Announcing
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N H funding is up all-around, DOE gains a little Congress continues to slog through its task of setting the final fiscal 1984 funding levels for the federal research agencies, having just com pleted work on the Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health budgets. Still to go are the budgets for the departments of Agri culture, Commerce, and Defense. And it's getting a bit late—the new fiscal year began Oct. 1. Following the usual pattern, Con gress was much more generous than the Administration in funding NIH, handing it an almost 12% increase instead of the requested 1%. But Congress appears to be tiring of the annual game in which the Adminis
tration requests less than it wants for NIH, knowing that Congress will take up the slack. What most raised the ire of both the House and the Senate this year was the Administration's decision in January to fund only 3676 new and competing grants rather than the normal 5000. In April the Ad ministration came back with a new budget proposal for NIH that did include 5000 grants, but it didn't ask for any more money to finance the additional 1324 grants. Instead it decided not to provide full-cost new and continuation research project grants, but to trim those awards by about 11% and 6%, respec-
Congress sets nothing but increases for NIH . $ Millions
National Institutes Cancer Heart, Lung & Blood Arthritis, Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases General Medical Sciences Neurological & Communications Disorders & Stroke Allergy & Infectious Diseases Child Health & Human Development Environmental Health Sciences
Eye Aging Dental Research Research resources National Library of Medicine Office of the Director Research facilities John E. Fogarty Center TOTAL
1984 Appropriation Request
$3954.0 1053.4 674.7 442.5
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1983
% change 1983-84
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14.3 13.2
270.3 244.9 158.1 138.0 91.6 76.9 213.2 44.8 25.7 17.5 10.1 9.2 $3908.8 $3851.2
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305.7 265.0 173.0 150.8 112.3 84.3 241.9 42.1 26.7 25.0 11.3 $4301.0
280.8 247.3 160.6 138.7 97.2 75.2 201.1 42.0 26.7 19.9
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but cuts some DOE energy research programs 1984 Appropriation Request
Energy supply R&D Nuclear Magnetic fusion Supporting research and technical analysis Environmental research Allother Weapons R&D General science and research Fossil R&D Conservation TOTAL
1983
% change 1983-84
$1933.8 636.6 470.8 395.1
$2066.4 853.2 467.0 408.5
$2136.5 815.4 466.1 328.3
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Government tively. Reimbursements for indirect research costs also would have been cut, by about 10%. Congress would have none of it. It restored all of the money that would have been cut from other programs to support the grants, in cluding $53 million for the support of research centers, $25 million for biomedical research s u p p o r t i n g grants to educational institutions, and $17 million for noncompeting research projects. And it added enough money to support the ex panded grants program. Congress also rejected any arbitrary, acrosst h e - b o a r d cuts in indirect cost reimbursements. Rather, the Senate Appropriations Committee suggest ed that as a way of checking indi rect costs, those associated with each grant be shown on each individual award. The committee directed NIH to do so by July 1,1984. The Department of Energy's re search programs did not fare quite so well. Funding for some programs is set well below fiscal 1983 levels, whereas others get major increases. Still, with three exceptions, Con gress provided more money than had been requested by the Adminis tration for the various energy re search programs. One of the exceptions is nuclear fission R&D, the budget request for which was cut 25% to about $637 million. Congress cut all of the $270 million requested for the Clinch Riv er breeder reactor demonstration project. But then it turned around and added $53.4 million to the bud get request for DOE's other nuclear programs. The second exception is found in the supporting research and technical analysis program, spe cifically in basic energy sciences. Congress cut the $25.9 million requested for a new National Cen ter for Advanced Materials at Law rence Berkeley Laboratory down to $3 million. Discounting that, funding for materials science is up 20% to $144 million, and funding for chemi cal sciences is up 9% to $82.5 million. The third exception is general sci ence and research where Congress cut $10 million from the budget re quest for high-energy physics—pri marily from the construction bud get—and added $3 million to the request for nuclear physics. D 28
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