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Here's a general breakdown of the NSF FY '10 appropriations


Conference Report Provides NSF a 6.7% Increase for FY 2010

December 9, 2009
The FY 2010 Omnibus Appropriations Conference Agreement was completed today. The Conference agreement includes the final version of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations for FY 2010. Overall the agreement will provide the National Science Foundation with $6.926 billion, an increase of $436 million, or 6.7%, over the FY '09 enacted amount, and a reduction of $118 million, or 1.7%, from the President's request.

FY2010 Omnibus Appropriations Conference Agreement
Research and Related Activities:
The Research and Related Activities account receives $5.618 billion, a decrease of $115 million, or 2 percent, below the President's request, and an increase of $435 million, or 8.4 percent, over the FY '09 Appropriations.

Education and Human Resources:
The Education and Human Resources account is funded at $872.76 million, an increase of $15 million, or 1.8 percent above the requested level of $857.76 million, and an increase of $27.5 million, or 3.3 percent over the FY '09 Appropriated level.

Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction:
The Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction account is funded at $117.29 million, equal to President's request. The agreement denied the request for the Judgment Fund of $3 million, and shifted that funding to the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, which receives $13 million. The remainder of the MREFC projects receives the requested level.

Agency Operations and Award Management:
The Agency Operations and Award Management account is funded at $300 million, a decrease of $18 million, or 5.8%, below the requested level, or an increase of $6 million, or 2% above the FY ’09 Appropriated level.

National Science Board:
The National Science Board is funded at $4.54 million, $200,000 above the requested level of $4.34 million to be used for “obtaining a general counsel independent of the NSF.”

Office of the Inspector General:
The Office of Inspector General is funded at the requested level of $14 million.

Finally....

The Good folks at APLU have provided this update on the remaining approp bills to fund the remainder of this years federal calendar

The FY 2010 Consolidated Appropriations Conference Report, a package of six spending bills, was released on Tuesday night with the expectation that the House may take up this omnibus bill by the end of this week. The FY 2010 Defense appropriations bill, not included in the omnibus bill, is lone spending package still outstanding. For report text and explanatory statements, please see House Committee on Rules website at: http://rules.house.gov/bills_details.aspx?NewsID=4520

Highlights of the FY2010 Conference Report to the Consolidated Appropriations Act:

Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations

Education:
 Pell Grant maximum award is funded at $5,550. This total includes $4,860 ($17.495 billion of discretionary funding) with plus $690 from the CCRAA ($631 million in mandatory funding)
 Javits is level funded at $9.6 million
 GAAN is level funded at $31 million
 SEOG is level funded at $757 million
 Federal Work Study is level funded at $980 million
 LEAP is level funded at $63.8 million
 TRIO is increased by $5 million to $853 million
 GEAR UP is increased $10 million to $323 million
National Institutes of Health (NIH):
NIH is funded at $31.0 billion, $250 million above the request and $692 million above non-ARRA FY 2009 enacted level. Similar to past years, $300 million will be transferred to the Global HIV/AIDS Fund.


Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations

National Science Foundation (NSF):
NSF is funded at $6.93 billion, $436 million above the regular FY 2009 enacted level, but below the Administration’s request of $7 billion. Within NSF, the Research and Related Activities account would receive $5.617 billion, the Education and Human Resources account would receive $872.7 million, and Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) account would receive $117.29 million.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA):
NASA is funded at overall at $18.72 billion, an increase of $941 million over FY 2009 enacted. Within NASA budget, the Science Mission Directorate funded at $4.469 billion, a decrease of $34 million, and the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate nearly level funded at $501 million.

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA):
NOAA is funded overall at $4.737 billion, with the National Sea Grant Program funded at $63.0 million, an $8 million increase over FY 2009, and the Oceanic and Atmospheric Research account is increased to $438.8 million.

National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST):
Within NIST, the Manufacturing Extension Partnerships (MEP) program is funded at $124 million, an increase of $14.7 million over FY 2009, and the Technology Innovation Program (TIP) is funded at $69.9 million, an increase of $4.9 million over FY 2009.


Military Construction – Veterans Affairs Appropriations

Veterans Affairs (VA):
Within the VA, the Medical and Prosthetics Research Program is funded at $581 million, an increase of $71 million over FY 2009.

State-Foreign Operations Approprations

Agency for International Development (USAID):
The Higher Education in Africa Program is funded at no less than $25 million with the report language stating that higher education partnerships between American and African institutions of higher education should be expanded and $15 million “shall be awarded in an open and competitive process…” The Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSPs) is funded at $31.5 million.

The Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation is not funded.