NSF Congressional Update
107th Congress
July 19, 2001
NSF Senate Appropriations Mark-up
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
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Current
Plan
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Request
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House
Committee
Mark
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Senate
Committee
Mark
|
House %
Change from
Current Plan
|
Senate %
Change from
Current Plan
|
|
Total
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4426.1
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4472.5
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4840.1
|
4672.52
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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).
See also:
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