FY 1995 NSF Budget Up 13.8%; Internet Access for OSTP Report

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION APPROPRIATION:

Yesterday afternoon, House and Senate conferees met to settle differences in H.R. 4624, the VA, HUD, Independent Agencies Appropriations Bill for FY 1995. Conferees agreed on a 13.8% increase in the NSF budget over this year.

Under this final version of the bill, funding for NSF will increase by $412.8 million to $3,395.6 million. This is $195.6 million above the Clinton Administration’s original request. FY 1995 funding is as follows:

Research and Related Activities is up 5.4% to $2,280.0 million. The request was for $2,348.7 million.

Academic Research Infrastructure is up 138.1% to $250.0 million. The request was for $55.0 million.

Major Research Equipment is up 641.2% to $126.0 million. This percentage increase assumes the enactment of a $35.0 million rescission; note that this is a new NSF account, for which the request was $70.0 million.

Education and Human Resources is up 6.4% to $606.0 million. The request was $586.0 million.

Future FYIs will contain additional information as the conference report is made available. This legislation is subject to a final “up or down” vote by both the House and Senate, which will probably be in September.

“SCIENCE IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST”

We have received numerous requests for information about obtaining this report. The Office of Science and Technology Policy advises that the report is available via Internet at these sites:

STIS gopher: gopher to stis.nsf.gov and look in /nsf/news. The file name is “whrpt941".

STIS ftp site: ftp to stis.nsf.gov; the file is “Science.txt” in the /pub directory.

Fedworld: look in the “w-house” library; the filename is “sci94.zip”.

OSTP has exhausted its supply of hard copies of this report. Future issues of FYI will provide quotations from this document.