NSF Congressional Highlight
NSF
Senate Appropriations Mark-up
July 19, 2001
The Senate VA-HUD and Independent Agencies Appropriations subcommittee marked
up the FY 02 appropriations bill Thursday morning, to be followed by a full
committee mark-up in the afternoon. Noting that their subcommittee allocation
prevented them from providing the $600 million that they felt was needed to
keep NSF on a doubling track, Senators Mikulski and Bond provided the agency
with a 5.6% increase over last year's budget. Funding for NSF accounts is listed
in the table below:
FY 2002 National Science Foundation
Appropriations Table
FY
2002 National Science Foundation
Appropriations Table |
Current
Plan |
Request |
House
Committee
Mark |
Senate
Committee
Mark |
House
%
Change from
Current Plan |
Senate
%
Change from
Current Plan |
Total
|
4426.1 |
4472.5 |
4840.1 |
4672.52 |
9.354% |
5.567% |
|
R&RA |
3350.0 |
3326.9 |
3642.3 |
3514.48 |
8.725% |
4.910% |
|
MRE |
121.6 |
96.3 |
135.3 |
108.83 |
11.266% |
-10.500% |
|
BIO |
485.4 |
483.1 |
529.0 |
|
8.982% |
|
|
CISE |
477.9 |
470.4 |
521.0 |
|
9.019% |
|
|
ENG |
430.8 |
431.0 |
469.0 |
|
8.867% |
|
|
GEO |
562.2 |
558.5 |
613.0 |
|
9.036% |
|
|
MPS |
850.8 |
863.6 |
927.0 |
|
8.956% |
|
|
SBE |
164.4 |
163.2 |
179.0 |
|
8.881% |
|
|
OPP |
273.3 |
276.6 |
299.0 |
|
9.404% |
|
|
IA |
97.7 |
80.6 |
106.0 |
|
8.495% |
|
|
EHR |
785.6 |
872.4 |
886.0 |
872.41 |
12.780% |
11.050% |
|
S&E |
160.89 |
170.04 |
170.04 |
170.04 |
5.687% |
5.687% |
|
IG |
6.27 |
6.76 |
6.76 |
6.76 |
7.815% |
7.815% |
RRA-Research and Related Activities
MRE - Major Research Equipment
BIO - Biological Sciences
CISE- Computer and Information Science and Engineering
ENG - Engineering
GEO - Geosciences
MPS - Mathematics and Physical Sciences
SBE - Science, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
OPP - Polar Research Programs
IA - Integrative Activities
EHR - Education and Human Resources
S&E - Salaries and Expenses
IG - Office of Inspector General
Report language in the Senate bill provides for a number of changes
from the budget request, including:
+ $75 million for disciplinary research;
+ $25 million for nanoscale science and engineering
(request $173.7 million);
+ $25 million for information technology research (request $215.53 million);
+ $10 million for plant genome research (request $ 65.0 million);
+ $5 million for mathematics initiative (request $20.0 million);
+ $25 million for major research instrumentation (request $50.0 million);
+ $10 million for regional innovation clusters (not in request);
+ $12.5 million to offset increased fuel costs for user facilities affected
by increased fuel costs.
The committee also added $10 million to maintain the Homestake mine
site in Lead, South Dakota, pending a full report on the feasibility
of developing the site as a possible deep underground laboratory for
physics, geosciences, and extreme biology.
In the Major Research Equipment account the committee added $12.5 million
for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope.
The Education and Human Resources account was provided the requested
$86.78 million increase, for a total of $872.41 million. Within that
account $130 million is identified for the President's Mathematics and
Science Partnership Initiative, to be augmented with $60 million from
the H-1B visa Nonimmigrant Petitioner receipts.
The EPSCoR activity was increased by $10 million to $85 million and
$5 million was added to the Partnerships for Innovation program, bringing
it to $15 million. $20 million from the EHR account is specified for
a new undergraduate workforce initiative to increase the number of degree
recipients in science and engineering.
The Graduate Education program is increased by $15 million (to $110.5
million), reflecting the committees agreement that graduate stipends
need to be increased if we are to reverse declining graduate school enrollments.
An additional $8 million was targeted to stimulated competitive research
in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and the HBCU Undergraduate
Program was increased by $2 million (to $16 million).
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