The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, squeezed hard by sharp cuts in recent budget wars, would receive a slight boost in funding under the proposed 2012 omnibus spending bill.

The Army Corps would receive $5 billion, $145 million more than last year and $429 million more than President Obama requested. That amount includes $1.8 billion for navigation projects and studies and $1.66 billion for flood and coastal storm damage reduction, $437 million of which would pay for critical dam safety improvements, according to a summary from House appropriators.

To pay for recovery from this year's epic floods along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the bill would hand the Army Corps an additional $1.7 billion in flood disaster-recovery money. That is up from the $1 billion in disaster-recovery money included in the committee-passed appropriations bill but still short of the $2 billion-plus that the Army Corps estimates total rebuild and recovery will cost.

The omnibus disaster funding -- $8.1 billion altogether, $6.4 billion of which goes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency -- would be offset by a 1.83 percent across-the-board cut to all 2012 base discretionary spending that excludes the Department of Defense, military construction and Veterans Affairs, appropriators said.

Language in the bill would block funding for wildlife habitat and wetland restoration along the Missouri River, a provision backers such as Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) have said will concentrate funds on levee rebuilding in the wake of this year's floods.

However, environmentalists breathed a sigh of relief to see that policy riders aimed at blocking Obama administration efforts to crack down on mountaintop-removal mining and wetlands filling were not included in the bill.