DOE FY1995 Budget Bill Goes To House Floor - Basic Energy Sciences, ANS
The House bill making fiscal year 1995 appropriations for the Department of Energy, H.R. 4506, passed the House Appropriations Committee on May 26. It now goes to the House floor, where a vote is expected the week of June 12. Accompanying the bill is a 146-page report outlining the Appropriations Committee’s recommendations for spending. FYIs #74 through #77 provide selections from the report of interest to the physics community.
BASIC ENERGY SCIENCES
The Committee has provided $6 million above the Administration’s request for Basic Energy Sciences. The report has no text on the specifics of this program, but provides the following chart:
BES: |
Current |
Admin. |
House |
(in thousands of $s) |
approp. |
request |
bill |
Materials sciences |
271,657 |
274,221 |
277,221 |
Chemical sciences |
166,283 |
162,013 |
165,013 |
Applied math. sciences |
103,662 |
109,367 |
109,367 |
Engineering/geosciences |
37,190 |
36,837 |
36,837 |
Adv. energy projects |
11,194 |
11,085 |
11,085 |
Energy biosciences |
26,649 |
25,957 |
25,957 |
Program direction |
9,400 |
9,900 |
9,900 |
Capital equipment |
44,880 |
41,537 |
41,537 |
Construction |
119,500 |
70,379 |
70,379 |
TOTAL, BES |
790,415 |
741,296 |
747,296 |
ADVANCED NEUTRON SOURCE
The bill provides a total of $21,000,000 for ANS, greater than the FY 1994 appropriation of $17,000,000, but barely more than half of the requested $40,000,000 for 1995. The report gives the following explanation:
“Because of budget constraints and the size of the outyear mortgage, the Committee recommends $10,000,000 to continue the research and design and $11,000,000 for equipment and construction of the Advanced Neutron Source.”
