Budget

EIA receives funding for its activities with an annual appropriation from the Congress. In Congress, our budget is reviewed by the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees on Interior and Related Agencies. EIA is one of 11 Federal Statistical agencies whose budgets range from nearly $720 million for the Bureau of the Census to about 31 million for the Internal Revenue Service Statistics of Income. EIA's budget ranks sixth in size and is about 4% of the total budget for the Federal statistical agencies. Our 2003 budget is $80.111 million, with a Federal staffing level of 374 people. About 49% of the budget is used to pay the Federal staff. Another 39% of the budget funds about 250 support service contractors that are used to help us design and run our energy data and analysis systems. The final 12% of the budget pays for office space and other administrative expenses such as telephones and office supplies. Our budget is divided into eight programs with funding, on average, distributed as follows: Oil and Gas 27% Coal, Nuclear, Electric  & Alternate Fuels 14 Energy Markets and End Use 15 Integrated Analysis and Forecasting 11 Information Technology 10 National Energy Information Center 3 Statistics and Methods 4 Resource Management 16 For FY 2004, EIA has requested a budget of $80.111 million with a Federal staffing level of 374 people. The allocation between the eight programs remains nearly the same. EIA's key activities, among others, during FY 2004 are to continue the redesign of natural gas and electricity survey and processing systems, resolution of petroleum data quality issues related to mergers and consolidations and redesigning surveys to reflect new fuel standards, incorporate year 2000 Census data, and enhance EIA's ability to provide regional energy data, analyses, and forecasts.

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