Washington ? From an Alaska land swap to tours of a Georgia barrier island, business interests bested environmentalists in battles that shaped Congress’ $388 billion spending bill.

The legislation wasn’t totally one-sided as it boosted expenditures for operating national parks and continued bans on oil drilling in national monuments and many offshore areas. Lawmakers also omitted business-sought provisions to help a huge Oregon logging project and to ease standards for some pesticide use.

Business groups said the spending bill, which with accompanying documents ran 3,646 pages, was too wide-ranging for either side to declare victory.

“I’d be hard-pressed to say it was a clear win,” Bruce Josten, a top lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said about the legislation that lawmakers soon will send to President Bush for his signature.

Even so, much of the measure reflected the pro-business orientation of Bush and Congress’ majority Republicans, who dominated the crafting of the package. Oil, ranching, timber and tourism all scored victories.

“This bill is harmful to the environment, there’s no question about it,” said Linda Lance, vice president for public policy for the Wilderness Society. “And to the extent that people see this as a way to do business in the future, that would be enormously harmful.”

With the GOP seeking to curb spending, the bill — financing every federal agency but the departments of Defense and Homeland Security — limits overall 2005 domestic programs to 1 percent more than last year.

The National Park Service gets $1.7 billion to operate its parks, a 6 percent increase that Blake Selzer of the National Parks Conservation Assn, called “one of the bright spots of the bill.”

Overall federal land acquisition, though, is about $166 million, well below its $444 million peak of three years ago. The Environmental Protection Agency gets $8.1 billion, 3.4 percent below last year, while agricultural conservation is cut 3 percent from 2004 to $999 million.