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Environment News Service : White House, C . . . Applaud Environmental Funding Compromise wysiwyg: Hl /http : //ens-news . com/ens/sep2000/2000L- 09 - 29 - l5 . html stream flowing into a trust fund to be used for land acquisition and conservation activities over the next six years . The new Interior Department spending bill will approximately double the funding appropriated for those kinds of federal and state projects in the coming fiscal year , Frampton said . It will also contain a provision whereby the $ 1 . 6 billion outlay will " ramp up " to $ 2 . 4 billion per year by fiscal year 2006 , said Frampton . North Shore Palisade Head area ; Superior National p Forest, Lake Superior, Minnesota ' k ( Photo courtesy U . S . Forest Service ) ; Specifically ecificall the bill � � � ` � � `'lh �� / , M �t < - F � C yap ? will authorize an ��iI,r tt 'I + t ? t. . outlay of $ 1 . 6 billion 3 wW . . ; for those types of b '' programs in the coming fiscal year , Frampton said . About 1 / 3 of that outlay will be earmarked for federal programs such as land acquisitions , marine sanctuaries and park and refuge maintenance backlogs . The remainder will be directed towards state historic preservation projects , urban parks , and grants to states for wildlife conservation and forest protection projects , Frampton said . Still , the funding levels and six year authorization provision contained in the new spending bill represent a real departure from the original terms of the CARA legislation . That measure , as originally drafted , would have funded the state and federal conservation programs at a rate of $ 3 billion per year for a period of 15 years . Key Republican appropriators fought hard this week to kill or significantly scale back the far reaching environmental funding contained in the CARA legislation . Senator Slade Gorton ( Photo courtesy Office of the Senator ) Senator Slade Gorton , a Washington Ili„ Republican who chairs the Senate Interior t Appropriations Subcommittee , and Congressman Ralph Regula , an Ohio Republican who heads the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee , blocked an effort by pro - CARA Republicans to attach a r modified version of the conservation measure to the Interior Department ' s spending bill . That compromise , proposed by Alaska Republicans Frank Murkowski and Don Young , would have provided a six year period of guaranteed funding , beginning at $ 1 . 8 billion and ramping up to $ 3 2 of 5 10/2/2000 8 : 21 AM