Additional FY 1999 Budget Information Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:35:50 -0400 To: "A - Division Chief and Staff", "B - Branch Chiefs and Offices", "DC - All District Chiefs" From: "Joanne C. Taylor" Subject: Additional FY 1999 Budget Information Cc: "Wendy E Norton, Program Analyst, Reston, VA" , "Joanne C Taylor, WRD Liaison, Reston, VA" NOTE: This information is a follow-up to what Wendy sent out yesterday. We'll be sending out additional analyses in the next day or so. ****************************************************************************** U.S. Geological Survey FY 1999 Congressional Action (Dollars in Thousands) FY 99 CONFERENCE ACTION FY 98 Total WATER RESOURCES INVESTIGATIONS Enacted Unctrl Prog Change Appr. Ground-Water Resources 3,079 91 0 91 3,170 National Water-Quality Assessment 64,216 1,127 6,250 7,377 71,593 Toxic Substances Hydrology 14,252 407 0 407 14,659 Hydrologic Research & Development 14,304 407 300 707 15,011 Hydrologic Networks & Analysis 24,087 581 631 1,212 25,299 Water Information Delivery 4,160 69 0 69 4,229 Federal-State Coop Water Program 66,231 1,406 2,500 3,906 70,137 Water Res. Res. Act Program 4,553 4 498 502 5,055 WRD TOTAL: 194,882 4,092 10,179 14,271 209,153 BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH 145,159 2,952 14,350 17,302 162,461 GEOLOGIC HAZARDS, RESOURCES, 235,175 3,725 250 3,975 239,150 & PROCESSES NATIONAL MAPPING PROGRAM 135,785 1,951 579 2,530 138,315 GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 25,584 1,724 0 1,724 27,308 FACILITIES 22,575 51 -1,117 -1,066 21,509 USGS TOTAL: 760,358 14,495 24,241 38,736 797,896 ****************************************************************************** WATER RESOURCES INVESTIGATIONS -- PROGRAM CHANGES National Water-Quality Assessment * provided $6.250M for Clean Water ($1.0M to address NAWQA issues within NPS) Toxic Substances Hydrology * continues funding at FY 1998 level (did not accept proposed cut of $526K) Hydrologic Research and Development * provided $100K for hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico Hydrologic Networks & Analysis * provided $1.5M for Clean Water ($1.5M water-quality monitoring and assessment support for NPS watersheds outside the NAWQA study areas) * accepts proposed REGO II reduction $1.219M Truckee-Carson * did not accept proposed REGO II reduction of $998K for watershed modeling * provided $250K for endocrine disruption studies--Lake Mead * provided $100K for Molokai monitoring well Federal-State Cooperative Water Program * provided $2.5M for Clean Water Water Resources Research Act * provided $0.5M for Clean Water ($1.0M proposed increase) ***************************************************************** Joanne C. Taylor PHONE: 703-648-6837 USGS, 409 National Center FAX: 703-648-5002 Reston, VA 20192 EMAIL: jctaylor@usgs.gov *****************************************************************