# Presentation: 691097

## Jo Leslie Eimers
Staff Assistant for Special Issues to the 
Associate Director for Water

- Staff Assistant for Special Issues to the
- Associate Director for Water

**USGS Water Program Funding Trends**

## Slide 2

**Notes:**
First I’ll put the USGS into context

DOI appropriations for FY 2004 are $10 B, 729 M.  
The largest bureau is BIA, 
followed by National Park Service, 
Bureau of Land Management,
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Bureau of Reclamation, and 
the USGS, which received $938 M.

The President’s budget for FY 2005 requests $919.8 M for the USGS as a whole.  

## Slide 3

**Notes:**
Within the USGS, $234 M goes to Geology, and $216 M goes to Water, followed by Science Support and Facilities, Biology, and Geography

The President’s requested FY 2005 appropriations for USGS Water Programs is $202 M, down from the FY 2004 appropriations.  This reduction represents two things—
First, many Congressional earmarks have been stripped out of the budget, and
Second, there is a proposed restructuring of information technology and an associated movement of funds into Enterprise Information.  This IT restructuring doesn’t reflect an actual loss of dollars for science

## Slide 4

**Notes:**
The Cooperative Water Program, or Coop Pgm, is our largest program, with FY 2004 appropriations around $64 M.
NAWQA is the second largest Water pgm with $63.3 M appropriated.  
FY 2004 appropriation for NSIP, the National Streamflow Information Program, was $14.2 M

The GW Resources Program receives $6 M.  Within this program, the President’s requested budget for FY 2005 has $800K additional funding for Water 2025.

## Slide 5

**Notes:**
The Coop Pgm is unique in that using the federally appropriated dollars is contingent upon securing at least 50% state or local cooperator funding.  This cooperative process ensures that we fulfill the DOI mission of Serving Communities, and ensures that the science we do is relevant to society.  

You can see that in recent years the gap between appropriations and cooperator funds has grown.  Currently, the program operates with about 2/3 funds from cooperators and about 1/3 funds from federal appropriations.   

## Slide 6

**Notes:**
NAWQA is made up of 42 river basins and aquifer systems, called study units, where we sample for major ions, nutrients, pesticides, VOC, and persistent organic compounds. Together, these study units account for more than 60% of water used for municipal supply and irrigated agriculture, and cover about half of the land area of the conterminous US.

At these study units we investigate eutrophication, effects of pesticide use, atmospheric deposition, relationships between water quality and aquatic ecosystems, land use and water quality, and we evaluate management actions and policies.

## Slide 7

**Notes:**
This program, the National Streamflow Information Program, encompasses the largest monitoring activity and network of the USGS.  It supplies basic info for water management and info for water quality loads assessments.  
Streamflow info is also used for flood and drought prediction and assessment, flood plain mapping, engineering design, operation of locks and dams, and for recreational purposes.
In FY 2000 there was a small increase in National Streamflow Information Program, and in FY 2001 there was a larger, $8M increase in the Program.  

But NSIP is still only a small part of funding for streamgages.  A large part of funding for streamgages comes from the Coop Pgm and other federal agencies, primarily Army Corps of Engineers.  NSIP is unique in that these are the only USGS appropriations that don’t require participation from other agencies to support them.

## Slide 8

**Notes:**
“Other USGS water-quality monitoring” includes 
	Water Quality collaboration with National Parks Service
	National Stream-Quality Accounting Network
	Hydrologic Benchmark Network
	National Trends Network (which is a network to monitor atmospheric deposition)

## Slide 9

**Notes:**
This graph shows Total funding for all USGS Water programs
Reimbursables exceed federally appropriated funds
The partnerships that provide this high level of reimbursable funding for Water Programs helps ensure the relevance of the work of the USGS. 

More than half of the reimbursable funds are State and local contributions in the Coop Program.
A little less than half of reimbursables is provided by ACOE, DoD, DOE (primarily Yucca Mtn proposed nuclear waste site characterization), other DOI bureaus who have land management responsibilities.

## 
USGS Water Programs appropriations
	FY 2004 $215.7M
	requested FY 2005 $202.7M 

Total funding for USGS Water Programs
	FY 2004 is $450.3M 
	Of that, $234.6M is reimbursables

**USGS Water Programs appropriations**
**	****FY 2004 $215.7M**
**	****requested FY 2005 $202.7M **
**Total funding for USGS Water Programs**
**	****FY 2004 is $450.3M **
**	****Of that, $234.6M is reimbursables**

**Final Points**

**Notes:**
In summary I’ll point out a few facts—

The reduction in the President’s request for FY 2005 USGS Water appropriations comes from stripping out many Congressional earmarks, and
From restructuring information technology.  The latter doesn’t reflect an actual loss in dollars for science

Total funding for USGS Water Programs is $450 M.  Of that, $215 M is federal appropriations and $234 M is reimbursables ( including $127 M from State and local cooperators)
Water’s high level of reimbursables is good news and bad news. The bad news is that reimbursables limit our ability to set the direction for long term data and science needs. The good news is that reimbursables bring a lot of money to bear on issues and ensure that USGS Water Programs stay relevant.