funds for alternative fuel and low-emission aviation technology Executive Summary Section 40010 rescinds unobligated balances from the Inflation Reduction Act’s Alternative Fuel and Low-Emission Aviation Technology Program, implemented by the Federal Aviation Administration as the Fueling Aviation’s Sustainable Transition, or FAST, grant program.[1] The…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 40009: Reduction in annual transfers to Travel Promotion Fund Executive Summary Section 40009 reduces the statutory cap on annual transfers to the Travel Promotion Fund from $100 million to $20 million.[1] The Travel Promotion Fund supports the Corporation for Travel Promotion, doing business as Brand USA, the public-private…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 40008: Rescission of certain amounts for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Executive Summary Section 40008 rescinds unobligated balances from four Inflation Reduction Act accounts administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. The affected Inflation Reduction Act provisions funded coastal resilience, NOAA facilities, National Marine…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 40007: Payments for lease of Metropolitan Washington Airports Executive Summary Section 40007 changes the federal lease-payment formula for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, or MWAA, which operates Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport under a long-term lease with the U.S. Department of Transportation.[1] The…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 40006: Corporate average fuel economy civil penalties Executive Summary Section 40006 changes the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, enforcement system by setting the statutory civil penalty for manufacturer fuel-economy shortfalls at $0.00. It does not repeal CAFE standards themselves, and it does not remove manufacturer reporting, EPA…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 40005: Mars missions, Artemis missions, and Moon to Mars program Executive Summary Section 40005 provides a major mandatory funding boost for NASA’s human exploration and deep-space infrastructure portfolio. It appropriates $9.995 billion for fiscal year 2025, available through September 30, 2032, for Mars missions, Artemis missions, and Moon…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 40004: Space launch and reentry licensing and permitting user fees Executive Summary Section 40004 creates a new federal user-fee system for commercial space launch and reentry operations licensed or permitted by the Federal Aviation Administration. Beginning in calendar year 2026, the Secretary of Transportation must impose a fee…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 40003: Air traffic control improvements Executive Summary Section 40003 appropriates $12.52 billion to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration for fiscal year 2025, available through September 30, 2029, for air traffic control facilities, equipment, telecommunications, radar, runway safety, weather systems, facility consolidation, remote towers, and controller training…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 40002: Spectrum auctions Executive Summary Section 40002 restores and extends the Federal Communications Commission’s general spectrum auction authority through September 30, 2034, while excluding the 3.1 to 3.45 gigahertz and 7.4 to 8.4 gigahertz bands from that authority.[1] It also creates a statutory spectrum pipeline: the FCC must…