Government
Agencies get supplemental money for 1984 The start of the government's new fiscal year is less than a month away. Yet Congress has found it necessary to pass and the President to sign a $5.8 billion supplemental appropriation bill to make sure that federal agencies don't run out of money in fiscal 1984. Most of the money, of course, is for payments that are mandatory under current law, such as military and civilian pensions and food stamps. But there are some surprising nuggets hidden in the bill. The question is how all that money can be spent in less than a month. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency is getting an additional $50 million and 50 workyears for its Superfund program. The money is to be spent on accelerating actions at hazardous waste sites, including planning at 35 sites, 10 additional designs, and two additional remedial actions. EPA's R&D
program didn't do so well. It received only an additional $2 million for acid rain research for a total of $5.5 million and $1 million for research at a center that is being established for hazardous waste management. Meanwhile, at the Department of Commerce the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration is getting $800,000 for the national undersea research program at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, courtesy of the state's two Senators. It also is receiving $450,000 for submersible research dives in Long Island Sound in cooperation with the University of Connecticut. [Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R.Conn.) serves on the Appropriations Committee.] The Economic Development Administration is getting $26 million for a grant to Boston University for construction of an engineering and technical training
center, courtesy of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D.-Mass.). Among the other nuggets are: the Agricultural Research Service's $49 million for a children's nutrition research center in Houston; the Department of Health & Human Services' $13.8 million for construction and renovation at the National Center for Toxicology and $8.2 million for research on acquired immune deficiency syndrome; and the Department of Energy's $2.9 million for its energy technology centers. DOE was told to find, from somewhere in its current budget, $1.5 million for gas-cooled reactor spent fuel research. Finally, the National Science Foundation is getting $1.5 million to aquire a Class VI computer with accompanying peripherals from the National Aeronautics & Space Administration. NASA, however, is receiving $13 million for a replacement computer for the one it's giving to NSF. D
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