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FYI
The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy News
Number 87: July 9, 2003

House Appropriators Begin Work on Dept. of Energy FY 2004 Bill

House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee
Chairman David Hobson (R-Ohio) and his colleagues have completed
work on the FY 2004 Energy and Water Development Appropriations
bill.  Hobson's bill will go to the full committee early next week,
after which a report will be issued  outlining the committee's
recommendations.  As the bill now stands, the science programs of
the Department of Energy's Office of Science would receive an
increase of 6.7%.

Proposed funding figures for the programs under the Office of
Science have been released by the subcommittee.  In every case the
committee provided more funding than that requested by the Bush
Administration, and, except in one instance, provided increases over
the current fiscal year.  The subcommittee's figures follow:

DOE Science Programs: Up 6.7%, or $220 million, from $3.26 billion
this year to a proposed $3.48 billion in FY 2004.

High Energy Physics: Up 4.2%, or $30.1 million, from $717.9 million
to $748 million.

Nuclear Physics: Up 5.2%, or $19.8 million, from $379.6 million to
$399.4 million.

Biological and Environmental Research: Up 11.6%, or $58.4 million,
from $503.6 million to $562 million.

Basic Energy Sciences: Down 1.6%, or $16.6 million, from $1.016.6
billion to $1.0 billion.

Fusion Energy Sciences: Up 8.6%, or $21.2 million, from $246.9
million to $268.1 million.

Advanced Computing Research: Up 27.5%, or $46.1 million, from $167.4
million to $213.5 million.

The subcommittee states that their bill includes full funding for
the Spallation Neutron Source.  Selections from the committee's
report regarding these programs will be provided in a future issue
of FYI.

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Richard M. Jones
Media and Government Relations Division
The American Institute of Physics
fyi{at}aip.org    http://www.aip.org/gov
(301) 209-3094
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