WASHINGTON — Congressional supporters of the space program voted Tuesday to fully fund President Bush's request for NASA.

There would be cuts in law enforcement grants to state and local governments and in the State Department's budget under trade-offs in a $57.5 billion measure for NASA and the Commerce, Justice and State departments. It was approved Tuesday by a House Appropriations subcommittee by voice vote.

Separately, the House began debate on a $29.7 billion measure for the Energy Department and water projects.

There is a provision to spend $10 million to develop interim sites for storing nuclear waste as concerns continue about the proposed Yucca Mountain project in Nevada. That promised to spark opposition from lawmakers from South Carolina, which is a leading candidate to receive additional waste.

The subcommittee's treatment of NASA, voting for Bush's full $16.5 billion request, contrasts with last year's budget cycle when a bill containing the agency's funding slashed Bush's request by 7 percent, or more than $1 billion.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, whose district is home to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, refused to bring that bill to the floor and forced negotiators to restore the cuts when assembling a $388 billion catchall spending bill last November.

The measure approved by the subcommittee on Tuesday would cut crime-fighting grants to state and local governments by $400 million from current levels. The panel also would cut $273 million from Bush's request for the State Department but boost FBI spending by 10 percent over this year.

The energy and water projects bill provides $661 million for continued development of a nuclear waste storage site to be built at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Because of delays in the project, the House added $10 million for developing one or more interim storage sites.

Yucca Mountain has endured myriad problems. The most recent concerned allegations that government workers on the project falsified data. As the target date for opening the facility continues to be pushed back, the government faces an estimated $500 million in annual liability costs paid to nuclear utilities that were promised Yucca would start accepting waste in 1998.

The Yucca repository, now scheduled for completion in 2012, is vigorously opposed by Nevada's congressional delegation, including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, As such, the House funding level probably represents the high water mark for spending on it next year.

"The Yucca Mountain project was based on 1980s science and has no place in our country today," said Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev. "Going forward with Yucca Mountain is like using cassette tapes or even 8-tracks in the era of MP3 players and iPods."

The bill also contains $4.7 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, most of it devoted to waterways, dams and flood control projects. That is $414 million more than requested by Bush but $294 million less than current funding.

Typically, lawmakers add even more to Bush's budget for water projects, which are especially popular as a way to bring federal dollars to their districts and states. Lean times for the current round of spending bills left many projects on the cutting room floor.