# Sequestration

**Agency:** Interior  
**Account:** Permanent Operating Funds  
**Source document:** Bureau of Land Management · p. 205  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/interior/sequestration-3  

> **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 budget will focus on access easements, high-priority inholdings, and reducing checkerboard lands that create a burden to the public and for management of public lands. The projects were evaluated using the standard criteria as stated in Public Law 116-9, and reinforced in DOI Secretarial Order 3442, The BLM is authorized to acquire non-Federal lands through purchase, exchange, and donation for specified public benefits. Consolidation of the public lands through land acquisition increases efficiency in pursuing land management goals such as providing opportunities for recreation access, preserving natural and cultural heritage resources, providing connectivity between landscapes for migration corridors, as well as restoring at-risk botanical, fisheries, and wildlife resources, and maintaining functioning ecosystems. The BLM uses LWCF monies for Project Allocation, Recreational Access, Emergencies, Inholdings, and


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Interior › Bureau of Land Management › Permanent Operating Funds › Sequestration


*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.*