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Department of the Interior

Award obligations from USAspending, with detail archived for FFY 2024 · 16 sub-agencies.

Interior manages national parks, public lands, and many programs serving tribes and territories. Award figures on The Ledger come from archived USAspending awarding-agency rollups (obligations). That is not the same as every dollar the agency outlays.

Obligations · FFY 2024

$20.6B

Awarding agency DOI

Transactions

91,574

Award transactions in FFY 2024

Share of awards

0.42%

Of archived awarding-agency obligations in FFY 2024

MTS outlays

—

No matching MTS agency line

Obligations by year

Award obligations by fiscal year for Department of the Interior
Fiscal yearObligations
FFY 2024$20.6B
FFY 2023$18.5B
FFY 2022$14.7B
FFY 2021$13.6B
FFY 2018$10.5B
FFY 2017$9.7B
FFY 2016$9.9B

Award categoriesFFY 2024

Obligations by award category for Department of the Interior
CategoryAmount
Grants$8.1B
Contracts$8.1B
Direct payments$3.8B
Other$496.0M
IDVs$4.9M

Top sub-agenciesFFY 2024

Top sub-agencies by obligations for Department of the Interior
Sub-agencyCodeObligationsTransactions
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education—$4.7B19,672
Departmental Offices—$4.2B10,222
U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceUSFWS$2.8B17,483
Bureau of ReclamationBOR$2.4B5,775
National Park ServiceNPS$2.3B18,694
Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and EnforcementOSMRE$1.2B684
Bureau of Land ManagementBLM$1.1B9,316
Insular AffairsOIA$979.7M861
U.S. Geological SurveyUSGS$864.5M7,664
Bureau of Safety and Environmental EnforcementBSEE$93.1M662
Bureau of Ocean Energy ManagementBOEM$48.7M438
Office of the Inspector GeneralOIG$2.8M103

Sources

  • Obligations are legal commitments, not the same as Treasury outlays. See award obligations and outlays.
  • Official websiteUSAspending agency pageBudget justificationMethodologyAll awarding agencies