# Presentation: 115008

## FY 2003 Appropriation and FY 2004 Budget Request

## NOAA FISHERIES FY 2003 APPROPRIATION

**TOTAL FUNDING = $ 853.1 MILLION**
**$580.1 million for Operations, Research, and Facilities (operating level of $599.6 million including carryover) **
**$90.0 million for Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund and $40.0 million for the Pacific Salmon Treaty**
**$100.0 million for fisheries disasters**
**$27.0 million for construction**
**$16.0 million for other accounts**
**OVERALL **
**$45.7 million (or 5.7%) above the FY 2002 approp.**

## FY 2003 APPROPRIATION

**Increase of $15.0 million for expanding stock assessments ($17.0 million total)**
**New fisheries survey vessel to replace the  ALBATROSS in the Northeast**
**Increase of $3.2 million ($10.0 million total) for Atlantic right whale recovery**
**$6.2 million in adjustments-to-base**
**$100.0 million for fisheries disasters**
**Many other smaller increases .  .  .  .**
**Additional funding for New England groundfish observers not provided**
**NMFS Steller sea lion funding reduced by $11.2 million **

## TOTAL NOAA FY 2004 REQUEST*

**Summary of Major Changes ($ in millions)**
**FY 2003 NOAA Request****	****	****$3,136.0**
**	****	****Mandatory Costs****	****	****     $52.0**
**	****	****Program Increases****	****   ****	****$   238.5**
**	****	****Program Decreases****	****  ****	****($  100.0)**
**	****	****	****	****	****	****-------------**
**	****	****Net Change****	****	****   ****	****   $190.0**
**FY 2004 NOAA Total****	****	****$3,326.0**
**	****	****% Change****	****	****	****+ 6%**
*** Compared to the FY 2003 President’s request**

## NOAA REQUEST BY LINE OFFICE

## NOAA FY 2004 CROSS-CUTTING INITIATIVES

## NOAA FY 2004 INITIATIVES

**INFRASTRUCTURE, MAINTENANCE, SAFETY AND HUMAN CAPITAL**
***$17.8 million in adjustments-to-base and $3.0 million in decreases for NOAA Fisheries***
**ECOSYSTEM FORECASTING AND MANAGEMENT**
***$17.6 million in increases and $21.8 million in decreases for NOAA Fisheries***

## NOAA FISHERIES FY 2004 REQUEST

**TOTAL FUNDING = $737.9 MILLION**
**$621.0 million for Operations, Research, and Facilities **
**$90.0 million for Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund**
**$14.0 million for construction**
**$12.9 million for other accounts**
**OVERALL **
**$10.6 million (or 1.5%) above FY 2003 President’s Budget**
**$115.2 million (or 14.5%) below the FY 2003 appropriation**

## APPROPRIATION SUMMARYFY 1992 to FY 2004 President’s Budget Request ($ in millions)

**APPROPRIATION SUMMARY****FY 1992 to FY 2004 President’s Budget Request ****($ in millions)**

**Notes:**
We hope to hold as many of the increases in the Senate mark as possible.

If you look at NMFS funding over the last few years, the trend in our budget is definitely upward.

In fact, since 1994 our budget has grown by about 180 percent - almost doubled.

However, base funding problems remain - especially in the Southeast.

## FY 2004 REQUEST: OVERVIEW

**Operations, Research, and Facilities **
**$621.0 million**
**A net increase of $33.0 million (or 5.6%) above the FY 2003 President’s budget request of $587.9 million:**
**+ $17.2 million in adjustments-to-base **
**+ $17.6 million in programmatic increases**
**$1.8 million in programmatic reductions, terminations & transfers**
**An increase of $40.9 million above the FY 2003 appropriation (or $21.4 million above the      FY 2003 operating level)**

## FY 2004 REQUEST: OVERVIEW

**Other Accounts **
**$116.9 million**
**A net decrease of $22.4 million (or 15.2%) below the FY 2003 President’s budget request of $139.3 million:**
**+ $0.6 million in adjustments-to-base **
**-  $23.0 million in programmatic reductions, terminations & transfers**
**An decrease of $116.1 million below the         FY 2003 appropriation**

## REQUEST BY AUTHORIZATION (total funding)

## NOAA FISHERIES PEOPLE AND INFRASTRUCTURE REQUEST

**$10.8 million for adjustments-to-base**
**$7.0 million funding transfer from NOAA for agency attorneys**
**$12.0 million for reconstruction for the  Honolulu, HI, lab (a $3.0 million decrease)**
**$2.0 million for Galveston, TX, lab renovations**

## ECOSYSTEM FORECASTING AND MANAGEMENTScience Increases

**$3.0 million to expand stock assessments around the country - total request of $14.9 million**
**$2.0 million and 10 FTE to support ESA Section 7 pesticide consultations**
**$2.0 million for Climate Regimes and Ecosystem Productivity**

## ECOSYSTEM FORECASTING AND MANAGEMENT Science Increases

**$3.0 million for Northeast Multi-species Observers**
**$0.2 million additional economic and social science research and data collection - total funding of $4.2 million**

## ECOSYSTEM FORECASTING AND MANAGEMENT Science/Management Increases

**$3****.1 million ($1.6 million for research and       $1.5 million for management activities) to continue  implementation of measures required by the Columbia River Biological Opinion**
**$20.0 million decrease ****	****	****	****	****  for the Pacific Salmon ****	****	****	****	****Treaty (Northern & ****	****	****	****	****	****Southern Funds are ****	****	****	****	****	****fully capitalized)**

## ECOSYSTEM FORECASTING AND MANAGEMENT Management

**$1.5 million for the regulatory streamlining initiative to improve and increase capabilities and capacity in the                                              regional offices**
**$2.8 million for                                         reducing bycatch                                               through research                                                     and testing**

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