# Offsetting Collections Civil Penalties

**Agency:** Interior  
**Account:** Regulation and Technology  
**Source document:** Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement · p. 10  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/interior/offsetting-collections-civil-penalties  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.


## Interior discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $18.80B, FY2026 $17.30B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

The FY 2027 President's Budget reflects civil penalty collections based on updated estimates of enforcement activity and historical collection trends. Civil penalties assessed under SMCRA are deposited into the appropriate Treasury accounts and are used, as authorized, to support reclamation activities at abandoned mine sites.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Interior › Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement › Regulation and Technology › Offsetting Collections Civil Penalties


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*