# Presentation: 115005

## FY 2004 Appropriation and FY 2005 Budget Request

##         NOAA FISHERIES

**Assistant**
**Administrator**
- William T.Hogarth

**Director**
**Scientific Programs**
**& Chief Science Advisor**
- Michael Sissenwine

**EEO/Diversity**
- Manager
- Natalie Huff

**Habitat Conservation**
- Rollie Schmitten

**Senior Advisor for**
**Intergovernmental Programs**
- Jim Lecky (A)

**Enforcement**
- Dale Jones

**Sustainable Fisheries**
- Jack Dunnigan

**Protected Resources**
- Laurie Allen

**Deputy**
**Assistant Administrator**
**For Regulatory Programs**
- Rebecca Lent

**Deputy**
**Assistant Administrator**
**For Operations**
- John Oliver

**Southwest Region**
- Rod McInnis (A)

**Northeast Region**
- Patricia Kurkul

**Southeast Region**
- Roy Crabtree

**Alaska Region**
- Jim Balsiger

**Northwest Region**
- Bob Lohn

**CIO**
- Larry Tyminski

**Constituent Services**
- Linda Chaves

**M&B CFO/CAO**
- Gary Reisner

**Seafood Inspection**
- Rich Cano

**Southwest Center**
- Dick Neal (A)

**Northeast Center**
- John Boreman

**Southeast Center**
- Nancy Thompson

**Northwest Center**
- Usha Varanasi

**Alaska Center**
- Doug DeMaster

**Science & Technology**
- William Fox

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**Pacific Islands Region**
- Sam Pooley (A)

**Pacific Islands Center**
- Jeff Polovina (A)

## NOAA FISHERIES FY 2004 APPROPRIATION

**TOTAL FUNDING = $ 760.2 MILLION**
**$622.3 million for Operations, Research, and Facilities **
**$22.5 million for construction**
**$115.4 million for other accounts**
**OVERALL **
**$26.0 million above the FY 2003 approp. without the $100 million disaster assistance**

## FY 2004 APPROPRIATION

**Supports some expanded programs including:**
**Stock Assessments + $2.1 million**
**Observers + $12.3 million**
**Climate Regimes & Ecosystem Productivity + $1.5 million**
**Reducing Bycatch + $3.8 million**
**Coop Enforcement Agreements + 10.2 million**
**VMS + $1.5 million**
**Regional Councils + $0.6 million**
**Economic & Social Science Research + $1.7 million**
**Ecosystem Management + $2.0 million**
**Cooperative Research + $7.9 million**

## FY 2004 APPROPRIATION

**Marketing, disaster, and economic assistance**
**Gulf and South Atlantic Shrimp Product Quality & Marketing + $4.0 million**
**Western Alaska Salmon Failure + $1.0 million**
**Facilities and vessels (PAC)**
**Pascagoula $ 2.0 million**
**SERO Relocation $1.6 million**
**Galveston Renovation $2.0 million**
**Honolulu Lab $12.0 million**
**Fisheries Survey Vessel #3  $17.0 million**

## FY 2004 APPROPRIATION

**Decreases or eliminates funding in several areas**
**NEPA - $2.0 million**
**Pacific Salmon - $3.9 million**
**Honolulu Construction - $2.9 million**
**Facilities Maintenance & Operations  - $4.0 million**
**S/K Grant Program - $17.7 million **
**$17.0 million directed to various entities**

## FY 2004 APPROPRIATION

| Line Item | FY 04 Request | FY 04 Enacted |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Expand Stock Assessments | $14.9 | $18.1 |
| ESA- Section 7 | $2.0 | $0.0 |
| Climate Regimes and Ecosystem Productivity | $2.0 | $1.5 |
| Northeast Multi-Species Observers | $3.0 | $9.5 |
| Economics and Social Science Research | $4.2 | $4.0 |

## NOAA FISHERIES FY 2005 REQUEST

**TOTAL FUNDING = $735.2 MILLION**
**$623.2 million for Operations, Research, and Facilities **
**$100.0 million for Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund**
**$2.0 million for construction**
**$10.0 million for other accounts**
**OVERALL **
**$25.0 million (or 3.3%) below the FY 2004 appropriation**
**$83.2 million (or 12.8%) above the FY 2005 Current Level**

## NOAA REQUEST BY LINE OFFICE

## FY 2005 REQUEST: OVERVIEW

**Operations, Research, and Facilities **
**$623.2 million**
**A net increase of $0.9 million (or 0.1%) above the FY 2004 Appropriation request of $622.3 million:**
**+ $36.8 million in adjustments-to-base **
**+ $101.4 million in programmatic increases**
**$137.3 million in programmatic reductions, terminations & transfers**
**An increase of $101.4 million above the FY 2005 current level**

## FY 2005 REQUEST: OVERVIEW

**Other Accounts **
**$110.0 million**
**A net decrease of $5.4 million (or 4.7%) below the FY 2004 Appropriation of $115.4 million:**
**+ $2.0 million in adjustments-to-base **
**-  $7.4 million in programmatic reductions, terminations & transfers**
**A net decrease of $6.4 million below the FY 2005 Current Level.**

## NOAA FISHERIES INFRASTRUCTURE REQUEST

**A net decrease of $20.5 million below FY 2004 Appropriation**
**	****	****-$0.3 million for adjustments-to-base**
**	****	****-$8.3 million for terminations**
**	****	****-$11.9 million  program change**
**	****	****Honolulu – No request in FY 05**
**	****	****+$2.0 million**
**	****	****Galveston- Phase III**
**A net decrease of $11.9 million below FY 2005 Current Level**

## Fishery Survey Vessels

| Vessel | Funded | Delivery | Operations |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FSV I | Yes | 4th Qtr FY 04 | Alaska |
| FSV II | Yes | 1st Qtr FY 06 | New England |
| FSV III | FY04/05 | 4th Qtr FY 07 | Gulf Caribbean S. Atlantic |
| FSV IV | Future | TBD | TBD |

## ECOSYSTEM FORECASTING AND MANAGEMENTScience Increases

**Expand and Modernize Stock Assessments/Strengthen Living Marine Resource Monitoring ($6.0M)**
**Fisheries Oceanography ($1.0M)**
**Climate Regimes and Ecosystem Productivity ($0.5M)**
**Protected Species Stock Assessments ($1.0M)**
**Social and Economic Science ($1.0M)**
**National Observer Program ($9.9M)**
**Recovery of Large Whales ($1.0M)**

## ECOSYSTEM FORECASTING AND MANAGEMENT Science/Management Increases

**Columbia River Biological Opinion (BiOp) Implementation ($15.1M)**
**ESA Pacific Salmon Recovery ($7.8M)**
**Marine Mammal **
**	****Protection ($4.5M)**
**Dolphin Encirclement ($1.0M)**
**ESA-Other Species ($2.7M)**

## ECOSYSTEM FORECASTING AND MANAGEMENT Management

**Regulatory Streamlining and **
**	****Modernization ($1.5M)**
**NEPA Implementation ($5.0M)**
**Regional Councils ($0.5M)**
**Recover Plan Development **
**	****& Implementation ($1.0M)**
**Vessel Monitoring System ($5.3M)**

## FY 05 REQUEST BY AUTHORIZATION (OR&F funding)

## ORF Breakout

**ORF Breakout**

**FY 2005 Request **
**ORF $623,192**

**FY 2003 Enacted  **
**ORF $676,322**

**FY 2004 Enacted  **
**ORF $622,290**

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