NSF Congressional Update
September 13, 2000
Senate Appropriations Committee Marks up NSF
Budget
The Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on
VA-HUD and Independent Agencies met this morning to
mark up their FY 2001 bill, followed by a full Senate
Appropriations Committee mark up in the afternoon.
The Senate mark would provide NSF with an increase
of $400 million over FY 2000, for a total for $4.297
billion. This represents an increase of 10.26%.
Within this increase the Senate provides an additional
$287.1 million (+9.7%) for the Research and Related
Activities account, for a total of $3.245 billion.
This includes:
- $215 million for the Information Technology
Research activities (up $125 million from FY 00);
- $75 million for the Biocomplexity initiative
(an increase of $25 million );
- $65 million for the Plant Genome Research
program (up $6.4 million); and
- $125 million for the Nanoscale Science
and Engineering initiative (up $27.7 million).
The Major Research Equipment account is funded at $109.1
million, up $15.6 million from the previous year.
This includes $45 million for a new Terascale Computing
System, $16.4 million for the Large Hadron Collider,
and $6 million for the Millimeter Array.
In the Education and Human Resources Account the Committee
provides a total of $765.4 million, up $74.5 million
from last year (and $36.4 million above the requested
amount). The Partnerships for Innovation is funded
at $10 million and EPSCoR at $65 million. The Historically
Black Colleges and Universities-Undergraduate Program
would receive $12 million (+ $3.6 million). The new
Scholarships for Service program--aimed at strengthening
the security of the information technology infrastructure--would
receive $11.2 million. Programs that emphasize women
and persons with disabilities would receive $16.5
million. The Graduate Research Fellowship program
would increase to $55.2 million.
The Salaries and Expenses account was increased to
$170.89 to include travel expenses that had been incorporated
into the research accounts in the budget request.
The Office of the Inspector General is funded at the
requested level of $6.28 million.
Account: RRA
FY00 Current Plan: 2958.46
FY01 Request: 3540.68
FY01 House: 3135.69
FY01 Senate: 3245.56
FY01 Final:
Account: EHR1
FY00 Current Plan: 690.87
FY01 Request: 729.01
FY01 House: 694.31
FY01 Senate: 765.35
FY01 Final:
Account: MRE
FY00 Current Plan: 93.50
FY01 Request: 138.54
FY01 House: 76.60
FY01 Senate: 109.10
FY01 Final:
Account: S&E
FY00 Current Plan: 148.90
FY01 Request: 157.89
FY01 House: 152.00
FY01 Senate: 170.89
FY01 Final:
Account: OIG
FY00 Current Plan: 5.45
FY01 Request: 6.28
FY01 House: 5.7
FY01 Senate: 6.28
FY01 Final:
Account: Total
FY00 Current Plan: 3897.00
FY01 Request: 4572.40
FY01 House: 4064.30
FY01 Senate: 4297.18
FY01 Final:
1 Does not include $33M in FY 2000 and $31M
in FY 2001 from H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Fees
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