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Calendar No. 831 

110TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! SENATE 2d Session 110–397 

DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE AND JUSTICE, SCIENCE, 

AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2009 

JUNE 23, 2008.—Ordered to be printed 

Ms. MIKULSKI, from the Committee on Appropriations, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany S. 3182] 

The Committee on Appropriations reports the bill (S. 3182) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, 

science, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 

30, 2009, and for other purposes, reports favorably thereon and recommends that the bill do pass. 

Total obligational authority, fiscal year 2009 

Total of bill as reported to the Senate .................... $60,100,709,000 

Amount of 2008 appropriations ............................... 53,734,969,000 

Amount of 2009 budget estimate ............................ 55,929,033,000 

Bill as recommended to Senate compared to— 

2008 appropriations .......................................... ∂6,365,740,000 

2009 budget estimate ........................................ ∂4,171,676,000 
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C O N T E N T S 

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Purpose of the Bill ................................................................................................... 3 

Summary of the Bill ................................................................................................ 3 

Reprogrammings, Reorganizations, and Relocations ............................................ 6 

Congressional Budget Justifications ...................................................................... 7 

Electronic Government (E-Gov) Initiatives ........................................................... 8 

Noncareer Personnel Reductions-in-Force ............................................................. 8 

Appropriations Liaisons .......................................................................................... 8 

Title I: Department of Commerce ........................................................................... 9 

Title II: Department of Justice ............................................................................... 40 

Title III: Science ...................................................................................................... 87 

Title IV: 

Related Agencies: 

Commission on Civil Rights ..................................................................... 108 

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ........................................ 108 

International Trade Commission ............................................................. 109 

Legal Services Corporation ....................................................................... 109 

Marine Mammal Commission .................................................................. 110 

Office of the United States Trade Representative .................................. 111 

State Justice Institute .............................................................................. 111 

Title V: General Provisions ..................................................................................... 112 

Compliance With Paragraph 7, Rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate .......................................................................................................................... 114 

Compliance With Paragraph 7(c) Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the 

Senate ................................................................................................................... 116 

Compliance With Paragraph 12, Rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the 

Senate ................................................................................................................... 117 

Budgetary Impact of Bill ......................................................................................... 119 

Disclosure of Congressionally Directed Spending Items ...................................... 119 
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PURPOSE OF THE BILL

The bill provides funding for: (1) the Department of Commerce 

and its bureaus, and administrations: the International Trade Administration [ITA], the Bureau of Industry and Security [BIS], the 

Economic Development Administration [EDA], the Bureau of the 

Census, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration [NTIA], the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office [PTO], the 

National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST], and the 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]; (2) the 

Department of Justice; (3) several independent science agencies: 

Office of Science and Technology Policy [OSTP], the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA], the National Science 

Foundation [NSF]; and (4) several related commissions and agencies: the Commission on Civil Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC], the International Trade Commission [ITC], the Legal Services Corporation [LSC], the Marine Mammal Commission, the U.S. Trade Representative [USTR], and the 

State Justice Institute [SJI]. 

SUMMARY OF THE BILL

The Committee recommends total discretionary appropriations of 

$57,900,000,000 for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, 

science, and related agencies for fiscal year 2009. This amount is 

$4,216,676,000 above the President’s budget request. 

Security.—First and foremost, this bill protects our Nation and 

our communities from terrorism and violent crime. 

Counterterrorism.—The bill funds the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], our country’s domestic counterterrorism agency. The 

Committee recommendation fully supports the FBI’s lead role in securing domestic national security by safeguarding the United 

States against weapons of mass destruction, terrorist attacks, and 

internal espionage. Accordingly, the recommendation supports initiatives totaling $369,635,000 above the fiscal year 2008 level to 

improve intelligence, including the addition of agents devoted to 

counterterrorism efforts. Through the Committee’s full support, 

agents will be provided with the tools to improve intelligence driven investigations and enhance human presence in intelligence 

gathering. 

A key FBI security mission is to prevent the use of weapons of 

mass destruction on U.S. soil. The Committee supports this effort 

by providing the full budget request of $123,114,000, which is an 

increase of $30,055,000 above the fiscal year 2008 level to enhance 

the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, providing the FBI 

with significant resources to detect, identify, and track individuals 

that post threats to the United States. Further, the Committee 

fully supports the FBI in its efforts to save potentially millions of 
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lives by improving its ability to dismantle dirty bombs through its 

Render Safe program. 

Fighting Violent Crime.—The Committee has been deeply troubled by the President’s budget proposals to reduce Federal resources to fight, and to help State and local communities fight, violent crime. In the budget request, the President once again proposed dramatic cuts to funding for State and local law enforcement. 

The Committee rejects this reduction, and instead, recommends a 

total of $3,121,100,000 for State and local enforcement, which is 

$2,048,000,000 above the President’s request. The Committee’s recommendation includes $600,000,000 for Community Oriented Policing Services [COPS] and $580,000,000 for Edward Byrne grants. 

The Committee wishes to ensure that the Federal Bureau of Investigations [FBI] have sufficient resources to support its duel mission to fight both traditional crime and terrorism. The Committee 

is pleased to note that the FBI does not propose to reduced the 

number of special agents devoted to criminal investigations, as has 

been proposed in prior years. The Committee is concerned that the 

FBI lacks sufficient resources to address emerging criminal investigation requirements, including those to address violent crime and 

other crimes against our most vulnerable individuals. Accordingly, 

the Committee recommendation includes funding increases to support 25 additional special agents to investigate mortgage fraud and 

31 additional agents to investigate predators who use the Internet 

to exploit children. 

Fighting Crimes Against Children.—The Committee has provided 

substantial resources to protect our children from predators. The 

recommendation includes $294,870,000 for Department of Justice 

efforts to prevent, investigate, and prosecute crimes against children. This recommendation fully supports the critical Adam Walsh 

Child Protection and Safety Act, and includes $$48,000,000, which 

is $9,000,000 above the President’s budget request for new FBI 

agents dedicated to fighting Internet crimes against children. 

Competitiveness.—This bill makes critical investments in scientific research and technology to improve America’s competitiveness. The Committee has followed the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences ‘‘Rising Above the Gathering Storm,’’ 

making significant investments in our science agencies that will 

pay dividends for our future. 

Research.—The Committee recommends funding for research 

that will create new products and processes that support job creation. Specifically, the Committee recommends investing over 

$809,499,000 in the National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] for highly leveraged research that will contribute to 

the development of new innovative products and processes. The 

Committee also provides over $6,854,100,000 for basic research 

through the National Science Foundation [NSF]. 

Education.—The ‘‘Rising Above the Gathering Storm’’ report emphasized that the future of U.S. competitiveness rests on our Nation’s ability to train the next generation of scientists and engineers. For this reason, the Committee has invested over 

$790,410,000 in National Science Foundation [NSF] education and 

training programs, a $64,810,000 increase above the fiscal year 

2008 enacted level. This is a critical investment to ensure that our 
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Nation leads the world in science, technology, engineering, and 

mathematics from kindergarten to post graduate levels. 

Investing in an Innovation Friendly Government.—The bill provides important funding to ensure that we have a Government that 

protects our inventions. The Committee recommends the full budget request of $2,074,773,000 for the Patent and Trademark Office 

[PTO] to protect the intellectual property of our inventors. In addition, the Committee has provided language to allow the PTO to access up to $100,000,000 in additional fees should they become 

available in fiscal year 2009. The Committee has been troubled by 

the backlog of patent applications and the time it takes to process 

them. 

Climate Change.—The Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations bill protects our planning by funding the science used to 

monitor and predict changes in Earth’s climate. Through the 

science conducted at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration, this bill funds over 80 percent of 

the Federal climate change science. The Committee is extremely 

concerned that the President’s budget request does not fully address the looming loss of Earth observation from satellites. Several 

satellites that provide critical climate and weather information are 

on borrowed time. For this reason, the Committee has recommended $1,400,000,000 for NASA’s Earth science mission, including $150,000,000 for new Earth science missions recommended 

by the National Academy of Science to measure arctic ice and 

$630,000,000 for NASA science to better understand how the Sun 

affects the Earth. In addition, the Committee recommends 

$1,100,000,000 to fund our next generation weather satellites, as 

well as $74,000,000 to restore critical sensors, that are important 

to understanding our plants climate. 

Accountability and Oversight.—The Committee is extremely concerned about the persistent pattern of cost overruns and schedule 

slippages on major projects and missions carried out by the agencies within this bill. In addition, recent reports have exposed a culture within many agencies that exhibits a lack of accountability 

and oversight of grant funding. 

Therefore, the Committee has recommended two bill-wide provisions to ensure greater oversight and fiscal responsibility of taxpayer dollars. First, the bill requires each agency to notify the 

Committee immediately upon identification of program cost overruns greater than 10 percent. Second, a provision requires the Inspectors General of the Departments of Commerce and Justice, the 

NASA, and NSF to conduct reviews of grant and contract funds to 

ensure funds are being spent appropriately. 

Finally, the Committee intends to work with the Government Accountability Office [GAO] to begin annual reviews of selected large 

scale acquisition and construction projects. Specifically, the Committee requests that GAO develop a plan for ongoing reviews of 

such projects, with reports to the Committee on a biannual basis. 

Agencies shall provide access to all necessary data, as determined 

by GAO, in order for the reviews to be completed and provided in 

a timely manner to the Committee. The Committee believes that 

these project status reports will be very valuable in identifying cost 
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overrun and schedule slippage problems early, so they can be addressed immediately. 

REPROGRAMMINGS, REORGANIZATIONS, AND RELOCATIONS

Section 505 contained in the ‘‘General Provisions’’ of title V provides procedures for the reprogramming of funds. To reprogram is 

to change the use of funds from the specific purposes provided for 

in the act and the accompanying report or, in the absence of direction from the Committee on Appropriations, from the specific purposes provided for in the administration’s budget request. Each 

title of the bill has also traditionally included separate provisions 

that define permissible transfers of resources between appropriation accounts. These transfer authority provisions are also pursuant to section 505, and were initiated in the early 1990’s to provide 

additional flexibility to the agencies under the subcommittee’s jurisdiction. 

The Committee expects each department and agency to closely 

follow the reprogramming procedures listed in section 505, which 

are similar to provisions that applied in statute during fiscal year 

2008. These procedures apply to funds provided under this act, or 

provided under previous appropriations acts that remain available 

for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2009, or provided from 

any accounts in the Treasury available to the agencies funded by 

this act. Section 505 requires that the Committee on Appropriations be notified by letter, at least 15 days prior to: Reprogramming 

of funds, whether permanent or temporary, in excess of $500,000 

or 10 percent, whichever is less, between programs, projects or activities. This provision is also applicable in cases where several activities are involved with each receiving less than $500,000. In addition, the Committee is to be notified of reprogramming actions 

which are less than these amounts if such actions would have the 

effect of committing the agency to significant funding requirements 

in future years; increasing funds or personnel by any means for 

any project or activity for which funds have been previously denied 

or restricted by Congress; creating new programs, offices, agencies 

or commissions or substantially augmenting existing programs, offices, agencies or commissions; relocating offices or employees; reorganizing offices, programs, or activities. 

The Committee also expects that any items that are subject to 

interpretation will be reported. The Committee is concerned that, 

in some instances, the departments or agencies funded within this 

appropriations act are not adhering to the Committee’s reprogramming guidelines that are clearly set forth in this report and in section 505 of the accompanying bill. The Committee expects that each 

department and agency funded in the bill will follow these notification policies precisely and will not reallocate resources or reorganize activities prior to submitting the required notifications to the 

Committee. 

The reprogramming process is based on comity between the Appropriations Committee and the executive branch. The Commerce, 

Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations bill provides 

specific program guidance throughout this report and tables accompanying the bill. The process is intended to provide flexibility to 

meet changing circumstances and emergency requirements of agen-
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cies, if there is agreement between the executive branch and the 

Congress that such a change is warranted. Reprogramming procedures provide a means to agree on adjustments, if necessary, during a fiscal year, and to ensure that the Committee is kept apprised of instances where nonappropriated resources are used to 

meet program requirements, such as fee collections and unobligated balances that were not considered in the development of the 

appropriations legislation. 

In the absence of comity and respect for the prerogatives of the 

Appropriations Committees and Congress in general, the Committee will have no choice but to include specific program limitations and details legislatively. Under these circumstances, programs, projects, and activities become absolutes and the executive 

branch shall lose the ability to propose changes in the use of appropriated funds through the reprogramming process between programs, projects, and activities without seeking some form of legislative action. 

The Committee expects the executive branch departments to 

manage their programs, projects and activities within the levels appropriated. Reprogramming or transfer requests shall be submitted 

only in the case of an unforeseen emergency or situation that could 

not have been anticipated when formulating the budget request for 

the current fiscal year. Further, the Committee notes that when a 

department or agency submits a reprogramming or transfer request to the Committees on Appropriations, and does not receive 

identical responses from the House and Senate, it is the responsibility of the department or agency seeking the reprogramming to 

reconcile the differences between the two bodies before proceeding. 

If reconciliation is not possible, the items in disagreement in the 

reprogramming or transfer request shall be considered unapproved. 

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET JUSTIFICATIONS

The Committee directs that all departments and agencies funded 

within this bill shall submit all of their fiscal year 2010 budget justifications concurrently with the official submission of the administration’s budget to Congress. Further, all departments and agencies 

with classified programs are directed to submit their classified 

budget justification documents to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, through, appropriate means at the same time the unclassified budget justifications are transmitted. 

These justifications shall include a sufficient level of detailed 

data, exhibits and explanatory statements to support the appropriations requests, including tables that outline each agency programs, projects, and activities for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. The 

Committee directs the chief financial officer of each department or 

agency under the subcommittees jurisdiction to ensure that adequate justification is given to each increase, decrease, staffing and 

function change proposed in the fiscal year 2010 budget, particularly within the departmental operations and management accounts. 

The Committee is concerned that many of the budget submissions are inadequate and necessitate multiple requests for additional information. This process is inefficient and unnecessarily 

delays access to information that is fundamental to the work of the 
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Committee. The Committee expects that the fiscal year 2010 submission will include sufficient detail to justify all programs, 

projects and activities contained in each department, agency or 

commission budget request. Budget justifications are prepared not 

for the use of the agencies, but are the primary tool of the Committee to evaluate the resource requirements and proposals requested by the administration. The Committee expects all departments and agencies covered under this act to consult with the 

Committee on this issue prior to the submission of the fiscal year 

2009 budget request and justification materials. 

ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT (E-GOV) INITIATIVES

The administration is seeking funds for various E-Gov initiatives 

in the fiscal year 2009 budget requests for the departments, agencies, and commissions receiving appropriations in this act. In many 

cases, the development of information technology [IT] systems for 

various E-Gov initiatives, including the so-called ‘‘lines of business’’, is not being funded in the budget of the managing agency 

of the initiative. Instead, these cross-agency E-Gov initiatives are 

being funded through ‘‘fee-for-service’’ assessments to agencies. 

The Committee recommendation provides no funding for E-Gov 

activities for fiscal year 2009. If the departments or agencies determine that funds are necessary for these efforts, the Committee will 

consider a reprogramming of existing resources consistent with sections 505 and 515 of this act. 

NONCAREER PERSONNEL REDUCTIONS-IN-FORCE

The Committee directs departments or agencies funded in the accompanying bill that are planning to conduct a reduction-in-force 

[RIF] to notify the Committee in writing 30 days in advance of the 

date of the proposed personnel action. 

APPROPRIATIONS LIAISONS

The Committee prefers to channel the majority of its inquiries 

and requests for information and assistance through the budget offices or comptroller offices of the departments and agencies which 

it oversees, but reserves the right to call upon any individual or organization in any agency under its jurisdiction. 
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TITLE I 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

The Committee recommends a total of $9,402,384,000 for the Department of Commerce [DOC]. The recommendation is 

$2,545,850,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level, excluding 

supplemental appropriations, and $1,185,866,000 above the budget 

request. On June 9, 2008, the Committee received a budget amendment that requests an additional $546,000,000 for the Department 

of Commerce’s Bureau of the Census to cover increased costs of the 

2010 Decennial Census due to mismanagement of a key information technology contract. The budget amendment proposes to reduce other agencies and bureaus of the Department of Commerce 

by $111,000,000. The Office of Management and Budget [OMB] 

transmitted the amendment too late for it to receive serious consideration by the Committee; therefore this report does not reflect the 

amended request. 

The Committee recognizes that the Department has highly diverse and specialized offices, research laboratories, and applied 

technology programs, all staffed by extremely dedicated people. 

Some of the Nation’s top business analysts, technical engineers and 

environmental researchers are employed by the Department. 

The Nation relies on DOC to maintain America’s competitiveness 

within today’s foreign markets, and to promote and expand our 

international trade agreements. Programs within the Department 

continue to protect our businesses’ intellectual property and maintain a high level of technical standards. The National Institute of 

Standards and Technology, in particular, has consistently demonstrated over time the value of advancing technical innovation 

while enhancing our economic security. 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] 

comprises about two-thirds of DOC’s budget. It is the steward of 

many of our marine resources, forecaster of our weather, and surveyor of our coasts, among other responsibilities. The Committee’s 

budget recommendation of $4,445,921,000 supports many of the 

Joint Ocean Commission’s suggestions on improving our Nation’s 

ocean community. 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION

OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $405,172,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 420,431,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 420,431,000 
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The Committee recommendation provides $420,431,000. The rec- ommendation is $15,259,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and the same as the budget request. 

The Committee recommendations, by function, are displayed in 

the following table: 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION FUNDING 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

Manufacturing and Services ............................................................................................................................ 48,592 

Market Access and Compliance ....................................................................................................................... 42,332 

Import Administration ...................................................................................................................................... 66,357 

Trade Promotion and U.S. Foreign Commercial Services ................................................................................ 237,739 

Executive Direction ........................................................................................................................................... 25,411 

Total Direct Obligations ...................................................................................................................... 420,431 

Offsetting Fee Collections.—The Committee recommendation 

adopts the proposed increase of $1,439,000 for offsetting fee collections. The Committee believes the fee estimate of $9,439,000 is realistic and achievable. 

The Committee recognizes the importance of Import Administration’s [IA] vigorous enforcement of the U.S. antidumping [AD] and 

countervailing duty [CVD] laws in safeguarding U.S. industries 

and jobs against injurious and unfair foreign trade practices. IA is 

facing a substantially expanding workload and recently decided to 

apply, for the first time, the CVD law to China, a non-market economy. The Committee includes bill and report language to require 

an additional $3,814,000 in funding be provided to IA to fill vacant 

AD/CVD case analyst positions that are currently unfunded. Staffing of these unfunded positions in the AD/CVD Operations Enforcement Offices is critical to the Department’s ability to conduct AD/ 

CVD investigations, administrative reviews, sunset reviews, 

changed circumstance reviews, other AD/CVD cases and unfair 

subsidy practices in CVD cases as an essential element of the effective administration of the AD/CVD laws. The Committee recommends that funding provided herein also be utilized to expand 

the size of AD/CVD verification teams and ensure that new analysts receive on-site training in verification practices and techniques. 

The Committee notes that IA’s absorption of $2,000,000 in fees 

in recent years has eroded scarce resources that otherwise would 

have been expended in conducting investigations and reviews of 

AD/CVD cases. The Committee opposes the charging of fees to U.S. 

industries filing AD/CVD petitions, and therefore, believes that IA 

should not be charged for fees. 

Appalachian-Turkish Trade Project.—The Committee continues 

to recognize the importance of trade and investment opportunities 

to the Appalachian Region, and it is encouraged by the findings in 

reports that Appalachian firms could find significant trade and investment opportunities, particularly in the energy, hardwood, high 

technology, and transportation sectors, in the Republic of Turkey 

and the surrounding region. In this regard, the Committee supports the Appalachian-Turkish Trade Project [ATTP], a project to 
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promote opportunities to expand trade, encourage business interests, stimulate foreign studies, and build a lasting and mutually 

meaningful relationship between Appalachian States and the Republic of Turkey, as well as neighboring regions, such as in Greece. 

The Committee commends the Commercial Service for its leadership role in helping to implement the mission of the ATTP. The 

Committee expects the Commercial Service to continue to be a 

prominent ATTP sponsor. 

World Trade Organization.—The Committee is aware of the 

World Trade Organization [WTO] Appellate Body’s January 16, 

2003, ruling regarding the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset 

Act. The Committee directs the Department of Commerce, in consultation with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, to continue to negotiate within the WTO to seek express recognition of 

the existing right of WTO Members to distribute monies collected 

from antidumping and countervailing duties. The agency shall consult with and provide regular reports, every 60 days, to the Senate 

Committee on Appropriations. 

In addition, the Committee directs that negotiations be conducted within the WTO consistent with the negotiating objectives 

contained in the Trade Act of 2002, Public Law 107–210, to maintain strong U.S. trade remedies laws, prevent overreaching by 

WTO Panels and the WTO Appellate Body, and prevent the creation of obligations never negotiated or agreed to by the United 

States. 

The Committee is aware that ITA reduced fees for export promotion services and trade missions for 2005 hurricane-affected 

companies. In light of the ongoing need to encourage exporting and 

assist local businesses with their economic recovery efforts, the 

Committee encourages ITA to find ways to extend these fee reductions through fiscal year 2009 for companies affected by hurricanes 

in the gulf region. 

The Committee provides funding for the following congressionally 

directed projects, and directs the International Trade Administration to refrain from charging administrative costs to these grants. 

The Committee expects that International Trade Administration 

will provide appropriate management and oversight of each grant. 

Vermont Global Trade Partnership, to assist small business to 

participate in trade missions—$400,000; and the National Textile 

Center Auburn University to continue and enhance research related to the textile industry—$1,000,000. 

BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY

OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $72,855,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 83,676,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 83,676,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $83,676,000. The rec- ommendation is $10,821,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and the same as the budget request. 

The Bureau of Industry and Security [BIS] is the principal agency involved in the development, implementation, and enforcement 

of export controls for dual-use technologies. The Export Enforce-
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ment Division detects, prevents, investigates, and assists in the 

sanctioning of illegal dual-use exports. 

Within the amount provided under this heading, $40,988,000 is 

for export administration, $36,838,000 is for export enforcement, 

and $5,850,000 is for management and policy coordination. These 

funds are provided to ensure BIS has the necessary resources to reduce security threats, ensure America’s technological preeminence, 

and improve the recruiting and retention of qualified personnel. 

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $279,932,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 132,800,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 232,800,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $232,800,000. The recommendation is $47,132,000 below the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $100,000,000 above the budget request. 

The Economic Development Administration [EDA] provides 

grants to local governments and nonprofit agencies for public 

works, planning, and other projects designed to facilitate economic 

development. Funding amounts for the two appropriations accounts 

under this heading are displayed below. 

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $249,100,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 100,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 200,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $200,000,000. The recommendation is $49,100,000 below the fiscal year 2008 level and 

$100,000,000 above the budget request. The Committee expects 

EDA to use all available carryover and prior year recoveries to the 

maximum extent possible. 

The purpose of Economic Development Assistance Programs 

[EDAP] is to stimulate employment and increase incomes in areas 

that are characterized by underutilized resources which, if put to 

productive use, can contribute to greater national productivity and 

balanced national economic growth. The structural economic problems of various geographic areas, though having distinct characteristics, are interrelated. Thus, an effective Federal economic development program must transcend the conventional conceptions of 

urban and rural development by addressing all geographic areas 

within a framework of national priorities and resources. 

The Committee is again disappointed by the administration’s request for the Economic Development Assistance Programs [EDAP] 

especially given the ringing endorsement the administration 

showed with its fiscal year 2007 proposal. The EDAP is a highly 

leveraged program with a successful track record. The program’s 

performance measures consistently show that the EDAP investments have attracted in private sector investment into distressed 

communities and helped create jobs as a result of these investments. Given these facts the Committee does not agree to the requested reduction. While the Committee remains very supportive of 

the EDAP it was unable to restore the programs funding to the fiscal year 2008 level. 
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The Committee recommendation includes $105,800,000 for public 

works grants (title I); $27,000,000 for planning assistance; 

$9,400,000 for technical assistance; $500,000 for research and evaluation; $15,000,000 for trade adjustment assistance; and 

$42,300,000 for economic adjustment grants (title IX). 

A recent study provided for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs found that 18 percent of recently discharged veterans were 

unemployed, and, that of those finding employment, 1 out of 4 

earned less than $22,000. Economic development programs such as 

the veteran business resource centers provide critical tools to veterans wishing to re-enter and succeed in the civilian workforce. 

The Committee recommends that of the funds provided for Economic Development Assistance, $800,000 shall be for veteran’s resources centers as defined pursuant to section 33(f) of the Small 

Business Act (15 U.S.C. 657c(f)) and that have been funded 

through grants from funds provided in the Science, State, Justice, 

Commerce and Related Agencies appropriations bill for fiscal year 

2006 (Public Law 109–108) and the Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution (Public Law 110–5). 

The Committee is aware of the exceptionally large geographic 

area, Hawaii and the American Pacific, served by the Hawaii Economic Development Administration office and increasing demands 

for services in the area and recommends increased staff support for 

this field office. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $30,832,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 32,800,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 32,800,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $32,800,000. The recommendation is $1,968,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and the same as the budget request. 

The Committee continues to support EDA’s regional offices and 

reiterates its commitment to continuing the current operational 

structure with the six regional offices in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, 

Denver, Philadelphia, and Seattle. The Committee’s recommendation fully funds the request for the Salaries and Expenses appropriation which provides adequate funding to begin filling vacancies 

within the regional offices. The Committee again directs that vacancies within the regional offices be filled prior to any vacancies 

within headquarters. 

MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $28,623,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 29,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 29,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $29,000,000. The recommendation is $377,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and the same as the budget request. The increase provides for inflationary adjustments and ensures that funds will be available for 

the existing Native American Business Development Centers. 
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ECONOMIC AND INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE 

ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $81,075,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 90,621,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 90,621,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $90,621,000. The recommendation is $9,546,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and the same as the budget request. 

Economic and Statistical Analysis [ESA] encompasses the collection, tabulation, and publication of a wide variety of economic, demographic, and social statistics and provides support to the Secretary of Commerce and other Government officials in interpreting 

the state of the economy and developing economic policy. The Committee’s recommendation fully funds the Bureau of Economic Analysis [BEA] as this bureau provides the most timely, relevant, and 

accurate economic accounts data to promote a better understanding 

of the U.S. economy. 

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $1,230,244,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 2,604,622,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 3,151,002,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $3,151,002,000. The 

recommendation is $1,920,758,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level and $546,380,000 above the budget request. 

On June 9, 2008, the Committee received a budget amendment 

that requests an additional $546,000,000 for the Department of 

Commerce’s Bureau of the Census to cover increased costs of the 

2010 Decennial Census due to mismanagement of a key information technology contract. The budget amendment proposes to reduce other Agencies and Bureaus of the Department of Commerce 

by $111,000,000. The Office of Management and Budget [OMB] 

transmitted the amendment too late for it to receive serious consideration by the Committee; therefore this report does not reflect the 

amended request. 

The Committee notes that the fiscal year 2009 budget is a critical year for the Census Bureau as it begins initial operations of 

the decennial census. Accordingly, the amounts provided by the 

Committee to the Census Bureau are sufficient for the activities 

that are critical to the agency, including its primary function, the 

decennial census. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $202,838,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 238,740,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 238,740,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $238,740,000. The recommendation is $35,902,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and is the same as the budget request. This account provides 

for the salaries and expenses associated with the statistical pro-
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grams of the Bureau of the Census, including measurement of the 

Nation’s economy and the demographic characteristics of the population. These programs are intended to provide a broad base of economic, demographic, and social information used for decision-making by governments, private organizations, and individuals. 

Within the funds provided the Committee has provided the full increase of $8,118,000 to improve measurement of service sector. 

This increase will provide economic policy makers with more comprehensive and timely data on the service economy, which now accounts for 55 percent of economic activity. In addition, the Committee’s recommendation provides $46,400,000 to ensure a full Survey 

of Income and Program Participation [SIPP] sample of 45,000 

households. 

PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $1,027,406,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 2,365,882,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 2,912,262,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $2,912,262,000. The recommendation is $1,884,856,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level and $546,380,000 above the budget request. 

This account provides for the constitutionally mandated decennial census and other programs which are cyclical in nature. Additionally, individual surveys are conducted for other Federal agencies on a reimbursable basis. 

2010 Decennial Census.—The Committee recommendation fully 

funds the amended request to return the 2010 census to a more reliable paper-based operation. At the conclusion of the 2000 census, 

the Census Bureau embarked on a noble effort to automate decennial census operations through the development and procurement 

of a handheld device to be used by field enumerators. The centerpiece of this effort is known as the Field Data Collection Automation [FDCA] program. FDCA’s goal was to reduce life-cycle costs 

while improving the accuracy and timeliness of data collection. To 

the Committee’s disappointment this effort was not successful, resulting in a techno-Katrina—a fiscal disaster that many foresaw 

but were unable to avoid. The current difficulties being encountered involving the FDCA portion of the 2010 Census are not the 

result of an unanticipated problem, but have been building for several years. 

After several recent reviews by independent entities, GAO, and 

even the Census itself, the problem has been identified as the delayed definition of systems requirements and management of the 

FDCA award. Although the Census Bureau decided in 2004 to contract for handheld devices in order to increase efficiency and accuracy of the 2010 census, it was not until 2006 that the Census 

awarded the contract for this activity. By delaying the award, nearly 2 years of critical development time for testing and evaluation 

were lost. As a result, the Secretary of Commerce has decided to 

utilize the handheld device units only for the Address Canvassing 

portion of the 2010 census and to rely on a paper-based operation 

for Non-Response Follow-Up [NRFU]. This decision will result in a 

more expensive 2010 census but at the same time will allow for 

more predictability in remaining cost estimates. 
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The Committee has been informed that total life cycle costs have 

increased by nearly $2,500,000,000 to approximately 

$14,000,000,000. This has resulted in the need for an additional fiscal year 2008 appropriation of $210,000,000 and an amended budget request of $3,304,622,000 for fiscal year 2009. The Bush Administration’s fiscal orthodoxy has forced the Department of Commerce 

to propose unrealistic budget reductions to offset the increased 

costs associated with this fiasco. The Committee rejects the proposed offsets because the Committee believes that programs that 

are conducting their mission in a fiscally responsible manner 

should not be forced to suffer as the result of incompetence of others. Many of the programs identified for offsets already ‘‘gave at 

the office’’ and saw their budgets reduced during the final negotiations over the fiscal year 2008 appropriations process because of 

this administration’s unwillingness to compromise. The Committee 

therefore will do the responsible thing and fund the increased costs 

not through unrealistic cuts or gimmicks but rather by an increase 

in funding and oversight. 

The Committee adopts by reference report language that accompanies the fiscal year 2008 supplemental appropriations for the 

Census Bureau regarding the development and reporting of milestones associated with the 2010 census. 

NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION

ADMINISTRATION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $36,266,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 19,218,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 59,218,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $59,218,000. The recommendation is $22,952,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $40,000,000 above the budget request. 

Enhance 9–1–1.—The Committee is aware that the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Fund made $43,500,000 available in mandatory funding to implement the ENHANCE 911 Act 

of 2004. The Committee directs the Assistant Secretary to coordinate the work of the National Telecommunication and Information 

Administration [NTIA] on this critical program with other relevant 

Federal agencies. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $17,466,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 19,218,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 19,218,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $19,218,000. The recommendation is $1,752,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and the same as the budget request. 

The Committee retains language from previous years allowing 

the Secretary of Commerce to collect reimbursements from other 

Federal agencies for a portion of the cost of coordination of spectrum management, analysis, and operations. The NTIA shall submit a report to the Senate Committee on Appropriations no later 

than June 1, 2009, detailing the collection of reimbursements from 
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other agencies related to spectrum management, analyses, and research. 

PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, PLANNING, AND

CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $18,800,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... ........................... 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 20,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $20,000,000. The rec- ommendation is $1,200,000 above the fiscal year 2008 funding level 

and $20,000,000 above the budget request. The Public Telecommunications Facilities Planning and Construction [PTFPC] program awards competitive grants that help public broadcasting stations, State and local governments, Indian tribes, and nonprofit organizations construct facilities to bring educational and cultural 

programming to the American public using broadcasting and nonbroadcasting telecommunications technologies. 

TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. ........................... 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... ........................... 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. $20,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $20,000,000. The Committee has reconstituted the Technology Opportunities Program 

[TOP] to focus on expanding broadband deployment. The Committee notes that the National Academies of Sciences report ‘‘Rising above the Gathering Storm’’ recommended that the Federal 

Government should ensure ubiquitous broadband Internet access. 

Several nations are well ahead of the United States in providing 

broadband access for home, school, and business. That capability 

can be expected to do as much to drive innovation, the economy, 

and job creation in the 21st century as did access to the telephone, 

interstate highways, and air travel in the 20th century. The Committee directs that funding be awarded competitively for the construction of broadband networks and services. The Committee directs NTIA to notify the Committee within 120 days after enactment about the criteria to be used to review and evaluate proposals. Funds shall not be available for obligation until 30 days 

after the Committee is notified about the criteria. 

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $1,915,000,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 2,074,773,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 2,074,773,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $2,074,773,000. The 

recommendation is $159,273,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and the same as the budget request, to be derived from offsetting fee collections. The Committee agrees with the recommendation to extend the fee increase for USPTO through the end of fiscal 

year 2009. The Committee continues to provide bill language to 

allow the USPTO to have fuller access to fees, including 

$100,000,000 in fees collected above original estimates. 
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO] is the 

central hub of an innovation friendly government. USPTO examines patent applications, grants patent protection for qualified inventions, and disseminates technological information disclosed in 

patents. USPTO also examines trademark applications and provides Federal registration to owners of qualified trademarks. The 

USPTO is subject to the policy direction of the Secretary of Commerce, but the agency has independent control of its budget, expenditures, personnel, procurement and other administrative and 

management functions. Patent laws administered by the USPTO 

encourage invention, innovation, and investment. The USPTO 

plays a critical role in promoting the continued development of intellectual property of the Nation. For established companies, new 

patents improve competitiveness, increase productivity, help bring 

new products and services to market, and create jobs. 

Patent Pendency and Backlog.—The Committee remains frustrated by the lack of progress toward reducing patent pendency and 

the overall patent backlog. The Committee notes that the Patent 

Office took 3 weeks not the 3 years to award the patent for the invention of the telephone to Alexander Graham Bell. During the 

early part of this decade the Committee heard concerns about the 

redirection of patent filing fees and has since provided the USPTO 

with full access to its fees since 2005. The subsequent years has 

seen the USPTO budget grow by over $500,00,000, yet pendency 

and backlog grow worse. As such the Committee has provided bill 

language to transfer funding to the Office of Inspector General for 

the express purpose of conducting continual audit engagements and 

oversight at the USPTO. 

USPTO Operations.—As a fee for service agency the USPTO operates in a business like model. In an effort to identify areas for 

improvement, the Committee directs the USPTO to adopt the principles of the Baldrige National Quality Program. The Baldrige Program represents the pinnacle of performance excellence for American business. The Committee directs the USPTO to work with the 

Baldrige Program to begin the process of incorporating these principles and to report to the Committee on a quarterly basis on 

progress made towards adoption. 

Patent Examiners.—The Committee is deeply concerned with the 

turnover in Patent examiners. Numerous reviews conducted by the 

General Accountability Office [GAO] have shown that for every two 

examiners hired one leaves the agency. Contrary to the view of senior management, most examiners who left the agency have cited 

the unreasonable work productivity goals as a major reason for 

their departure. In order to meet their goals many examiners have 

to work unpaid overtime or while on annual leave. These goals 

which were first adopted in the 1970’s have not been updated to 

address the ever more complex technologies that encompass today’s 

patent applications. The unrealistic goals are forcing junior examiners to leave which will have a lasting impact on the agency. The 

loss of this ‘‘seed corn’’ will make it difficult to replace the productivity rates of senior examiners when they subsequently retire. 

Therefore, the Committee has restricted access to $10,000,000 of 

fees until the Director begins a comprehensive reevaluation of the 

work productivity goals for patent examiners. 
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Any deviations from the funding distribution provided for in this 

act and in its accompanying statement, including carryover balances, are subject to the standard reprogramming procedures set 

forth in section 505 of this act. In addition, 60 days after the date 

of enactment of this act, the USPTO shall submit to the Senate 

Committee on Appropriations a spending plan for fiscal year 2009. 

This spending plan shall incorporate all carryover balances from 

previous fiscal years, and describe any changes to the patent or 

trademark fee structure. 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $755,847,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 638,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 813,499,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $813,499,000. The recommendation is $57,652,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $175,499,000 above the budget request. 

The recommendation provides that up to $12,300,000 may be 

transferred from the Scientific and Technical Research and Services account to the Working Capital Fund, which the National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] uses to purchase 

equipment for its laboratories. 

NIST is one of the oldest Federal labs and has a long history of 

assisting with the Nation’s industrial development. Beginning in 

the early 1900s with electricity standards, to assisting in the development of Standard Reference Material [SRM] such as SRM 143 

DJK/RCK, to modern day mammograms and semiconductors, innumerable products and services rely in some way on technology, 

measurement, and standards provided by the National Institute of 

Standards and Technology. NIST’s mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement 

science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic 

security and improve our quality of life. It carries out its mission 

in four complementary programs. 

A description of each NIST account and the corresponding Committee recommendation follows in the subsequent three headings. 

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $440,517,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 535,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 489,499,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $489,499,000. The recommendation is $48,982,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $45,501,000 below the budget request. 

The Committee’s recommendations are displayed in the following 

table with specific increases described: 
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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES, DIRECT OBLIGATIONS 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Laboratories and technical programs .................................................................................................................. 364,237 

Strategic and Emerging Initiatives ...................................................................................................................... 27,750 

NIST Center for neutron research ........................................................................................................................ 41,522 

Center for nanoscale science technology ............................................................................................................ 29,825 

Baldridge National Quality Program .................................................................................................................... 8,522 

Corporate Services ............................................................................................................................................... 17,643 

Total STRS .............................................................................................................................................. 489,499 

Innovation Investments.—The Committee recommendation provides for $31,380,000 in new fiscal year 2009 initiatives. Within the 

funding provided the Committee provides the following increases: 

$6,000,000 for Nano-Environment Safety and Health; $2,500,000 

for Biosciences; $5,000,000 for Quantum Information Sciences; 

$5,000,000 for calibration support of climate change observation 

satellites; $380,000 for the Summer Teachers Institute at NIST 

targeting 5th through 8th grade math and science teachers; 

$3,250,000 for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program; and $9,250,000 for Strategic Measurement Partnerships 

Strategic Measurement Partnerships.—The Committee feels 

strongly about the benefits of a robust measurements and standards research program that pushes the frontiers of science and 

helps lay the foundation for innovation. However, the Committee is 

concerned that the insular culture of the NIST laboratories prevents it from fully exploiting outside partnerships which can provide needed expertise and help accelerate measurement development. The Committee therefore has included funding for a new 

Strategic Measurement Partnerships [SMP] program to facilitate 

cost-shared collaborative research partnerships and alliances with 

institutions of higher education that are focused on developing next 

generation measurements and standards. Funding for these partnerships will be limited to 5 years in length with a second 5-year 

period renewable at the option of NIST. Funding will support planning and research. Research decisions utilizing these funds will be 

made at the discretion of NIST and its partner. NIST is directed 

to provide the Committee with an operational plan for this program 

no later than 120 days after enactment. 

Printed Electronics Study.—The Committee believes that flexible, 

large area and printed electronics technology holds great promise 

for the competitiveness of the United States. NIST shall enter into 

an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to undertake 

a study that examines the position of the United States in flexible 

electronics relative to efforts in other countries. The National Academies shall also consider the particular technologies and commercial sectors to which flexible electronics apply and the recommendations that must be undertaken at a Federal level for a national initiative. 

Office of Law Enforcement Standards [OLES].—The Committee 

remains a strong supporter of OLES and views its activities as an 

integral part efforts to support first responders. Therefore, the 

Committee continues support for OLES and provides $8,000,000 
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from ‘‘Laboratories and technical programs’’ to support this critical 

work. 

Fiscal Year 2009 Spend Plan.—The Committee is disappointed 

that NIST did not adhere to direction contained in the fiscal year 

2008 Committee report to develop a new budget structure for the 

fiscal year 2009 budget submission. In response, the Committee directs NIST to submit a spend plan for the funding provided for 

‘‘Laboratories and technical programs’’ and for Strategic and 

Emerging Initiatives no later than 45 days after enactment. The 

budget structure for this spend plan shall provide appropriation 

levels for each of the major laboratory operating units. 

The Committee provides funding within the amounts for Strategic Measurement Partnerships for the following congressionally 

directed projects, and directs the National Institute of Standards 

and Technology to refrain from charging administrative costs to 

these grants. The Committee expects that the National Institute of 

Standards and Technology will provide appropriate management 

and oversight of each grant. 

New York Center for National Competitiveness in Nanoscale Characterization—$1,000,000; UMBC/UMCP Ultrafast Dynamics 

for Next-Generation Nanotechnology—$2,000,000. Finally, additional funds of $12,300,000 are available for transfer 

to the Working Capital Fund for equipment and other purposes related to the STRS account. 

INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $154,840,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 4,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 175,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $175,000,000. The recommendation is $20,160,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $171,000,000 above the budget request. 

Hollings Manufacturing Extension Programs [MEP].—The Committee recommendation provides $110,000,000 to fund MEP centers 

restoring the program to its traditional operating level. MEP supports a network of locally run centers that provide technical advice 

and consultative services to small manufacturing companies in all 

50 States and Puerto Rico. Many of these firms lack the in-house 

technical knowledge and experience to implement cutting edge 

technologies and cost saving processes, which places them at risk 

from foreign competition. Since its inception, MEP has consistently 

been the program that small manufacturers could look to for assistance. 

Technology Innovation Program [TIP].—The Committee provides 

$65,000,000 to focus on developing innovative technologies that will 

improve the competitiveness of our nations. The Committee also 

provides bill language to allow TIP immediate access to prior year 

recoveries. The Committee recommendation will allow for approximately $40,000,000 in new project funding. 

CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $160,490,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 99,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 149,000,000 
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The Committee recommendation provides $149,000,000. The rec- ommendation is $11,490,000 below the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $50,000,000 above the budget request. 

The recommendation funds the highest priority safety, capacity, 

maintenance, and repair projects at NIST. 

JILA Expansion.—The Committee recommendation provides $13,000,000 towards the expansion of the building located on the 

University of Colorado’s campus. The Committee is concerned that 

the proposed project, which has an estimated budget of 

$27,500,226, will require the Federal Government to pay over 80 

percent of the total cost of construction. The Committee appreciates 

the great research that has been conducted through the JILA partnership, however it is unlikely that the Committee will provide 

more than 50 percent toward the total cost of this project unless 

it is convinced to do otherwise. 

NIST CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS 

Committee 

recommendations 

Boulder Building 1 Extension Project ............................................................................................................ $43,538,000 

NIST Child Care Center (Building 916) ......................................................................................................... 6,000,000 

JILA Expansion ................................................................................................................................................ 13,000,000 

Safety, Capacity, Major Modifications, and Repairs ..................................................................................... 42,462,000 

Congressionally Directed Projects .................................................................................................................. 44,000,000 

Total Direct Obligations, CRF ........................................................................................................... 149,000,000 

The Committee directs NIST to provide quarterly reports on the 

status of all construction projects, and to provide an accounting of 

projects. 

The Committee provides funding for the following congressionally 

directed projects, and directs the National Institute of Standards 

and Technology to refrain from charging administrative costs to 

these grants. The Committee expects that the National Institute of 

Standards and Technology will provide appropriate management 

and oversight of each grant. 

University of Alabama for a Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Teaching and Research Center—$30,000,000; Mississippi 

St. University for expansion of the Research, Technology, and Economic Development Park—$6,500,000; University of Mississippi 

Medical Center—$6,500,000; University of Southern Mississippi for 

a Formulation Science building—$1,000,000. 

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $3,896,484,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 4,103,913,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 4,445,921,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $4,445,921,000 for the 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]. Of this 

amount, transfers total $82,000,000. The recommendation is 

$549,437,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level, excluding 

supplemental appropriations, and $342,008,000 above the budget 

request. 
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The Committee has reviewed the U.S. Ocean Policy Report Card 

for 2007 issued by the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative. The report concludes that while State and regional initiatives continue to 

move forward on ocean governance reform, the lack of significant 

progress at the Federal level to commit adequate funding and affect meaningful ocean policy reform hinders national improvement. 

The report provides an overall grade of C from a C¥ average in 

2006. 

The Committee agrees with this analysis and continues to be 

frustrated by the administration’s reluctance to put real dollars towards all of NOAA’s programs. During the conclusion of the fiscal 

year 2008 appropriation cycle the Congress was forced to make reluctant cuts to the budgets of many worthy programs because of 

the President’s unwillingness to compromise. The result was that 

many of NOAA’s programs that help save lives and livelihoods 

were reduced. With this budget the Committee notes that overall 

request is above the enacted level from fiscal year 2008. However, 

once the increase for NOAA’s satellite programs is removed, the 

budget is once again a disappointment, as it either cuts or stagnates programs that are priorities to the ocean community. Therefore the Committee has taken the Commission’s recommendations 

into account in developing this budget and has augmented the request where the President has dangerously underfunded several 

programs. 

OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $2,856,277,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 2,831,253,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 3,051,911,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $3,051,911,000. The 

recommendation is $195,634,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level, excluding supplemental appropriations, and $220,658,000 

above the budget request. 

The Committee provides funding for congressionally directed 

projects listed within the obligation tables for: the National Ocean 

Service; National Marine Fisheries Service; Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, National Weather Service; National Environmental, Satellite Data, and Information Service; and Program Support, and directs NOAA to refrain from charging administrative 

costs to these grants. The Committee expects that NOAA will provide appropriate management and oversight of each grant. 

NOAA NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE

The Committee recommends $516,845,000 for the National 

Ocean Service [NOS]. NOS programs provide scientific, technical, 

and management expertise to promote safe navigation; assess the 

health of coastal and marine resources; respond to natural and 

human-induced threats; and preserve the coastal ocean and global 

environments. 

Committee recommendations are displayed in the following table: 
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NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Navigation Services: 

Mapping & Charting ................................................................................................................................. 47,639 

Hydrographic Research and Technology Development ............................................................................. 7,424 

Electronic Navigational Charts ................................................................................................................. 6,128 

Shoreline Mapping .................................................................................................................................... 2,424 

Address Survey Backlog/Contracts ........................................................................................................... 31,173 

Geodesy ..................................................................................................................................................... 22,860 

National Height Modernization .................................................................................................................. 2,541 

Regional Geospatial Modeling Grants ...................................................................................................... 8,000 

Tide & Current Data ................................................................................................................................. 31,337 

Louisiana Geodetic Spatial Reference Center, LA .................................................................................... 700 

California Seafloor Mapping, CA .............................................................................................................. 1,500 

Ordnace Reef UXO—Buoys, HI ................................................................................................................. 500 

Extended Continental Shelf Mapping, AK ................................................................................................. 500 

Geo-Spatial Analysis of Weather Phenomena and Disaster Recovery, AL ............................................... 500 

Total, Navigation Services .................................................................................................................... 163,226 

Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment: 

Ocean Assessment Program (OAP): 

Integrated Ocean Observing System—Regional Observatories ...................................................... 30,000 

NOAA IOOS ........................................................................................................................................ 8,000 

Coastal Services Centers ................................................................................................................. 20,254 

Coastal Storms ................................................................................................................................. 2,874 

Ocean Health Initiative .................................................................................................................... 7,900 

Coral Reef Programs ........................................................................................................................ 28,000 

Gulf Of Mexico Regional Collaboration ............................................................................................ 5,000 

Ocean Research Priorities Plan Implementation ............................................................................. 6,000

Monitoring of Lake Erie Water Quality with Remote Sensing, OH .................................................. 250 

Pacific Coastal Services Center, HI ................................................................................................. 4,500 

Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative, HI ....................................................................................................... 700 

Subtotal, Ocean Assessment Program (OAP) .............................................................................. 113,478 

Response and Restoration: 

Response and Restoration Base ...................................................................................................... 17,266 

Estuary Restoration Program ........................................................................................................... 1,188 

Marine Debris ................................................................................................................................... 4,000 

Lake Pontchartrain Initiatives .......................................................................................................... 250 

Narragansett Bay and Little Narragansett Bay Watershed Restoration, RI ................................... 1,000 

Subtotal, Response and Restoration ........................................................................................... 23,704 

National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS): 

NCCOS Headquarters ....................................................................................................................... 3,800 

HABs, Hypoxia and Regional Ecosystem External Research ........................................................... 18,000 

Center for Coastal Environmental Health & Biomedical Research ................................................. 11,500 

Oxford Cooperative Lab .................................................................................................................... 5,000 

Center for Sponsored Coastal Research .......................................................................................... 2,700 

Center for Coastal Monitoring & Assessment ................................................................................. 5,000 

Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research ....................................................................... 5,000 

Marine Env. Health Research Lab—MEHRL .................................................................................... 6,000 

Subtotal, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science .............................................................. 57,000 

Total, Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment ............................................................. 194,182 

Ocean and Coastal Management: 

CZM Grants ............................................................................................................................................... 70,000 

CZM Program Administration .................................................................................................................... 8,155 

CZM Non-Point Implementation Grants .................................................................................................... 4,000 

National Estuarine Research Reserve System .......................................................................................... 22,326 
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NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Marine Protected Areas ............................................................................................................................. 2,128 

Marine Sanctuary Program Base .............................................................................................................. 47,378 

Hawaii Inst. of Marine Biology Coral Research, HI .................................................................................. 2,000 

Thunder Bay, NMS lease buydown, MI ..................................................................................................... 1,000 

Northwest Straits Citizens Advisory Commission, WA .............................................................................. 1,600 

Lake Winnipesaukee Watershed Management Plan, NH .......................................................................... 100 

City of Mobile National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico, AL ..................................................... 500 

Perdido Pass Inlet Management Study, AL .............................................................................................. 250 

Total, Ocean and Coastal Management ............................................................................................... 159,437 

GRAND TOTAL NOS ................................................................................................................................ 516,845 

CZM Grants.—The Committee provides $70,000,000 for the CZM 

grants program. 

Integrated Ocean Observing System [IOOS].—The Committee recommendation provides a total of $38,000,000 for the Integrated 

Ocean Observation System, of which $8,000,000 is for program administration and continued support for a testbed for quantitatively 

evaluating the performance of new and existing coastal technologies in the laboratory and under diverse environmental conditions. $30,000,000 is provided entirely for a competitive, regional 

ocean observing systems solicitation. The Committee directs NOAA, 

as part of the IOOS 5-year strategic plan, to develop a strategy for 

incorporating observations systems from estuaries, bays and other 

near shore waters as part of the IOOS regional network of observatories. 

Tides and Currents Data.—The Committee has provided $2,500,000 above the President’s request to continue existing support for operations and maintenance of Physical Oceanographic 

Real-Time Systems [PORTS} as authorized by Public Law 107–372. 

Coral Reef Programs.—The funds provided include $737,000 for 

Coral Reef Monitoring as requested by the administration under 

the NESDIS section. The Committee reiterates its direction that 

NOAA consolidate agency-wide Coral Reef activities under this one, 

NOS line item for future budget requests. 

Regional Geospatial Modeling Grants.—The Committee provides $8,000,000 to continue funding for this competitive program for researchers and resource managers to develop models or geographic 

information systems using existing geodetic, coastal remote sensing 

data, terrestrial gravity measurements or other physical datasets. 

NOAA NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE

The Committee recommendation provides $777,267,000 for the 

National Marine Fisheries Service [NMFS]. NMFS programs provide for the management and conservation of the Nation’s living 

marine resources and their environment, including fish stocks, marine mammals, and endangered species. Using science-based conservation, management, and restoration activities, these resources 

can benefit the Nation on a sustained basis. NMFS seeks to build 

sustainable fisheries, recover protected species, and sustain healthy 

coastal ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. 
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Committee recommendations are displayed in the following table: 

NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Marine Mammals, Marine Turtles, and Marine Protected Species: 

Protected Species Research and Management Programs ........................................................................ 34,766 

Marine Mammal Protection (MMP) ........................................................................................................... 41,340 

Other Protected Species ............................................................................................................................ 8,257 

Marine Turtles ........................................................................................................................................... 10,003 

Atlantic Salmon ......................................................................................................................................... 6,000 

Pacific Salmon (Salmon Management Activities) .................................................................................... 62,879 

Hawaiian Monk Seals, HI .......................................................................................................................... 2,600 

Hawaiian Sea Turtles, HI .......................................................................................................................... 7,100 

Ice Seal Research, AK ............................................................................................................................... 950 

Marine Mammal Research—Alaska Sea Life Center, AK ........................................................................ 3,750 

Steller Sea Lion Conservation & Co-Management, AK ............................................................................. 210 

Total, Marine Mammals, Marine Turtles, and Marine Protected Species ............................................ 178,105 

Fisheries Research and Management: 

Fisheries Research and Management Programs ...................................................................................... 159,585 

Expand Annual Stock Assessments—Improve Data Collection ............................................................... 40,504 

Economics and Social Sciences Research ................................................................................................ 10,658 

Salmon Management Activities ................................................................................................................ 24,381 

Regional Councils and Fisheries Commissions ........................................................................................ 27,289 

Fisheries Statistics .................................................................................................................................... 16,152 

Fish Information Networks ........................................................................................................................ 22,013 

Survey and Monitoring Projects ................................................................................................................ 23,270 

Fisheries Oceanography ............................................................................................................................ 995 

American Fisheries Act ............................................................................................................................. 5,351 

Interjurisdictional Fisheries Grants ........................................................................................................... 2,567 

National Standard 8 ................................................................................................................................. 1,035 

Reduce Fishing Impacts on Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) ....................................................................... 517 

Reducing Bycatch ..................................................................................................................................... 3,360 

Product Quality and Safety ....................................................................................................................... 7,127 

Narraganset Bay Window Program, RI ..................................................................................................... 1,000 

Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Disaster Assistance, MD and VA ................................................................. 20,000 

Maine Groundfish Industry Emergency Economic Assistance, ME ........................................................... 300 

Gear Conversion Assistance, ME .............................................................................................................. 100 

Hawaii Seafood Safety and Sustainability, HI .......................................................................................... 1,500 

Alaska King Crab Research, AK ................................................................................................................ 1,000 

Fishery Advisory Bodies, AK ...................................................................................................................... 150 

Florida Marine Replenishment Program, FL ............................................................................................. 200 

Disease Reduction in Klamath River Salmon, OR .................................................................................... 250 

Scallop Fishery Assessment, MA ............................................................................................................... 1,000 

Total, Fisheries Research and Management ........................................................................................ 370,304 

Enforcement and Observers: 

Enforcement and Surveillance .................................................................................................................. 56,405 

Observers/Training .................................................................................................................................... 32,680 

Pilot Red Snapper Observer Program, FL ................................................................................................. 1,000 

Total, Enforcement and Observers/Training ......................................................................................... 90,085 

Habitat Conservation & Restoration: 

Sustainable Habitat Management ............................................................................................................ 20,952 

Fisheries Habitat Restoration (Open Rivers & CBRP) .............................................................................. 21,453 

Port Aransas Nature Preserve, TX ............................................................................................................. 300 

Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration, MD and VA ..................................................................................... 4,600 

Alabama Oyster Restoration and Fishery Enhancement, AL .................................................................... 1,000

Merrimack River Fish Habitat Conservation, NH ...................................................................................... 100 
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NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Total, Habitat Conservation & Restoration .......................................................................................... 48,405 

Other Activities Supporting Fisheries: 

Antarctic Research .................................................................................................................................... 2,639 

Aquaculture ............................................................................................................................................... 4,052 

Climate Regimes & Ecosystem Productivity ............................................................................................. 2,055 

Computer Hardware and Software ............................................................................................................ 3,417 

Cooperative Research ................................................................................................................................ 11,455 

Information Analyses & Dissemination ..................................................................................................... 19,328 

Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment & Prediction Program (MarMap) .......................................... 842 

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) ............................................................................................... 8,211 

NMFS Facilities Maintenance .................................................................................................................... 6,477 

Other Projects ............................................................................................................................................ 5,003 

Southwest Fisheries Center ....................................................................................................................... 1,000 

Regional Studies—Chesapeake Bay Studies ........................................................................................... 3,500 

Regional Studies—Southeast Area Monitoring & Assessment Program (SEAMAP) ................................ 5,098 

Regional Science and Operations—MSA Implementation off Alaska ...................................................... 8,071 

Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association, AK .................................................................................................. 190 

Yukon River Drainage Association, AK ..................................................................................................... 380 

Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities Coalition, AK ................................................................................. 150 

Summer Flounder Initiative, NJ ................................................................................................................. 1,000 

New England Multi-Species Survey, MA ................................................................................................... 3,000 

Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction, MA & NH ............................................................................. 1,250 

Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management, AL ........................................................................................... 1,250 

Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, HI ........................................................................ 1,250 

Hawaii Fisheries Development, HI ............................................................................................................ 750 

Total, Other Activities Supporting Fisheries ......................................................................................... 90,368 

GRAND TOTAL NMFS ............................................................................................................................. 777,267 

Fisheries Habitat Restoration.—The Committee provides no more than $6,000,000 for the Open Rivers initiative and directs that no 

State shall receive more that $500,000. 

Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration.—The Committee provides $4,600,000 for oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay. Of these 

funds, $2,600,000 is provided for oyster restoration in the Maryland waters of the Chesapeake Bay which shall be for on-theground and in-the water restoration efforts. In addition, $2,000,000 

of these funds are for oyster restoration in Virginia waters of the 

Chesapeake Bay. Funds shall not be used for administrative costs, 

including banquets or salaries. 

Regional Studies—Chesapeake Bay.—The Committee directs 

NOAA’s Chesapeake Bay Office to develop, within 9 months after 

enactment, a collaborative strategic research and assessment program with the States of Maryland and Virginia. This program will 

advance multiple species management by focusing on blue crabs, 

oysters, other resource species. In developing this program NOAA 

shall utilize the Sea Grant Programs from both States. 

Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Disaster Assistance.—The Committee 

provides $20,000,000 to the States of Maryland and Virginia for 

economic assistance to watermen and communities impacted by recent restrictions on Chesapeake Bay blue crab harvests. 

Pacific Salmon Restoration.—The San Joaquin River Restoration 

Settlement will restore California’s second longest river and help 

rebuild imperiled Pacific salmon runs. The National Marine Fish-
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eries Service is obligated, under the Federal court order, to participate in the restoration planning and settlement implementation 

along with other Federal agencies. The Committee expects NMFS 

to identify and devote the appropriate resources to this restoration 

effort and promptly report back to the Committee on any developments. Continued delay by the NMFS to participate in this effort 

could undermine this important restoration effort. 

NOAA OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

The Committee recommendation provides $403,413,000 for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research [OAR]. OAR programs provide the 

environmental research and technology needed to improve NOAA 

weather, air quality warnings, forecasts, climate predictions, and 

marine services. To accomplish these goals, OAR supports a network of scientists in its Federal research laboratories, universities, 

and joint institutes and partnership programs. 

Committee recommendations are displayed in the following table: 

OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH OPERATIONS, RESEARCH AND FACILITIES 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

Climate Research: 

Laboratories & Cooperative Institutes ...................................................................................................... 55,576 

Climate Observations & Services ............................................................................................................. 8,299 

Competitive Research Program ................................................................................................................. 134,702 

Climate Operations ................................................................................................................................... 900 

High Performance Computing Initiatives .................................................................................................. 14,028 

Univ. of Tennessee—Atmospheric Science Research, TN ........................................................................ 200 

Total, Climate Research ....................................................................................................................... 213,705 

Weather & Air Quality Research Programs: 

Laboratories & Cooperative Institutes ...................................................................................................... 53,089 

U.S. Weather Research Program ............................................................................................................... 5,500 

Tornado Severe Storm Research/Phased Array Radar .............................................................................. 2,972 

Wind Hazards Reduction Program, IA ....................................................................................................... 850 

Redstone UAS Development for Weather and Atmospheric Research, AL ............................................... 1,000 

Flooding/Storm Surge Disaster Mitigation, MS ......................................................................................... 500 

AIRMAP at Univ. of New Hampshire, NH .................................................................................................. 300 

Coastal and Inland Hurricane Monitoring and Protection Program, AL .................................................. 750 

Tornado and Hurricane Operations and Research, AL ............................................................................. 1,000 

Cooperative Inst. and Research Center for Southeast Weather, AL ........................................................ 1,500 

Total, Weather & Air Quality Research ................................................................................................ 67,461 

Ocean, Coastal & Great Lakes Research: 

Laboratories & Cooperative Institutes ...................................................................................................... 24,806 

National Sea Grant College Program ........................................................................................................ 57,100 

Ocean Exploration & Research ................................................................................................................. 18,591 

NOAA’s Undersea Research Program ........................................................................................................ 9,200 

Aquatic Invasive Species Research .......................................................................................................... 988 

Marine Aquaculture Research ................................................................................................................... 1,622 

National Institute of Undersea Science and Technology, MS .................................................................. 5,000 

National Sea Grant Law Center, MS ......................................................................................................... 750 

Tropical Ecosystem Science and Technology (TEST), MS ......................................................................... 850 

Coastal Vulnerability to Climate Change Study, AK ................................................................................ 940 

New Hampshire Lakes Association Aquatic Weed Control Program, NH ................................................. 100 

Collaborative R&D Initiative for the Gulf of Mexico, AL .......................................................................... 1,000 

Lake Champlain Research Consortium, VT .............................................................................................. 350 

Nanotoxicology: The Biological Response to Nanoparticle Exposure, AL .................................................. 700 
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OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH OPERATIONS, RESEARCH AND FACILITIES—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Lake Champlain Emerging Threats Initiative ........................................................................................... 250 

Total, Ocean, Coastal & Great Lakes Research ................................................................................... 122,247 

GRAND TOTAL, OAR ............................................................................................................................... 403,413 

Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.—Of the funds provided 

for Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes throughout Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Research, the Committee provides additional 

funding for NOAA to further its commitment to NOAA Cooperative 

Institute for the Northern Gulf of Mexico. 

Analysis of Unmanned Aircraft Systems [UAS].—The Committee 

supports NOAA’s efforts to identify new technology platforms for 

studying the Arctic. The Committee directs NOAA to dedicate 

$1,000,000 from within the funds provided for Competitive Research Program for the analysis of arctic UAS data. 

National Sea Grant College Program.—The Committee is aware 

that NOAA is in discussions to create a new stand alone sea grant 

office on the gulf coast. To begin to cover the cost of this new office 

the committee has provided an additional $2,000,000 to support 

this effort. 

Supercomputing.—NOAA has an important responsibility to provide climate observations, research, and operational forecast products to the Nation. As NOAA moves toward establishing a National 

Climate Service, NOAA needs to expand its climate computing capacity to perform critical climate research and issue higher resolution regional climate forecasts. The Committee encourages NOAA 

to expand its partnership with the Department of Energy and the 

National Science Foundation to provide supercomputing capacity to 

help meet these needs. 

NOAA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

The Committee recommendation provides $847,943,000 for the 

NOAA National Weather Service [NWS]. NWS programs provide 

timely and accurate meteorologic, hydrologic, and oceanographic 

warnings and forecasts to ensure the safety of the population, mitigate property losses, and improve the economic productivity of the 

Nation. NWS is also responsible for issuing operational climate 

forecasts for the United States. 

Committee recommendations are displayed in the following table: 

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Observations, Forecasts, and Communications: 

Local Warnings and Forecasts: 

Local Warnings and Forecasts Base ............................................................................................... 601,876 

Air Quality Forecasting ..................................................................................................................... 5,445 

Alaska Data Buoys ........................................................................................................................... 1,683 

Sustain Cooperative Observer Network ............................................................................................ 1,871 
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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

National Mesonet Network ............................................................................................................... 11,000 

NOAA Profiler Network ...................................................................................................................... 4,736 

Pacific Island Compact .................................................................................................................... 3,515 

Strengthen U.S. Tsunami Warning Network ..................................................................................... 23,196 

Susquehanna River Basin Flood Warning System, PA .................................................................... 2,000 

New England Weather Technology Initiative, NH ............................................................................. 200 

Hawaii Rain Gages for NWS Pacific Region HQ, HI ........................................................................ 360 

Western Kentucky Environmental Monitoring Network, KY .............................................................. 700 

Subtotal, Local Warnings and Forecasts .................................................................................... 656,582 

Operations and Research: 

Advanced Hydrological Prediction Services .............................................................................................. 6,037 

Aviation Weather ....................................................................................................................................... 5,253 

WFO Maintenance ...................................................................................................................................... 7,316 

Central Forecast Guidance (includes Hurricane Center) .......................................................................... 68,153 

Joint Center for Hurricane Research, FL ................................................................................................... 250 

Comprehensive Flood Evaluation Study, AL .............................................................................................. 700 

Remote Infrasonic Monitoring of Natural Hazards, MS and HI ............................................................... 1,500 

Regional Ensembling System for Atmospheric Dispersion, MS ................................................................ 1,500 

Subtotal, Operations and Research ..................................................................................................... 90,709 

Total, Observations, Forecasts, and Communications ......................................................................... 747,291 

Systems Operation & Maintenance: 

NEXRAD ..................................................................................................................................................... 45,121 

ASOS .......................................................................................................................................................... 9,657 

Weather Radio Transmitters and Communications .................................................................................. 2,297 

AWIPS ........................................................................................................................................................ 38,065 

NWSTG Backup—CIP ................................................................................................................................ 5,512 

Total, Systems Operation & Maintenance ............................................................................................ 100,652 

GRAND TOTAL NWS ............................................................................................................................... 847,943 

Williston Radar.—The Committee is concerned about radar coverage in the State of North Dakota and directs NOAA to maintain 

staffing and operations at the Williston Radar site through fiscal 

year 2009. 

National Mesonet Network Grants.—Mesonet networks are automated weather stations designed to observe mesoscale phenomena 

such as thunderstorms, dry lines, squall lines, and sea breezes. 

These phenomena can cause weather conditions in a localized area 

to be significantly different from that dictated by the ambient 

large-scale condition. These mesonet observations are critical to understanding the process by which these phenomena form, evolve, 

and dissipate assist meteorologists in understanding them in order 

to improve forecast skill. 

The Committee notes NOAA’s long interest, with support from 

the National Research Council, in the development of a national 

mesonet system that will serve as an integrated surface and atmospheric observing system to improve near- and mid-term weather 

forecasting for all regions of the country. The Committee is aware 

that the National Research Council is nearing completion of a 

study for NOAA, ‘‘Developing Mesoscale Meteorological Observa-
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tional Capabilities to Meet Multiple National Needs’’ which will 

provide a framework for a full scale national mesonet network. 

For this reason the Committee has provided an additional $11,000,000 for NOAA to competitively procure a national mesonet. 

The Committee directs NOAA to utilize $5,000,000 of these funds 

to maintain operations for existing mesonet network observation 

agreements. NOAA may use 10 percent of the funds to develop 

policies for operational and calibration requirements. In addition 

the Committee has provided an additional $1,500,000 within the 

Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction appropriation to support mesonet integration with the Advanced Weather Interactive 

Processing System [AWIPS], as part of the AWIPS Technology Infusion program. 

The Committee expects NOAA to provide a written plan on how 

it will accomplish this program no later than January 2, 2009 after 

enactment. This plan shall include a procurement strategy which 

encompasses a timetable for submission of proposals, as well as 

evaluation and selection criteria. 

NOAA NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE, DATA, AND

INFORMATION SERVICE

The Committee recommendation provides $177,900,000 for National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service 

[NESDIS]. NESDIS programs operate environmental polar-orbiting 

and geostationary satellites and collect and archive global environmental data and information for distribution to users in commerce, 

industry, agriculture, science and engineering, the general public, 

and Federal, State, and local agencies. 

Committee recommendations are displayed in the following table: 

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE, DATA & INFORMATION SERVICE OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, 

AND FACILITIES 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

Environmental Satellite Observing Systems: 

Satellite Command and Control Base ...................................................................................................... 38,729 

NSOF Operations ....................................................................................................................................... 7,652 

Product Processing and Distribution ........................................................................................................ 31,457 

Product Development, Readiness & Application ...................................................................................... 20,415 

Product Development, Readiness & Application (Ocean Remote Sensing) ............................................. 3,930 

Joint Center/Accelerate Use of Satellites .................................................................................................. 3,294 

Commercial Remote Sensing Licensing & Enforcement .......................................................................... 1,285 

Office of Space Commercialization ........................................................................................................... 634 

Group on Earth Observations (GEO) ......................................................................................................... 500 

Ocean Surface Vector Winds Studies ....................................................................................................... 3,000 

Total, Environmental Satellite Observing Systems .............................................................................. 110,896 

Data Centers & Information Services: 

Archive, Access & Assessment ................................................................................................................. 35,526 

KY .............................................................................................................................................................. 1,361 

MD ............................................................................................................................................................. 6,088 

NC .............................................................................................................................................................. 275 

WV ............................................................................................................................................................. 1,434 

Coastal Data Development ....................................................................................................................... 4,559 

Environmental Data Systems Modernization ............................................................................................ 9,511 

Cooperative Institute for Remote Sensing Applications, AL ..................................................................... 1,000 
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NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE, DATA & INFORMATION SERVICE OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, 

AND FACILITIES—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

International Pacific Research Center, HI ................................................................................................ 1,750 

Regional Climate Centers, NE, IL, NY, NC, LA, NV .................................................................................. 3,000 

Integrated Data and Environmental Applications Center, HI ................................................................... 2,500 

Total, NOAA’s Data Centers & Information Services ........................................................................... 67,004 

GRAND TOTAL, NESDIS .......................................................................................................................... 177,900 

NOAA-WIDE PROGRAM SUPPORT

The Committee recommendation provides $426,543,000 for 

NOAA-wide program support. These programs provide for overall 

NOAA management, including staffing of the Under Secretary’s office and services to NOAA and DOC field offices through the regional Administrative Support Centers. These programs also support NOAA’s Education Office consistent with the recommendations of the Ocean Commission. The Facilities subactivity provides 

for repair and maintenance to existing facilities; facilities planning 

and design; and environmental compliance. The Office of Marine 

and Aviation Operations provides aircraft and marine data acquisition, repair, and maintenance of the existing fleet, planning of future modernization, and technical and management support for 

NOAA-wide activities through the NOAA Commissioned Corps. 

Committee recommendations are displayed in the following table: 

PROGRAM SUPPORT OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

Corporate Services: 

Under Secretary and Associate Offices Base ........................................................................................... 28,676 

Facilities .................................................................................................................................................... 24,297 

NOAA Wide Corporate Services & Agency Management ........................................................................... 125,732 

IT Security ................................................................................................................................................. 2,050 

DOC Working Capital Fund ....................................................................................................................... 36,583 

Total, Corporate Services ...................................................................................................................... 217,338 

NOAA Education Program: 

Education Program/Initiative .................................................................................................................... 1,267 

Competitive Educational Grants ............................................................................................................... 3,250 

Educational Partnership Program/Minority Serving Institutions (EPPMSI) ............................................... 15,334 

BWET Regional Programs .......................................................................................................................... 9,700 

Ocean Education Grants ........................................................................................................................... 15,000 

Narragansett Bay Marine Education (Save the Bay), RI .......................................................................... 1,000 

Science Education on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, MS ............................................................. 375 

Hawaii Education Program, HI .................................................................................................................. 1,500 

Base to Campus Conversion, ME ............................................................................................................. 500 

Partnership to Advance Environmental Literacy, NY ................................................................................ 250 

Sea Grant Education Outreach, AL ........................................................................................................... 500 

Total, NOAA Education Program ........................................................................................................... 48,676 

Marine Operations & Maintenance: 

Marine Services ......................................................................................................................................... 113,451 
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PROGRAM SUPPORT OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

Fleet Planning and Maintenance .............................................................................................................. 17,034 

Aviation Services ....................................................................................................................................... 30,044 

Total, Marine Operations & Maintenance ............................................................................................ 160,529 

GRAND TOTAL, PS ................................................................................................................................. 426,543 

NOAA Education Program.—The Committee provides 

$48,676,000 for education programs, $32,148,000 above the budget 

request. The Joint Ocean Commission continues to highlight the 

need for ocean literacy and broaden young people’s awareness of 

ocean issues that affect their daily lives. NOAA has established a 

successful track record of engaging all levels of the education community to send a clear, consistent message on ocean science using 

different media and methods tailored to individual community 

needs. 

Competitive Education Grants.—The Committee directs NOAA to 

fund existing education agreements prior to soliciting additional 

projects. 

Ocean Education.—The Committee remains concerned about 

NOAA’s rate of progress regarding the Joint Ocean Commission 

Initiative, particularly in the area of education. This situation is 

further compounded by the fact that ocean has not been included 

as part of the President’s American Competitiveness Initiative 

[ACI], which aims at funding science to maintain our competitive 

edge. The Committee also believes more needs to be done in the 

area of ocean literacy and the environment, consistent with 

NOAA’s education and conservation mandates of 16 USC 1431 and 

661. Much progress can be made toward these mandates by 

leveraging informal education partnerships regarding the ocean, 

specifically nonprofit aquariums. These partnerships can get children interested in careers in science, the foundation of ACI and a 

strong economy. Traditionally, Federal programs have fallen short 

in effectively providing funds which align to the operations and activities of these important nonprofit institutions. Therefore, the 

Committee has established a grant program focused on aquariums 

in an effort to enhance awareness, improve ocean literacy, and educate the public about the marine environment. 

BWET Regional Programs.—The Committee continues to believe 

in the BWET program and has continued funding for this program. 

The Committee applauds NOAA’s effort to expand this program beyond the original programs in California, Chesapeake Bay, and Hawaii. 

PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $979,207,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 1,238,660,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,258,010,000 
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The Committee recommendation provides $1,258,010,000. The recommendation is $278,803,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $19,350,000 above the budget request. 

The Committee provides funding for congressionally directed 

projects listed within the obligation table for the Procurement, Acquisition and Construction appropriation and directs NOAA to refrain from charging administrative costs to these grants. The Committee expects that NOAA will provide appropriate management 

and oversight of each grant. 

Committee recommendations are displayed in the following table: 

PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

National Ocean Service: 

Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Program (no more than 3 percent admin.) ............................ 15,000 

National Estuarine Research Reserve Construction & Land Acquisition ............................................... 6,890 

Marine Sanctuaries Construction/Acquisition ......................................................................................... 5,495 

Northern Gulf Institute, MS ..................................................................................................................... 4,500 

Dauphin Island East End Coastline Restoration Project, AL ................................................................. 750 

Real Time Satellite Data Receiving Station, DE .................................................................................... 750 

Thunder Bay NMS Exhibit and Telepresence, MI .................................................................................... 500 

Horn Point Laboratory, MD ...................................................................................................................... 2,000 

Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy system (CBIS), MD .......................................................................... 500

Great Bay Partnership, NH ...................................................................................................................... 3,000 

Total, National Ocean Service—PAC ................................................................................................. 39,385 

National Marine Fisheries Service: 

Center for Marine Education and Research, MS .................................................................................... 1,500 

Mississippi Center for Conservation and Biodiversity, MS .................................................................... 1,600 

Center for Aquatic Resource Management, AL ....................................................................................... 1,500 

Total, National Marine Fisheries Service—PAC ................................................................................. 4,600 

Oceanic and Atmospheric Research: 

Research Supercomputing/CCRI ............................................................................................................. 10,379 

Cooperative Institute and Research Center for Southeast Weather, AL ................................................ 4,000 

Pell Library and Undersear Exploration Center—research equipment, RI ............................................ 1,200 

Total, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research—PAC .............................................................................. 15,579

National Weather Service: 

Systems Acquisition: 

ASOS ............................................................................................................................................... 1,635 

AWIPS ............................................................................................................................................. 20,564 

NEXRAD .......................................................................................................................................... 8,376 

NWSTG Legacy Replacement .......................................................................................................... 1,195 

Radiosonde Network Replacement ................................................................................................. 4,014 

Weather and Climate Supercomputing .......................................................................................... 26,169 

Cooperative Observer Network Modernization (NERON) ................................................................. 3,734 

NOAA Profiler Network .................................................................................................................... 11,337 

Complete and Sustain NOAA Weather Radio ................................................................................. 9,730 

Henderson County Weather Sirens, KY .......................................................................................... 110 

NOAA West Coast Doppler Radar, WA ........................................................................................... 2,000 

Subtotal, NWS Systems Acquisition .......................................................................................... 88,804 

Construction: 

WFO Construction ........................................................................................................................... 12,504 

Center for Weather & Climate Prediction (NCWCP) ...................................................................... 4,100 
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PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

Subtotal, NWS Construction ...................................................................................................... 16,604 

Total, National Weather Service—PAC ..................................................................................... 105,408

NESDIS: 

Systems Acquisition & Construction: 

Geostationary Systems (GOES–N) .................................................................................................. 73,263 

Geostationary Systems (GOES–R) .................................................................................................. 477,000 

Polar Orbiting Systems (POES) ...................................................................................................... 65,419 

Polar Orbiting Systems (NPOESS) .................................................................................................. 287,985 

EOS & Advanced Polar Data Processing, Distribution & Archiving Systems ............................... 990 

CIP—single point of failure .......................................................................................................... 2,772 

Comprehensive Large Array Data Stewardship System (CLASS) ................................................... 6,476 

NPOESS Preparatory Data Exploration ........................................................................................... 2,455 

Restoration of Climate Sensors ..................................................................................................... 74,000 

Satellite CDA Facility ..................................................................................................................... 2,228 

Total, NESDIS—PAC ................................................................................................................................ 992,588 

Program Support: 

Construction: 

Pacific Regional Facility ................................................................................................................ 60,250 

Southwest Fisheries Science Center .............................................................................................. 15,000 

Fairbanks, AK, CDA ........................................................................................................................ 11,700 

Fleet Modernization ........................................................................................................................ ............................

Subtotal, Construction ............................................................................................................... 86,950 

OMAO Fleet Replacement: 

FSV Calibration .............................................................................................................................. 1,000 

Hydro Survey Launch Construction ................................................................................................ 2,400 

Vessel Equip. & Tech Refresh ....................................................................................................... 1,000 

Temporary Berthing for HENRY B. BIGELOW ................................................................................. 1,000 

Ship Acquisition, Conversion & Maintenance ................................................................................ 10,040 

Subtotal, OMAO Fleet Replacement ........................................................................................... 15,440 

Total, Program Support—PAC ................................................................................................... 102,390 

Prior Year Recoveries ....................................................................................................................................... (2,000 ) 

GRAND TOTAL, PAC .................................................................................................................... 1,258,010 

Cooperative Weather and Research Center.—The Southeast 

United States experiences more severe weather events, such as 

hurricanes, tornados, lightning, flooding and severe droughts than 

any other region of the country. Unfortunately, NOAA dedicates 

few resources to respond and prepare for the severe weather events 

in this area. Unlike other regions, the Southeast does not possess 

the surveillance, research and forecasting assets to study and predict these events. To begin to remedy this disparity, the Committee 

has provided a total of $5,500,000 ($1,500,000 ORF and $4,000,000 

PAC) for the National Weather Service to build a Cooperative Institute and Research Center for Southeast Weather and Hydrology 

and to begin to develop and acquire dual polar, phased array and 

multi frequency Doppler Radars and passive radiometers to study 

storms, improve rainfall estimates, and to begin to provide the citi-
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zens of the Southeast with state-of-the-art weather research and 

prediction capabilities. 

NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction [NCWCP].— Based on revised information the Committee has fully funded the 

request for the NCWCP building but has shifted $10,000,000 to the 

operations, research, and facilities appropriation to more accurately 

reflect that these funds will be used primarily for rent, operations, 

and security of this facility. 

Satellite Management.— The Committee appreciates the fact that 

NOAA has kept the Committee informed with regular status reports on its two satellite programs. However, the Committee remains concerned with both the GOES–R and NPOESS programs as 

both entering critical phases of their respective developments. In 

addition, there will soon be a void in senior management due to the 

transition to the next administration. The Committee notes that 

the Office of Inspector General’s most recent investigation determined that the Department of Commerce lacks procedures for reporting and approving major deviations from plans. Specifically, 

the Inspector General recommended that the Department establish 

thresholds and procedures for reporting and approving major deviations from GOES–R’s capability, cost, and schedule baseline, as 

well as enhancements to the baseline. The Committee directs 

NOAA and the Department of Commerce to implement this recommendation no later than October 1, 2008. 

GOES–R.—The Committee has adopted by reference the congressional reporting requirements that were included as a Department 

of Commerce general provision in the Consolidated Appropriations 

Act of 2008. 

Commercial Satellite Data.—The Committee commends NOAA 

for its recent innovative and progressive actions to promote development of commercial sources of weather and climate change information. NOAA issued a formal solicitation in December 2007 entitled ‘‘Commercial Solutions to meet space-based Earth and space 

weather requirements of the United States Government.’’ This was 

followed by an Industry Day in January 2008 entitled ‘‘Seeking 

Commercial Capabilities to Address U.S. Government Requirements for Satellite-based Observations.’’ The Committee agrees 

that NOAA should provide incentives and commitments to commercial entities that can provide weather and climate change data as 

a supplement to NOAA’s two core satellite systems. The Committee 

recognizes that such commercial sources may be low-cost alternatives to traditional Government satellites. The Committee directs 

the NOAA to provide a report to the Committee no later than 120 

days after enactment on actions that can be taken to obtain space 

based environmental information from commercial sources. The report should identify commercial sources of data and what specific 

actions NOAA will take to facilitate purchasing commercial environmental measurements through purchase commitments or other 

contracting incentives. 

Fuel Costs.—The Committee is aware the record fuel costs are severely restricting NOAA’s ability to conduct fishery surveys. As 

such the Committee has provided an additional $3,940,000 in ‘‘Ship 

Acquisition, Conversion, and Maintenance’’ to address this pressing 

need. 
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PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY FUND

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $67,000,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 35,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 90,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $90,000,000 for the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund. The recommendation is 

$23,000,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level and 

$55,000,000 above the budget request. 

DISASTER MITIGATION FUND

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. ........................... 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... ........................... 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. $50,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $50,000,000 to help alleviate the economic impacts associated with commercial fishery 

failures, fishery resource disasters, and State and Federal regulations. The Committee is aware of multiple requests for fishery assistance. Specifically, the Committee is aware of costs associated 

with reductions in fishing capacity in New England, costs associated with gear modifications to protect endangered species, as well 

as declared and pending disasters for west coast salmon, Chesapeake Bay blue crab, and gulf coast oysters. The Committee directs 

the Secretary of Commerce to provide the Committee with a spend 

plan for the allocation of these funds no later than 45 days after 

enactment. 

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT FUND

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $3,000,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 3,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 3,000,000 

The recommendation includes requested language allowing not to 

exceed $3,000,000 collected pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act to be transferred to the ‘‘Operations, Research and Facilities’’ account to offset the costs of implementing that act. 

FISHERIES FINANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $6,000,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 1,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 4,000,000 

Language is included that is identical to previous years. 

OTHER 

DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $44,294,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 61,083,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 44,083,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $44,083,000 for Departmental Management Salaries and Expenses. The recommendation is $211,000 below the fiscal year 2008 enacted level and 

$17,000,000 below the budget request. 
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Within Departmental Management, the Salaries and Expenses 

account provides funding for the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and 

support staff. Responsibilities involve policy development and implementation affecting United States and international activities, 

as well as, establishing internal goals and operations of the Department. 

Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program.—The Committee disagrees with the administration’s proposed cancellation of the remaining unobligated subsidy balances associated with the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program, and finds that funds available under section 101(f) of the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee 

Act of 1999, as well as funds for salaries and administrative expenses needed to administer the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee 

Program, that shall remain available until expended. 

HCHB RENOVATION AND MODERNIZATION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $3,722,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 7,367,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 7,367,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $7,367,000, which is 

$3,645,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level and the same 

as the budget request for the HCHB Renovation. 

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $22,020,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 24,766,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 24,766,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $24,766,000. The recommendation is $2,746,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and the same as the budget request. 

NATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW ENFORCEMENT

COORDINATION COUNCIL

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. ........................... 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... $1,021,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. ........................... 

The Committee recommendation provides for funding for the National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council 

through a transfer from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 

GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Section 101 makes Commerce Department funds available for advanced payments only upon certification of officials designated by 

the Secretary that such payments are considered to be in the public 

interest. 

Section 102 makes appropriations for salaries and expenses 

available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles, and for services, 

uniforms, and allowances as authorized by law. 

Section 103 provides the authority to transfer funds between Department of Commerce accounts and within NOAA appropriations. 

The provision makes transfers subject to the Committee’s standard 

reprogramming procedures. 
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Section 104 provides that any cost resulting from personnel actions shall be absorbed by the affected Department or Agency. 

Section 105 prohibits the use of any appropriated funds to trademark the phrase ‘‘Last Best Place’’. 

Section 106 authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to prescribe 

and enforce standards or regulations affecting safety and health in 

the context of scientific and occupational diving within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 

Section 107 provides authority for the Secretary of Commerce 

and Bureaus to collect and retain conference fees. 

Section 108 extends Congressional notification requirements for 

GOES–R Satellite program. 

Section 109 provides authority for the Secretary of Commerce to 

furnish certain services within the Herbert C. Hoover Building. 

Section 110 transfers prior year funding from the Fisheries Finance Program into NOAA Operations, Research, and Facilities 

Appropriation. 

Section 111 amends the Pacific Salmon Treaty Act. 

Section 112 provides authority for Secretary of Commerce to negotiate or reevaluate international agreements related to fisheries, 

marine mammals, or sea turtles. 
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TITLE II 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

The Committee recommends a total of $25,778,555,000 for the 

Department of Justice [DOJ]. The recommendation is 

$2,186,639,000 above the fiscal year 2008 funding level, excluding 

emergency supplemental appropriations, and $2,689,640,000 above 

the budget request. 

The Committee views the continual proposed elimination of critical State and local law programs as misguided and irresponsible. 

State and local law enforcement must have the resources necessary 

to fight crime and assist the Federal Government in the global war 

on terror. Repeated elimination of these important funds calls into 

question the Department’s commitment to remain the Nation’s premier law enforcement agency. 

Language is not included to rescind balances from the Crime Victims Fund, as requested by the administration. 

The Committee rejects the administration’s request to transfer 

the responsibilities of the Office of Government Information Services [OGIS] to the Department of Justice. This proposal contravenes the OPEN Government Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–175). 

This law made significant overhauls to the Freedom of Information 

Act [FOIA] to ensure openness in government. The OPEN Government Act requires that the Office of Government Information Services be located in the National Archives and Records Administration and this request contradicts this legislation. 

Tribal Government Funding.—The Committee rejects the administration’s proposal to discontinue specific set-asides for tribal 

COPS, correctional facility construction, tribal courts, and juvenile 

justice programs. The Department of Justice programs that have 

operated in past years are an essential part of the public safety 

and justice regimes in Indian Country. The Committee is concerned 

that the changes proposed to these programs by the administration 

if implemented would significantly affect the administration of justice in Indian communities. 

For the past several years, tribal leaders from across the country 

have made public safety and justice in Indian country a top priority, and have urged that adequate funding be provided for law 

enforcement officers, strong judicial systems, and detention facilities construction and staffing. The Committee is not aware that the 

Department of Justice consulted with tribal governments on this 

proposal which would essentially require tribal law enforcement 

agencies to compete for funding with State and local law enforcement agencies. 

Agent Benefits.—The Committee is concerned with the Department of Justice’s neglect to address danger pay and equalize virtue 

of locality pay for Foreign Service employees that put their lives on 
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the line every day to protect American citizens. The Committee 

strongly believes that DOJ employees serving abroad in appropriately designated areas should receive the same pay, benefits, 

and compensation as other Foreign Service employees from other 

agencies. The Committee is also concerned about the continuing 

failure by the Department to address the practice of penalizing employees stationed abroad by denying them locality pay. This denial 

not only affects their paychecks but has long term negative consequences on their retirement calculations. The Committee directs 

the Department to address this and any other potentially related 

compensatory concerns immediately, and to submit a report to the 

Senate Committee on Appropriations no later than 90 days after 

the enactment of this bill which details what the Department has 

done to address this inequity. 

The Committee is disappointed that the budget for the Department of Justice [DOJ] fails to articulate the resource requirements 

of other agency and Department activities on DOJ. The Committee 

requests the Government Accountability Office to assess the ability 

of the executive branch to develop reliable cost models that more 

accurately predict Department of Justice resource requirements resulting from planned activities and statutory requirements of other 

Departments and Agencies. 

The Committee requests that the Government Accountability Office review the costs to operate the Department of Justice’s data 

centers from fiscal year 2006 through fiscal year 2008, and report 

its finding to the Committee no later than May 31, 2009. 

United Financial Management System.—The Committee is extremely disappointed in the Department’s inability to request appropriated funds for the Unified Financial Management System 

[UFMS] and instead has relied on excess taxes of the bureaus’ 

operational appropriations accounts. If the Department believes 

that this system is a priority, it needs to send a budget amendment 

for fiscal year 2009 budget with appropriate offsets. If the Department continues to rely on these types of budget gimmicks in the 

future, the Committee will have no choice but to rescind the Department’s authority to tax the law enforcement entities for which 

it has responsibility. 

Budget Restructuring Proposals.—The Committee remains concerned with the Department’s repeated proposal to consolidate existing decision-units. All accounts within the DOJ, therefore, shall 

continue to use the fiscal year 2008 decision-units and account 

structures, unless otherwise specified in prior years or in the following recommendation. 

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $97,832,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 105,805,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 85,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $85,000,000. The recommendation is $12,832,000 below the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $20,805,000 below the budget request. 
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The ‘‘General Administration’’ account provides funding for senior policy officials responsible for Departmental management and 

policy development. The specific offices funded by this account include: the immediate Office of the Attorney General; the immediate 

Office of the Deputy Attorney General; the immediate Office of the 

Associate Attorney General; Office of Legal Policy; Office of Public 

Affairs; Office of Legislative Affairs; Office of Professional Responsibility; Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison; and the 

Justice Management Division. 

The following table compares the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

to the fiscal year 2009 budget estimate and the Committee’s recommendation for each office: 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Fiscal year 2008 

enacted 

Fiscal year 2009 

committee 

recommendation 

Departmental Leadership: 

Attorney General ......................................................................................................... $5,260 5,000 

Deputy Attorney General ............................................................................................ 4,814 3,164 

Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties ......................................................................... 380 400 

Associate Attorney General ........................................................................................ 1,767 1,836 

Subtotal ................................................................................................................. 12,221 10,000 

Intergovernmental Relations and External Affairs: 

Public Affairs ............................................................................................................. 2,858 2,968 

Legislative Affairs ...................................................................................................... 3,598 3,734 

Intergovernmental and Public Liaison ....................................................................... 927 962 

Subtotal ................................................................................................................. 7,383 7,664 

Executive Support and Professional Responsibility: 

Legal Policy ................................................................................................................ 5,601 5,812 

Professional Responsibility ........................................................................................ 5,801 6,020 

Subtotal ................................................................................................................. 11,402 11,832 

Justice Management Division ............................................................................................. 66,826 55,404 

Total ....................................................................................................................... 97,832 85,000 

Supporting Law Enforcement.—The Committee notes the Department’s continual failures in fighting to protect the jurisdictions of 

its law enforcement entities. Not only has the Department lost 

every battle with the Office of Management and Budget over funding for the FBI, BOP, USMS, ATF, DEA, and the Detention Trustee, but it is now ceding its responsibilities in the interagency clearance process to allow other agencies to duplicate its statutory responsibilities. Under this lack of leadership, bureaucrats don’t suffer—agents, guards, inspectors and those working in the field bear 

the brunt of this incompetence. This sophistry is not only contributing to the demise and undermining the foundations of the agencies under the Department’s jurisdiction, but it is jeopardizing the 

safety of the American people. If funding is to continue for the General Administration of the Department of Justice, the Committee 

expects its leadership to vigorously support the law enforcement 

entities for which it is responsible. 
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National Drug Intelligence Center [NDIC].—The Committee does 

not agree to provide $19,500,000 to the Department of Justice for 

the NDIC; this Center is outside of the subcommittee’s jurisdiction. 

Departmental Offices.—The Committee has established specific 

limitations for each individual program and policy within the Departmental Offices. The accompanying bill includes a provision authorizing a cumulative total of transfers of up to 5 percent between 

each activity (Departmental Leadership; Intergovernmental/External Affairs; Executive Support/Professional Responsibility; and Justice Management Division) and after 5 percent, the Department 

shall seek prior approval from the Senate Committee on Appropriations. 

JUSTICE INFORMATION SHARING TECHNOLOGY

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $85,540,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 93,868,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 86,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $86,000,000. The rec- ommendation is $460,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and $7,868,000 below the budget request. 

The Justice Information Sharing Technology [JIST] account provides increased control to the Department Chief Information Officer [DCIO] to ensure that investments in information technology 

[IT] are well planned and aligned with the Department’s overall IT 

strategy and enterprise architecture. JIST helps ensure that all 

DOJ components build systems that are interoperable with shared 

components and not stove-piped systems that become obsolete once 

operational. The Committee is supportive of IT enhancements and 

the creation of systems that work across agencies and Departments. 

TACTICAL LAW ENFORCEMENT WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $74,260,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 121,651,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 121,651,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $121,651,000. The rec- ommendation is $47,391,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and the same as the budget request. 

This account centrally funds development, acquisition, deployment, operation and maintenance of the Justice Department’s 

narrowband wireless communications network. 

The Committee supports the President’s request of $25,000,000 

within this account for the Integrated Wireless Network [IWN]. 

The Committee is concerned that the tactical radio communications 

systems of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives [ATF], Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], and United States Marshals Service 

[USMS] are obsolete and close to failure. IWN is a critical modernization effort for reliable, secure communications capability for 

handheld radios, surveillance equipment, and airborne operations 

that will help law enforcement agencies in their fight against drug 

crimes, violent crimes and terrorist cells. The administration, however, had failed to request adequate resources for this program, 

which is estimated at over $1,200,000,000 over 6 years. The Com-
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mittee requests that the Government Accountability Office [GAO] 

conduct a study that reviews: (1) the cost estimate and multi-year 

deployment plan for this program; and (2) an evaluation of the cost 

savings of such an integrated system as compared to legacy radio 

systems at the Department of Justice. Further, should additional 

funding be required for IWN in fiscal year 2009, the Committee 

will consider a reprogramming within existing resources, consistent 

with section 505 of this act. 

The Committee supports the broadest possible use of IWN across 

law enforcement agencies. However, the Department does not have 

the budgetary resources to fund other agencies use of the network. 

Should other agencies choose to use the network, they should assume the full cost of their participation. The Committee directs $500,000 to Washington State Patrol to 

complete the IWN site at Mount Sumas, Washington. 

ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND APPEALS

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $240,649,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 263,791,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 268,791,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $268,791,000. The rec- ommendation is $28,142,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $5,000,000 above the budget request. 

The Executive Office for Immigration Review includes the Board 

of Immigration Appeals, immigration judges, and administrative 

law judges who decide through administrative hearings whether to 

admit or exclude aliens seeking to enter the country, and whether 

to deport or adjust the status of aliens whose status has been challenged. This account also funds the Office of the Pardon Attorney 

which receives, investigates, and considers petitions for all forms of 

executive clemency. The Committee recommends an additional $5,000,000 above the 

budget request for the Executive Office for Immigration Review. 

The Committee is concerned about the growing immigration problem and the Executive Office of Immigration Review’s [EOIR] ability to handle increasing caseloads and have provided additional 

funds to address rising backlogs. The Committee urges the Department to work with EOIR in developing a strategic plan for expansion, which shall be submitted to the Committee on Appropriations 

within 90 days of enactment. 

The Committee is concerned that the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s has delayed implementation of its 22 new Measures to Improve the Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals unveiled in 2007, which were mandated by the former 

Attorney General on January 9, 2006. The Committee therefore directs the agency to report within 30 days of enactment of all steps 

taken to fully, effectively and efficiently implement these measures 

including a timeline for implementation. 

In addition, the Committee provides $4,000,000 for Legal Services Orientation Program [LOP]. The Committee is disappointed 

that the Department of Justice failed to request funding for this 

important program in their budget request. The EOIR created the 

Legal Orientation Program in March 2003 but have never requested direct funding to run this program and instead have relied 
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on Department of Homeland Security to fund the program. Congress explicitly stated in 2007 that they expected the Department 

of Justice to fund this program and not the Department of Homeland Security. The Committee encourages the Department of Justice to include the LOP in any future budget requests submitted to 

Congress. 

The LOP program informs detained aliens in immigration removal proceedings about the immigration court process, how to obtain legal representation or represent themselves and how to determine if they are eligible for any immigration relief or expedite the 

removal process. 

A 2008 study conducted by the Vera Institute found that the 

LOP participants move an average of 13 days faster through immigration court, were more likely to appear for court hearings than 

those who do not participate in the program and that the LOP increases immigration court efficiency. 

DETENTION TRUSTEE

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $1,225,920,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 1,295,319,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,295,319,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $1,295,319,000. The 

recommendation is $69,399,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and the same as the budget request. 

The Office of the Federal Detention Trustee account provides 

oversight of detention management, and improvement and coordination of detention activities to ensure that Federal agencies involved in detention provide for the safe, secure, and humane confinement of persons in the custody of the United States. 

The Committee is concerned about the Department’s ability to 

anticipate the true funding needs for this account, particularly due 

to requirements associated with increased immigration enforcement efforts. The Committee will consider the use of existing resources should additional funding be required, subject to section 

505 of this act. 

The Committee is concerned that the Department of Justice’s 

prisoner reimbursement agreement with the District of Columbia is 

not consistent with requirements set forth in the National Capital 

Revitalization Act of 1997. The Committee urges the Department 

to work with the District of Columbia to review and update the reimbursement agreement consistent with this act. Should a new 

agreement require additional budgetary resources, the Committee 

would expect a either a budget amendment or a reprogramming request to be submitted consistent with section 505 of this act. 

The Committee directs the Detention Trustee to report to the 

Committee on a quarterly basis the number of individuals in the 

detention trustee system, the projected number of individuals, and 

the annualized costs that are associated with them. 

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $70,603,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 75,681,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 75,681,000 
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The Committee recommendation provides $75,681,000. The rec- ommendation is $5,078,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and the same as the budget request. 

This account finances the activities of the Office of Inspector 

General [IG] including audits, inspections, investigations and other 

reviews of programs and operations of the Department of Justice 

to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness and to prevent 

and detect fraud, waste, and abuse, as well as violations of ethical 

standards arising from the conduct of Department employees in 

their numerous and diverse activities. 

The Committee continues to strongly support the IG’s review of 

investigative tools used by the Department of Justice, including 

National Security Letters and USA PATRIOT Act section 215 business orders. In addition, the Committee supports the IG’s ongoing 

review of major information technology acquisitions, such as the 

FBI’s Sentinel case management system. 

UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $11,462,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 12,570,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 12,570,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $12,570,000. The rec- ommendation is $1,108,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and equal to the budget request. 

The Commission is an independent body within the Department 

of Justice which makes decisions regarding requests for parole and 

supervision of Federal prisoners. 

LEGAL ACTIVITIES

GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $745,549,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 804,007,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 804,007,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $804,007,000. The rec- ommendation is $58,458,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and the same as the budget request. 

This appropriation funds the establishment of litigation policy, 

conduct of litigation, and various other legal responsibilities, 

through the Office of the Solicitor General, the Tax Division, the 

Criminal Division, the Civil Division, the Environmental and Natural Resources Division, the Civil Rights Division, the Office of 

Legal Counsel, and Interpol. 

The Committee remains concerned DOJ is not requesting enough 

resources to keep litigation costs on pace with DHS enforcement activities. 

The Committee is concerned by the large number of suspected 

human rights violators from foreign countries who have found safe 

haven in the United States and directs the Criminal Division to in-
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crease efforts to investigate and prosecute serious human rights 

crimes committed by these foreign nationals, including genocide, 

torture and war crimes and other offenses committed by serious 

human rights violators. Within available funds, the Committee directs that $1,800,000 be allocated for an additional 10 attorneys, 

six analysts and associated support personnel in the Criminal Division to investigate and prosecute individuals who violate the Federal laws on serious human rights crimes, including but not limited 

to criminal statutes on genocide, torture and war crimes. 

The Committee recommendations, by Division, are displayed in 

the following table: 

LEGAL DIVISIONS 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

Office of the Solicitor General ........................................................................................................................... 10,440 

Tax Division ........................................................................................................................................................ 101,016 

Criminal Division ................................................................................................................................................ 164,061 

Civil Division ...................................................................................................................................................... 270,431 

Environment and Natural Resources Division ................................................................................................... 103,093 

Office of Legal Counsel ..................................................................................................................................... 6,693 

Civil Rights Division .......................................................................................................................................... 123,151 

Interpol USNCB ................................................................................................................................................... 24,548 

Office of Dispute Resolution .............................................................................................................................. 574 

Total ...................................................................................................................................................... 804,007 

THE NATIONAL CHILDHOOD VACCINE INJURY ACT

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $6,833,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 7,833,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 7,833,000 

The Committee recommendation provides a reimbursement of 

$7,833,000 for legal costs. The recommendation is $1,000,000 above 

the fiscal year 2008 enacted level and equal to the budget request. 

This account covers Justice Department expenses associated with 

litigating cases under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 

1986 (Public Law 99–660). 

ANTITRUST DIVISION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $147,819,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 150,591,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 150,591,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $150,591,000. The recommendation is $2,772,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and equal to the budget request. 

The Antitrust Division investigates potential violations of Federal antitrust laws, represents the interests of the United States in 

cases brought under these laws, acts on antitrust cases before the 

Supreme Court, and reviews decisions of regulatory commissions 

relating to antitrust law. 
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UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $1,754,822,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 1,831,336,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,831,336,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $1,831,336,000. The recommendation is $76,514,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and equal to the budget request. 

This account supports the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys 

and the 94 U.S. Attorneys headquarters offices throughout the 

United States and its territories. The U.S. Attorneys [USAs] serve 

as the principal litigators for the U.S. Government for criminal and 

civil matters. As in past years, the Committee directs the U.S. Attorneys to focus their efforts on those crimes where the unique resources, expertise, or jurisdiction of the Federal Government can be 

most effective. The Committee expects that the resources provided 

be directed to the highest priorities of the USAs. 

UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $209,763,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 217,416,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 217,416,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $217,416,000. The rec- ommendation is $7,653,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and equal to the budget request. 

The United States Trustee Program, authorized by 28 U.S.C. 581 

et seq., is the component of the Justice Department with responsibility for protecting the integrity of the bankruptcy system by overseeing case administration and litigation to enforce the bankruptcy 

laws. In fiscal year 2009, the U.S. Trustee Program will participate 

in an estimated 1.5 million business and consumer bankruptcy case 

filings. To carry out its duties in these cases under the Bankruptcy 

Code (title 11) and title 28 of the United States Code, the U.S. 

Trustee Program is organized into three levels: the Executive Office 

for United States Trustees in Washington, DC; United States 

Trustees in 21 regions whose geographic jurisdiction is established 

by statute; and 95 field offices, which cover 150 court sites and 280 

other administrative hearing locations. 

The Committee continues to support the use of data-enabled 

forms, or ‘‘smart forms’’ for filing bankruptcy petitions and schedules. The data-enabled technology was developed jointly by the 

United States Trustee Program and the Administrative Office of 

the Courts [AOUSC]. The Committee supports the mandatory use 

of smart forms to further improve efficiencies in the bankruptcy 

system. 

The Committee notes that the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held four hearings during the 110th Congress, revealing a 

longstanding public safety crisis on many reservations. One source 

of the problem is that Federal laws limit the ability of tribal governments to fight crime in their communities. Federal laws and 

court decisions limit tribal police arrest authority, prohibit tribal 

courts from trying non-Indians for reservation-based crimes, and 

limit tribal court sentencing authority to 1 year imprisonment. As 
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a result, tribal communities rely solely on the United States to investigate and prosecute misdemeanors involving non-Indians and 

all felonies committed on Indian lands. 

Despite this reliance, Department of Justice data shows a 27 percent decline in FBI investigative activity on Indian lands in the 

past decade, and Federal Indian country prosecutions have fallen 

2 percent in the past 5 years. Over the past 10 years, U.S. attorneys have declined to prosecute approximately 62 percent of felony 

Indian country cases nationally. 

To address the public safety crisis in Indian country, the Committee urges the Department to provide additional FBI agents and 

Assistant U.S. Attorneys to investigate and prosecute violent reservation crimes. The Committee also urges the Attorney General to 

appoint tribal prosecutors and other experts in Federal Indian law 

to serve as Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys to prosecute reservation crimes. 

FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $1,606,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 1,823,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,823,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $1,823,000. The recommendation is $217,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and equal to the budget request. The recommendation fully provides for the adjudication of claims against: Germany relating to 

World War II; Cuba relating to the Castro regime; and Iraq relating to the U.S.S. Stark incident and Desert Shield/Storm. 

The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission settles claims of 

American citizens arising from nationalization, expropriation, or 

other takings of their properties and interests by foreign governments. 

FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $168,300,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 168,300,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 168,300,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $168,300,000. The recommendation is equal to the fiscal year 2008 enacted level and to 

the budget request. 

This account provides for fees and expenses of witnesses who appear on behalf of the Government in cases in which the United 

States is a party, including fact and expert witnesses. These funds 

are also used for mental competency examinations as well as witness and informant protection. 

COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $9,794,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 9,873,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 9,873,000 
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The Committee recommendation provides $9,873,000. The rec- ommendation is $79,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and commensurate with the budget request. 

The Community Relations Service provides assistance to communities and persons in the prevention and resolution of disagreements relating to perceived discriminatory practices. The Attorney 

General may submit a reprogramming to the Committee for additional funding for conflict resolution and violence prevention activities of the Community Relations Service in accordance with reprogramming guidelines contained within this act. 

ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $20,990,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 20,990,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 20,990,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $20,990,000. The recommendation is the same as the fiscal year 2008 enacted level and 

to the budget request. 

This account provides funds to supplement existing resources to 

cover additional investigative expenses of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, and U.S. Marshals 

Service, such as awards for information, purchase of evidence, 

equipping of conveyances, and investigative expenses leading to 

seizure. Funds for these activities are provided from receipts deposited in the Assets Forfeiture Fund resulting from the seizure and 

liquidation of assets. Expenses related to the management and disposal of assets are also provided from the Assets Forfeiture Fund 

by a permanent indefinite appropriation. 

UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $864,219,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 933,117,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 968,117,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $968,117,000. The rec- ommendation is $101,594,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level, and $35,000,000 above the budget request. 

The core missions of the USMS include the apprehension of fugitives, protection of the Federal judiciary, protection of witnesses, 

execution of warrants and court orders, and the custody and transportation of accused and unsentenced prisoners. 

Judicial and Courthouse Security.—The Committee recommends 

an appropriation of $377,811,000 for judicial and courthouse security. The recommendation is $20,469,000 above the fiscal year 2008 

funding level and identical to the budget request. 

Southwest Border.—The Committee’s recommendation provides $12,746,000 and 52 Deputy U.S. Marshals, as requested by the 

President to address the increasing workload along the Southwest 

border. Additional Border Patrol agents have led to an inevitable 

increase in illegal immigrant arrests which in turn has increased 

the number of prisoners produced for Federal court proceedings. 

Deputy U.S. Marshals are under tremendous strain to protect Federal judges and prosecutors, transport prisoners, and secure cell-
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block operations. The Committee wishes to be kept informed of resource requirements of the USMS due to increased immigration enforcement activities. 

Regional Fugitive Task Forces.—The Committee recommendation 

provides $31,952,000 for existing regional fugitive task forces to include $14,585,000 for payroll expenses and, $17,367,000 for the 

day-to-day operating expenses for the six regional task forces. 

The Committee recommends an additional $10,000,000 above the 

budget request to establish new, or expand existing, regional fugitive task forces. Distribution of these resources should be based on 

the fugitive workload, giving emphasis to the workload created by 

the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. Funding covers 

the cost of new Deputy U.S. Marshals, computer specialists, intelligence analysts, and administrative support positions, as well as 

the costs for facilities, information technology, communications, tactical gear, vehicles, and other start up costs. 

Sexual Offender Apprehension.—The Committee recommendation 

provides $25,000,000 for the USMS to enhance the USMS’s ability 

to carry out its responsibilities to implement and enforce the Adam 

Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act (Public Law 109–248). The 

Committee is deeply concerned that the administration has failed 

to request resources to carry out this act. To fulfill its Adam Walsh 

Act responsibilities, the United States Marshals Service requires 

funding to hire and equip at least 500 new Deputy Marshals over 

the next 3 to 5 years. The Committee recommendation will enable 

the USMS to hire at least 100 additional Deputy U.S. Marshals 

and associated support staff in fiscal year 2009. This funding will 

also help establish the National Sex Offender Targeting Center, 

improve the information technology backbone, and reinforce the 

agency’s infrastructure so that Deputy Marshals have timely, accurate investigative information to track down and arrest those who 

prey on our Nation’s children. 

The recommendation includes $2,304,000 for construction in 

space controlled, occupied, or utilized by the USMS in United 

States courthouses and Federal buildings, including but not limited 

to the creation, renovation, and expansion of prisoner movement 

areas, elevators, and other law enforcement and court security support space. As in prior years, the Committee’s intent is to provide 

for all construction activity to support the mission of the USMS in 

protection of the Federal judiciary and other law enforcement activities. 

The Committee is aware of the U.S. Marshals’ efforts to pilot 

state-of-the-art detection capabilities at multiple high-threat courthouses around the country and applauds the agency’s plans to enhance courthouse security by acquiring proven equipment, training, 

and procedures to facilitate the screening and detection of evolving 

threats. Accordingly, the Committee recommendation envisions an 

aggressive schedule for rollout of detection technologies at pilot 

sites and the subsequent fielding of detection systems if the pilot 

evaluations meet the Marshals’ expectations. Special consideration 

should be given to those technologies that have been deployed and 

proven effective by other agencies, such as the Transportation Security Administration. 
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NATIONAL SECURITY DIVISION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $73,373,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 83,789,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 83,789,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $83,789,000. The rec- ommendation is $10,416,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and equal to the budget request. 

The National Security Division [NSD] coordinates the Department’s national security and terrorism missions through law enforcement investigations and prosecutions, and handling counterespionage cases. The NSD works in coordination with the FBI, the 

Intelligence Community, and U.S. Attorneys. Its primary function 

is to prevent acts of terrorism and espionage from being perpetrated in the United States by foreign powers. 

INTERAGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT

INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $497,935,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 531,581,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 511,741,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $511,741,000. The rec- ommendation is $13,806,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $19,840,000 below the budget request. 

The Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement Account funds the 

Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Forces [OCDETF]. 

This program was created in 1982 to ensure a coordinated, multiagency approach to identifying, disrupting and dismantling those 

drug trafficking and money laundering organizations primarily responsible for the Nation’s illicit drug supply. Through its nine regional task forces, this program utilizes the seven Federal law enforcement agencies to target major drug trafficking organizations 

and their financial infrastructure. This account also funds the 

OCDETF Fusion Center [OFC], an operational intelligence center 

combining the analytical resources and intelligence information of 

the OCDETF member agencies and others. 

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $6,493,489,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 7,065,140,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 7,085,140,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $7,085,140,000. The 

recommendation is $591,651,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $20,000,000 above the budget request. 

Five-Year Budget.—The Committee understands that the FBI’s 

fiscal year 2009 budget request was originally formulated under a 

5-year budget development process, but is concerned that it was 

not adopted by the administration. Implementation of a multi-year 

budget planning approach has been urged by the Committee in the 

past, as well as various external review groups, such as the Na-
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tional Academy for Public Administration. This approach will also 

allow the FBI to better participate in the Intelligence Community 

budget process. The Committee encourages the FBI to continue 

pursuing the 5-year budget with the administration. 

Cyber Initiative.—The Committee is concerned that the threat of 

cyber-related foreign intelligence operations to the United States is 

rapidly expanding. These cyber intrusions present a national security threat and have compromised thousands of computers on U.S. 

Government and private sector networks. The FBI is in a unique 

position to counter cyber threats as the only agency with the statutory authority, expertise, and ability to combine counterterrorism, 

counterintelligence, and criminal resources to neutralize, mitigate, 

and disrupt illegal computer-supported operations domestically. 

The Committee recognizes the FBI’s efforts and recommends the 

full request of $75,000,000 for this effort, which includes an additional 211 positions and $38,648,000 to further the FBI’s investigatory, intelligence gathering, and technological capabilities. 

Work Force Study.—The Committee is extremely disappointed 

that the FBI failed to comply with a requirement to complete a 

workforce study within 60 days of enactment of the fiscal year 2008 

act. As of June 2008, over 160 days after enactment of the fiscal 

year 2008 act, the Committee had not yet received this study. The 

Committee directs the FBI to provide this study immediately and 

provide the Committee with information on the cause of the unacceptable delay in fulfilling this reporting requirement. 

Workforce Distribution.—The Committee notes that the FBI’s 

staffing levels have increased since 2001 and will increase again in 

fiscal year 2009. While the FBI has undergone a major reorganization of its mission priorities, the Committee is concerned that the 

Bureau has not adequately considered the proper distribution of its 

staffing to field offices around the country. As a result, staffing levels continue to vary dramatically from State to State, both in terms 

of the population of a State and the threats that exist within that 

State. As the FBI considers the distribution of new agents across 

the United States, the Committee encourages the FBI to also consider the allocation of agents to field offices that could alleviate disparities in the number of personnel between field offices. 

National Security.—The Committee recommends the full request 

to support the FBI’s critical national security efforts to conduct investigations to prevent, disrupt and deter acts of terrorism, and 

continue to strengthen working relationships with other Federal, 

State and local partners. The Committee recommendation includes 

$3,385,350,000 in base funding and $369,635,000 in enhancements 

for national security initiatives, including $235,483,000 for domain 

and operations, $88,502,000 for surveillance, $5,500,000 for technology, and $40,150,000 for to build partnerships and strengthen 

the FBI workforce. 

Criminal Justice Information Services Division.—The Committee 

recommendation provides $558,000,000 including fee collections for 

the Criminal Justice Information Services Division [CJIS], including $307,000,000 in appropriated funds and $251,000,000 in user 

fees. As in previous years, under no circumstances is the FBI to divert funding collected through the CJIS user fee for any purpose 
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other than CJIS, its refreshment plan, or a subsequent modernization plan for the current facility. 

The Committee is concerned by the large number of suspected 

human rights violators from foreign countries who have found safe 

haven in the United States and directs the FBI to increase efforts 

to investigate and support the criminal prosecution by the Department of Justice of serious human rights crimes committed by these 

foreign nationals, including genocide, torture, war crimes and other 

offenses committed by serious human rights violators. The Committee recommends, within available funds, $1,500,000 for an additional ten agents and associated support personnel at FBI headquarters to detect, investigate, and support the criminal prosecution of individuals who violate the Federal laws on serious human 

rights crimes, including but not limited to criminal statutes on 

genocide, torture and war crimes. 

FBI Headquarters Building.—The Committee is concerned that 

the limitations of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which has not had 

any major structural improvements since it was opened in 1974, 

could affect the FBI’s ability to fulfill its mission. The building is 

inadequate for the current FBI Headquarters workforce, causing 

dispersal of FBI staff in to over 16 annex offices. The building also 

lacks adequate setback and other security features, which puts FBI 

operations and personnel at unacceptable risk. The Hoover Building does not meet the Interagency Security Committee’s criteria for 

a secure Federal facility capable of handling intelligence and other 

sensitive information. The Committee finds these conditions unacceptable and directs the Government Accountability Office [GAO] 

to review the Hoover Building and associated off-site locations, and 

provide a analysis of the FBI’s ability to fulfill its mission and security requirements under the present circumstances. The GAO study 

should also assess the benefits of a consolidated Headquarters facility. 

Critical Infrastructure.—The Committee is concerned that insufficient operations practices and substandard maintenance could result in systems failures and the unavailability of time-sensitive 

data to agents in the field. The Committee urges the Department 

of Justice to maintain and operate its critical facilities and physical 

infrastructure at the highest standard, consistent with industry 

best practices, to ensure that these systems can perform critical 

functions for the FBI. 

Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement.—Within funds provided, the Committee urges that the FBI to continue to make the 

detection, investigation, and prosecution of domestic and international intellectual property crimes an investigative priority. The 

Committee also urges the FBI to continue field office collaboration 

with the U.S. Attorneys’ Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Rights units and to continue to support the FBI Headquarters 

Intellectual Property Rights program coordination with the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property section. 

Innocent Images National Initiative [IINI].—The Committee recommendation provides $9,000,000 above the budget request for the 

Innocent Images National Initiative, for a total of $47,475,000 to 

increase the number of agents investigating Internet-related crimes 
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against children by at least 30. The Committee has provided this 

increase to address the critical requirements for Federal law enforcement in attacking the problem of child sexual exploitation and 

child victimization. 

Mortgage Fraud.—The sub-prime mortgage crisis threatens the 

Nation’s economic security. Suspicious Activity Reports filed by 

various financial institutions increased almost 200 percent within 

the last 3 years alone, and show no signs of decreasing. This increase in mortgage fraud activity is greatly straining the FBI’s 

white-collar crime investigative capabilities. Therefore, the Committee recommends an increase of $10,000,000 and at least 25 

agents to augment the current positions conducting mortgage fraud 

investigations. 

Safe Street Task Forces.—The Committee remains concerned over 

the level of resources available for FBI criminal investigations, especially at a time when violent crime trends show signs of increasing in some localities and the continuing, pervasive threat from 

criminal gangs and gang violence. While most violent crime is a 

local crime problem, State and local authorities often depend upon 

the FBI for investigative, forensic, and technical assistance and 

leadership. The FBI’s task force approach to combating street crime 

and gang violence is one of the successful strategies that contributed to previous decreases in violent crimes. Accordingly, the Committee urges the FBI, within available funds, to provide $4,000,000 

for an additional 20 agents to augment existing task forces, and another $5,000,000 to add two additional task forces dedicated to targeting violent crime and gang violence. 

Construction Project Management.—The Committee recommends 

an additional $1,000,000 in this account to address construction 

project management and transitional workforce expenses. 

CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $164,200,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 42,991,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 184,991,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $184,991,000 for the 

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] construction. The recommendation is $20,791,000 above the fiscal year 2008 funding 

level and $142,000,000 above the budget request. Of this amount, 

$33,191,000 shall be for sensitive compartmental information facilities [SCIFs], $9,800,000 is for improvements at the FBI Academy, 

and $50,000,000 shall be for the Terrorist Explosives Device Analytical Center. 

DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $1,857,569,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 1,936,584,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,954,384,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $1,954,384,000. The 

recommendation is $96,815,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $17,800,000 above the budget request. The recommenda-
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tion provides $244,000,000 for Drug Enforcement Administration’s 

[DEA] Drug Diversion Control Fee Account. 

The Drug Enforcement Agency’s [DEA] mission is to enforce the 

controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States 

and bring to the criminal and civil justice system of the United 

States, or any other competent jurisdiction, those organizations and 

principal members of organizations involved in the growing, manufacturing, or distribution of controlled substances appearing in or 

destined for illicit traffic in the United States; and to support nonenforcement programs aimed at reducing the availability of illicit 

controlled substances on the domestic and international markets. 

The Committee supports the DEA’s efforts to develop unmanned 

aerial systems [UAS] to provide narcotics surveillance and interdiction. The use of UAS has potential to significantly expand the 

DEA’s ability to fight narcotics trafficking over larger geographical 

areas without the need for a significantly larger agent workforce or 

additional rated pilots. The Committee recommendation provides 

$17,800,000 above the budge request for the DEA to work in collaboration with the U.S. Army to develop and acquire UAS for tactical drug interdiction efforts. 

Drugs on Public Lands.—The Committee is very concerned that 

foreign drug-trafficking organizations are rapidly increasing the 

amount of marijuana grown on our Nation’s public lands, creating 

unacceptable hazards to public safety and significant natural resource damage. The Committee urges the Drug Enforcement Administration to prioritize efforts to work with Federal land management agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service and National Park 

Service, and other State and local law enforcement partners to aggressively and permanently eradicate marijuana and other drug operations on public lands. 

The Committee strongly encourages DEA to increase the resources provided to investigate, apprehend and prosecute drug trafficking on public lands and to target those resources to areas with 

the highest concentration of trafficking activity. 

The Committee encourages the DEA to continue to consult and 

work with Alaskan State and local law enforcement agencies to 

find ways to tackle the State’s methamphetamine problem. The 

Alaska problem is unique because the State’s size and remote areas 

that are optimal for methamphetamine production laboratories. 

BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS, AND EXPLOSIVES

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $984,097,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 1,027,814,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,042,814,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $1,042,814,000. The 

recommendation is $58,717,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $15,000,000 above the budget request. 

The mission of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives [ATF] is to reduce violent crime, prevent terrorism, and 

protect the public. ATF reduces the criminal use of firearms and 

illegal firearms trafficking, and assists other Federal, State, and 

local law enforcement agencies in reducing crime and violence. ATF 
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investigates bombing and arson incidents and provides for public 

safety by reducing the criminal misuse of explosives, trafficking in 

explosives, combating acts of arson and arson-for-profit schemes, 

and removing safety hazards caused by improper and unsafe storage of explosive materials. ATF enforces the Contraband Cigarette 

Trafficking Act which addresses the diversion of cigarette taxes 

often involving multi-million dollar trafficking plots, some of which 

have been traced to international terrorists. 

Violent Crime Impact Teams.—The Committee continues to 

strongly support the ATF’s Violent Crime Impact Team [VCIT] initiative to pursue violent criminals and reduce the occurrence of 

homicides and firearms-related violent crime through the use of geographic targeting, proactive investigation, and prosecution of 

those responsible. The VCITs uses a multi-agency approach and 

work closely with State and local law enforcement to identify, target, disrupt, arrest, and prosecute violent criminals. The Committee recommendation includes a $15,000,000 increase above the 

base budget of approximately $45,000,000 to expand the staff level 

at the existing VCITs to 10 agents per VCIT, and to add four new 

VCITs in high crime areas. 

Conversion of Records.—The Committee recognizes the need for 

ATF to complete the conversion of tens of thousands of existing 

Federal firearms dealer out-of-business records from film to digital 

images at the ATF National Tracing Center [NTC]. Once the outof-business records are fully converted, search time for these 

records will be reduced significantly. The Committee urges the ATF 

to continue the conversion and integration of these records. 

National Integrated Ballistic Information Network.—The Committee continues to support the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network [NIBIN], including significant investment made by 

State and local law enforcement partners to build the current 

NIBIN database. The Committee believes ATF should move expeditiously to ensure that ballistic-imaging technology is routinely refreshed, upgraded, and deployed to State and local law enforcement. The Committee urges ATF prioritize upgrading and replacing aging ballistic imaging equipment in its fiscal year 2009 operating budget and in future budget requests. ATF should ensure upgrades and replacements maximize and protect the resources invested by State and local law enforcement. 

FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM

The Committee recommendation provides a total of 

$5,973,889,000 for the Federal Prison System, or Bureau of Prisons 

[BOP]. The recommendation is $548,401,000 above the fiscal year 

2008 enacted level and $440,000,000 above the budget request. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $5,050,440,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 5,435,754,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 5,435,754,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $5,435,754,000. The 

recommendation is $385,314,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and equal to the budget request. 
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The Committee is disappointed that in recent years the President’s budget request for the Bureau of Prisons has consistently 

underestimated inmate population growth rates, medical costs inflation, and other fixed costs such as utility expenses. The Committee is concerned that unreliable estimates for these ‘‘fixed costs’’ 

could imperil safety at Federal prisons by forcing personnel reductions that would increase inmate-to-staff ratios to unacceptable levels. The Committee directs the Administration to re-estimate its 

fixed costs and prisoner population for fiscal year 2009 and provide 

the Committee with those estimates no later than 60 days after enactment of this act. Further, the Committee wishes to be notified 

of the current staff-to-inmate ratios at all Federal prisons on a 

monthly basis. 

The Committee commends the BOP on its work to address and 

prevent sexual misconduct. With funds provided in earlier appropriations acts, the National Institute of Corrections has made useful progress in providing training and technical support to correctional systems throughout the country to eliminate staff sexual 

misconduct with inmates, provide training in investigating cases, 

and training the ‘‘trainers’’ in order that employees at every level 

will be more aware of, and better prepared to deal with, these 

cases. The Committee directs the BOP to continue these efforts and 

to report to the Committee by March 31, 2009, on progress made 

in this area. 

The recommendation shall be expended in the following manner: 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Inmate Care and Programs ............................................................................................................................... 1,922,701 

Institution Security and Administration ............................................................................................................. 2,414,419 

Contract Confinement ........................................................................................................................................ 897,468 

Management and Administration ...................................................................................................................... 201,166 

Inmate Care and Programs.—This activity covers the costs of all 

food, medical supplies, clothing, welfare services, release clothing, 

transportation, gratuities, staff salaries (including salaries of 

Health Resources and Services Administration commissioned officers), and operational costs of functions directly related to providing inmate care. This decision unit also finances the costs of 

education and vocational training, drug treatment, religious programs, psychological services, and other inmate programs such as 

Life Connections. This activity also covers costs associated with regional and central office executive direction and management support functions related to providing inmate care such as medical and 

drug treatment program. 

Institution Security and Administration.—This activity covers 

costs associated with the maintenance of facilities and institution 

security. This activity finances institution maintenance, motor pool 

operations, powerhouse operations, institution security and other 

administrative functions. Finally, this activity covers costs associated with regional and central office executive direction and management support functions such as research and evaluation, sys-
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tems support, financial management, budget functions, safety, and 

legal counsel. 

Contract Confinement.—This activity provides for the confinement of sentenced Federal offenders in Government-owned, contractor-operated facilities contracts with State and local facilities, 

the care of Federal prisoners in contract community residential 

centers, and assistance by the National Institute of Corrections to 

State and local corrections. This activity also covers costs associated with management and oversight of contract confinement functions. 

Activations and Expansions.—The Committee expects BOP to adhere to the activation schedule included in BOP’s budget submission. BOP shall notify the Senate Committee on Appropriations of 

any deviations to this schedule. 

Administrative Maximum United States Penitentiary.—The Committee recognizes the importance of ensuring that the Administrative Maximum United States Penitentiary [ADX], also known as 

‘‘Supermax,’’ has adequate funding to retain staff levels necessary 

to provide strict oversight of prisoner activities and communications; and to ensure the safety of prison staff. Further, the facility 

has a pressing need to upgrade its security infrastructure. The 

Committee urges the Federal Bureau of Prisons to allocate funding 

necessary to address these safety requirements. 

National Institute of Corrections [NIC].—The Committee rejects 

the proposal in the President’s budget to eliminate the National Institute of Corrections [NIC] from the Bureau of Prisons [BOP]. This 

Committee notes that efforts of the NIC contribute to cost efficiency and effectiveness is such areas as design and operation of 

new jails, prisons, community corrections programs, offender workforce development programs, and offender classification and risk 

management. The Committee urges the Department to continues 

operating the NIC within the Bureau of Prisons, and, if necessary, 

to submit a reprogramming proposal if sufficient funds are not 

available within the BOP for this effort. 

BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $372,720,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 95,807,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 535,807,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $535,807,000 for the 

construction, modernization, maintenance, and repair of prison and 

detention facilities housing Federal prisoners. The recommendation 

is $163,087,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level, excluding 

emergency supplemental appropriations, and $440,000,000 above 

the budget request. 

The Committee recommendation provides for $70,627,000, equal 

to the full budget request for modernization and repairs. 

The Committee recommendation includes $440,000,000 for new 

construction to enable the Bureau of Prisons to reduce the backlog 

of new construction projects. This funding will help decrease crowding throughout the Federal prison system. Also, the Committee 

supports the provision of additional bedspace capacity for female 

inmates at new facilities. This capacity will significantly reduce 

crowding in this population, thereby enhancing safety and security. 
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Within funds provided, the Committee recommendation provides 

for site selection and development, environmental assessment and 

feasibility, planning, and initial design work to build an FCI in 

Leavenworth, Kansas. 

Bill language is included clarifying that BOP may not transfer 

‘‘Building and Facilities’’ appropriations to cover ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ costs. 

FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED

(LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES)

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $2,328,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 2,328,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 2,328,000 

The Committee recommendation provides a limitation on the ad- ministrative expenses of $2,328,000 for the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. The recommendation is equal to the 2008 fiscal year 

funding level and equal to the budget request. 

OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $400,000,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 280,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 415,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $415,000,000. The rec- ommendation is $15,000,000 above fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and $135,000,000 above the budget request. 

The Committee rejects the administration’s proposal to create a 

consolidated, competitive grant program for the programs authorized in the Violence Against Women Act [VAWA], because, if approved, these proven and successful programs would cease to operate in the way that Congress intended. For over 10 years, VAWA 

programs have supported community efforts around the Nation to 

effectively respond to domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, 

and dating violence. In the 109th session, Congress unanimously 

passed a VAWA reauthorization that continues successful programs and creates targeted new programs to address gaps in prevention services, housing, healthcare, criminal justice, and employment issues, and meet the needs of youth, native women, communities of color, and victims of sexual violence. These programs are 

designed to meet specific needs and create collaborations between 

distinct groups that can leverage their expertise and resources to 

address different aspects of domestic and sexual violence. The proposed competitive grant ignores the congressional intent behind 

these programs and would lead to less effective and potentially 

dangerous programming and disadvantage certain applicants, such 

as those from rural areas. Congress is firmly committed to ensuring that grantees have the necessary knowledge and history of providing effective services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in order to ensure that VAWA 

funding is used wisely and well. Because of this, VAWA programs 

have many specific requirements and protections to ensure that 

work with law enforcement, child protective services, healthcare, 

and other systems is being done effectively and the confidentiality 

and safety of victims is maintained. The Committee believes that 
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it is important to fund individual VAWA programs as authorized 

in order to meet distinct needs in the field and strengthen the continuum of intervention and prevention responses to victims, families, and communities. 

The Committee acknowledges the often underlying connections 

between domestic violence and a variety of related social ills including youth violence, homelessness and substance abuse. The 

Committee believes that the Violence Against Women Act programs 

not only provide critical services to victims fleeing from life-threatening violence but also addresses these costly social problems. 

Domestic violence impacts 1 in 4 American women over their lifetimes and 15.5 million children are exposed to domestic violence 

each year. Though the incidence of domestic violence assaults and 

murders has been steadily decreasing, there is an increase in demand for services due to improved criminal justice response and 

heightened public awareness. The Committee’s funding recommendation reflects the long-term cost-effectiveness of these services and the success in saving lives and preventing future violence. 

The Committee encourages the Department of Justice to work together with the Office on Violence Against Women to address the 

intersection of domestic violence and sexual assault with crimes 

such as gang violence, child abuse and trafficking. This collaboration would save money across sectors, by preventing many of these 

crimes. 

The most recent reauthorization of the Violence Against Women 

Act included a new emphasis on prevention and early intervention 

programs to stop violence before it began or became life-threatening. The Committee included funding for several evidence-based 

programs to prevent domestic and sexual violence including providing services for children who have been exposed to family violence and working with men and youth to change attitudes that 

support or condone violence. 

The table below displays the Committee recommendations for the 

programs under this office. 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND PROSECUTION PROGRAMS 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Program Committee 

recommendation 

STOP Grants ....................................................................................................................................................... 185,000 

National Institute of Justice—R & D ....................................................................................................... (1,880 ) 

Transitional Housing Assistance ............................................................................................................... (17,390 ) 

Grants to Encourage Arrest ............................................................................................................................... 59,000 

Rural Domestic Violence Assistance Grants ...................................................................................................... 42,000 

Violence on College Campuses .......................................................................................................................... 9,400 

Civil Legal Assistance ........................................................................................................................................ 42,000 

Sexual Assault Victims Services ........................................................................................................................ 12,000 

Elder Abuse Grant Program ............................................................................................................................... 4,500 

Safe Havens Project ........................................................................................................................................... 14,000 

Education and Training for Disabled Female Victims ...................................................................................... 6,580 

CASA (Special Advocates) .................................................................................................................................. 15,000 

Training for Judicial Personnel .......................................................................................................................... 2,820 

Stalking Database .............................................................................................................................................. 3,030 

Court Training and Improvements ..................................................................................................................... 2,820 

Services for Children/Youth Exposed to Violence .............................................................................................. 2,770 

Advocates for Youth/Services for Youth Victims ............................................................................................... 2,820 

National Tribal Sex Offender Registry ............................................................................................................... 940 
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND PROSECUTION PROGRAMS—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Program Committee recommendation 

Research on Violence Against Indian Women ................................................................................................... 940 

Closed Circuit Television Grants ........................................................................................................................ 940 

Engaging Men and Youth in Prevention ............................................................................................................ 2,500 

Training Programs to Assist Probation and Parole Officers ............................................................................. 5,000 

National Resource Center on Workplace Responses ......................................................................................... 940 

Total ...................................................................................................................................................... 415,000 

Native American/Native Alaskan Liaison Office.—The Committee understands that Native American and Native Alaskan 

women experience a higher rate of violence compared to any other 

group in the United States. Alaska’s forcible rape rate is 2.5 times 

larger than the national average. Alaska holds the highest rate in 

the United States of men murdering women. In fiscal year 2005, 

over 6,000 incidents of domestic violence were recorded. In response, in fiscal year 2005, a liaison office was created to address 

abuse and violence towards women in Alaska. The Committee includes $2,800,000 for the Native American/Native Alaskan Liaison 

Office for their work in Alaska. The Committee has provided 

$2,800,000 to the State of Alaska for the purposes of combating 

sexual assault and domestic violence. These funds may also be distributed to nonprofit entities that provide services such as: a crisis 

hotline, services to victims of sexual assault or domestic violence in 

rural areas, and medical assistance to victims. 

Within the funds appropriated, $183,800,000 is for general formula grants to the States. The fiscal year 2009 recommendation 

will allow jurisdictions to implement mandatory pro-arrest and 

prosecution policies to prevent, identify, and respond to violent 

crimes against women, support coordination of State victim services, assist Native victims in Indian Country, and provide secure 

settings and specialized procedures for visitation and exchange of 

children in families experiencing domestic violence. The recommendation supports increasing access to comprehensive legal 

services for victims, providing short term housing assistance and 

support services for domestic violence victims and education and 

training to end violence against and abuse of women with disabilities. 

Sexual Assault Services Act [SASA].—The Committee recommendation provides $9,400,000 to begin a Federal program that 

directly funds the needs of sexual assault victims. As part of the 

Violence Against Women Act of 2005, Congress created the Sexual 

Assault Services Program [SASP] to address gaps in services to 

sexual assault victims and their families. While Congress has 

worked to ensure that crime controls are in place to address sexual 

offenders, Congress also wants to ensure that there is a dedicated 

stream of funding to provide a broad range of services to male, female and child sexual assault victims and their families through 

the well-established and well-regarded system of community-based 

rape crisis centers throughout the United States. These agencies’ 

ability to serve the needs of victims has been hampered by a significant lack of resources. The Sexual Assault Services Program ad-
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dresses this lack of resources and meets the distinct need to 

strengthen the continuum of intervention responses to sexual assault victims, their families and the community. 

Congress is firmly committed to ensuring that these rape crisis 

centers have access to technical assistance, training and support. 

SASP will provide such assistance through sexual assault coalitions 

located in every state, territory and within a number of Tribes. 

In addition, in recognition of the specialized needs of victims in 

Communities of Color, Congress established through the Sexual Assault Services Program, specific funds so that Communities of 

Color-led agencies with the necessary sexual assault expertise can 

provide these services directly. Congress has also ensured a setaside for Indian tribes to enhance their response to victims of sexual assault and increase accountability to perpetrators within tribal communities. 

Addressing Violence Against Native Women.—Recent research 

has called attention to the dire needs of Indian tribes to address 

violence against Native women. The lack of a tribal order or protection and sex offender registry prevents Indian tribes from accessing 

and sharing this life-saving information. While American Indian 

women are victimized at more than double the rate of any other 

population of women in the United States, not a single comprehensive study of rates of violence has been conducted. The Committee 

recognizes this and includes funding for two programs to conduct 

research to help document the extent and nature of violence 

against Native women and to establish a tribal registry to enhance 

enforcement of tribal protection orders and monitoring of sex offenders. 

Services for Children and Youth.—As many as 10 million children a year witness violence in the home, and according to the Department of Justice girls and young women ages 16 to 24 experience the highest rates of intimate partner violence. Recognizing the 

need to intervene early in this cycle of abuse and prevent future 

violence, the Committee is funding two new programs that support 

services for young people exposed to violence in the home and teens 

experiencing violence in their own relationships. 

OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $1,694,767,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 792,747,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 2,121,100,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $2,121,100,000 for the 

Office of Justice Programs [OJP]. The recommendation is 

$426,333,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level, excluding 

emergency supplemental appropriations, and $1,328,353,000 above 

the budget request. As in fiscal year 2008, the Office on Violence 

Against Women is funded under a separate heading under this 

title. 

The Committee continues to be extremely concerned with the 

proposed merger of the Byrne Grant program and Local Law Enforcement Block Grant program resulting in a significantly reduced 

funding level. The Committee recommendation does not adopt this 

consolidation and retains the account structure used in previous 

fiscal years. 
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The Committee continues to be concerned by the Department’s 

continued endorsement of the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System. The Committee feels that the funding and administration of this program should be performed by a more appropriate 

entity, instead of the Department of Justice. 

JUSTICE ASSISTANCE

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $196,184,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 134,647,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 240,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $240,000,000. The recommendation is $43,816,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $105,353,000 above the budget request. 

The Justice Assistance program provides support to State and 

local law enforcement. Funding in this account provides for assistance in the form of research, evaluation, statistics, regional information sharing, programs to assist the National Center for Missing 

and Exploited Children, and victim notification assistance. In addition, funding is included for the management and administration 

of all grants provided through OJP. The Committee again rejects 

the Department’s proposed merger of all OJP programs under this 

heading and instead has maintained the account structure contained in last year’s enacted legislation. 

The Committee recommendations are displayed in the following 

table: 

JUSTICE ASSISTANCE 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Program Committee recommendation 

National Institute of Justice .......................................................................................................................... 45,000 

Law Enforcement and Corrections Tech Centers [LETC’s] ................................................................... (15,000 ) 

Office of Science and Technology [OST] ............................................................................................... (25,000 ) 

Counterterrorism Research and Development ...................................................................................... (5,000 ) 

Bureau of Justice Statistics ........................................................................................................................... 40,000 

State Automated Victim Notification System ................................................................................................ 15,000 

Support Services for Victims ......................................................................................................................... 10,000 

Regional Information Sharing System [RISS] ................................................................................................ 50,000 

Pegasus Nationwide .............................................................................................................................. (12,000 ) 

Missing and Exploited Children ..................................................................................................................... 70,000 

DNA/Forensics ................................................................................................................................................. 5,000 

Total .................................................................................................................................................. 240,000 

National Institute of Justice [NIJ].—The Committee recommendation provides $50,000,000 for the NIJ. NIJ’s mission is to 

advance scientific research, development, and evaluation to advance the administration of justice and public safety. The Committee directs that prior to the obligation of any funds, NIJ submit 

a spend plan on how resources will be allocated. 

NIJ Sole Sourcing.—The Committee is concerned about a number of questionable sole-source contracts by the National Institutes 

of Justice [NIJ]. NIJ has let sole-source contracts to write the administration’s underlying position papers for some of the administration’s most important initiatives that relate to public safety and 

terrorism prevention. The Committee strongly believes that there 
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are numerous qualified and objective entities that are competent to 

conduct studies on matters related to law enforcement and that 

sole sourcing of contracts to former employees and lobbyists who 

have clients that could receive financial gain depending on the outcome of the findings is not in the best interest. Therefore, the Committee directs the Attorney General to provide to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, no later than 90 days after the enactment of this bill a plan to: (1) implement a process to openly and 

competitively bid studies that ensure that taxpayers monies are 

spent in an ethical and fair way; (2) that describes the criteria that 

will be used to select these entities and make the awards; (3) that 

provides for an oversight process that will ensure future objectivity 

and fairness; (4) establishes criteria for NIJ seminars and the selection of participant speakers and invitees to those seminars. 

DNA and Forensics Initiative.—The Committee recommends 

$5,000,000 to assist with forensics and DNA. Within the amounts 

provided, OJP shall transfer $1,000,000 to support the continuation 

of the development of standards and standard reference materials 

at the National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] Office of Law Enforcement Standards [OLES], to maintain quality 

and proficiency within Federal, State, and local crime laboratory facilities. 

The Committee remains committed to the use of DNA analysis 

to exonerate the innocent, convict the guilty, and bring justice to 

victims but is concerned about the costs that public crime laboratories incur when they outsource analysis to private laboratories. 

The funding provided by the Committee to strengthen our criminal 

justice system by building capacity in public crime labs should not 

wasted. The Committee understands that the National Institute of 

Justice collects data on the cost to outsource as a condition of the 

capacity grants and has funded a program to analyze costs in the 

country’s largest public labs. The National Institute of Justice shall 

provide a report to the Committee on the costs to outsource to private labs 60 days after enactment. 

NIJ Universities.—The Committee has become aware that there 

is no Federal standard for colleges and universities that relate to 

Forensic Science Education. The National Institute of Justice conducted a panel on Forensics Science Education and as a result, the 

Forensic Science Education Program Accreditation Commission was 

created. However, after expending taxpayer dollars NIJ has not 

created a Federal link between the Department of Justice and the 

Commission, thus the necessary universal standards have not been 

implemented as recommended by the Department of Justice’s own 

findings. Therefore, the Committee directs the National Institute of 

Justice, within 60 days of enactment of this bill to create the Federal link necessary to implement the recommended standards. 

Office of Science and Technology [OS&T].—The Committee continues to support the efforts of the leadership of the NIJ’s OS&T 

and the continuing partnership that OS&T has developed with the 

National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST]. To implement the mission of OS&T, the Committee recommends 

$25,000,000 for OS&T. 

Victim Notification.—The Committee recommendation provides 

$15,000,000 for the Bureau of Justice Assistance [BJA] to continue 
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the State Automated Victim Notification grant program to allow 

States to join the National Victim Notification Network. No funding may be utilized from within the Victims Assistance Program for 

this initiative and funds provided under this heading shall require 

a 50 percent match from State, local, and private sources. 

Suppport Services for Victims.—The Committee recommendation 

provides $10,000,000 of which, $2,000,000 is for support costs for 

Office of Victims of Crime management and administration expenses. 

Regional Information Sharing System.—The Committee recommendation provides $50,000,000 for the Regional Information 

Sharing System [RISS]. The Committee supports RISS and its role 

in implementing the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan. 

The RISS program maintains six regionally based information networks that provide for the automated exchange of crime and terrorism information between Federal, State, and local agencies. Of 

the funds provided, $12,000,000 is to support Pegasus with first 

emphasis on rural and non-urban law enforcement to enhance information technology capacity of critical hometown support and security forces. 

Missing Children Program.—The issue of child abduction and exploitation today, is part of the national conscience due to the numerous child pornography and missing children cases. OJP works 

with law enforcement agencies to target, dismantle, and prosecute 

predatory child molesters and those who traffic in child pornography. The Committee continues to strongly support the Missing 

and Exploited Children Program run by the BJA. The Committee 

recommends $75,000,000 to continue to expand efforts to protect 

the Nation’s children, focusing on the areas of locating missing children, and addressing the growing wave of child sexual exploitation 

facilitated by the internet. 

The funding recommendations for the Missing and Exploited 

Children Program are displayed in the following table: 

NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Program Committee 

recommendation 

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children ........................................................................................... 30,000 

Jimmy Ryce Law Enforcement Training Center ................................................................................................... 5,000 

Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force ...................................................................................................... 30,000 

Missing and Exploited Children Office ................................................................................................................ 3,000 

AMBER Alert ......................................................................................................................................................... 5,000 

Management and Administration ........................................................................................................................ 2,000 

Totals ...................................................................................................................................................... 75,000 

Management and Administration.—The Committee recommendation provides that up to $35,000,000 of balances made available as 

a result of prior year de-obligations may be obligated for program 

management and administration, any balances made available as 

a result of prior year de-obligations in excess of $35,000,000 shall 

only be obligated in accordance with section 505 of this act. In addition, consistent with prior practice, reimbursable funding for 

management and administration costs will be made available from 
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programs administered by OJP from the ‘‘Community Oriented Policing Services’’ account. Remaining management and administration funding will be made available from the ‘‘Juvenile Justice Programs’’ and the ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ accounts, and that these funds will be transferred to and merged 

with the ‘‘Justice Assistance’’ account. The Committee directs that 

any action taken by OJP relating to Circular A–76 shall be subject 

to the requirements of section 505 of this act. 

STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $908,136,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 404,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 1,387,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $1,387,000,000. The recommendation is $478,864,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level, excluding supplemental appropriations, and $983,000,000 

above the budget request. 

The Committee recommendations are displayed in the following 

table: 

STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Program Committee recommendation 

Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants .................................................................................................... 580,000 

National Institute of Justice ................................................................................................................. (5,000 ) 

SLATT Intelligence State and Local Training ........................................................................................ (2,000 ) 

Byrne Discretionary Grants ............................................................................................................................ 190,000 

Byrne Competitive Grants .............................................................................................................................. 40,000 

Indian Assistance ........................................................................................................................................... 30,000 

Tribal Prison Construction .................................................................................................................... (15,000 ) 

Indian Tribal Courts .............................................................................................................................. (9,000 ) 

Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse grants ....................................................................................... (6,000 ) 

State Criminal Alien Assistance Program ..................................................................................................... 400,000 

Southwest Border Prosecutor Program ................................................................................................. (25,000 ) 

Northern Border Prosecutor Program .................................................................................................... (10,000 ) 

Southeast Border Prosecutor Program .................................................................................................. (10,000 ) 

Victims of Trafficking Grants ........................................................................................................................ 10,000 

State Prison Drug Treatment ......................................................................................................................... 10,000 

Drug Courts .................................................................................................................................................... 30,000 

Prescription Drug Monitoring ......................................................................................................................... 3,000 

Prison Rape Prevention and Prosecution ....................................................................................................... 5,000 

National Prison Rape Elimination Commission .................................................................................... (1,692 ) 

Capital Litigation ........................................................................................................................................... 10,000 

Missing Alzheimer’s Patients Grants ............................................................................................................. 2,000 

Mentally Ill Offender Act ................................................................................................................................ 12,000 

Second Chance Act ........................................................................................................................................ 20,000 

Total .................................................................................................................................................. 1,387,000 

Capital Litigation.—The Committee recommendation provides $10,000,000 for Capital Litigation Improvement Grants, as authorized in the Justice For All Act. The Committee directs that any 

grants provided for the Capital Litigation Improvements, shall be 

provided pursuant to section 426 of the Justice For All Act, Public 

Law 108–405. 

SEARCH National Technical Assistance and Training Program.—The Committee supports efforts to assist States, such as 

West Virginia in the development and use of information through 
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criminal justice information systems to accelerate the automation 

of their fingerprints identification processes and criminal justice 

data identification processes so that State and local law enforcement which are compatible with the FBI’s Integrated Automated 

Fingerprint Identification System. 

Edward Byrne Discretionary Grants.—The Committee recommendation provides $190,000,000 for discretionary grants to 

help to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system with 

an emphasis on drugs, violent crime, and serious offenders. The 

Committee provides funding for the following congressionally directed projects, and directs the Department of Justice to refrain 

from charging administrative costs to these grants. The Committee 

expects that the Department of Justice will provide appropriate 

management and oversight of each grant. Within the amounts appropriated for discretionary grants OJP shall fund the following 

projects: 

Project Amount 

A Child is Missing, Fort Lauderdale, FL, to upgrade telephony technology and satellite mapping systems to 

assist in locating missing children in Kansas ................................................................................................. 100,000 

A Child is Missing, Fort Lauderdale, FL, to support A Child is Missing efforts in South Dakota ...................... 100,000 

A Child Is Missing, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for law enforcement assistance for missing and abducted children 

in Idaho ............................................................................................................................................................. 100,000 

Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource Center, Washington, DC, to train judges in forensic 

science and other technically complex areas of the law ................................................................................. 500,000 

Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education, Birmingham, AL, to continue a community oriented, interdisciplinary team to design, implement and test solutions to the most pressing problems of violence effecting families ................................................................................................................................................. 400,000 

Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, Montgomery, AL, for forensics research and operations ................ 1,000,000 

Alabama Department of Public Safety, Montgomery, AL, for law enforcement purposes .................................... 500,000 

Alaska Native Justice Center, Anchorage, AK, for funding to provide attorney referrals, information and resources to support Natives involved in legal issues ........................................................................................ 900,000 

Allegheny County, Allegheny County, PA, for security cameras and a threat viewer emergency management 

visualization system .......................................................................................................................................... 750,000 

Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, funds for a statewide at-risk youth mentoring program 

involving faith based organization, schools, and non-profit entities .............................................................. 750,000 

Boys Town, Las Vegas, NV, for expansion of services in Las Vegas to assist at-risk girls and boys ............... 200,000 

Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, CriMNet Program (MN Department of Public Safety), St. Paul, MN, for the 

statewide rollout of two major criminal justice information integration services ........................................... 200,000 

Cape Girardeau County Sheriff’s Office, Cape Girardeau, MO, to provide funding for competitive grants to 

sheriff’s offices and multi-jurisdiction drug task forces to address specifically methamphetamine production and trafficking ........................................................................................................................................... 1,000,000 

CARITAS, Inc., Pawtucket, RI, for comprehensive case management services for adolescents receiving substance abuse treatment .................................................................................................................................... 200,000 

Central Mountain Training Foundation, Canon City, CO, for interoperable communications equipment procurement and training ...................................................................................................................................... 300,000 

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, SD, for law enforcement, court operations, 

prosecutors, the public defender’s office, and detention programs ................................................................ 750,000 

City of Albuquerque Police Department, Albuquerque, NM, for a family advocacy center supporting forensic 

training and a crisis support team .................................................................................................................. 200,000 

City of Allentown, Allentown, PA, for an anti-youth gang initiative in Allentown ............................................... 200,000 

City of Baltimore Police Department, Baltimore, MD, to reduce illegal gun trafficking and gun violence ........ 1,100,000 

City of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, for gang prevention and intervention training, project marketing, and outreach to hotspots .............................................................................................................................................. 250,000 

City of Fernley, Nevada, Fernley, NV, for law enforcement equipment ................................................................. 300,000 

City of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, to decrease crime and murders in Jacksonville ....................................... 500,000 

City of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, for copper wire theft prevention efforts ....................................................... 400,000 

City of Luverne, Luverne, AL, for police equipment .............................................................................................. 150,000 

City of New Haven, New Haven, CT, to develop a prisoner reentry initiative in collaboration with local law 

enforcement and homeless, behavioral, physical health, and family service providers ................................. 300,000 

City of Oakland, Oakland, CA, to recruit and hire additional police officers from within the Oakland community ..................................................................................................................................................................... 300,000 

City of Richmond, Richmond, VA, to upgrade security at the Courts Building ................................................... 400,000 
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Project Amount 

City of Saginaw Police Department, Saginaw, MI, to acquire a gunshot locating system ................................. 200,000 

City of Salem Police Department, Salem, OR, to create an automated citation system ..................................... 75,000 

City of San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA, for a school-based partnership to provide gang resistance education and training ........................................................................................................................................... 500,000 

City of San Jose, San Jose, CA to assess the City’s gang intervention and prevention programs ..................... 250,000 

City of St. Paul, St. Paul, MN, to replace the warning siren system that is used to warn the public about 

tornadoes, terrorism, and hazardous material emergencies ............................................................................ 250,000 

City of Stockton, Stockton, CA, to support the positions of six youth gang outreach workers ........................... 200,000 

City of Trenton Police Department, Trenton, NJ, for a gunshot locating system ................................................. 200,000 

City of Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, for a new records management system ....................................................... 500,000 

City of York, York, PA, for a crime response and coordination project ................................................................ 300,000 

Clark County, Las Vegas, NV, to operate a therapeutic foster care facility ........................................................ 500,000 

Clark County, Clark County, KY, to purchase equipment, including portable radios .......................................... 90,000 

Clearfield City, Clearfield City, UT, for technology to combat gang activity ....................................................... 200,000 

Community Renewal International, Shreveport, LA, to use a CRI Model for neighborhood terrorism and disaster preparedness ............................................................................................................................................ 100,000 

Coos County Sheriff’s Office, Coquille, OR, for personnel and operational costs ................................................ 100,000 

Criminal Information Sharing Alliance, Folsom, CA, for a law enforcement information sharing network in 

Texas .................................................................................................................................................................. 400,000 

Criminal Justice Institute, University of Arkansas System, Little Rock, AR, for a national training center for 

rural law enforcement executives ..................................................................................................................... 1,000,000 

Dauphin County, Harrisburg, PA, for family group and at-risk youth counseling ............................................... 250,000 

Daviess County Sheriff’s Department, Daviess County, KY, to purchase mobile data terminals and other 

communication equipment ................................................................................................................................ 180,000 

Dona Ana County, Las Cruces, NM, to implement a jail diversion program ....................................................... 180,000 

Downriver Community Conference, Southgate, MI, for equipment upgrades to improve public safety interoperability among member communities .......................................................................................................... 500,000 

Eastern Shore of Maryland Educational Consortium, Centreville, MD, to maintain and expand the Eastern 

Shore dropout prevention programs .................................................................................................................. 250,000 

Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, Newark, NJ, to expand the program to more witnesses and victims ............ 150,000 

Forrest County Court Team for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers, Forrest Co., MS, to address the critical 

needs of maltreated infants and toddlers through the specialized Forrest County Court Team for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers ............................................................................................................................ 150,000 

Fort Belknap Indian Community, Fort Belknap, MT, for additional staff, updated electronic data systems, 

equipment and training to ensure quality judicial services in the tribal court .............................................. 300,000 

Genesee County, Genesee County, MI, for assistance for those transitioning from prison ................................. 100,000 

Grambling State University, Grambling, LA, for a workforce education and reentry program for the formerly 

incarcerated ....................................................................................................................................................... 200,000 

Grant Sawyer Center, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, for Grant Sawyer Center at University of Nevada, Reno 

for judicial education ........................................................................................................................................ 200,000 

Haymarket Center, Chicago, IL, for a workforce development program for those with past criminal justice involvement, substance abuse, and economic and employment instability ....................................................... 250,000 

Heartland Family Service, Council Bluffs, IA, for family based treatment of drug-addicted mothers ................ 600,000 

Hennepin County, Hennepin County, MN, to facilitate the sharing of juvenile records between criminal justice agencies ..................................................................................................................................................... 250,000 

Illinois Sheriff’s Association, Springfield, IL, for law enforcement and clean-up of meth production and 

abuse ................................................................................................................................................................. 250,000 

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Indianapolis, IN, to enhance public safety and increase patrol 

time on the street ............................................................................................................................................. 150,000 

Inner Harbour for Children and Families, Douglasville, GA, to advance neurofeedback treatment to help troubled youths overcome deficits, avoid trouble, and become highly functioning members of society .............. 100,000 

Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Moines, IA, to provide methamphetamine abuse treatment for inmates in Polk, Scott and Story counties .......................................................................................................... 850,000 

Iowa Legal Aid, Des Moines, IA, for continued collaboration between the medical and legal communities in 

servicing low-income Iowans ............................................................................................................................ 300,000 

Jackson Medical Mall, Jackson, MS, for prevention programs for at-risk youth .................................................. 400,000 

Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, for emergency responder software development .................................... 1,000,000 

Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Birmingham, AL, for law enforcement record integration .............................. 200,000 

John A. Logan College, Carterville, IL, to expand a pilot program that electronically tracks purchases of 

methamphetamine precursors ........................................................................................................................... 100,000 

King County Sheriff’s Office, Seattle, WA, for the School Resource Officers Program ........................................ 350,000 

Kings County District Attorney’s Office, Kings County, NY, for the investigation and prosecution of deed 

theft, mortgage fraud, and related real estate-based crimes ......................................................................... 875,000 

Latin America Youth Center, Langley Park, MD, to serve at risk youth and promote gang prevention .............. 500,000 

Linn County, Albany, OR, to expand the Linn County Dispatch and Emergency Operations Center to meet increasing demands ............................................................................................................................................. 200,000 
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Project Amount 

Local Initiatives and Support Corporation-Community Saftey Initiative, Jackson, MS, to promote strategic alliance between community developers and law enforcement, which will reduce crime and spur revitalization in troubled neighborhoods ......................................................................................................................... 750,000 

Lorain Police Department, Lorain, OH, to purchase in-car video cameras for law enforcement patrol vehicles .................................................................................................................................................................... 500,000 

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Monterey Park, CA, to upgrade an anti-gang data and analysis 

database ............................................................................................................................................................ 300,000 

Louisiana District Attorney’s Association, Baton Rouge, LA, to support an early intervention program for atrisk elementary students ................................................................................................................................... 800,000 

Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Indian Reservation, SD, for law enforcement, court operations, prosecutors, public defenders office, and detention equipment and operations ......................................................... 500,000 

Luna County Sheriff’s Department, Deming, NM, to address border-related criminal activity ........................... 375,000 

Luzerne County Community College, Luzerne County, PA, for training and equipment acquisition .................... 150,000 

Madison County Commission, Huntsville, AL, for integrated law enforcement records ....................................... 1,500,000 

Marshall County Sheriff’s Department, Marshall County, KY, to purchase and upgrade law enforcement 

equipment .......................................................................................................................................................... 400,000 

McKinley County, Gallup, NM, for operations at a comprehensive juvenile services center ................................ 200,000 

Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston, TX, for emergency communications equipment ..................... 300,000 

Menifee County Sheriff’s Department, Menifee County, KY, to purchase law enforcement technology equipment ................................................................................................................................................................... 30,000 

Mercer County, Trenton, NJ, to provide a comprehensive case management system for prisoners returning to 

the community ................................................................................................................................................... 200,000 

Metropolitan Crime Commission, New Orleans, LA, to eliminate public corruption and reduce white collar 

crime .................................................................................................................................................................. 450,000 

Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, for law enforcement intelligence .................................................... 1,500,000 

Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, for digital forensic training ............................................................ 2,500,000 

Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, for training and research ............................................................... 1,000,000 

Montana Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, Helena, MT, for enhanced offender monitoring, tracking 

and notification to ensure public safety .......................................................................................................... 200,000 

Montana State University at Billings, Billings, MT, for an academic program at the Montana Women’s Prison 

that offers inmates general education coursework toward certificate or Associate degrees .......................... 200,000 

Multnomah County, Troutdale and Gresham, OR, to create a position in the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office to investigate and prosecute cases involving the victimization and exploitation of the elderly ................................................................................................................................................................... 275,000 

National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC), Washington, DC, for a national hotline that provides information and services to crime victims ................................................................................................................... 500,000 

National Judicial College, Reno, NV, for judicial education and scholarship of judges ...................................... 800,000 

Nevada Dept. of Public Safety, Carson City, NV, to assist probationers with diagnosed substance abuse 

problems and financial need in receiving treatment ....................................................................................... 250,000 

New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Concord, NH, to combat street-level drug trafficking ...................... 750,000 

New Hampshire State Police, Concord, NH, to combat gang and drug-related violence and crime .................. 1,500,000 

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, to develop technology that would reduce accidental shootings, teen suicides, unauthorized use of firearms by family members and illegal secondary trade of 

weapons ............................................................................................................................................................. 250,000 

New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts, Santa Fe, NM, to continue drug court programs ................... 400,000 

North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association, Raleigh, NC, for the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association to equip a 

training facility .................................................................................................................................................. 250,000 

Northern Regional Laboratory Group, Greeley, CO, to build a full service crime lab in Northern Colorado ........ 500,000 

Northwest Arkansas Community College, Bentonville, AR, for a training center to reduce cases of child 

abuse and improve support for victims of child abuse ................................................................................... 500,000 

Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD, for law enforcement, court operations, prosecutors, public 

defenders office, and detention equipment and operations on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation .............. 750,000 

Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, Oklahoma City, OK, to continue replacement of Oklahoma’s aging 

communication system ...................................................................................................................................... 150,000 

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Oklahoma City, OK, for information-sharing within and between 

State and local law enforcement agencies ...................................................................................................... 100,000 

Oneida County District Attorney’s Office, Utica, NY, for an information-sharing database to analyze gang related crime ........................................................................................................................................................ 215,000 

Operation Our Town, Altoona, PA, for drug enforcement and gang prevention programs ................................... 250,000 

Orlando Regional Healthcare, Orlando, FL, for operations of the Sexual Trauma Recovery Center .................... 125,000 

Our Children’s Homestead, Rockford, IL, for the tutoring of at-risk youth in the foster system ........................ 200,000 

Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, Cumberland County, PA, for a program that engages adults in reporting and intervening in child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania ............................................................................ 250,000 

Phoenix House, Providence, RI, to upgrade a clinical management system ........................................................ 1,000,000 

Phoenix House Florida, Hillsborough County, FL, to upgrade health record technology ...................................... 300,000 
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Project Amount 

Providence Police Department, Providence, RI, for a community-policing initiative to reduce drugs and drugrelated crime ..................................................................................................................................................... 1,000,000 

Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), Washington, DC, for national anti-sexual assault programs ................................................................................................................................................................. 500,000 

Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office, Alexandria, LA, for equipment and technology upgrades ................................. 200,000 

Safe and Sound, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, for personnel and after-school programs ................................................ 600,000 

Safe Streets Campaign, Tacoma, WA, to implement comprehensive gang prevention, intervention and suppression strategies ............................................................................................................................................ 500,000 

Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, for crime lab technologies .......................................................... 800,000 

Sheriffs Youth Programs of Minnesota, Inver Grove Heights, MN, to be used by the Sheriffs Youth Program 

to expand programming at SYP’s horse farm .................................................................................................. 100,000 

Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, CA, to provide sensitivity training to law enforcement when investigating hate crimes and civil rights abuses ................................................................................................... 1,000,000 

South Royalton Legal Clinic at Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT, to provide legal aid to economically-disadvantaged and vulnerable populations in Vermont .......................................................................... 300,000 

St. Croix County District Attorney, Hudson, WI, for a specialized methamphetamine prosecution unit .............. 60,000 

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Standing Rock Indian Reservation, SD, for law enforcement, court operations, 

prosecutors, the public defender’s office, and detention programs ................................................................ 250,000 

State of Alaska, Juneau, AK, for the training of VPSO’s, and the acquisition of emergency response and 

search and rescue equipment for rural communities ...................................................................................... 2,000,000 

State of Alaska, Juneau, AK, for alcohol interdiction for investigation and prosecution of bootlegging crimes 

as part of a statewide effort to reduce Fetal Alcohol Syndrome ..................................................................... 1,000,000 

State of Alaska, Juneau, AK, to support coordinator and train law enforcement officers to teach drug abuse 

resistance education ......................................................................................................................................... 210,000 

State of Alaska, Juneau, AK, to develop a network to allow remote access to the criminal justice information, from a single point of access, thus allowing law enforcement and others Courts within the State to 

access court records ......................................................................................................................................... 235,000 

Tallahassee Community College, Leon County, FL, to expand intelligence training programs ............................ 200,000 

TEAM 2000 Community Development Corporation, Elizabeth, NJ, to provide an integrated system of case 

management, education, and job development services for ex-offenders in the area ................................... 300,000 

Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX, for emergency communications equipment ................................................. 400,000 

Texas Team Focus, Morgan, TX, to establish a youth mentoring program .......................................................... 350,000 

The Marcus Institute, Atlanta, GA, to provide remediation for the potential consequences of childhood abuse 

and neglect ........................................................................................................................................................ 100,000 

The Providence Center, Providence, RI, to help address barriers that incarcerated men and women face as 

they re-enter their communities ........................................................................................................................ 500,000 

The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, for law enforcement training purposes ..................... 400,000 

The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, for forensic science technology ................................. 1,000,000 

The University of Southern Mississippi, Gulfport, MS, for statewide public safety information sharing ............ 1,000,000 

The University of Tennessee Law Enforcement Innovation Center, Knoxville, TN, for training and technical assistance under the Safe Streets Act ................................................................................................................. 350,000 

The Women’s Sports Foundation, East Meadow, NY, to prevent delinquency and promote well-being among 

young women by involving them in physical activity ....................................................................................... 250,000 

Town of Brantley, Brantley, AL, for law enforcement equipment ......................................................................... 75,000 

Troy University, Troy, AL, for forensics research and operations .......................................................................... 350,000 

Uhlich Children’s Advantage Network and YouthBuild Lake County, Chicago, IL, for the expansion of a violence prevention service network ...................................................................................................................... 250,000 

University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, for a mentoring program for at-risk youth to reduce 

truancy ............................................................................................................................................................... 500,000 

University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, to equip the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma 

State Bureau of Investigation Forensic Institution ........................................................................................... 150,000 

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, for community-based gun violence prevention and intervention ..................................................................................................................................................................... 500,000 

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, to develop scientific, objective and reliable methods for detecting 

physical child abuse ......................................................................................................................................... 500,000 

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, to expand the regional biocontainment laboratory ................................. 150,000 

University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, to University of Memphis, Shelby County, the City of Memphis and the 

State District Attorney General jointly working on combining resources to deal with growing gang numbers and increased violent crime ..................................................................................................................... 1,000,000 

University of Mississippi, University, MS, to provide legal training for judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and law 

students and develops model programs and publications .............................................................................. 2,250,000 

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, to continue to advance law enforcement research and development ................................................................................................................................................................... 750,000 

University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, ND, for the recruitment and retention of American 

Indian law students .......................................................................................................................................... 300,000 

University of South Carolina Law School, Columbia, SC, to support efforts of its law clinics ........................... 100,000 
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Project Amount 

Vermont Department of Public Safety, Waterbury, VT to combat increased illegal drug activities .................... 1,000,000 

Vermont State’s Attorney’s Office, Montpelier, VT, for the Special Investigation Unit’s task forces .................. 100,000 

Wasco County, Wasco County, OR, for relocation costs and new equipment for a new interoperable 9–1–1 

Emergency Dispatch Center .............................................................................................................................. 300,000 

West Valley City, West Valley City, UT, for a state-of-the -art crime forensics lab ............................................ 250,000 

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, to support a forensic science initiative ........................................... 4,000,000 

William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, to support a collaborative effort of 

law schools to provide cost-effective review of potentially viable cases of wrongful convictions ................. 500,000 

Winona State University, Winona, MN, to provide training, technical assistance and publications to child 

protection professionals .................................................................................................................................... 700,000 

Wisconsin Department of Administration, Madison, WI, to support assistant district attorney positions in 

Milwaukee County and other counties that are scheduled to be laid off within the next year ..................... 1,200,000 

Women’s Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, to provide a comprehensive range of 

services for victims of domestic violence and their children .......................................................................... 200,000 

Youth Service Bureau of Illinois Valley, Ottawa, IL, for programming to assist troubled youth and their families ..................................................................................................................................................................... 175,000 

YWCA of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, to expand services for victims of domestic violence ................... 300,000 

Zero to Three, Des Moines, IA, for coordinated care for abused and neglected infants and toddlers ............... 300,000 

Second Chance Act.—The Second Chance Act (Public Law 110– 

199) is a comprehensive response to improve outcomes for people 

released from prisons and jails and returning to our communities. 

Each year, nearly 670,000 people are released from State prisons 

and approximately 9 million are released from jails. A 2002 study 

by the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated more than two-thirds 

of individuals released from prisons in 1994 were rearrested for a 

new offense within 3 years and more than 50 percent returned for 

committing new crimes or for violating their conditions of supervision. And at least 95 percent of the individuals now in prison will 

be released and will return to communities, often without assistance or services. 

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice 

Statistics, an estimated 95 percent of all State prisoners will be released—with one-half of these individuals expected to return to 

prison within 3 years for the commission of a new crime or violation of their conditions of release. This cycle of recidivism not only 

compromises public safety, but also increases taxpayer spending. A 

February 2007 report from The Pew Charitable Trusts stated that 

if Federal, State, and local policies and practices do not change, 

taxpayers are expected to pay as much as $27,500,000,000 on prisons alone from 2007 to 2011 on top of current corrections spending. 

Adult and Juvenile Offender State and Local Reentry Demonstration.—The Second Chance Act (Public Law 110–199) reauthorizes 

the Adult and Juvenile Offender State and Local Reentry Demonstration Projects (sec. 101) to help States and communities test 

ways to reduce recidivism and address the alarming recidivism 

rates nationwide. The Demonstration Projects will provide grants 

to States and local governments that may be used to promote the 

safe and successful reintegration into the community of individuals 

who have been incarcerated. The Committee recognizes that State 

and local governments buckling under the pressure of unprecedented growth in jail and prison populations and so provides 

$10,000,000 for this important program to ensure public safety 

through initiatives geared at returning offenders. 

Mentoring Grants.—The Second Chance Act (Public Law 110– 

199) authorizes the Prisoner Reentry Mentoring (sec. 211) grants 
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to allow community and faith-based groups to recruit, train and 

match returning inmates with mentors. Having a mentor often 

means the difference between success and failure for inmates during their first, difficult days of transition from incarceration to freedom. The grants to nonprofit organizations may also be used for 

transitional services for re-integration into the community. 

Mentoring programs have been proven to significantly reduce recidivism. The grants to nonprofit organizations for mentoring and 

transitional services are a key element in reducing recidivism rates 

nationwide. For this new initiative the Committee recommendation 

provides $10,000,000. 

WEED AND SEED PROGRAM

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $32,100,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... ........................ 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 25,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $25,000,000. The recommendation is $7,100,000 below the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and $25,000,000 above the budget request. 

JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $383,513,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 185,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 400,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $400,000,000. The recommendation is $16,487,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $215,000,000 above the budget request. 

The Committee recommendations are displayed in the following 

table: 

JUVENILE JUSTICE 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

Part A—Management and Administration ........................................................................................................ 500 

Part B—State Formula ...................................................................................................................................... 74,500 

Part E—Challenge Grants and Projects ........................................................................................................... 65,000 

Youth Mentoring Grants ..................................................................................................................................... 80,000 

Title V—Incentive Grants .................................................................................................................................. 65,000 

Tribal Youth ............................................................................................................................................... (15,000 ) 

Gang Prevention ........................................................................................................................................ (10,000 ) 

Alcohol Prevention ..................................................................................................................................... (25,000 ) 

Secure Our Schools Act ...................................................................................................................................... 10,000 

Victims of Child Abuse Programs ...................................................................................................................... 25,000 

Juvenile Accountability Block Grant ................................................................................................................... 80,000 

Total ...................................................................................................................................................... 400,000 

The Committee expects to be consulted prior to any deviation 

from the above plan. 

Fairness and Objectivity in the Award of Competitive Grants.— The Committee is deeply concerned about the allegations that the 

Department steered fiscal year 2007 juvenile justice grants to favored recipients instead of awarding them to deserving grantees 

who ranked more highly in a peer-reviewed process. As noted previously, within 30 days of enactment of this act, the Department 
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is directed to provide a full accounting of the process used in 2007, 

as well as, a report on corrective measures taken to ensure fairness 

and objectivity in the award of all future discretionary grants. The 

Committee also directs the Inspector General to review the 2007 

grant award process and report to Senate Committee on Appropriations expeditiously. 

Juvenile Justice Summary.—Established in 1974 and most recently authorized in 2002 with bipartisan support, the Juvenile 

Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act [JJDPA]—together with 

the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant [JABG]—embodies a partnership between the Federal Government and the U.S. States, territories and the District of Columbia to protect children and youth 

in the juvenile and criminal justice system, to effectively address 

high-risk and delinquent behavior, and to improve community safety. Recent adolescent brain development research demonstrating 

the importance of the teen years in the establishment of an individual’s ‘‘executive functions’’ (decisionmaking, understanding consequences, planning, and impulse control), coupled with strong 

data from evaluations of effective prevention and intervention approaches, reveal the critical importance of these Federal investments in shaping the lives of millions of at-risk youth and enhancing the safety of our neighborhoods. 

Title II, Part B of the JJDPA: State Formula Grants Program.— Through this program, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 

Prevention [OJJDP] provides funds directly to States, territories, 

and the District of Columbia to help them to support increased 

availability of effective prevention and intervention programs, to 

implement comprehensive State juvenile justice plans based on detailed studies of needs in their jurisdictions, as well as to implement juvenile justice system improvements to achieve compliance 

with the core requirements of the JJDPA. For example, State formula grants have supported Multisystemic Therapy, shown to cut 

rates of juvenile offender rearrests in half. 

Title V of the JJPDA: Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention 

Programs.—Commonly known as the Community Prevention 

Grants Program, title V funds collaborative, community-based delinquency prevention efforts to reach youth in high-risk situations. 

For example, a study compared five housing projects without community based programs to reach youth to five receiving these programs. At the beginning, drug activity and vandalism were the 

same. But by the time the study ended, the projects without the 

programs had 50 percent more vandalism and scored 37 percent 

worse on drug activity. 

Juvenile Accountability Block Grant [JABG].—JABG provides 

States and units of local government with funds to develop programs to promote greater accountability in the juvenile justice system, including building, expanding, and operating juvenile facilities; training correctional personnel, hiring additional judges, prosecutors, probation officers, and court-appointed defenders; and 

funding pre-trial services for juveniles. The purpose areas of JABG 

were expanded significantly under the 2002 and 2005 reauthorizations to provide for: graduated sanctions programs that include 

counseling, restitution, community service, and supervised probation; more substance abuse programs; mental health screening and 
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treatment; restorative justice programs; gang prevention; anti-bullying initiatives; and offender re-entry approaches. 

Part G of the JJDPA: Juvenile Mentoring.—Juvenile Mentoring 

enables communities to run high-quality mentoring programs. For 

example, a study of a national juvenile mentoring program found 

that those in the program were one-half as likely to begin illegal 

drug use and nearly one-third less likely to hit someone compared 

to those who were randomly assigned to a waiting list. 

Funding for OJJDP.—Authorized under title II, part A of the 

JJDPA, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 

[OJJDP], a component of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of 

Justice Programs, supports States and communities in their efforts 

to develop and implement effective and coordinated prevention and 

intervention programs and to improve the juvenile justice system 

in order to enhance public safety, prevent delinquency, protect children and provide treatment and rehabilitative services tailored to 

the needs of juveniles and their families. OJJDP provides for training, technical assistance, research, and evaluation to identify ‘‘what 

works’’ and to disseminate that information widely to State and 

local program personnel. 

Discretionary Grants.—The Committee recommendation provides $65,000,000 for part E programs. The Committee provides funding 

for the following congressionally directed projects, and directs the 

Department of Justice to refrain from charging administrative costs 

to these grants. The Committee expects that the Department of 

Justice will provide appropriate management and oversight of each 

grant. Within the amounts provided, OJP shall fund the following 

proposals: 

Project Amount 

Alabama 4–H Foundation, Auburn, AL, for juvenile justice prevention programs ............................................... 500,000 

Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, Talladega, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs ...... 150,000 

An Achievable Dream, Newport News, VA, to continue and expand assistance programs for at-risk youth ...... 300,000 

Baptist Child and Family Services, San Antonio, TX, to prevent juvenile delinquency ....................................... 250,000 

Baton Rouge Bar Foundation, Baton Rouge, LA, for the operations of a teen court with a peer jury trial system ..................................................................................................................................................................... 250,000 

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Louisiana, Lake Charles, LA, to increase programming for at-risk children in 

southwestern Louisiana ..................................................................................................................................... 200,000 

Bolder Options, Minneapolis, MN, to continue Bolder Options’ unique model of one-on-one mentoring to reduce truancy and raise academic standards of Twin Cities youth ................................................................. 150,000 

Boys and Girls Club of Central Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, for a mentoring-based gang prevention program .................................................................................................................................................................. 100,000 

Boys and Girls Club of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, to provide crime prevention and outreach services to rural 

youth .................................................................................................................................................................. 1,000,000 

Boys and Girls Clubs of the Grand River in South Dakota, McLaughlin, SD, to provide services and programming ................................................................................................................................................................... 150,000 

Boys and Girls Home of Nebraska, South Sioux City, NE, for a treatment and services program to serve child 

and teenaged victims of trauma ...................................................................................................................... 250,000 

Boys Town New England, Portsmouth, RI, to increase services for at-risk girls and boys in the juvenile justice system ........................................................................................................................................................ 161,000 

Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation, Baltimore, MD, for youth mentoring programs for at-risk children ........................ 1,000,000 

Cherokee County Family Resource Center, Heflin, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs ....... 100,000 

Children and Families First, Wilmington, DE, to provide service intervention to girls ages 12–18 ................... 400,000 

Chippewa Cree Tribe, Rocky Boy’s Reservation, MT, to restore a detention facility to house juvenile offenders, provide in-house education and offer treatment services ........................................................................ 250,000 

Citizenship Trust at American Village, Montgomery, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs ... 450,000 

City of Boston, Boston, MA, to implement a comprehensive community-based youth crime reduction program .................................................................................................................................................................. 750,000 

City of Brockton, Brockton, MA, for the expansion of after-school programs designed to reduce youth 

crime .................................................................................................................................................................. 250,000 
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Project Amount 

City of Chesapeake, Chesapeake, VA, for a gang deterrence program ................................................................ 100,000 

City of Jackson, Jackson, MS, for prevention programs for at-risk teens ............................................................ 250,000 

City of Omaha, Omaha, NE, for the expansion of after school educational programming ................................. 500,000 

City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, for the Youth Violence Reduction Partnership ....................................... 1,000,000 

City of South Salt Lake, South Salt Lake, UT, for after school program expansions .......................................... 100,000 

County of Fresno, Fresno, CA, for a collaborative gang prevention program ...................................................... 300,000 

Friends of CASA of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, for intervention and permanent placement for infants and toddlers in the foster care system .................................................................................................. 375,000 

Generations, Inc., Camden, NJ, for services to assist families and communities in reducing juvenile violence .................................................................................................................................................................. 150,000 

Girl Scouts USA, Baltimore, MD, for a youth mentoring program for at-risk children of adult offenders .......... 1,000,000 

Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition, Philadelphia, PA, for the National Comprehensive Center for 

Fathers for a mentoring-based, fatherhood initiative ...................................................................................... 250,000 

Jobs For Delaware Graduates, Inc., Dover, DE, to expand services delivered to at-risk students in middle and 

high school ........................................................................................................................................................ 1,353,000 

Juvenile Justice Program for University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice 

programs ............................................................................................................................................................ 125,000 

Linking Learning to Life At-Risk Youth Training Program, Burlington, VT, to prepare at-risk high school students for successful employment and post-secondary education ................................................................... 500,000 

Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee, WI, to continue the operations of safe summer sites ............................ 350,000 

Morgan County System of Services, Decatur, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs .............. 125,000 

New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, Santa Fe, NM, to implement a pilot juvenile crime 

prevention program ........................................................................................................................................... 300,000 

Nez Perce Tribe, Lapwai, ID, to help reduce child neglect and abuse at the Nez Perce Tribe ........................... 150,000 

Ogden School District, Ogden, UT, to assist in funding district’s after-school programs, addiction counseling, and juvenile courts project ................................................................................................................... 150,000 

OliveCrest, Las Vegas, NV, to expand therapeutic foster care operations ........................................................... 200,000 

Pawtucket Police Department, Pawtucket, RI, for youth education programs designed to decrease truancy .... 493,000 

Phoenix House, Dallas, TX, for residential substance abuse treatment for adolescents ..................................... 250,000 

Police Athletic League of New Jersey, Freehold, NJ, to coordinate a statewide after-school program with the 

goal of deterring juvenile crime ........................................................................................................................ 250,000 

Reconcile New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, for a workforce construction project to provide at-risk youth with 

the skills for successful entry into the hospitality and construction industries ............................................. 300,000 

Rose Brooks Center, Kansas City, MO, to provide services to victims of domestic violence and their children ...................................................................................................................................................................... 300,000 

Rosebud Boys and Girls Club, Mission, SD, for services, programming, equipment and supplies .................... 100,000 

Save the Children, Westport, CT, for after-school and summer literacy programs in Arkansas ......................... 500,000 

Sea Research Foundation, Inc., Mystic, CT, to expand academic course offerings in science and technology 

to an additional 100,000 students each year .................................................................................................. 300,000 

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, ND, for equipment, staffing, and operations of a youth detention center ...................................................................................................................................................................... 1,200,000 

Suffolk University, Boston, MA, for the development of comprehensive juvenile justice programs aimed at reducing recidivism .............................................................................................................................................. 500,000 

Team Focus, Inc., Mobile, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs ............................................. 600,000 

TuskMac CDC, Tuskegee, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs .............................................. 100,000 

Union Springs YMCA, Union Springs, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs ........................... 100,000 

United Way of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA, for a youth crime prevention and intervention initiative ....... 400,000 

University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, to provide planning, training and assistance to schools to 

help them prevent and manage violence ......................................................................................................... 350,000 

University of Delaware’s Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Newark, DE, to continue a statewide survey of 

youth that provides estimates of student substance abuse, crime and gambling ........................................ 65,000 

University of Montana, Missoula, MT, for teacher training, curriculum development and awareness initiatives 

to combat bullying as well as the development of emergency protocol for school shootings ....................... 400,000 

University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, for youth mentoring and domestic violence prevention programs .... 400,000 

Vermont Department of Children and Families, Waterbury, VT, for state-wide at-risk youth assistance programs ................................................................................................................................................................. 700,000 

Village of Richton Park, Richton Park, IL, for the development of a youth intervention program ...................... 300,000 

Visiting Nurse Association of Omaha, Omaha, NE, for a comprehensive crime intervention program for vulnerable women, infants, children, and teens ................................................................................................... 300,000 

Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance, Madison, WI, for a grant program to reduce disproportionate minority 

juvenile contact ................................................................................................................................................. 700,000 

Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, for a coordinated, evidence-based approach to serve at-risk youth in 

the local community .......................................................................................................................................... 300,000 

YWCA Center for Families, Salt Lake City, UT, to provide equipment for new Center for Families, which aims 

to end domestic violence through prevention, intervention and accountability .............................................. 300,000 
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Project Amount 

YWCA Columbus, Columbus, OH, to expand After-School Programs for At-Risk Youth and Programs for 

Homeless Families ............................................................................................................................................. 750,000 

YWCA Madison, Madison, WI, to expand a neighborhood and school-based crime reduction program .............. 500,000 

Zero to Three, Omaha, NE, to educate juvenile and family court judges in early childhood development in 

order to improve the child welfare system for maltreated infants and toddlers ............................................ 150,000 

Gang Prevention.—The Committee recommendation provides 

$10,000,000 for this anti-gang education initiative. 

Enforcing the Underage Drinking Laws Program.—Within the 

funds provided in the At-Risk Children Program (title V), the Committee provides $25,000,000 for grants to assist States in enforcing 

underage drinking laws. 

Secure Our Schools Act.—The Committee recommendation provides $10,000,000 for expenses authorized by the Secure Our 

Schools Act that support efforts to ensure school safety and crime 

deterrence, coordinated with State and local law enforcement agencies. 

Victims of Child Abuse Act.—The Committee recommendation 

provides $25,000,000 for the various programs authorized under 

the Victims of Child Abuse Act [VOCA] (Public Law 101–647). 

Within the funds provided, $10,000,000 shall be for Regional Child 

Advocacy Centers Programs. The Regional Children’s Advocacy 

Centers [RCACs] were established through the Victims of Child 

Abuse Act to provide information, consultation, training, and technical assistance to communities, and to help establish child-focused 

programs that facilitate and support coordination among agencies 

responding to child abuse. The RCACs and the National Children’s 

Alliance [NCA] have identified several joint initiatives which include: developing centers in underserved areas; support and development of Tribal CACs; constituent involvement; marketing; and 

public awareness. In working on these initiatives, the RCACs have 

created programs such as the National Training Academy, which 

trains professionals and multi-disciplinary teams investigating 

child abuse, and the telemedicine pilot project, which assists remote areas in investigating child abuse. 

PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS BENEFITS

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $74,834,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 69,100,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 69,100,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $69,100,000. The recommendation is $5,734,000 below the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and equal to the budget request. 

This mandatory program provides a lump-sum death benefit payment to eligible survivors of Federal, State, and local public safety 

officers whose death was the direct and proximate result of a traumatic injury sustained in the line of duty. 

Public Safety Officers Benefits.—The Committee directs the Government Accountability Office [GAO] to provide an analysis of, and 

recommendations to improve, Federal and State programs to assist 

public safety officers and their survivors, who are catastrophically 

injured or killed in the line of duty. 
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COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $587,233,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... ........................... 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 600,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $600,000,000. The recommendation is $12,767,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $600,000,000 above the budget request. 

Local law enforcement is not only essential to ensure the safety 

of the public, but also plays a critical role in preventing and responding to terrorist threats. Since its creation, the Community 

Oriented Policing Services [COPS] office has assisted State and 

local law enforcement agencies by providing grants, training, and 

technical assistance that not only ensure public safety from traditional crime, but also better enables law enforcement officers to address the growing threat from terrorist organizations. 

The Committee recommendations are displayed in the following 

table: 

COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Program Committee 

recommendation 

Training and Technical Assistance .................................................................................................................... 6,000 

COPS Hiring Grants ............................................................................................................................................ 50,000 

Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability ............................................................................................ 110,000 

Violent Gang and Gun Crime Reduction ........................................................................................................... 20,000 

Meth Hot Spots .................................................................................................................................................. 61,187 

Bullet-Proof Vests .............................................................................................................................................. 25,850 

NIST/OLES .................................................................................................................................................. (1,880 ) 

Tribal Law Enforcement ..................................................................................................................................... 15,040 

Criminal Records Upgrade ................................................................................................................................. 5,960 

DNA Analysis Backlog Reduction/Crime Labs ................................................................................................... 180,963 

Debbie Smith DNA Backlog grants ........................................................................................................... (151,000 ) 

Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA Testing grants ............................................................................ (5,000 ) 

DNA Training and Education .................................................................................................................... (6,000 ) 

DNA R&D ................................................................................................................................................... (5,000 ) 

DNA Identification of Missing Person ....................................................................................................... (3,000 ) 

DNA Evidence Analysis Turn Around Time ................................................................................................ (10,983 ) 

Paul Coverdell Forensic Science ........................................................................................................................ 40,000 

Child Sexual Predator Elimination/Sex Offender Management ......................................................................... 55,000 

Management and Administration ...................................................................................................................... 30,000 

Total ...................................................................................................................................................... 600,000 

Any deviations from the above plan are subject to the reprogramming requirements of section 505. 

PUBLIC SAFETY AND COMMUNITY POLICING PROGRAMS

Training and Technical Assistance.—The Committee recommendation provides for $5,000 for COPS to provide Training and 

Technical Assistance to assist agencies with developing innovative 

community policing strategies through applied research and evaluation initiatives. 

Bullet-Proof Vests.—The Committee recommendation provides $25,850,000 for COPS testing of bullet-proof vests. Of the amount 

provided $5,000,000 is for the National Institute of Standards and 

Technology’s [NIST] Office of Law Enforcement Standards [OLES] 
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to continue supporting the ballistic and stab-resistant material 

compliance testing programs, as well as for other technical support 

related to public safety weapons and protective systems. 

Tribal Law Enforcement.—The Committee recommendation pro- vides $15,040,000 for tribal law enforcement efforts, which is the 

same as the budget request. The recommendation combines funds 

in this heading with funds previously appropriated under State 

and Local Law Assistance. These funds may be used for training, 

hiring equipment, court improvement projects, and alcohol and substance abuse reduction programs. 

The Committee notes the condition of certain Navajo Nation detention and court facilities and urges the Department of Justice to 

take action to address Navajo Nation detention and court facilities 

in need of repair. The Navajo Nation, with a population of 300,000, 

is the largest American Indian tribe, and with a reservation larger 

than 25,000 square miles, Navajo Nation public services are struggling to contain crime, which has risen to levels many times higher 

than national averages. Navajo Nation judicial services are also 

struggling to provide adequate court facilities to accommodate the 

approximate 80,000 cases that are handled by the Navajo Nation 

Supreme Court, eight judicial districts and peacemaker courts. 

Adequate detention and court facilities are needed to address these 

levels. The Department of Justice shall review the state of existing 

detention and court facilities and the need for new detention and 

court facilities on Navajo Nation land and not later than 1 year 

after the date of the enactment of this act shall provide a report 

to the Committees on Appropriations on its findings regarding Navajo Nation detention and court facilities and a description of actions that have been or will be taken by the Department relating 

to such facilities. 

Drug Courts.—The Committee recognizes that drug courts greatly improve substance abuse treatment outcomes, substantially reduce crime, and produce significant societal benefits. The Committee notes that a new study funded by the U.S. Department of 

Justice, conducted by The Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center, 

‘‘To Treat or Not to Treat: Evidence on the Prospects of Expanding 

Treatment to Drug-Involved Offenders,’’ found that drug courts 

yield a substantial reduction in crime and more than 

$1,000,000,000 of annual cost savings. The Committee is concerned 

that the while the study found that there are 1.47 million arrestees 

who are legally and clinically eligible for Drug Court, only 55,000 

are currently served by the program. The committee supports the 

expansion of drug courts in order to bring this the Drug Court Program to scale and effectively address this population. 

DNA Turnaround Pilot.—The Committee recommends 

$10,983,000 to reduce the turn-around-time for the analysis of 

DNA evidence. While the Committee continues to believe that enhanced DNA laboratory capacity is critical to the ability of crime 

laboratories to meet the increase demand for DNA testing services, 

the Committee also believes crime labs and the criminal justice 

system should benefit from that increased capacity. More and 

more, the criminal justice system is realizing the importance of collecting, preserving, and submitting forensic evidence. This has resulted in sharp increases in the submissions of DNA evidence to 
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our public crime labs. The Committee believes that innovative 

ideas and programs are necessary to make an impact on the growing needs of laboratories. The Committee proposes that a national 

model be developed through a pilot program for our Nation’s public 

crime labs. Through improved efficiency and capacity of laboratories; maximizing the effective utilization of DNA technology; and 

re-engineering DNA processes using proven automation and expert 

systems; crime labs will reach the goal of a 30-day turn-aroundtime. The Department shall provide to the Committee no later than 

60 days after enactment a plan to implement the pilot program to 

include details on establishing a requirement for a diagnostic review of the lab as a condition of the grant; reporting requirements 

on progress reached by successful applicants over prior years; and 

development of a public and password protected website reporting 

progress made by the labs as part of the pilot program. Further, 

the Committee requests the Department report on implementation 

of the pilot program 180 days after grants are awarded to the 

crime labs. 

COPS Technology.—The Committee provides funding for the following congressionally directed projects, and directs the Department of Justice to refrain from charging administrative costs to 

these grants. The Committee expects that the Department of Justice will provide appropriate management and oversight of each 

grant. Within the amounts provided, the COPS program office shall 

fund the following projects: 

Project Amount 

Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC), Montgomery, AL, for law enforcement data gathering 

and dissemination ............................................................................................................................................. 500,000 

Alabama—Tombigbee Regional Commission, Camden, AL, for traffic safety technology and law enforcement 

equipment .......................................................................................................................................................... 400,000 

Arkansas State Police, Little Rock, AR, to implement an interoperable system to provide an interactive picture of law enforcement resources in route and at the scene of critical incidents or natural disasters ..... 200,000 

Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation, Poplar, MT, for the operation of a 9–1–1 call 

center ................................................................................................................................................................. 100,000 

Baltimore County, Baltimore County, MD, for technology upgrades ..................................................................... 1,500,000 

Berkeley Township Police Department, Bayville, NJ, for a comprehensive video security system ....................... 500,000 

Caddo Parish District Attorney, NW Louisiana, LA, to equip a sexual predator task force ................................. 200,000

Calhoun County Sheriff, Anniston, AL, for law enforcement data gathering and dissemination ........................ 350,000 

Calvert County, Calvert County, MD, to purchase equipment .............................................................................. 500,000 

Centenary College, Shreveport, LA, for improvement of campus security ............................................................ 500,000 

Center for Technology Commercialization, Westborough, MA, for the continued development of law enforcement technology and training programs .......................................................................................................... 750,000 

Cherry Hill Township, Cherry Hill, NJ, for law enforcement communications ....................................................... 250,000 

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, SD, for upgrades and maintenance to the 

9–1–1 system .................................................................................................................................................... 250,000 

City of Allentown, Allentown, PA, for security camera acquisition and installation ............................................ 400,000 

City of Astoria, Astoria, OR, to enhance public safety radio systems ................................................................. 325,000 

City of Bayonne, Bayonne, NJ, to purchase equipment for a new centralized command and control operations center ...................................................................................................................................................... 600,000 

City of Billings, Billings, MT, to purchase digital video cameras, a tactical blanket system and a tactical 

armored security vehicle ................................................................................................................................... 269,000 

City of Brewton, Escambia, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ........................................................... 200,000 

City of Burien, Burien, WA, for emergency communications upgrades ................................................................ 150,000 

City of Calera, Calera, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ................................................................... 250,000 

City of Camden, Camden, NJ, for the purchase of equipment to more effectively fight crime .......................... 1,000,000 

City of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, to implement 800 MHz radios for non-public safety agencies .................... 200,000 

City of Dothan, Dothan, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ................................................................. 300,000 

City of Fayetteville, Fayetteville, AR, to purchase, install and implement a simulcast radio system ................ 500,000 

City of Flint, Flint, MI, for in-car computers and in-car cameras ....................................................................... 500,000 

City of Flora, Flora, MS, for equipment upgrades and improvements for the police department ....................... 250,000 
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Project Amount 

City of Gadsden, Gadsden, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ............................................................ 250,000 

City of Greenville Police Department, Greenville, SC, for mobile data terminals ................................................ 150,000 

City of Gulf Shores, Gulf Shores, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades .................................................. 350,000 

City of Hartford, Hartford, CT, to purchase first responder and emergency equipment for a new municipal 

public safety complex ........................................................................................................................................ 300,000 

City of Hartford, Hartford, CT, for equipment at a new public safety complex ................................................... 750,000 

City of Houston, Houston, TX, for interoperability ................................................................................................. 125,000 

City of Inglewood Police Department, Inglewood, CA, to upgrade the Inglewood Police Department’s radio 

system ................................................................................................................................................................ 500,000 

City of Iowa City, Iowa City, IA, for integrated emergency resources .................................................................. 125,000 

City of Jackson, Jackson, MS, for crime fighting technology ................................................................................ 750,000 

City of Kalispell, Kalispell, MT, to create a public safety training and testing facility for first responders ..... 750,000 

City of Kaysville, Kaysville, UT, for police station equipment .............................................................................. 100,000 

City of Kenosha Police Department, Kenosha, WI, for technology upgrades ........................................................ 100,000 

City of Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, for law enforcement equipment .............................................................................. 130,000 

City of Little Rock, Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, to upgrade an 800 MHz communications network and complete its conversion to a digital system ........................................................................................................... 500,000 

City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, to expand the City of Los Angeles mass notification system ................. 500,000 

City of Medford, Medford, OR, to provide for the merging of two existing 9–1–1 dispatch centers into one 

facility ................................................................................................................................................................ 700,000 

City of Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL, to improve the ability to process and store photographic evidence for 

investigations and emergencies ........................................................................................................................ 400,000 

City of Milwaukee Police Department, Milwaukee, WI, to install a gunshot location system for high crime 

areas .................................................................................................................................................................. 650,000 

City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, for the purchase of car cameras and mobile data centers for police 

officers ............................................................................................................................................................... 300,000 

City of Missoula, Missoula, MT, for a new police headquarters .......................................................................... 300,000 

City of Modesto, Modesto, CA, for law enforcement communications equipment ............................................... 500,000 

City of Montgomery and Montgomery County, Montgomery, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ......... 650,000 

City of Newark Police Department, Newark, DE, for the purchase of video surveillance cameras in the downtown area ........................................................................................................................................................... 115,420 

City of North Las Vegas Police Department, North Las Vegas, NV, for a records management system ............ 300,000 

City of Oakland, Oakland, CA, to provide law enforcement equipment ............................................................... 500,000 

City of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, for deployment of security cameras in 15 different business districts ....... 250,000 

City of Prattville, Prattville, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ........................................................... 400,000 

City of Radford, Radford, VA, for the transition into a new police department facility ...................................... 250,000 

City of Sioux City, Sioux City, IA, for meth related training ................................................................................. 100,000 

City of South Jordan, South Jordan, UT, for high-speed wireless hotspots for police to transfer data and 

share information .............................................................................................................................................. 150,000 

City of Spokane, Spokane, WA, for new law enforcement technology .................................................................. 500,000 

City of Stamford, Stamford, CT, to purchase critical console equipment for a new emergency communications platform .................................................................................................................................................... 300,000 

City of Williamsport, Williamsport, PA, for a wireless digital video surveillance system .................................... 450,000 

City of Yonkers Police Department, Yonkers, NY, to reduce non-emergency 9–1–1 calls through the creation 

of a new public hotline ..................................................................................................................................... 250,000 

City of York, York, PA, for security camera acquisition and installation ............................................................. 200,000 

Clarion County, Clarion County, PA, for an interoperable communications initiative .......................................... 500,000 

Cobb County Office of Economic Development, Cobb County, GA, for public safety first responder regional 

communications interoperability ....................................................................................................................... 100,000 

Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police, Denver, CO, for an electronic state-wide law enforcement information-sharing network ......................................................................................................................................... 400,000 

Delaware State University, Dover, DE, to test and evaluate a mobile crime scene and evidence tracking application ............................................................................................................................................................. 2,000,000 

Delta County, Delta County, MI, for the installation of laptop computers in police patrol vehicles .................. 176,000 

East Baton Rouge Parish, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, to upgrade law enforcement technologies ................ 100,000 

East Bay Regional Communications System Authority, Dublin, CA, to create an interoperable communications system ...................................................................................................................................................... 500,000 

Franklin County Emergency Services Alliance, Franklin County, PA, for an interoperable communications initiative ................................................................................................................................................................. 500,000 

Gallatin County Commission, Bozeman, MT, to construct a facility, update emergency response technology, 

and ensure the protection of citizens and regional assets ............................................................................. 500,000 

Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office, Red Wing, MN, to purchase 800 MHz user end radios for all public safety 

officials in Goodhue County .............................................................................................................................. 750,000 

Goodwater Police Department, Goodwater, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades .................................... 50,000 

Harford County, Harford County, MD, for technology upgrades ............................................................................ 365,000 
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Project Amount 

Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center, Honolulu, HI, to integrate state and local law enforcement databases 

for better access at all levels of the justice system ....................................................................................... 1,500,000 

Henderson Nevada Police Department, Henderson, NV, to purchase a tactical robot and equip a law enforcement training facility ........................................................................................................................................ 500,000 

Hot Springs Police Department, Hot Springs, AR, to equip police vehicles with mobile data terminals and 

enable their access to local, state and federal databases ............................................................................. 512,000 

Idaho State Police, Meridian, ID, for the Criminal Information Sharing Alliance Network to improve coordinated information sharing between participating state law enforcement agencies ....................................... 355,000 

Ingham County Law Enforcement Technology Upgrades, Mason, MI, for equipment upgrades .......................... 500,000 

Itasca County, Grand Rapids, MN, for the implementation of a new 800 MHz public safety radio system ...... 300,000 

Johnson County, Franklin, IN, to upgrade the public safety communications system in Johnson County, Indiana ..................................................................................................................................................................... 850,000 

Johnson County Government, Olathe, KS, to provide a unified radio communication system for Johnson County officials and local jurisdictions within the county ....................................................................................... 150,000 

Kanawha County Commission, Charleston, WV, for Kanawha County to purchase mobile and portable interoperable radios .................................................................................................................................................. 1,000,000 

Kansas Adjutant General’s Office, Topeka, KS, to establish a secure database that connects law enforcement and emergency management personnel to private sector resources needed in a catastrophic 

event .................................................................................................................................................................. 250,000 

Lafayette Police Department, Lafayette, LA, for interoperable communication .................................................... 200,000 

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Las Vegas, NV, for a Total Containment Vessel and other law 

enforcement equipment ..................................................................................................................................... 750,000 

Lenoir Police Department, Lenoir, NC, for law enforcement communications technology ................................... 200,000 

Macomb County, Macomb County, MI, to establish an emergency operations center ......................................... 500,000 

Marshall University, Huntington, WV, for a highly advanced state-of-the-art DNA laboratory ........................... 5,000,000 

Marshall University, Huntington, WV, to support a training initiative for personnel in the area of computer 

crime investigations .......................................................................................................................................... 825,000 

Mason and Oceana Counties, Pentwater, MI, to operate a joint 9–1–1 emergency communications center ..... 300,000 

Missoula County, Missoula, MT, to build a public safety operations and training center .................................. 750,000

Mobile County Commission, Mobile, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades .............................................. 650,000 

Moorhead Public Service, Moorhead, MN, to be used by Moorhead Public Service to increase Internet speeds 

for police patrol cars and fire vehicles in order to push real-time video surveillance and GIS mapping 

into the vehicles ................................................................................................................................................ 100,000 

New Orleans Police Foundation, New Orleans, LA, for law enforcement technology integration and information sharing ....................................................................................................................................................... 500,000 

North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, Raleigh, NC, for firearms and ballistics analysis equipment .... 100,000 

Northwest Citizens Patrol, Baltimore, MD, for information technology system upgrades and support personnel ...................................................................................................................................................................... 150,000 

Oakland County Sheriff, Oakland County, MI, to upgrade a biometric identification enhancement project ....... 200,000 

Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD, for upgrades and maintenance to the tribal 9–1–1 system ..................................................................................................................................................................... 250,000 

Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office, Paterson, NJ, for a regional fiber optic network and the construction of 

a countywide interoperable communications network ...................................................................................... 200,000 

Pleasant Grove Police Department, Pleasant Grove, UT, for police department’s wireless network ................... 200,000 

Rockland County Office of Fire & Emergency Services, Pomona, NY, for a countywide interoperable public 

safety communications system ......................................................................................................................... 250,000 

Roseville Police Department, Macomb County, MI, to consolidate police, fire and emergency medical service 

dispatch functions into one entity .................................................................................................................... 150,000 

Russellville Police Department, Russellville, Logan County, KY, to purchase mobile data terminals and other 

communications equipment .............................................................................................................................. 125,000 

Southern Kansas Multi-Jurisdictional SWAT, Cowley, Greenwood, Montgomery, and Sumner Counties, KS, for 

the implementation of the Law Enforcement Visual Intelligence Tool for four Kansas counties ................... 150,000 

Springfield Police Department, Springfield, VT, for equipment upgrades ............................................................ 200,000 

St. Albans City Police Department, St. Albans, VT, to purchase equipment ....................................................... 100,000 

St. Clair County, St. Clair County, MI, to complete an 800 MHz communications system ................................. 250,000 

St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, Duluth, MN, The requested funds would be used by St. Louis County Sheriff’s Department to develop a regional interoperability mobile data system that will link multiple responders to incident details with secure communications ....................................................................................... 300,000 

State of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, for the phased build-out of a statewide interoperable communications 

system for first responders ............................................................................................................................... 500,000 

Talladega County Commission, Talladega, AL, for radio upgrades ...................................................................... 100,000 

The City of Beech Grove, Beech Grove, IN, to enhance public safety with in-car cameras and at hot spots in 

the City to provide real-time feeds to the police command center ................................................................. 100,000 

The City of Shelbyville, Shelbyville, IN, to complete the interoperable wireless public safety communications 

system for first responders in Shelbyville, IN ................................................................................................... 900,000 
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Project Amount 

The Courage To Speak Foundation, Inc., Norwalk, CT, to expand, develop and evaluate substance abuse prevention programs ............................................................................................................................................... 950,000 

The Delaware State Police Department, Dover, DE, for preliminary engineering assessments before message 

switcher upgrades ............................................................................................................................................. 100,000 

The Delaware State Police Department, Dover, DE, for the purchase and installation of in-car cameras and 

related equipment ............................................................................................................................................. 500,000 

The Delaware State Police Department, Dover, DE, for the purchase of a mobile gunshot locator system ....... 250,000 

The New Castle County Police Department, New Castle, DE, for a program to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of license plate scanning technology for law enforcement .......................................................... 200,000 

Town of Anderson, Anderson, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ........................................................ 50,000 

Town of Enfield, Enfield, CT, for interoperability communication upgrades and expert consultation ................. 75,000 

Town of Enfield, Enfield, CT, to evaluate the local emergency communications system and identify areas in 

need of improvement ......................................................................................................................................... 75,000 

Town of Kearny, Kearny, NJ, for the purchase and installation of a webcam buffer zone monitoring system to 

specifically monitor the Kuehne chemical plant and CSX rail yards .............................................................. 200,000 

Town of Secaucus, Secaucus, NJ, for interoperable law enforcement communications ...................................... 100,000 

Town of Somerville, Somerville, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ..................................................... 65,000 

University of Colorado, Denver, CO, to establish a forensics center .................................................................... 100,000 

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, for forensics research and operations ................................................ 250,000 

Upper Peninsula 15 County Consortium, Upper Peninsula, MI, for equipment to complete a statewide 800 

MHz radio system .............................................................................................................................................. 500,000 

Vermont Department of Public Safety, Waterbury, VT, to improve and increase the interoperability of statewide radio communications systems ................................................................................................................ 506,000 

Vermont Department of Public Safety, Waterbury, VT, for the purchase of mobile computing units and necessary support staff for police vehicles ........................................................................................................... 500,000 

Vermont State Police, Waterbury, VT, for a statewide digital in-car camera system, an automated vehicle locator system and a replacement scanner ........................................................................................................ 250,000 

Vermont Supreme Court, Court Administrator’s Office, Montpelier, VT, for a judiciary case management and 

electronic filing system ..................................................................................................................................... 250,000 

Vernon Police Department, Vernon, CT, for police in-car video recording systems ............................................. 60,000 

Virginia State Police, Wytheville, VA, to support the Virginia State Police Southwest Virginia Drug Task 

Forces in their efforts to stop methamphetamine and drug-related crimes ................................................... 250,000 

Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, Washoe, NV, to equip a DNA analysis lab and process DNA samples ............ 800,000 

Wells County Sheriff’s Office, Bluffton Police Department, Bluffton 9–1–1 Dispatch Center, Ossian Police 

Department, Wells County, IN, to enhance interoperability between Wells County, the City of Bluffton and 

the Town of Ossian police and sheriff departments ........................................................................................ 100,000 

West Virginia Sheriffs’ Association, Charleston, WV, to purchase visualization technology ................................ 3,400,000 

Will County, Will County, IL, for integrated criminal justice information systems .............................................. 300,000 

Technology Program.—The Committee recommendation provides 

$110,000,000 for the COPS Law Enforcement Technology Program. 

Within the funds provided, $5,000,000 shall be transferred to NIST 

to continue the efforts of the Office of Law Enforcement Standards 

[OLES] in developing a comprehensive suite of minimum standards 

for law enforcement communications. In addition, these funds 

should be used to support the development and implementation of 

a compliance assessment program to ensure that communications 

equipment purchased through this grant program is compliant, 

where applicable with existing standards. 

Interoperable Standards.—The Committee is pleased that significant progress has been made in the issuance of standards to specify 

the required functionality for the Project 25 Inter-RF-Subsystem 

Interface [ISSI], Console Interface, and Fixed Station Interface for 

land mobile radio systems. The Committee directs that funds provided to OLES for standards development under this section should 

be used to complete the remaining aspects of these interfaces, including conformance and interoperability test standards for each of 

the interfaces. In addition, funds should be used to begin the development of standards for emerging technologies such as VoIP applications for public safety operations. 
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Methamphetamine Hot Spots.—The Committee recommendation 

provides $61,187,000 to State and local law enforcement programs 

to combat methamphetamine production and distribution, to target 

drug ‘‘hot spots,’’ and to remove and dispose of hazardous materials 

at clandestine methamphetamine labs. The Committee recommendation includes $10,000,000 to reimburse the Drug Enforcement Administration for assistance to State and local law enforcement for proper removal and disposal of hazardous materials at 

clandestine methamphetamine labs and to initiate container programs. The Committee recommendation also includes $10,000,000 

for a competitive grant program for community-based efforts to 

educate the public about emerging drug threats through researchbased prevention methods or to enhance the ability of a community 

to prevent or reduce drug abuse, including thorough training, education, and technical assistance. 

The Committee provides funding for the following congressionally 

directed projects, and directs the Department of Justice to refrain 

from charging administrative costs to these grants. The Committee 

expects that the Department of Justice will provide appropriate 

management and oversight of each grant. Within the amounts provided for methamphetamine hot spots, the COPS program office 

shall fund the following proposals: 

Project Amount 

Alabama District Attorney’s Association, Montgomery, AL, to combat the methamphetamine problem and 

educated citizens of its dangers ...................................................................................................................... 1,100,000 

Arkansas State Police, Little Rock, AR, to certify and equip officers assigned to investigate, seize, dismantle, and direct the clean-up of clandestine methamphetamine labs ....................................................... 500,000 

Carson City, Carson City, NV, for efforts in combating methamphetamine in Northern Nevada ........................ 300,000 

City of Montrose, Montrose, CO, for communications and safety equipment to assist a drug task force and 

for an educational outreach program ............................................................................................................... 150,000 

City of Rochester, Rochester, NY, to intensify patrols, improve the tracking of narcotics shipments, provide 

technical support and enhance local crime prevention programs for at-risk youth ....................................... 675,000 

Clackamas County, Oregon City, OR, to continue the operations of the Clackamas County Meth Enforcement 

Team .................................................................................................................................................................. 100,000 

Criminal Justice Institute, University of Arkansas System, Little Rock, AR, to continue providing methamphetamine-focused courses for the Arkansas law enforcement community ............................................... 500,000 

Heartland Family Service, Omaha, NE, for the Methamphetamine Treatment Program for Omaha, NE ............. 100,000 

Idaho Meth Project, Boise, ID, for the Idaho Meth Project will support a statewide effort to combat the use 

of meth .............................................................................................................................................................. 300,000 

Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy, Des Moines, IA, for an electronic database to assist efforts to enforce 

limits on sales of pseudoephedrine .................................................................................................................. 750,000 

Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy, Des Moines, IA, for a multi-tier interdiction initiative to combat drug distribution networks .............................................................................................................................................. 500,000 

Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy, Des Moines, IA, for coordinated regional meth investigations .................... 600,000 

Marion County, all cities throughout Marion County, OR, for programs targeted at reducing the potential and 

actual effects of meth on children ................................................................................................................... 400,000 

Minot State University, Minot, ND, for methamphetamine research and public education ................................. 500,000 

Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, Jackson, MS, to combat methamphetamines .................................................. 1,500,000 

Montana Meth Project, Missoula, MT, to prevent the use of methamphetamines and the related social problems, especially among teenagers .................................................................................................................... 1,000,000 

National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO, for a study that addresses the clean-up and 

risks of former methamphetamine laboratories and smokehouses pose to people, including children ......... 100,000 

Nebraska Meth Project, Lincoln, NE, to support a campaign to significantly reduce the prevalence of methamphetamine use in Nebraska ......................................................................................................................... 500,000 

New Mexico Attorney General, Albuquerque, NM, to implement a state-wide anti-methamphetamine campaign .................................................................................................................................................................. 500,000 

Orange County Government, Orlando, FL, to remediate environmental dangers of methamphetamine labs in 

Orange County ................................................................................................................................................... 100,000 

Pierce County Alliance, Tacoma, WA, for an information clearinghouse and technical training center to aid 

in the fight against methamphetamine ........................................................................................................... 1,200,000 

Pierce County Alliance, Tacoma, WA, for an anti-methamphetamine initiative ................................................... 1,000,000 
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Project Amount 

Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office, Rockdale County, GA, to identify, seize, and clean up clandestine methamphetamine drug labs and assist in the eradication of meth use .............................................................. 50,000 

Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Rosebud Indian Reservation, SD, for law enforcement, court operations, prosecutors, 

the public defenders office and detention programs ....................................................................................... 850,000 

State of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, for a statewide meth eradication program ................................................ 1,000,000 

Tennessee Methamphetamine Task Force, Chattanooga, TN, for a statewide program that supports law enforcement, training, intelligence and public awareness in dealing with meth and meth cleanup ................ 1,250,000 

The Colorado Meth Project, Denver, CO, for an anti-methamphetamine campaign ............................................ 500,000 

The Wyoming Meth Project, Casper, WY, for fighting the methamphetamine problem ....................................... 75,000 

The Wyoming Meth Project, Cheyenne, WY, to reduce youth meth use ................................................................ 100,000 

University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, to implement a project to improve Nebraska’s community 

corrections and methamphetamine abuse treatment services ........................................................................ 600,000 

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, to address the need for transitional services for recovering addicts in 

Wyoming ............................................................................................................................................................. 75,000 

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, to address gaps in substance abuse treatment and transitional services in the State ................................................................................................................................................ 50,000 

Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for the continuation of a statewide anti-methamphetamine 

initiative ............................................................................................................................................................. 1,000,000 

DNA Backlog/Crime Log Improvement.—The Committee recommends $180,963,000 to strengthen and improve the current Federal and State DNA collection and analysis systems that can be 

used to accelerate the prosecution of the guilty while simultaneously protecting the innocent from wrongful prosecution. 

Paul Coverdell Forensic Science.—The Committee recommendation provides $40,000,000 for the Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences 

Improvement Grants. Coverdell grants are intended to improve the 

quality and timeliness of forensic science and medical examiner 

services, including services provided by laboratories operated by 

states and those operated by units of local government. Coverdell 

grants provide flexibility to State and local crime labs by allowing 

them to obtain funds to address their most critical needs. 

Child Sexual Predator Elimination.—The Committee recommendation provides $55,000,000 for a new national initiative to 

provide grants to State and local governments to locate, arrest and 

prosecute sexual predators. The Committee recommends the appointment of an Assistant U.S. Attorney in each judicial district as 

a coordinator to prepare a comprehensive, district-wide strategy in 

consultation with social services providers and partners from Federal, State and local law enforcement agencies. The Committee directs the COPS office to coordinate with the National Center for 

Missing and Exploited Children in developing a program that includes detection, apprehension, and prosecution of sex offenders 

who victimize children. The Committee believes it is essential to 

build specialized units in law enforcement agencies across the 

country to attack this problem in a concerted, coordinated manner. 

The grants should assist State and local law enforcement entities 

to specifically focus on sexual predators who fail to register, child 

sexual exploitation and sex offenders who prey upon children. 

These predator units should be created in a manner that is geographically balanced and levels itself to testing the model in various settings; and in major urban police departments, State law enforcement agencies, smaller jurisdictions, and regional groupings of 

agencies. The Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the 

Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003, Public Law 108–21 authorized grants for Sex Offender Apprehension Programs. 
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GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

The Committee recommends the following general provisions: 

Section 201 limits the amount of funding the Attorney General 

can use for official reception and representation. 

Section 202 prohibits the use of funds in this title to pay for an 

abortion except where the life of the mother would be in danger. 

Section 203 prohibits the use of funds in this title to require a 

person to perform or facilitate an abortion. 

Section 204 requires female prisoners to be escorted when off 

prison grounds. 

Section 205 allows the Department of Justice, subject to the 

Committee’s reprogramming procedures, to transfer up to 5 percent 

between appropriations, but limits to 10 percent the amount that 

can be transferred into any one appropriation. The provision also 

prohibits transfers of funds from the Bureau of Prisons Buildings 

and Facilities account unless the President certifies that such a 

transfer is necessary to the national security interests of the 

United States and also subjects any such transfers to section 505 

of this act. 

Section 206 provides authority for a personnel management demonstration project. 

Section 207 provides authority for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to use confiscated funds during undercover operations. 

Section 208 limits the placement of maximum or high security 

prisoners to appropriately secure facilities. 

Section 209 restricts Federal prisoner access to certain amenities. 

Section 210 sets obligation and expenditure requirements for the 

FBI’s information technology programs. 

Section 211 requires the availability of appropriations for obligations beyond the current fiscal year to comply with reprogramming 

procedures. 

Section 212 prohibits the use of funds to plan for, begin, continue, finish, process, or approve a public-private competition under 

OMB Circular A–76 for work performed by employees of the Bureau of Prisons or of the Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated. 

Section 213 prohibits U.S. attorneys from simultaneously holding 

multiple jobs outside of the scope of a U.S. attorney’s professional 

duties. 

Section 214 requires the Government Accountability Office to certify the FBI is using a performance management baseline that complies with OMB standards. 

Section 215 requires the Government Accountability Office to certify that the FBI has met certain standards to control costs related 

to computer acquisitions. 

Section 216 requires that the Attorney General shall submit 

quarterly reports to the Inspector General of the Department of 

Justice regarding the costs and contracting proceeding relating to 

each conference held by the Department of Justice during fiscal 

year 2009 for which the costs to the Government more than 

$20,000. 
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TITLE III 

SCIENCE 

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 

OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $5,184,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 5,303,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 5,184,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $5,184,000. The recommendation is the same as the fiscal year 2008 enacted level and 

$119,000 below the budget request. 

The Office of Science and Technology Policy [OSTP] was created 

by the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and 

Priorities Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–282) and coordinates science 

and technology policy for the White House. OSTP provides scientific and technological information, analysis, and advice for the 

President and for the executive branch; participates in formulation, 

coordination, and implementation of national and international 

policies and programs that involve science and technology; maintains and promotes the health and vitality of the U.S. science and 

technology infrastructure; reviews and analyzes, with the Office of 

Management and Budget, the research and development budgets 

for all Federal agencies; and coordinates research and development 

efforts of the Federal Government to maximize the return on the 

public’s investment in science and technology and to ensure Federal resources are used efficiently and appropriately. 

Next Generation Radar.—OSTP is directed to convene a series of 

meetings over the next 6 months in order to coordinate the research and development of the next generation of ground based 

radar. The meetings should be attended by NOAA, NSF, NASA and 

any other Federal agencies that will benefit from a coordinated approach to fulfilling the needs of the country. By coordinating the 

Federal efforts, costs for future procurements will be reduced because redundant efforts will be eliminated. No later than 9 months 

after enactment, OSTP shall provide a report to the Committee on 

the results of the meetings and a plan that can move forward in 

future year budget requests. 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $17,329,400,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 17,614,200,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 17,814,000,000 

The Committee’s recommendation provides $17,814,000,000 for 

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]. The 
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recommendation is $504,600,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level, and $199,800,000 above the budget request. 

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Public 

Law 85–568) to conduct space and aeronautical research and development and to conduct flight activities for peaceful purposes. 

NASA’s unique mission of exploration, discovery, and innovation is 

intended to preserve the United States’ role as both a leader in 

world aviation and as the pre-eminent space-faring nation. It is 

NASA’s mission to: advance human exploration, use, and development of space; advance and communicate scientific knowledge and 

understanding of the Earth, the solar system and the universe; and 

research, develop, verify, and transfer advanced aeronautics and 

space technologies. 

NASA’s vision for space exploration maps out an aggressive role 

for the United States in manned space exploration. However, the 

potential costs are substantial and will likely be very difficult to 

maintain at the current estimated funding levels. In addition, the 

Committee feels strongly that NASA must show its commitment to 

those human spaceflight activities already underway. The Shuttle 

program and the construction of the International Space Station 

[ISS] continue to be the primary focus of the Nation’s manned 

space flight activities. Nevertheless, the replacements for the Space 

Shuttle’s manned and heavy lift capabilities must also be considered as part of any plan for continued human access to space but 

not to the detriment of existing obligations. 

The Committee is concerned that NASA will neglect areas that 

only tangentially benefit, or do not fit within, the exploration vision. The Committee believes that NASA must work diligently to 

balance existing programs and priorities with its plans for the future. Counterbalancing future priorities against current programs 

places existing research and expertise in jeopardy and risks squandering significant Federal investments that may be essential to the 

exploration vision. 

In addition, the Committee is concerned that the strong, balanced science program that has served the Nation so successfully 

for many years is being left behind rather than being nurtured and 

sustained. That science program has been based on a set of carefully crafted scientific strategies that are founded on scientific and 

technical merit, relevance to overall national needs, and broad consultation with the scientific community. 

The Committee has chosen to articulate the funding levels of programs within the account structure for NASA in the form of tables. 

Major mission and program funding is listed within the tables and, 

if necessary, supplemented with explanatory report language. 

SCIENCE

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. ( 1 ) 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... $4,441,519,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 4,522,884,000 

1The fiscal year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Act directed NASA to modify the agency’s fiscal year 2009 appropriations account structure. This act reflects the new structure. For comparability purposes, $4,706,178,000 was allocated for such activities in fiscal year 2008. 
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The Science account encompasses four lines of study: Earth 

Science, Planetary Science, Heliophysics, and Astrophysics. This 

funding seeks to answer fundamental questions concerning the 

ways in which Earth’s climate is changing; the comparison of Earth 

with other planets in the solar system and around other stars; the 

connections between the Sun and Earth; and the origin and evolution of planetary systems, the galaxy, and the universe, including 

the origin and distribution of life in the universe. These objectives 

are achieved through robotic flight missions, ground-based scientific research and data analysis, and the development of new 

technologies for future missions. 

SCIENCE 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

Earth Science: 

Earth Science Research .......................................................................................................................... 380,554 

Research and Analysis ................................................................................................................... 245,669 

Computing and Management ........................................................................................................ 104,913 

Airborne Science ............................................................................................................................. 31,771 

Near Earth Object Observations .................................................................................................... 3,701 

Earth Systematic Missions ...................................................................................................................... 741,813 

Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) ...................................................................................... 125,841 

Glory Mission .................................................................................................................................. 46,772 

Landsat Data Continuity Mission .................................................................................................. 139,380 

NPOESS Preparatory Project ........................................................................................................... 94,410 

Decadal Survey Missions ............................................................................................................... 150,000 

Ocean Surface Topography Mission ............................................................................................... 8,040 

Other Missions and Data Analysis ................................................................................................ 177,370 

Earth System Science Pathfinder ........................................................................................................... 81,692 

Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) ............................................................................................... 23,227 

Aquarius ......................................................................................................................................... 29,102 

Other Missions and Data Analysis ................................................................................................ 29,363 

Earth Science Multi-Mission Operations ................................................................................................. 140,519 

Earth Science Technology ....................................................................................................................... 46,087 

Advanced Technology Initiatives .................................................................................................... 8,325 

Instrument Incubator ..................................................................................................................... 25,866 

Advanced Info Systems Technology ............................................................................................... 11,896 

Applied Sciences Pathways ..................................................................................................................... 48,839 

Subtotal, Earth Science ...................................................................................................................... 1,439,504 

Planetary Science: 

Planetary Science Research .................................................................................................................... 270,810 

Planetary Science Research and Analysis ..................................................................................... 142,381 

Lunar Science Research ................................................................................................................. 105,000 

Operating Missions and Analysis .................................................................................................. 19,529 

Education and Directorate Management ....................................................................................... 3,900 

Discovery ................................................................................................................................................. 246,966 

GRAIL .............................................................................................................................................. 122,383 

Moon Mineralogy Mapper ............................................................................................................... 2,701 

Discovery Future ............................................................................................................................. 50,448 

Discovery Research ........................................................................................................................ 18,816 

Operating Missions and Data Analysis ......................................................................................... 52,618 

New Frontiers .......................................................................................................................................... 263,930 

Juno ................................................................................................................................................ 244,959 

Other Missions and Data Analysis ................................................................................................ 18,971 

Mars Exploration ..................................................................................................................................... 463,194 

2009 Mars Science Lab ................................................................................................................. 300,000 

Mars Scout (2013) ......................................................................................................................... 6,697 

Mars Research and Analysis ......................................................................................................... 24,938 

Operating Missions and Data Analysis ......................................................................................... 131,559 
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SCIENCE—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Outer Planets .......................................................................................................................................... 101,089 

Technology ............................................................................................................................................... 64,927 

Subtotal, Planetary Science ................................................................................................................ 1,410,916 

Astrophysics: 

Astrophysics Research ............................................................................................................................ 152,291 

Astrophysics Research and Analysis ............................................................................................. 61,377 

Balloon Project ............................................................................................................................... 24,607 

Operating Missions and Data Analysis ......................................................................................... 66,307 

Cosmic Origins ........................................................................................................................................ 707,543 

Hubble Space Telescope ................................................................................................................ 165,000 

James Webb Space Telescope ........................................................................................................ 395,000 

Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ......................................................................... 72,823

SIRTF/Spitzer .................................................................................................................................. 71,720 

Astrophysics Future Missions ......................................................................................................... 3,000 

Physics of the Cosmos ............................................................................................................................ 157,037 

Gamma-ray Large Space Telescope (GLAST) ................................................................................. 23,155 

Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) ................................................................................................. 8,500 

Herschel .......................................................................................................................................... 27,152 

Planck ............................................................................................................................................. 9,444 

Other Missions and Data Analysis ................................................................................................ 88,786 

Exoplanet Exploration .............................................................................................................................. 48,105 

Kepler ............................................................................................................................................. 25,193 

Other Missions and Data Analysis ................................................................................................ 22,912 

Astrophysics Explorer .............................................................................................................................. 119,127 

Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer ............................................................................................... 65,222 

NuStar ............................................................................................................................................ 30,000 

Operating Missions and Data Analysis ......................................................................................... 23,905 

Subtotal, Astrophysics ............................................................................................................... 1,184,103 

Heliophysics: 

Heliophysics Research ............................................................................................................................. 198,794 

Heliophysics Research and Analysis .............................................................................................. 33,922 

Sounding Rockets ........................................................................................................................... 45,100 

ACE ................................................................................................................................................. 4,020 

Operating Missions and Data Analysis ......................................................................................... 71,452 

Research Range ............................................................................................................................. 32,300 

GSFC Building Support .................................................................................................................. 12,000 

Living with a Star ................................................................................................................................... 252,389 

Solar Dynamics Observatory .......................................................................................................... 24,051 

Radiation Belt Storm Probes ......................................................................................................... 165,000 

Solar Probe ..................................................................................................................................... 18,000 

Balloon Array for Radiation ........................................................................................................... 944 

Other Missions and Data Analysis ................................................................................................ 44,394 

Solar Terrestrial Probes ........................................................................................................................... 136,590 

Magnetospheric Multiscale ............................................................................................................ 108,100 

Other Missions and Data Analysis ................................................................................................ 28,490 

Heliophysics Explorer Program ................................................................................................................ 41,291 

Interstellar Boundary Explorer ........................................................................................................ 9,490 

Other Missions and Data Analysis ................................................................................................ 37,301 

New Millennium ....................................................................................................................................... 4,297 

Subtotal, Heliophysics ............................................................................................................... 633,361 

Reallocation of prior year unobligated balances ............................................................................................ (156,000 ) 

TOTAL, SCIENCE .................................................................................................................................. 4,522,884 

Earth Science.—Earth science is a critical part of the balanced 

space program long advocated by this Committee. NASA Earth 
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science missions are central to our ability to monitor and provide 

warnings about climate, weather, and other hazards. To that end, 

the Committee provides a programmatic increase of $47,000,000 

above the budget request, for a total of $150,000,000, to accelerate 

the Earth science decadal missions in development. The agency is 

directed to ensure that these missions include the full complement 

of data collection capabilities as recommended by the National 

Academies’ Earth science decadal report. The Committee strongly 

supports the acceleration of the ICE-Sat II mission to ensure 

launch no later than 2013 as recommended by the National Academies. The Committee notes that ICE-Sat II will be critical to our 

continued monitoring of the Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets. 

The Committee continues to expect NASA’s Earth science portfolio to have a continuous mixture of small-, medium-, and observatory-class Earth science missions that guarantee regular and recurring flight opportunities for the Earth science community. 

Landsat Data Continuity Mission [LDCM].—The Committee supports the development and flight of a thermal infra-red sensor 

[TIRS] to maintain continuity of the critical measurements made 

by this Landsat sensor for scientific research and water management applications. The Committee urges NASA to initiate development of TIRS within available funds, and to identify the earliest 

and least expensive development approach and flight opportunity 

for the TIRS. NASA should report back to the Committee on this 

development approach no later than October 31, 2008. 

Stennis Space Center [SSC].—The recommendation includes an 

increase of $15,000,000 above the budget request for the NASA 

Earth Science Applications Program for the Earth Applications program managed through Stennis Space Center. This funding increase shall only be used to support new competitively selected applications projects to be selected during fiscal year 2009. These 

projects will integrate the results of NASA’s Earth observing systems and Earth system models (using observations and predictions) 

into decision support tools to serve applications of national priority 

including, but not limited to: homeland security; coastal management; agriculture efficiency; and water and disaster management. 

Heliophysics.—Within funds provided to advance scientific 

knowledge of the Sun’s impact on the Earth, the Committee provides the full budget requirements of $165,000,000 for the Radiation Belt Storm Probe mission and $108,100,000 for the 

Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, as well as $18,000,000 for the 

Solar Probe Mission. The Committee notes that the Solar Probe 

mission is the highest priority recommendation of the National 

Academies’ heliophysics decadal report, and therefore strongly 

urges the Agency to work to achieve a launch no later than 2015. 

Planetary Science.—Within funds provided to advance scientific 

knowledge of our solar system, the Committee provides the full 

budget requirement $463,194,000 for the Mars rovers and related 

science. The Committee is deeply troubled by the cost overruns on 

the Mars Science Lab, and directs NASA to report no later than 

October 31, 2008 on the management and accountability actions 

taken to ensure that costs do not continue to grow. 

Lunar Landers.—The Committee is pleased that NASA has chosen to continue its previously planned robotic lunar lander mission. 
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This mission was selected by NASA in 2005 and is now a pathfinder for an anticipated network of small lunar science landers 

and orbiters based on requirements of the Science Mission Directorate’s expanded Lunar Science Program. The first two minilanders are planned to be launched together in the 2013–2014 

timeframe to initiate a geophysical sensor network across the 

Moon. NASA anticipates that the missions selected and managed 

by the Lunar Precursor Robotic Program Office will transition this 

small lunar lander effort to the Lunar Science Program, managed 

by Marshall Space Flight Center, in the Science Mission Directorate no later than fiscal year 2010. In anticipation of this action, 

the Committee provides $10,000,000 for the selected lunar lander 

mission, as requested by NASA. 

Astrophysics.—Within funds provided to advance scientific 

knowledge of the origins of the Universe, the Committee provides 

the full budget requirements of $165,000,000 for the Hubble Space 

Telescope and $395,000,000 for the James Webb Space Telescope. 

The Committee also provides the full budget request of $8,500,000 

for the Joint Dark Energy Mission [JDEM] and continues to support development of the JDEM through full and open competition 

with project management residing at the appropriate NASA center. 

Wallops Flight Facility [WFF].—The Committee has long advocated that the WFF is an important national asset that can be better utilized by focusing on emerging technologies that meet national needs and NASA priorities. The Committee therefore provides programmatic increases of: $11,000,000 for advanced technology development of small satellites and unmanned aerial systems [UAS] that have the potential of lowering the costs of space 

and Earth science missions consistent with the goals of venture 

class missions recommended by the National Academies’ Earth 

science decadal report; and $14,000,000 to improve launch pad infrastructure. 

Reallocation of Funds.—The Committee has included a reallocation of fiscal year 2008 funds in the amount of $145,000,000 to ensure the full 2009 budget requirements for programs and activities 

adjusted as a result of NASA’s May 30, 2008 reprogramming request. NASA shall report on this reallocation no later than 30 days 

after enactment of this act. 

AERONAUTICS

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. ( 1 ) 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... $446,500,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 500,000,000 

1The fiscal year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Act directed NASA to modify the agency’s fiscal year 2009 appropriations account structure. This act reflects the new structure. For comparability purposes, $511,706,000 was allocated for such activities in fiscal year 2008. 

The Aeronautics account funds research in key areas related to 

the development of advanced aircraft technologies and systems, including those related to aircraft safety, environmental compatibility, and fuel efficiency; and research that supports the Next 

Generation Air Transportation System in partnership with the 

Joint Planning and Development Office. 
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AERONAUTICS 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Aviation Safety ................................................................................................................................................... 75,000 

Airspace Systems ............................................................................................................................................... 90,000 

Fundamental Aeronautics .................................................................................................................................. 250,000 

Aeronautics Test Program .................................................................................................................................. 85,000 

TOTAL, AERONAUTICS ............................................................................................................................ 500,000 

The Committee is concerned with the steady decline in the aeronautics research and technology request. Even more alarming, 

NASA’s budget projections indicate that this trend will continue. 

The Committee is committed to the research NASA conducts in 

aeronautics, and to the benefits, both in terms of safety and economics, that will be made available to the public through NASAled research. 

The Committee notes that NASA plans to carry over approximately $50,000,000 in unobligated fiscal year 2008 aeronautics research funds, therefore the Committee’s recommendation provides 

NASA with a total of $550,000,000 in resources for aeronautics research in fiscal year 2009. 

EXPLORATION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. ( 1 ) 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... $3,500,469,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 3,530,490,000 

1The fiscal year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Act directed NASA to modify the agency’s fiscal year 2009 appropriations account structure. This act reflects the new structure. For comparability purposes, $3,143,083,000 was allocated for such activities in fiscal year 2008. 

The Exploration account funds the capabilities required to develop, demonstrate, and deploy the transportation, life support, and 

surface systems that will enable sustained human and robotic exploration of the Moon and beyond. 

EXPLORATION 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Constellation Systems: 

Constellation Systems Program ................................................................................................................ 2,905,129 

Program Integration and Operations ............................................................................................... 748,178 

Crew Exploration Vehicle .................................................................................................................. 1,101,436 

Crew Launch Vehicle ........................................................................................................................ 1,018,515 

Cargo Launch Vehicle ...................................................................................................................... 37,000 

Commercial Crew and Cargo COTS .......................................................................................................... 173,045 

Subtotal, Constellation Systems ........................................................................................................... 3,078,174 

Advanced Capabilities: 

Human Research Program ........................................................................................................................ 151,883 

ISS Medical Project .......................................................................................................................... 19,945 

Research Infusion Projects .............................................................................................................. 131,938 

Exploration Technology Development ........................................................................................................ 244,099 

ISS Research .................................................................................................................................... 24,783 

Technology Infusion Projects ............................................................................................................ 219,316 

Lunar Precursor Robotic Program ............................................................................................................. 56,334 
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EXPLORATION—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Lunar Precursor Robotic Program Management .............................................................................. 16,380 

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ......................................................................................................... 39,954 

Subtotal, Advanced Capabilities ................................................................................................. 452,316 

TOTAL, EXPLORATION ................................................................................................................... 3,530,490 

Ares I and Orion.—The Committee provides the full budget re- quest of $1,101,436,000 for Ares I, the new Crew Launch Vehicle, 

and $1,018,515,000 for Orion, the Crew Exploration Vehicle. 

Ares V.—The Committee is supportive of the funding levels for 

the next exploration vehicle, but is also concerned that the heavy 

lift component, Ares V, is not receiving adequate support. The unmanned Ares V is critical to the plan for extending our Nation’s 

space program beyond low Earth orbit. In order to define requirements for design, as well as improve research and development 

work for a systems requirement review, the Committee provides a 

programmatic increase of $30,021,000 for these activities, for a 

total of $37,000,000. The definition of requirements and the research and development work that will be done early on in this 

critical program will help lower risk and future program costs. 

These additional funds will allow NASA to achieve its goal of furthering space exploration from beyond low Earth orbit to the Moon 

and beyond. 

Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.—The Committee provides 

$56,300,000 for the Lunar Precursor Robotic Program [LPRP]. The 

Committee believes that the program, management offices, and 

missions associated with LPRP are essential to the success of the 

manned missions to the Moon. Within these funds, $16,400,000 

shall be for the LPRP management office and $39,954,000 shall be 

for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Committee reiterates 

that the management office associated with LPRP shall be directly 

involved in the planning and oversight of future lunar robotic missions, integrating lunar data from NASA and other international 

missions, oversee technology development, support the Lunar Architecture Team, and lead NASA’s public outreach and education 

activities for understanding the lunar environment. 

SPACE OPERATIONS

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. ( 1 ) 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... $5,774,710,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 5,774,710,000 

1The fiscal year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Act directed NASA to modify the agency’s fiscal year 2009 appropriations account structure. This act reflects the new structure. For comparability purposes, $5,526,157,000 was allocated for such activities in fiscal year 2008. 

The Space Operations account funds the Space Shuttle, the 

International Space Station, and the supporting functions required 

to conduct operations in space. The Space Shuttle has been the 

workhorse for human spaceflight for 27 years. The International 

Space Station is a complex of research laboratories in low Earth 

orbit in which American, Russian, Canadian, European, and Japa-
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nese astronauts are conducting unique scientific and technological 

investigations in a microgravity environment. 

SPACE OPERATIONS 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Space Shuttle ..................................................................................................................................................... 2,981,724 

Program Integration .................................................................................................................................. 489,618 

Flight and Ground Operations .................................................................................................................. 1,031,220 

Flight Hardware ......................................................................................................................................... 1,460,886 

International Space Station ............................................................................................................................... 2,060,162 

ISS Operations ........................................................................................................................................... 1,755,362 

ISS Cargo Crew Services ........................................................................................................................... 304,800 

Space and Flight Support (SFS) ........................................................................................................................ 732,824 

Space Communications and Navigation ................................................................................................... 582,923 

Space Communications Networks .................................................................................................... 363,521 

Space Communications Support ...................................................................................................... 65,402 

TDRS Replenishment ........................................................................................................................ 154,000 

Launch Services ........................................................................................................................................ 99,558 

Rocket Propulsion Testing ......................................................................................................................... 41,772 

Crew Health & Safety ............................................................................................................................... 8,571 

TOTAL, SPACE OPERATIONS .................................................................................................................. 5,774,710 

Space Shuttle.—The Committee provides the full budget request 

of $2,981,724,000 for the Space Shuttle. The Committee remains 

concerned about the serious impact of Space Shuttle transition and 

retirement on the workforce at NASA facilities, and directs NASA 

to submit a plan to maximize utilization of enhanced use-lease authority for all facilities, as well as possible partnerships with other 

Federal agencies, that will assist NASA in maintaining its skilled 

workforce. NASA should submit this plan no later than 90 days 

after enactment of this act. 

Space Station.—The Committee provides the full budget request 

of $2,060,162,000 for the Space Station. 

Science Experiments in Microgravity.—The Committee notes that 

experiments in a microgravity environment hold much promise for 

the development of vaccines against infectious diseases, and directs 

NASA to submit a plan no later than October 1, 2008, to ensure 

immediate access of these and other potentially life-saving experiments to a microgravity environment. 

EDUCATION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. ( 1 ) 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... $115,600,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 130,012,000 

1The fiscal year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Act directed NASA to modify the agency’s fiscal year 2009 appropriations account structure. This act reflects the new structure. For comparability purposes, $146,776,000 was allocated for such activities in fiscal year 2008. 

The Education account funds science, technology, engineering, 

and mathematics education activities to educate and inspire our 

next generation of explorers and innovators. 
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EDUCATION 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Elementary and Secondary Education ............................................................................................................... 30,000 

E-Education ........................................................................................................................................................ 5,000 

MUREP ................................................................................................................................................................ 28,000 

Higher Education ................................................................................................................................................ 9,000 

EPSCoR ............................................................................................................................................................... 8,280 

NASA Space Grant .............................................................................................................................................. 28,732 

Informal Education ............................................................................................................................................. 1,000 

Science Museums and Planetarium Grants ...................................................................................................... 10,000 

NASA Visitor Centers .......................................................................................................................................... 10,000 

TOTAL, EDUCATION ................................................................................................................................ 130,012 

Classroom of the Future.—The Committee has provided the full budget request of $2,300,000 for the Classroom of the Future, 

which focuses on educational research, curriculum design, teacher 

development and educational outreach in the STEM disciplines. 

Museums, Science Centers, and Planetariums.—The Committee 

recommends $10,000,000 for a competitive grant program as authorized by section 616 of Public Law 109–155. 

Educational Activities at NASA Centers.—The Committee pro- vides $10,000,000 for the development of educational activities at 

NASA’s centers and direct NASA to distribute this amount in equal 

$1,000,000 increments to each center’s official visitor center for the 

development of educational activities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, including exhibits. 

CROSS-AGENCY SUPPORT

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. ( 1 ) 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... $3,299,902,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 3,320,404,000 

1The fiscal year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Act directed NASA to modify the agency’s fiscal year 2009 appropriations account structure. This act reflects the new structure. For comparability purposes, $3,242,900,000 was allocated for such activities in fiscal year 2008. 

The Cross-Agency Support account funds Agency management, 

including headquarters and each of the nine NASA field centers, as 

well as the design and execution of non-programmatic Construction 

of Facilities and Environmental Compliance and Restoration activities. 

CROSS-AGENCY SUPPORT 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee recommendation 

Center Management and Operations ................................................................................................................. 2,026,486 

Facility Services ........................................................................................................................................ 480,000 

Environmental Management ..................................................................................................................... 28,316 

Institutional Administration ...................................................................................................................... 585,000 

Safety and Mission Assurance .................................................................................................................. 43,527 

SMA Technical Authority ........................................................................................................................... 25,378 

Science & Engineering .............................................................................................................................. 206,387 

Center Investments Account ..................................................................................................................... 81,322 

Test Services ............................................................................................................................................. 16,905 

Information Services ................................................................................................................................. 255,747 

Security Program ....................................................................................................................................... 110,787 
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CROSS-AGENCY SUPPORT—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Committee 

recommendation 

Other Personnel Costs ............................................................................................................................... 76,118 

Technical Excellence ................................................................................................................................. 116,999 

Agency Management and Operations ................................................................................................................ 905,253 

Agency Management .......................................................................................................................................... 390,000 

Safety and Mission Success .............................................................................................................................. 163,428 

Safety and Mission Assurance .................................................................................................................. 42,942 

Chief Engineer ........................................................................................................................................... 87,027 

Chief Health and Medical Officer ............................................................................................................. 4,112 

Independent Verification and Validation .................................................................................................. 29,347 

Agency IT Services (AITS) ................................................................................................................................... 156,095 

IT Management ......................................................................................................................................... 24,168 

Applications ............................................................................................................................................... 61,370 

Infrastructure ............................................................................................................................................ 70,557 

Innovative Partnerships Program ....................................................................................................................... 167,730 

Small Business Innovative Research ........................................................................................................ 117,857 

Small Business Technology Transfer Research ........................................................................................ 14,143 

Partnership Development .......................................................................................................................... 24,096 

SBIR–STTR—Program Support ................................................................................................................. 9,134 

FAST ........................................................................................................................................................... 1,000 

Investment Seed Fund .............................................................................................................................. 1,000 

Innovation Transfusion .............................................................................................................................. 500 

Strategic Capabilities Assets Program .............................................................................................................. 28,000 

Simulators ................................................................................................................................................. 11,500 

Thermal Vacuum Chambers ...................................................................................................................... 7,209 

Arc Jets ...................................................................................................................................................... 9,291 

Institutional Investments ................................................................................................................................... 308,665 

Institutional Construction of Facilities ..................................................................................................... 233,901 

Environmental Compliance and Restoration ............................................................................................ 74,764 

Congressionally Directed Projects ...................................................................................................................... 80,000 

TOTAL, CROSS-AGENCY SUPPORT ......................................................................................................... 3,320,404 

Censorship of Scientific Information.—The Committee continues 

to be concerned that there is openness in communication of federally supported science results. Government scientists must be able 

to research and report their findings to the public without fear of 

censorship or intimidation, and American taxpayers have the right 

to know the facts. A recent Inspector General report found that 

NASA officials acted ‘‘in a manner that reduced, marginalized, and 

mischaracterized the scientific information’’ about climate change. 

The Committee directs NASA to immediately implement all of the 

recommendations contained in the IG report to ensure that NASA’s 

policies and practices protect openness in reporting of scientific information. The Agency shall report to the Committee on this issue 

no later than October 31, 2008. 

Independent Verification and Validation [IV&V) Program.— 

Within the amounts provided for cross-agency support, the Committee recommends the full budget request of $31,100,000 for 

NASA’s IV&V Program. 

National Technology Transfer Center [NTTC].—Within the funds 

provided for Innovative Partnership Programs, the Committee provides $4,000,000 for the continued operations of the NASA NTTC. 

Ames Security Fence.—The Committee is aware of the need to 

construct a new perimeter fence to increase security for the research center while allowing for certain public access. The Com-
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mittee provides $1,500,000 for this effort within the funds provided 

for institutional investments. 

Marshall Security Gates.—The Committee is aware of the need 

for upgrading the security gates that provide access to Marshall 

Space Flight Center. The Committee provides $1,500,000 for this 

effort within the funds provided for institutional investments. 

Congressionally Directed Projects.—The Committee provides 

funding for the following congressionally directed projects, directs 

NASA to refrain from charging administrative costs to these 

grants, and expects that NASA will provide appropriate management and oversight of each grant: 

Project Amount 

A partnership of Coppin State University, Towson University, and University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, MD, to increase the number and quality of science, technology, engineering and mathematics 

teachers in the region’s public schools ............................................................................................................ 1,000,000 

Alabama A&M University Research Institute, Madison, AL, for high temperature materials research ............... 500,000 

Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, to develop a focused research and development initiative on large 

area flexible solar cell modules ........................................................................................................................ 500,000 

Burlington Technical Center, Burlington, VT, to upgrade and improve the post-secondary aviation program ... 1,000,000 

Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, for recruitment and retention for an aerospace engineering academic program ............................................................................................................................... 350,000 

Charles County Public Schools, Charles County, MD, for a digital classroom project ........................................ 500,000 

Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics Consortium, for a partnership of Morgan State University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Bowie State University, MD, for continued aviation safety research 

and development ............................................................................................................................................... 3,000,000 

Discovery Center Museum, Rockford, IL, for science education for rural and underserved children .................. 300,000 

Flight Research Training Center, Roswell, NM, to continue development and operation of the Flight Research 

Training Center .................................................................................................................................................. 250,000 

Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, Mobile, AL, for educational exhibits ........................................................ 500,000 

Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii, Hilo, HI, for the promotion of astronomy in Hawaii ................................... 2,000,000 

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, for research and development of nanomaterials .......................................... 500,000 

Manned Space Flight Education Foundation, Houston, TX, to create a virtual space community for students .................................................................................................................................................................. 500,000 

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for robotic exploration and Lunar material utilization ................ 750,000 

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for material and structural evaluations for composites ............. 750,000 

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for the development of the sensor technologies and integration 

algorithms necessary for on-orbit assembly and other AR&D missions .......................................................... 550,000 

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for remote engine health and maintenance diagnosis ............... 500,000 

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for the Virtual Learning Magnet for Space Science and Math 

program as outlined in the Gathering Storm Report and NASA will make any award for this program on a 

competitive basis .............................................................................................................................................. 400,000 

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, to develop a cost effective nuclear power system to support 

the long-range objectives of NASA ................................................................................................................... 500,000 

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for a multi-propellant plume diagnostic testbed ........................ 500,000 

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, to support the ongoing technology maturation program for liquid oxygen/liquid methane propulsion .............................................................................................................. 500,000 

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for missions systems recording, archival and retrieval .............. 475,000 

McWane Science Center, Birmingham, AL, for education and science literacy programs ................................... 400,000 

Michigan Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, for aerospace research on joining tubular support structures at 

low cost and high reliability ............................................................................................................................. 1,000,000 

Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative, South Boston, VA, for the counties of Accomack and Northampton for 

broadband deployment ...................................................................................................................................... 2,000,000 

Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, for research and development of advanced technologies that 

represent departures from current manufacturing methods ............................................................................ 625,000 

Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, for a collaborative distance science and technology education program .................................................................................................................................................................. 200,000 

National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, MD, to develop and apply assistive technology approaches and 

techniques that enhance participation of blind youth in STEM education ..................................................... 600,000 

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, for a program to improve K–12 science, engineering, math, 

and aerospace education .................................................................................................................................. 200,000 

Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, Pittsburgh, PA, for a regenerative therapy delivery initiative ............ 500,000 

Science Center of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, to encourage children to go into science and technology through 

skills-based learning exhibits ........................................................................................................................... 400,000 
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Project Amount 

Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, for enhancement of K–12 teaching and learning 

of sciences, math, and technology among schools, teachers, and students .................................................. 500,000 

Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL, for high temperature materials .................................................. 750,000 

Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, UT, to provide technical support to the satellite sensor calibration team 

for the Global Climate Observing System ......................................................................................................... 500,000 

St. Louis Community College BioBench and Training Facility, St. Louis, MO, to provide specialized career 

and technical training to students for work in the life sciences .................................................................... 500,000 

Teach for America, New York, NY, to engage teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics ................................................................................................................................................................ 2,500,000 

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, to develop new robotic technologies ............................................... 500,000 

The Delaware Aerospace Education Foundation, Bear, DE, to create a community model for formal and informal Earth and space education ....................................................................................................................... 500,000 

The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, for an interactive platform for education of astronomy, space, and planetary science ...................................................................................................................................................... 500,000 

Thurgood Marshall College Fund, New York, NY, to recruit minority students who will pursue careers in the 

sciences ............................................................................................................................................................. 2,200,000 

University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, for optical system .............................................................. 700,000 

University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, for a public-private partnership promoting innovation 

in the fields of biotechnology, information technology, and nanotechnology .................................................. 1,000,000 

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, to research factors that hinder the wound healing process .................. 750,000 

University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, for the Advanced Study Institute for Environmental 

Prediction to study climate impacts and adaptation in the Mid-Atlantic region ........................................... 1,000,000 

University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, for remote sensing, geospatial, space and aviation legal research, 

materials, education, and outreach .................................................................................................................. 3,000,000 

University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, to help make data received from NASA satellite images more 

easily accessible to the public ......................................................................................................................... 3,000,000 

University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, to create a national institute to improve science, technology, 

engineering and mathematics education by focusing on young children ....................................................... 950,000 

University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, for composite materials lab ............................................................... 200,000 

University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, for the Complex Systems Center for Informed Decision-Making and 

Design to develop intelligent systems design and adaptive robotics ............................................................. 500,000 

U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL, for museum exhibits ................................................................... 500,000 

Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, for the Institute for Regenerative Medicine ....... 140,000 

West Virginia State University, Institute, WV, for a science, engineering, mathematics and aerospace academy (SEMAA) ...................................................................................................................................................... 2,000,000 

Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV, to expand an electronic medical records system adapted from the 

military’s award-winning HEALTHeFORCES program ........................................................................................ 3,000,000 

Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, to continue the development and operation of the National Center for 

Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP) located at the National Institute for Aviation Research 

(NIAR) ................................................................................................................................................................. 250,000 

Xavier University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, for science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs ................................................................................................................................................................. 1,000,000 

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $32,600,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 35,500,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 35,500,000 

The Committee recommendation provides the full budget request 

of $35,500,000 for the Office of Inspector General [IG]. The recommendation is $2,900,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level. The Office is responsible for promoting efficiency and preventing and detecting crime, fraud, waste, and mismanagement. 

Costs of Conferences.—The Committee continues to be interested 

in costs related to conferences, travel, and meetings funded by 

NASA. As part of Public Law 110–161, the Committee directed the 

Inspector general to review costs and contracting procedures when 

the combined cost to the Government was in excess of $20,000. 

NASA was also directed to report to the Committee a report for all 

travel related to conferences attended, or sponsored, by NASA and 

its employees. The Committee directs NASA and the NASA Inspec-
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tor General to follow the direction given in Public Law 110–161 for 

fiscal year 2009. The quarterly review of costs for conferences, 

meetings, and related travel should include recommendations by 

the Inspector General on how to make such spending more cost effective, and an assessment on the implementation of any recommendations. NASA and the Inspector General shall provide a report to the Committee for these activities on October 1, 2009. 

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

The Committee includes bill language regarding the availability 

of funds for construction of facilities, environmental compliance and 

restoration activities, and certain prizes. The Committee also includes bill language regarding: transfers of funds between accounts, reductions in forces, and the availability of expired funds. 

Appropriations Liaisons.—The Committee would like to reiterate 

its preference to channel the majority of its inquiries and requests 

for information and assistance through the budget offices or comptroller offices of the departments and agencies which it oversees, 

but reserves the right to call upon any individual or organization 

within any agency under its jurisdiction in order to effectively accomplish the work of the Committee. 

Budget Justifications.—The Committee continues to be disappointed in the lack of detail provided in NASA’s fiscal year 2009 

congressional budget justification document. Budget justifications 

are critical to the Committee’s ability to make informed decisions 

concerning the administration’s funding requests and must be submitted in a format with the greatest level of detail possible. NASA 

has made an incremental change in providing additional details in 

their budget justification, but the agency has not complied fully 

with the direction in Public Law 110–161 which specifically asked 

for funding levels by directorate, theme, program, project, and activity. NASA has yet to disclose such data in its budget material 

provided to the Committee as prescribed in the law, and the Committee insists that NASA comply with the law in future budget 

submissions. 

For fiscal year 2009 and each year thereafter, the Committee directs NASA to include the out-year budget impacts in all reprogramming requests. Future operating plans, reprogramming requests, and all budget resubmissions also shall include a separate 

accounting of all program/mission reserves and impacts on estimated carry over funds. 

Reprogrammings.—In previous years, NASA has chosen to make 

major programmatic decisions through comprehensive operating 

plans. While such changes are allowed, it is the view of the Committee that this should not be a regular occurrence. Instead, after 

an initial operating plan has been submitted, individual reprogramming letters should be utilized for minor adjustments in 

programs as they arise and only in exceptional circumstances 

should comprehensive measures be taken. Any reprogramming or 

operating plan request submitted to the Committee shall contain a 

detailed explanation of where each adjustment of funds is proposed 

to be taken from and the exact destination of those funds. This direction has not been followed in the past and NASA has only provided summary information that does not adequately detail item by 
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item destinations of funds. Funding provided to NASA for its activities are not fungible amounts for NASA to use as it sees fit unless changes are approved by this Committee through the appropriate justification in each request. Funding provided to NASA 

shall not be arbitrarily allocated with vague references to large operating plans. NASA should follow the example of every other 

agency under the jurisdiction of this subcommittee in following reprogramming direction and execution. 

Contract Costs.—The Committee is concerned that NASA has not 

utilized independent cost verification early in the process of estimating costs for its programs and missions, or in assessing the appropriate funding levels of sole-source contracts. In allocating resources for current and future needs, effective cost estimation is 

crucial. NASA is directed to incorporate independent cost 

verification as part of the process by which contracts are selected 

and monitored. Utilization of independent cost verification shall be 

used as a guide for assessing when costs have exceeded expectations and to help identify projects for termination. NASA shall report to the Committee of its plans and progress in implementing 

this directive within 60 days of enactment. 

Once again the Committee directs NASA that it shall notify, in 

writing, the Committee 30 days prior to allocating funds, modifying, or extending existing contracts that are in excess of 15 percent of the original contract value. Within this notification NASA 

shall also justify the additional expenditure of funds, and NASA 

shall identify the source of any necessary additional funds. It is absolutely critical that NASA be able to control the costs of its activities. The Committee notes with interest that it has received no 

such notifications over the past 2 years. Therefore, the Committee 

directs NASA to provide the Committee a report, no later than 45 

days after enactment, providing the original baseline amount and 

schedule for all current programs with a life cycle cost of 

$100,000,000 or more, as well as the current baseline amount, confidence level, and schedule for the same programs. 

The Committee reiterates the bill-wide direction of annual reviews by GAO. NASA shall provide access to all necessary data, as 

determined by GAO, in order for the reviews to be completed and 

provided in a timely manner to the Committee. As these reviews 

will be recurring, NASA shall provide appropriate office space for 

GAO staff to conduct their reviews. 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $6,065,000,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 6,854,100,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 6,854,100,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $6,854,100,000. The 

recommendation is $789,100,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and the same as the budget request. 

The National Science Foundation [NSF] was established as an 

independent agency by the National Science Foundation Act of 

1950 (Public Law 81–507) and is authorized to support research 

and education programs that promote the progress of science and 

engineering in the United States. The Foundation supports research and education in all major scientific and engineering dis-
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ciplines through grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and 

other forms of assistance in all parts of the United States. The 

Foundation also supports unique, large-scale research facilities and 

international facilities. 

NSF is the principal Federal agency charged with promoting 

science and engineering education from pre-kindergarten through 

career development. This helps ensure that the United States has 

world-class scientists, mathematicians and engineers, and well-prepared citizens for today and the future. In today’s global economy, 

continued progress in science and engineering and the transfer of 

the knowledge developed is vital if the United States is to maintain 

its competitiveness. NSF is at the leading edge of the research and 

discoveries that will create the jobs and technologies of the future. 

The Committee reiterates its long-standing requirement that 

NSF request reprogrammings when initiating new programs or activities or reorganizing components. The Committee expects to be 

notified of reprogramming actions which involve less than the 

above-mentioned amount if such actions would have the effect of 

changing the agency’s funding requirements in future years, or if 

programs or projects specifically cited in the Committee’s reports 

are affected. 

RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $4,821,474,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 5,593,990,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 5,593,990,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $5,593,990,000. The recommendation is $772,516,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and the same as the budget request. 

The Research and Related Activities appropriation addresses the 

Foundation’s three strategic goals: people—developing a diverse, 

internationally competitive and globally engaged workforce of scientists, engineers, and well-prepared citizens; ideas—enabling discovery across the frontiers of science and engineering, connected to 

learning, innovation, and service to society; and tools—providing 

broadly accessible, state-of-the-art science and engineering facilities 

and shared research and education tools. Research activities will 

contribute to the achievement of these outcomes through expansion 

of the knowledge base; integration of research and education; stimulation of knowledge transfer among academia and public and private sectors; and international activities, and will bring the perspectives of many disciplines to bear on complex problems important to the Nation. The Foundation’s discipline-oriented Research 

and Related Activities account include: Biological Sciences; Computer and Information Science and Engineering; Engineering; Geosciences; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Social, Behavioral 

and Economic Sciences; U.S. Polar Research Programs; U.S. Antarctica Logistical Support Activities; and Integrative Activities. 

The Committee recommendation provides significant increases 

for investments to advance the frontiers of research and education 

in science and engineering. The recommendation provides a nearly 

14 percent increase over the fiscal year 2008 enacted level. The 

Congress conveyed its clear determination to build on America’s 

success as a world leader in discovery and innovation through the 
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passage of the America COMPETES Act last year. The Committee’s 

fiscal year 2008 recommendation for NSF was to have been the 

first phase of delivering on the promises and policies outlined by 

this landmark legislation. Unfortunately, as the fiscal year 2008 

appropriation cycle progressed, it was clear that the administration 

was unwilling to compromise with the Congress. This intransigence 

forced the Congress to reluctantly reduce the proposed increases for 

NSF in order to avoid devastating consequences to other domestic 

programs. 

The Committee’s fiscal year 2009 recommendation renews its 

commitment to Federal long-term basic research that has the potential to be transformative to our economy and our way of life. As 

such, the recommendation provides the full funding requested for 

the four major cross-foundation investments of Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation, Science and Engineering Beyond Moore’s 

Law, Adaptive Systems Technology, and Dynamics of Water Processes in the Environment. Each of these programs aim to have a 

transformative impact across science and engineering, especially in 

areas of national priority first outlined by the National Academies 

Report ‘‘Rising Above the Gathering Storm.’’ 

Science and Technology Policy Institute.—The Committee is concerned about the strength of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research [EPSCoR] program, and its effectiveness 

in reaching its goals of building a broad, nationwide university research base. EPSCoR was established within NSF in 1979 in order 

to focus on those States that have historically received lesser 

amounts of Federal research and development funding. In addition, 

since the establishment of EPSCoR at NSF, EPSCoR programs 

have been instituted within NASA, the Departments of Agriculture 

and Energy; the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Institutes of Health; and other Federal agencies. Over time many 

States have been added to these EPSCoR programs, but not a single State has yet to graduate. The Committee directs the Science 

and Technology Policy Institute [STPI] to conduct a review of the 

EPSCoR program in all Federal agencies with the funding provided 

to STPI in the fiscal year 2009 budget request. As part of this review, STPI should include recommendations as to how the program 

could be made more effective; a review of what policies are in place 

to ensure States are made aware of graduation thresholds, and 

whether bridge programs should be instituted to enable success 

and make certain that graduating States do not simply slide back 

into the EPSCoR program at a later date; recommendations should 

be provided as to what the proper criteria should be for graduation; 

and also to address the relative effectiveness within EPSCoR of the 

Research Infrastructure Grants versus cost sharing. This report 

shall be provided to the Committee on Appropriations no later than 

May 15, 2009. 

Improved Science in the U.S. Antarctic Program [USAP].—The 

Committee notes the substantial investment in the development 

and construction of critical infrastructure for operations in the Antarctic over the last decade. As renewed attention is now paid to 

this region of the world because of the effect of climate change 

upon it, the Committee believes that the USAP’s logistical support 

activities should now focus on guaranteeing the maximum scientific 
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utilization of these renewed assets. For this reason, the Committees on Appropriation, in their joint April 15 letter in response to 

the fiscal year 2008 operating plan, directed NSF to prepare a plan 

within 60 days ‘‘on diversifying logistical support activities to provide enhanced delivery of technology solutions in support of science 

based activities in the Antarctic, including information and research on global climate change.’’ Regrettably, just 2 weeks after 

the Committee’s letter to the Foundation was sent, the NSF issued 

a statement of objectives for the upcoming Antarctic logistics acquisition which made no mention of this directive. The Committee is 

troubled by this glaring omission and believes it to be inconsistent 

with the agency’s own upcoming 10-year agency-wide plan which 

makes high speed capacity to transmit data a priority. As a result, 

the Committee fully expects any final selection criteria related to 

a competitive logistics procurement to include as a key measure of 

evaluation the ability to provide a path for innovative technology 

insertion to guarantee high speed communication of data to scientists, as well as demonstrated experience in supporting Federal 

programs whose primary objective includes scientific research and 

dissemination of data. Such an evaluation should include factors 

such as: technology based logistics and supply chain methods; the 

ability to coordinate and integrate Polar Program stakeholders to 

promote optimal research data acquisition and delivery methods; 

and the capacity to expand research activities in remote locations 

for the purpose of collecting, evaluating, promoting, and disseminating new information related to major climate global systems 

and changes to them. 

Mathematical Science Research Institutes.—The Committee recommendation provides an additional $3,000,000 above the request 

to establish a mathematical institute devoted to the identification 

and development of mathematical talent and to advance mathematical topics critical to the national interest. 

Astronomical Sciences.—The Committee recommendation provides $252,510,000 for Astronomical Sciences. The $2,500,000 increase above the request is specifically provided for the Advanced 

Technology Solar Telescope project in order to fund the design work 

requested, and denied, in a separate account. The Committee expects all design work, from any Major Research project to be funded out of this account. 

National Radio Astronomy Observatory.—The Committee recommendation provides the full budget request of $49,790,000. This 

level of funding will provide adequate funding for operations of the 

Green Bank Observatory with its now operational radio telescope, 

science center, and associated student dormitory. 

EPSCoR.—The Committee recommendation provides 

$125,000,000 for EPSCoR, which has the mission to strengthen research and education throughout the United States and to avoid 

undue concentration of such research and education. This is 

$10,000,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level and 

$11,500,000 above the request. 

Plant Genome Research Program.—The Committee recommends 

$101,220,000 for the Plant Genome Research Program. The Committee remains a strong supporter of this important program due 

to its potential impact on improving economically significant crops. 
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The Committee also recognizes its vast potential in combating hunger in poor countries. 

MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $220,740,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 147,510,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 152,010,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $152,010,000. The rec- ommendation is $68,730,000 below the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $4,500,000 above the budget request. 

The major research equipment and facilities construction appropriation supports the acquisition, procurement, construction, and 

commissioning of unique national research platforms and facilities 

as well as major research equipment. Projects supported by this appropriation will push the boundaries of technology and offer significant expansion of opportunities, often in new directions, for the 

science and engineering community. Preliminary design and development activities, on-going operations, and maintenance costs of 

the facilities are provided through the research and related activities appropriation account. 

The Committee recommendation includes funding at the requested level for the following three ongoing projects: the Advanced 

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory [AdvLIGO]; 

the Atacama Large Millimeter Array [ALMA]; and the IceCube 

Neutrino Observatory. 

Advanced Technology Solar Telescope [ATST].—The Committee 

recommendation provides a total of $9,500,000 for the ATST. The 

Committee having denied, without prejudice, the proposed statute 

change related to late-stage design work in the MREFC appropriation account, has provided $2,500,000 for ATST design work in the 

budget of Astronomical Sciences within the Research and Related 

Activities appropriation account. The Committee is, however, 

pleased to see the ATST’s inclusion in NSF’s request for this account and provides $7,000,000 for the project. The Committee is 

very interested in the success of the ATST project and expects regular updates on the progress of the project from NSF. 

Alaska Regional Research Vehicle [ARRV].—The Committee remains supportive of the ARRV project and has been assured that 

the construction of the AARV remains a top priority to NSF within 

the MREFC appropriation account. The Committee expects NSF to 

request the remaining funds necessary to complete construction of 

the AARV after the successful completion of a final design review 

for the vessel. 

Ocean Observatories Initiative [OOI].—The Committee remains 

supportive of the OOI project which will provide scientists with a 

unique opportunity to study multiple, interrelated processes over 

timescales ranging from seconds to decades. The Committee understands NSF decision for not requesting funding in fiscal year 2009 

but expects NSF to seek funding for this valuable project once the 

project’s cost is accurately determined at the Final Design Review. 

Proposed Statute Change.—The requested statute change for the 

MREFC appropriation account to include late-stage design work is 

denied at this time, without prejudice. As the NSF budget justification itself notes, ‘‘The use of MREFC funding for design and other 
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preconstruction activities is a principal focus of ongoing reviews of 

NSF’s MREFC processes by NSF management and the NSB’’ and 

it would be imprudent of the Committee to make such a change 

until those reviews are completed and presented to the Committee 

for consideration. 

EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $725,600,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 790,410,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 790,410,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $790,410,000. The recommendation is $64,810,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and the same as the budget request. 

The education and human resources appropriation supports a 

comprehensive set of programs across all levels of education in 

science, technology, engineering and mathematics [STEM]. The appropriation supports activities that unite school districts with institutions of higher learning to improve precollege education. Other 

precollege activities include the development of the next generation 

of precollege STEM education leaders; instructional materials; and 

the STEM instructional workforce. Undergraduate activities support curriculum, laboratory, and instructional improvement; expand the STEM talent pool; attract STEM participants to teaching; 

augment advanced technological education at 2-year colleges; and 

develop dissemination tools. Graduate support is directed to research and teaching fellowships and traineeships and instructional 

workforce improvement by linking precollege systems with higher 

education. Programs also seek to broaden the participation of 

groups underrepresented in the STEM enterprise, build State and 

regional capacity to compete successfully for research funding, and 

promote informal science education. Ongoing evaluation efforts and 

research on learning strengthen the base for these programs. 

The Committee strongly encourages NSF to continue support for 

undergraduate science and engineering education. At a time when 

enrollment in STEM fields of study continues to decline, it is important that NSF use its position to support students working towards degrees in these areas. 

Creating a strong science and engineering workforce for the future is vital to maintaining the Nation’s competitive edge. As the 

recent National Academies Report ‘‘Above the Gathering Storm,’’ 

and before that, the Hart-Rudman report on ‘‘Road Map for National Security: Imperative for Change’’ so illustratively point out— 

the future of U.S. competitiveness rests on our ability to train the 

next generation of scientists and engineers. 

Robert Noyce Fellowship Program.—Encourages talented Science, 

Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics undergraduates and 

professionals to become K–12 mathematics and science teachers 

through scholarships and stipends. The Committee recommendation provides a total of $55,000,000 for the Noyce program of which 

$45,000,000 shall be for activities authorized by section 10A of the 

National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 

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AGENCY OPERATIONS AND AWARD MANAGEMENT

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $281,790,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 305,560,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 300,560,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $300,560,000. The recommendation is $18,770,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $4,500,000 below the budget request. 

The salaries and expenses appropriation provides funds for staff 

salaries, benefits, travel, training, rent, advisory and assistance 

services, communications and utilities expenses, supplies, equipment, and other operating expenses necessary for management of 

the National Science Foundation’s [NSF] research and education 

activities. 

OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $3,969,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 4,030,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 4,030,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $4,030,000. The recommendation is $61,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and the same as the budget request. 

The National Science Board is the governing body of the National 

Science Foundation. The Board is composed of 24 members, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The Board 

is also charged with serving as an independent adviser to the 

President and Congress on policy matters related to science and engineering research and education. 

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $11,427,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 13,100,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 13,100,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $13,100,000. The recommendation is $1,673,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and the same as the budget request. 

The Office of Inspector General appropriation provides audit and 

investigation functions to identify and correct deficiencies that 

could create potential instances of fraud, waste, or mismanagement. 

The funds provided will allow the OIG to further its efforts in 

several priority areas that pose the greatest risk to the agency: financial management, acquisition, information technology, human 

capital, award administration, awardee financial accountability and 

compliance, and the management of agency programs and projects. 
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TITLE IV 

RELATED AGENCIES 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $8,460,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 8,800,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 8,800,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $8,800,000 for the salaries and expenses of the Commission on Civil Rights. The recommendation is $340,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and is the same as the budget request. 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $329,300,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 341,925,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 341,925,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $341,925,000. The rec- ommendation is $12,625,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and is the same as the budget request. 

The Committee remains concerned at rising of backlog charges of 

employment discrimination at the Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission [EEOC]. The Committee is disturbed that this issue 

has not been addressed in a systematic or strategic manner. The 

Committee is concerned that there is a lack of leadership and will 

at the EEOC to adequately address this problem and it could affect 

the ability of EEOC to meets is mission and mandate to promote 

equal opportunity at the workplace. 

A recent GAO study conducted at the request of the Committee, 

found that not only is the EEOC’s workload increasing but that the 

EEOC has not taken any actions to identify best practices for 

prioritizing and investigation charges. GAO found that over the 

past 4 years EEOC’s private sector workload has increased by 10 

percent and found that multiple factors contribute to the growing 

workload including growth of new charges and a decline in investigative staff. The GAO study concluded that if EEOC cannot keep 

pace with its growing private sector workload its mission and mandate to promote equal opportunity in the workplace could be compromised. The Committee directs the EEOC to report to the Committee on the steps the EEOC is taking to make sure its mission 

and mandate is not compromised. 

The Committee is also concerned with EEOC lagging in filling 

frontline staff including investigators. Many of these FTE positions 

have remained unfilled for over 1 year despite increased need and 
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growing backlog. The Committee further directs EEOC to submit 

a plan within 60 days of enactment of this act to the Committee 

outlining what steps the EEOC is taking to filling those positions, 

reasons for the delay in filling these positions and how these delays 

can be prevented in the future. 

The GAO study also found that EEOC has not taken the necessary steps to fully address future workforce needs in their draft 

Strategic Workforce Plan. Specifically, EEOC’s workforce planning 

has not been approached strategically or systematically. The EEOC 

has not based workforce planning on mission needs, customer expectations workload or current workforce. The study concluded that 

EEOC could better address its growing caseload if it made better 

use of strategic planning than it is currently doing. 

The Committee directs the EEOC to implement the GAO recommendations and report back to the Committee 60 days within 

enactment of this act on how the EEOC is implementing GAO recommendations. 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $68,400,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 73,600,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 75,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $75,000,000. The rec- ommendation is $6,600,000 above the fiscal year 2008 level and 

$1,400,000 above the budget request. 

The ITC is an independent, quasi-judicial agency responsible for 

conducting trade-related investigations, providing Congress and the 

President with independent technical advice relating to United 

States international trade policy. The increased funding will allow 

the Commission to address pressing hiring needs in the area of intellectual property caseload. 

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $350,490,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 311,000,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 390,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $390,000,000. The recommendation is $39,510,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level and $79,000,000 above the budget request. 

The Committee recommendation provides $369,000,000 for basic 

field programs, to be used for competitively awarded grants and 

contracts, $13,000,000 for management and administration, 

$3,800,000 for client self-help and information technology, 

$3,200,000 for the Office of the Inspector General and $1,000,000 

is for loan repayment assistance. 

The Committee notes that the recent national foreclosure crisis 

has significantly impacted the Legal Services Corporation [LSC] 

ability to serve its client base. LSC has seen a dramatic increase 

in the number of individuals seeking assistance with housing and 

predatory lending matters. In 2007 alone, LSC turned away 
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250,000 housing cases because they did not have the resources they 

needed to address this increased need. The Committee also recognizes that substantive legal tools are part of the best defense 

against the threat of mounting foreclosures. 

Therefore, within the available funds provided to the Legal Services Corporation $30,000,000 shall be directed to provide legal assistance related to home ownership preservation, home foreclosure 

prevention, and tenancy associated with home foreclosure. The 

Committee also directs that LSC shall give priority in awarding 

grants to eligible entities and individuals that provide legal assistance in the 100 metropolitan statistical areas (as defined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget) with the highest 

foreclosure rates. 

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

The Committee recommendation continues the administrative 

provisions contained in the fiscal year 1998 appropriations act 

(Public Law 105–119) regarding operation of this program to provide basic legal services to disadvantaged individuals and the restrictions on the use of Legal Services Corporation [LSC] funds. 

Grantees must agree not to engage in litigation and related activities with respect to a variety of matters including: (1) redistricting; (2) class action suits; (3) representation of illegal aliens; (4) 

political activities; (5) collection of attorney fees; (6) abortion; (7) 

prisoner litigation; (8) welfare reform; (9) representation of charged 

drug dealers during eviction proceedings; and (10) solicitation of clients. The exception to the restrictions occurs in a case where there 

is imminent threat of physical harm to the client or prospective client remains in place. 

The manner in which the LSC grantees are audited through contracts with certified public accountants for financial and compliance audits are continued, along with the provisions on recompetition and debarment. 

The Committee recognizes that the Legal Service Corporation 

[LSC] current percentage locality pay represents reasonable compensation for LSC officers and employees. The Committee expects 

that any locality pay will continue to be paid at that percentage. 

MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $2,820,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 2,400,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 2,400,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $2,400,000. The recommendation is $420,000 below the fiscal year 2008 enacted level 

and the same as the budget request. 

The Marine Mammal Commission and its Committee of Scientific 

Advisors on Marine Mammals provide oversight and recommend 

actions on domestic and international topics to advance policies and 

provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Commission 

provides precise, up-to-date scientific information to Congress on 

issues related to the safety of marine mammals. 
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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $44,120,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... 46,272,000 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 46,272,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $46,272,000 for the Office of the United States Trade Representative [USTR]. The recommendation is $2,152,000 above the fiscal year 2008 level and the 

same as the budget request. 

The USTR is responsible for developing and leading international 

negotiations for the United States on policies regarding international trade, direct investment, and commodities. Its areas of responsibility include all matters relating to the World Trade Organization, trade, commodity, and direct investment matters dealt with 

by certain international institutions; industrial, agricultural and 

services trade policy; and trade-related protection of intellectual 

property and the environment. 

The Committee directs the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to report to the Committee on the status of U.S. equipment industry access to the European Community’s [EC] Galileo program 

and European markets for related goods and services no later than 

April 1, 2009 in order to assess EC compliance with the 2004 

United States-EU Agreement on GPS-Galileo Cooperation. 

World Trade Organization.—The Committee is aware of the 

World Trade Organization [WTO] Appellate Body’s January 16, 

2003, ruling regarding the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset 

Act (Public Law 106–387). The Committee directs USTR, in consultation with the Department of Commerce, to continue to negotiate within the WTO to seek express recognition of the existing 

right of WTO members to distribute monies collected from antidumping and countervailing duties. The agency shall consult with 

and provide regular reports to the Senate Committee on Appropriations on this matter every 60 days upon enactment of this act. 

In addition, the Committee directs that negotiations be conducted within the WTO consistent with the negotiating objectives 

contained in the Trade Act of 2002, Public Law 107–210, to maintain strong U.S. trade remedies laws, prevent overreaching by 

WTO Panels and the WTO Appellate Body, and prevent the creation of obligations never negotiated or agreed to by the United 

States. 

STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriations, 2008 ............................................................................. $3,760,000 

Budget estimate, 2009 ........................................................................... ........................... 

Committee recommendation ................................................................. 5,000,000 

The Committee recommendation provides $5,000,000. The recommendation is $1,240,000 above the fiscal year 2008 enacted 

level. The budget request did not include funding for this account. 

The Institute was created in 1984 to further the development 

and adoption of improved judicial administration in State courts. 
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TITLE V 

GENERAL PROVISIONS 

The Committee recommends the following general provisions for 

the departments, agencies and commissions funded in the accompanying bill. All of these provisions have been included in previous 

acts. 

Section 501 prohibits the use of appropriations for certain publicity and propaganda purposes. 

Section 502 prohibits any appropriations contained in this act 

from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal 

year unless expressly provided. 

Section 503 limits funds for certain consulting purposes. 

Section 504 provides that should any provision of the act be held 

to be invalid, the remainder of the act would not be affected. 

Section 505 stipulates the policy by which funding available to 

the agencies funded under this act may be reprogrammed for other 

purposes. 

Section 506 prohibits funds in the bill from being used to implement, administer, or enforce any guidelines of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] similar to proposed guidelines covering harassment based on religion published by the 

EEOC in October 1993. 

Section 507 provides for a penalty for persons found to have 

falsely mislabeled products. 

Section 508 requires agencies to provide quarterly reports to the 

Appropriations Committees regarding unobligated balances. 

Section 509 requires agencies and departments funded in this act 

to absorb any necessary costs related to downsizing or consolidation 

within the amounts provided to the agency or department. 

Section 510 limits funds for the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products. 

Section 511 prohibits user fees for background checks conducted 

pursuant to the Brady Handgun Control Act of 1993, and prohibits 

implementation of a background check system which does not require or result in destruction of certain information. 

Section 512 stipulates obligation of receipts available under the 

Crime Victims Fund. 

Section 513 prohibits the use of Department of Justice funds for 

programs that discriminate against, denigrate, or otherwise undermine the religious beliefs of students participating in such programs. 

Section 514 limits transfers of funds between agencies. 

Section 515 provides that funding for E-government initiatives 

are subject to reprogramming guidelines established by this act. 

Section 516 specifies requirements for certain firearms tracing 

studies. 
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Section 517 requires the Inspectors General of the Departments 

of Commerce and Justice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Legal Services Corporation to conduct reviews of activities funded in this act; 

prohibits the use of funds for certain banquets and conferences; 

and requires certifications regarding conflicts of interest. 

Section 518 prohibits funds to issue certain patents. 

Section 519 prohibits the use of funds to support or justify the 

use of torture. 

Section 520 limits funds pertaining to certain activities related to 

the export of firearms. 

Section 521 limits funds to process permits to import certain 

products. 

Section 522 prohibiting funds to include certain language in new 

trade agreements. 

Section 523 prohibits funds to authorize a national security letter 

in contravention of the statutes authorizing the FBI to issue national security letters. 

Section 524 requires notification to the Committees in the event 

of cost overruns. 

Section 525 limits reprogrammings and transfers after June 30 

to extraordinary circumstances. 

Section 526 authorizes funds appropriated for intelligence activities for the Department of Justice during fiscal year 2009 until the 

enactment of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 

2009. 

Section 527 directs that the Departments, agencies, and commissions funded under this act, shall establish and maintain on the 

homepages of their Internet websites a link to their Offices of Inspectors General and a method by which individuals may anonymously report cases of waste, fraud, or abuse. 

Section 528 prohibits funds to enter into a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award a grant in excess of such 

amount unless the prospective contractor or grantee has filed certain Federal tax returns. 

Section 529 prohibits the use of funds in a manner that is inconsistent with the principal negotiating objective of the United States 

with respect to trade remedy laws. 

Section 530 prohibits the use of funds to purchase first class or 

premium airline travel in contravention of current regulations. 

Section 531 prohibits the use of funds to send or otherwise pay 

for the attendance of more than 50 employees from a Federal department or agency at any single conference occurring outside the 

United States. 

(RESCISSIONS)

Section 532 specifies rescissions of prior appropriations. 
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COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7, RULE XVI OF THE 

STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE 

Rule XVI, paragraph 7 requires that every report on a general 

appropriation bill filed by the Committee must identify items of appropriation not made to carry out the provisions of an existing law, 

a treaty stipulation, or an act or resolution previously passed by 

the Senate during that session. 

The Committee recommends funding for the following programs 

or activities that currently lack an authorization for fiscal year 

2009, either in whole or in part, and therefore fall under this rule: 

Department of Commerce: 

Economic Development Administration 

International Trade Administration 

Bureau of Industry and Security 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration 

Department of Justice: 

General Legal Activities 

Vaccine Injury Compensation 

Office of Justice Programs 

Justice Assistance Programs 

National Institute of Justice 

Bureau of Justice Statistics 

Regional Information Sharing System 

Crime Victims Fund Management and Administration 

Juvenile Justice Programs 

Juvenile Justice Programs 

Part A—Coordination of Federal Efforts—Management 

Part B—State Formula—Delinquency Prevention 

Part E—Challenge Grants—Demonstration Projects 

Youth Mentoring Program 

Tribal Youth 

Gang Prevention 

Victims of Child Abuse Programs 

Community Oriented Policing Services 

COPS Hiring Program 

Tribal Law Enforcement 

COPS Law Enforcement Technology and Interoperability 

Criminal Records Upgrade 

DNA Backlog Reduction/Crime Labs 

Training and Technical Assistance 

State and Local Law Enforcement 

Byrne Public Safety and Protection Program 

Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program [JAG] 

State and Local Antiterrorism Training [SLATT] 
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Discretionary Grants 

Prescription Drug Monitoring 

Indian Programs 

Tribal Courts 

Alcohol and Substance Abuse 

Indian Prison Grants 

Drug Courts 

Science: 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

Related Agencies: 

Commission on Civil Rights 

International Trade Commission 

Payment to the Legal Services Corporation 

Marine Mammal Commission 

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative 
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COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 7(C), RULE XXVI OF THE 

STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE 

Pursuant to paragraph 7(c) of rule XXVI, on June 19, 2008, the 

Committee ordered reported an original bill (S. 3182) making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and 

Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 

30, 2009, subject to amendment and subject to the budget allocations, and authorized the chairman of the committee or the chairman of the subcommittee to offer the text of the Senate-reported 

bill as a committee amendment in the nature of a substitute to the 

House companion measure, by a recorded vote of 29–0, a quorum 

being present. The vote was as follows: 

Yeas Nays 

Chairman Byrd 

Mr. Inouye 

Mr. Leahy 

Mr. Harkin 

Ms. Mikulski 

Mr. Kohl 

Mrs. Murray 

Mr. Dorgan 

Mrs. Feinstein 

Mr. Durbin 

Mr. Johnson 

Ms. Landrieu 

Mr. Reed 

Mr. Lautenberg 

Mr. Nelson 

Mr. Cochran 

Mr. Stevens 

Mr. Specter 

Mr. Domenici 

Mr. Bond 

Mr. McConnell 

Mr. Shelby 

Mr. Gregg 

Mr. Bennett 

Mr. Craig 

Mrs. Hutchison 

Mr. Brownback 

Mr. Allard 

Mr. Alexander 
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COMPLIANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 12, RULE XXVI OF THE 

STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE 

Paragraph 12 of the rule XXVI requires that Committee reports 

on a bill or joint resolution repealing or amending any statute or 

part of any statute include ‘‘(a) the text of the statute or part thereof which is proposed to be repealed; and (b) a comparative print of 

that part of the bill or joint resolution making the amendment and 

of the statute or part thereof proposed to be amended, showing by 

stricken-through type and italics, parallel columns, or other appropriate typographical devices the omissions and insertions which 

would be made by the bill or joint resolution if enacted in the form 

recommended by the Committee.’’ 

In compliance with this rule, the following changes in existing 

law proposed to be made by this bill are shown as follows: existing 

law to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets; new matter is 

printed in italic; and existing law in which no change is proposed 

is shown in roman. 

TITLE 16—CONSERVATION 

* * * * * * * 

CHAPTER 56A—PACIFIC SALMON FISHING 

* * * * * * * 

§ 3645. Northern Boundary and Transboundary Rivers Restoration and Enhancement Fund and Southern 

Boundary Restoration and Enhancement fund 

(a) Northern Fund and Southern Fund 

* * * * * * * 

(d) Authorization of appropriations 

(1) Pacific Salmon Treaty 

* * * * * * * 

(2) Pacific coastal salmon recovery 

(A) For salmon habitat restoration, salmon stock enhancement, and salmon research, including the construction of salmon research and related facilities, there is authorized to be appropriated for each of fiscal years [1] 2005, $90,000,000 to the 

States of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, and 

California. Amounts appropriated pursuant to this subparagraph shall be made available as direct payments. The State 

of Alaska may allocate a portion of any funds it receives under 

this subsection to eligible activities outside Alaska. 

* * * * * * * 

TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE 

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CHAPTER 46—JUSTICE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT 

* * * * * * * 
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SUBCHAPTER XII–M—MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM FOR 

LAW ENFORCEMENT ARMOR 

* * * * * * * 

§ 3796ll. Program authorized 

(a) * * * 

* * * * * * * 

(f) Matching funds 

(1) In general 

The portion of the costs of a program provided by a grant 

under subsection (a) of this section— 

(A) may not exceed 50 percent; and 

(B) shall equal 50 percent, if— 

(i) such grant is to a unit of local government with 

fewer than 100,000 residents; 

(ii) the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance determines that the quantity of vests to be purchased with such grant is reasonable; and 

(iii) such portion does not cause such grant to violate the requirements of subsection (e) of this section. 

(2) Indian assistance 

Any funds appropriated by Congress for the activities of 

any agency of an Indian tribal government or the Bureau of Indian Affairs performing law enforcement functions on any Indian lands may be used to provide the non-Federal share of a 

matching requirement funded under this subsection. 

(3) WAIVER.—The Director may waive in whole or in part, 

the requirement of paragraph (1) in the case of fiscal hardship, 

as determined by the Director. 

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CHAPTER 112—VICTIM COMPENSATION AND 

ASSISTANCE 

* * * * * * * 

§ 10603. Crime victim assistance 

(a) * * * 

* * * * * * * 

(c) * * * 

(1) * * * 

* * * * * * * 

(3) * * * 

* * * * * * * 

(A) * * * 

* * * * * * * 

(E) use funds made available to the Director under this 

subsection— 
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(i) for fellowships and clinical internships and for 

grants under subparagraphs (1)(A) and (B), pursuant to 

rules or guidelines that generally establish a publicly-announced, competitive process; and 

(ii) to carry out programs of training and special workshops for the presentation and dissemination of information resulting from demonstrations, surveys, and special 

projects. 

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BUDGETARY IMPACT OF BILL 

PREPARED IN CONSULTATION WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE PURSUANT TO SEC. 

308(a), PUBLIC LAW 93–344, AS AMENDED 

[In millions of dollars] 

Budget authority Outlays 

Committee 

allocation Amount of bill Committee allocation Amount of bill 

Comparison of amounts in the bill with Committee allocations 

to its subcommittees of budget totals for 2009: Subcommittee on Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related 

Agencies: 

Mandatory ............................................................................ 221 221 224 1 224 

Discretionary ........................................................................ 57,900 57,900 NA 1 57,235 

Projection of outlays associated with the recommendation: 

2009 ..................................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 2 37,256 

2010 ..................................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 15,095 

2011 ..................................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 4,532 

2012 ..................................................................................... .................... .................... .................... 2,149 

2013 and future years ........................................................ .................... .................... .................... 1,010 

Financial assistance to State and local governments for 

2009 ......................................................................................... NA 1,190 NA ¥70 

1 Includes outlays from prior-year budget authority. 

2 Excludes outlays from prior-year budget authority. 

NA: Not applicable. 

DISCLOSURE OF CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING 

ITEMS 

The Constitution vests in the Congress the power of the purse. 

The Committee believes strongly that Congress should make the 

decisions on how to allocate the people’s money. 

As defined in Rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the 

term ‘‘congressional directed spending item’’ means a provision or 

report language included primarily at the request of a Senator, providing, authorizing, or recommending a specific amount of discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or other spending authority for a contract, loan, loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, 

or other expenditure with or to an entity, or targeted to a specific 

State, locality or congressional district, other than through a statutory or administrative, formula-driven, or competitive award process. 

For each item, a Member is required to provide a certification 

that neither the Member nor the Senator’s immediate family has 

a pecuniary interest in such congressionally directed spending 

item. Such certifications are available to the public on the website 
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of the Senate Committee on Appropriations 

(www.appropriations.senate.gov/senators.cfm). 

Following is a list of congressionally directed spending items included in the Senate recommendation discussed in this report, 

along with the name of each Senator who submitted a request to 

the Committee of jurisdiction for each item so identified. Neither 

the Committee recommendation nor this report contains any limited tax benefits or limited tariff benefits as defined in rule XLIV. 
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EARMARKS 

Account Project Funding Member 

DOC—ITA ................................... Auburn University, Auburn, AL, for novel polymeric material research at Auburn University .............................................. $1,000,000 Shelby DOC—ITA ................................... State of Vermont Department of Commerce and Community Development, Montpelier, VT, to assist small businesses 

to participate in trade missions.

400,000 Leahy 

DOC—NIST ................................ Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, for construction for a research and technology park .................................... 6,500,000 Cochran, Wicker DOC—NIST ................................ The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, for developing a biotechnology research park ...................... 6,500,000 Cochran, Wicker DOC—NIST ................................ The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, to create, develop, and commercialize new technology for advanced materials. 1,000,000 Cochran, Wicker DOC—NIST ................................ University at Albany College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Albany, NY, for a nanoscale fabrication and 

measurement project.

1,000,000 Schumer 

DOC—NIST ................................ University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, for an interdisciplinary science and engineering teaching and research corridor. 30,000,000 Shelby DOC—NIST ................................ University of Maryland, Baltimore County and College Park, College Park, MD, for ultrafast dynamics for next generation nanotechnology research and development. 2,000,000 Mikulski, Cardin DOC—NOAA ............................... Acadia Partners for Science and Learning, Winter Harbor, ME, for natural science research and education ................... 500,000 Snowe, Collins DOC—NOAA ............................... Alaska Sea Grant, Fairbanks, AK, for research on stock enhancement for rehabilitation of depleted king crab stocks in 

Alaska.

1,000,000 Stevens 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, AK, for pinniped research, marine mammal rescue, and Resurrection Bay salmon enhancement. 3,750,000 Stevens DOC—NOAA ............................... American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, for a partnership to advance environmental literacy through public education and research. 250,000 Schumer DOC—NOAA ............................... Auburn University, Auburn, AL, for research ......................................................................................................................... 1,500,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... Baldwin County Commission, Bay Minette, AL, to fund a flood evaluation study ............................................................... 700,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... Bering Sea Fishermen’s Assoc., Anchorage, AK, for salmon research and restoration projects in Western Alaska and 

interior river systems and ongoing marine productivity research.

190,000 Stevens 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, to monitor cyanobacteria blooms in the Great Lakes ...................... 250,000 Voinovich, Brown DOC—NOAA ............................... City of Dauphin Island, Dauphin Island, AL, for shoreline restoration ................................................................................. 750,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... City of Mobile, AL, Mobile, AL, for NOAA museum exhibits .................................................................................................. 500,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... City of Mobile, Mobile, AL, for public education ................................................................................................................... 500,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... City of Orange Beach, Orange Beach, AL, for study of Perdido Pass Inlet .......................................................................... 250,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... City of Port Aransas, Port Aransas, TX, to preserve endangered wetlands and help stop severe erosion in Port Aransas 

and along the Corpus Christi Ship Channel.

300,000 Hutchison 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Mobile, AL, for fish management ................................................................................................. 1,250,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, Leon County, FL, to collect accurate, reliable data on red snapper catch, bycatch and mortality. 1,000,000 Bill Nelson DOC—NOAA ............................... Great Bay Resource Protection Partnership, Portsmouth, NH, for continued protection and acquisition of critical habitats and lands around Great Bay. 3,000,000 Gregg, Sununu 
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EARMARKS—Continued 

Account Project Funding Member 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities Coalition, Anchorage, AK, for the organization to serve as an advocate for small 

boat community-based fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska.

150,000 Stevens 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, Kennebunk, ME, to provide economic relef to Maine lobstermen ................................ 100,000 Snowe, Collins DOC—NOAA ............................... Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, to support monitoring and research activities on Hawaii coral reefs. 700,000 Inouye DOC—NOAA ............................... Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI, for research in the Hawaiian Archipelago to 

guide ecosystem based management.

2,000,000 Inouye, Akaka 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Henderson County Fiscal Court, Henderson County, KY, to purchase severe weather warning sirens in populated areas 

of Henderson County, where no systems currently exist.

110,000 McConnell, Bunning 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute, Orange County, FL, to maintain the diminished domestic fish stock ..................... 200,000 Bill Nelson, Martinez DOC—NOAA ............................... Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, Gulfport, MS, to complete construction of a facility dedicated to rehabilitating, 

conservation, and education on marine mammals with a focus on dolphins.

1,500,000 Cochran 

DOC—NOAA ............................... International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, to conduct systematic and reliable 

climatographic research of the Pacific region.

1,750,000 Inouye, Akaka 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Iowa State University, Ames, IA, for a research initiative to improve understanding of surface winds and their damaging effects. 850,000 Harkin, Grassley DOC—NOAA ............................... Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, to establish dispersion forecasting modeling for the Gulf Coast Region ............. 1,500,000 Cochran, Wicker DOC—NOAA ............................... Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, to conduct research on open 

ocean fisheries in the Pacific Ocean.

1,250,000 Inouye 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Lakes Region Planning Commission, Meredith, NH, to continue efforts to develop a comprehensive watershed management plan for Lake Winnipesaukee. 100,000 Gregg DOC—NOAA ............................... Louisiana State University A&M, Baton Rouge, LA, to provide more information for a geodetic reference system to aid 

land planning in Louisiana.

700,000 Landrieu 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Maine Department of Marine Resources, Augusta, ME, for the Maine groundfish industry in the form of Emergency 

Economic Assistance.

300,000 Snowe, Collins 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute, New Bedford, MA, for continued research into the New England scallop fishery, to promote sustainability. 1,000,000 Kennedy, Kerry DOC—NOAA ............................... Mississippi Center for Conservation and Biodiversity, Jackson, MS, for construction of a research facility ...................... 1,600,000 Cochran DOC—NOAA ............................... Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, to more effectively link local, State, regional, and national organizations 

concerned with Northern Gulf wetlands issues and management.

4,500,000 Cochran, Wicker 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, MS, provide quality scientific, inquiry-based learning for grades K–12 

in-service and pre-service teachers.

375,000 Cochran 

DOC—NOAA ............................... National Ocean Atmospheric Administration, Anchorage, AK, to enhance research on ice seal populations ..................... 950,000 Stevens DOC—NOAA ............................... National Ocean Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, for the sustainable use of Pacific pelagic fishery resources 

and the production of healthy, safe domestic seafood.

1,500,000 Inouye 
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DOC—NOAA ............................... National Ocean Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, for the NOAA Pacific Services Center to meet the coastal 

management needs of Pacific Island communities.

4,500,000 Inouye 

DOC—NOAA ............................... National Ocean Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, for the deployment of two oceanographic buoys to monitor 

ocean currents near Ordnance Reef.

500,000 Inouye 

DOC—NOAA ............................... National Ocean Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, for the conservation and recovery of endangered Hawaiian 

sea turtle populations.

7,100,000 Inouye 

DOC—NOAA ............................... National Ocean Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, for the conservation and recovery of the critically endangered monk seal population and conservation of Pacific cetaceans. 2,600,000 Inouye, Akaka DOC—NOAA ............................... National Ocean Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, to create and implement an integrated system-wide ocean 

science education program piloted in Hawaii’s schools.

1,500,000 Inouye 

DOC—NOAA ............................... National Ocean Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, to help the Integrated Data and Environmental Applications 

Center meet critical regional needs for ocean, climate, and ecosystem information.

2,500,000 Inouye 

DOC—NOAA ............................... National Ocean Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD, to develop a program to map the seafloor of California’s coastal waters, inland bays and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. 1,500,000 Feinstein, Boxer DOC—NOAA ............................... National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD, for a Doppler radar station in Washington State ........................................ 2,000,000 Murray, Cantwell DOC—NOAA ............................... New England Aquarium, Boston, MA, for research of environmentally sensitive gear technologies designed to reduce 

bycatch.

1,250,000 Kennedy, Kerry, Sununu 

DOC—NOAA ............................... New Hampshire Lakes Association, Concord, NH, to prevent the spread of exotic aquatic weeds, such as milfoil and 

others, in NH lakes.

100,000 Gregg 

DOC—NOAA ............................... NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, Annapolis, MD, for a network of environmental observation platforms .............................. 500,000 Mikulski, Cardin, Warner DOC—NOAA ............................... NOAA National Weather Service Pacific Region Headquarters, Honolulu County, HI, to purchase, install, and maintain 

rain gages.

360,000 Akaka 

DOC—NOAA ............................... NOAA, Huntsville, AL, for NOAA UAS research with the Army ............................................................................................... 1,000,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... Oceanic Institute, Waimanalo, HI, for research to make marine finfish culture technologies economically viable for 

commercial operation.

750,000 Inouye 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Oregon State University (in collaboration with University of California-Davis, Humboldt State University, Klamath River 

tribal agencies and the USFWS), Corvallis, OR, to reduce disease in salmon on the Klamath River.

250,000 Smith, Wyden 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Partnership for Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Science, Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ, to address the most urgent scientific problems 

limiting successful management of summer flounder in the Mid-Atlantic region.

1,000,000 Lautenberg, Menendez 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, for continued weather technology and observation at Plymouth State University. 200,000 Gregg DOC—NOAA ............................... Regional Climate Centers, Reno, NV; Chapel Hill, NC; Baton Rouge, LA; Ithaca, NY; Champaign, IL; Lincoln, NE; Funding for climate research at nationwide sites. 3,000,000 Reid, Ben Nelson, Schumer, Ensign DOC—NOAA ............................... Rhode Island Coastal Resource Management Council, Wakefield, RI, for the development of a comprehensive habitat 

restoration and protection plan for Narragansett Bay and nearby water bodies.

1,000,000 Reed 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Save the Bay, Providence, RI, for a middle-school youth program to study, cleanup, and preserve Narragansett Bay .... 1,000,000 Reed, Whitehouse DOC—NOAA ............................... School for Marine Science and Technology, New Bedford, MA, for continued research and development of new methods 

to protect, preserve, and improve the health of multi-species fisheries in New England.

3,000,000 Kennedy, Kerry 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Sea Otter & Steller Sea Lion Commission, Anchorage, AK, to support an ongoing research program with local communities for sea lion conservation and management. 210,000 Stevens 
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DOC—NOAA ............................... Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Concord, NH, to continue a program to proactively conserve undeveloped river frontage and upland watershed. 100,000 Gregg, Sununu DOC—NOAA ............................... State of Alaska, Juneau, AK, to support private industry participation in two international fishery advisory groups ....... 150,000 Stevens DOC—NOAA ............................... State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, to conduct priority research and provide science support for the restoration of 

the Pontchartrain Basin through the Pontchartrain Restoration Act (PRA) of 2000, the Coast Wetland Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) of 1990, and the Federal/State Coast 2050 Initiative.

250,000 Vitter 

DOC—NOAA ............................... States of Maryland and Virginia, to aid watermen in the Chesapeake Bay with new work opportunities, including but 

not limited to aquaculture, restoration and research.

20,000,000 Mikulski, Warner, Cardin, Webb 

DOC—NOAA ............................... States of Maryland and Virginia, to restore oyster habitat and plant disease free oysters in scientifically selected 

sites throughout the Chesapeake Bay.

4,600,000 Mikulski, Warner, Cardin, Webb 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Harrisburg, PA, for operations and maintenance of a flood forecast and warning system. 2,000,000 Mikulski DOC—NOAA ............................... The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, for nanotoxicology research ................................................ 700,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, to build decision support tools related to flooding and/or 

storm surge that provide a 3D visualization for emergency management officials to plan, train, and coordinate relief efforts.

500,000 Cochran, Wicker 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary, Alpena, MI, for exhibits and telepresence technology ....................................................... 500,000 Levin, Stabenow DOC—NOAA ............................... Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary, Alpena, MI, for the lease for the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center ........................ 1,000,000 Levin, Stabenow DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, for cooperative institute .................................................................... 1,000,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, for weather research in the Gulf of Mexico ...................................... 1,000,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, for weather research in the Gulf of Mexico .......................................................... 5,500,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, for advanced submarine surveys to establish new U.S. claims for seabed resources. 500,000 Stevens DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, for research on coastal vulnerability to climate change ........................................... 940,000 Stevens DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Delaware, Dover, DE, for a real-time satellite receiving station .................................................................... 750,000 Biden, Carper DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD, to rebuild the Horn Point laboratory ............. 2,000,000 Mikulski DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL, to improve and expedite hurricane forecasts through rapid transition of 

results to NOAA operations.

250,000 Bill Nelson, Martinez 

DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, for a research project on the public safety applications of infrasound ................. 1,500,000 Cochran, Inouye, Wicker DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, for training, education and research ....................................................................... 850,000 Cochran, Wicker DOC—NOAA ............................... Sea Grant Law Center, Oxford, MS, to integrate biotechnology and undersea technology development with cutting edge 

research for the advancement of marine science.

750,000 Cochran, Wicker 

DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, to integrate biotechnology and undersea technology development with cutting 

edge research for the advancement of marine science and discovering new products from the sea.

5,000,000 Cochran, Wicker 

DOC—NOAA ............................... University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, for continued weather and air quality research ............................................ 300,000 Gregg DOC—NOAA ............................... University of North Alabama, Florence, AL, for geospatial analysis ..................................................................................... 500,000 Shelby 
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DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, for assessing the water quality, ecology, fish, and fisheries of Narragansett 

Bay.

1,000,000 Reed, Whitehouse 

DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, for equipment for the Pell Library and Undersea Exploration Center ............... 1,200,000 Reed, Whitehouse DOC—NOAA ............................... University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, for hurricane monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico ................................................. 750,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, for oyster rehabilitation ...................................................................................... 1,000,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Tennessee Space Institute—Atmospheric Science Research, Tullahoma, TN, for airborne science research 

to enhance understanding of global warming, pollution, and climate change.

200,000 Alexander 

DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, for researching, targeting, understanding and mitigating invasive species, toxic 

blue algae and new contaminants of concern.

250,000 Leahy 

DOC—NOAA ............................... University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, for research on water quality, ecosystem health and the transport of pollutants. 350,000 Leahy DOC—NOAA ............................... Von Braun Center for Science & Innovation—Not for Profit, Huntsville, AL, for research Gulf Coast research ................ 1,000,000 Shelby DOC—NOAA ............................... Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA, for citizen-driven environmental protection ................................ 1,600,000 Murray, Cantwell DOC—NOAA ............................... Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, to complete the development of a monitoring system that will collect 

real-time weather observations through a statewide grid of stations in Kentucky.

700,000 McConnell 

DOC—NOAA ............................... Yukon River Drainage Fisheries, Anchorage, AK, to continue monitoring, research, and educational efforts for subsistence and commercial fisheries along the Yukon River. 380,000 Stevens DOJ—Byrne ................................ A Child Is Missing, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for law enforcement assistance for missing and abducted children in Kansas. 100,000 Crapo DOJ—Byrne ................................ A Child is Missing, Fort Lauderdale, FL, to support A Child is Missing efforts in South Dakota ...................................... 100,000 Thune DOJ—Byrne ................................ A Child is Missing, Fort Lauderdale, FL, to upgrade telephony technology and satellited mapping systems to assist in 

locating missing children in Idaho.

100,000 Roberts 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource Center, Washington, DC, to train judges in forensic science 

and other technically complex areas of the law.

500,000 Mikulski 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education, Birmingham, AL, to continue a community oriented, interdisciplinary 

team to design, implement and test solutions to the most pressing problems of violence effecting families.

400,000 Shelby 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, Montgomery, AL, for forensics research and operations ................................ 1,000,000 Shelby DOJ—Byrne ................................ Alabama Department of Public Safety, Montgomery, AL, for law enforcement purposes .................................................... 500,000 Shelby DOJ—Byrne ................................ Alaska Native Justice Center, Anchorage, AK, for funding to provide attorney referrals, information and resources to 

support Natives involved in legal issues.

900,000 Stevens 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Allegheny County, Allegheny County, PA, for security cameras and a threat viewer emergency management visualization system. 750,000 Specter DOJ—Byrne ................................ Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, funds for a statewide at-risk youth mentoring program involving 

faith based organization, schools, and non-profit entities.

750,000 Stevens 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Boys Town, Las Vegas, NV, for expansion of services in Las Vegas to assist at-risk girls and boys ............................... 200,000 Reid, Ensign DOJ—Byrne ................................ Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, CriMNet Program (MN Department of Public Safety), St. Paul, MN, for the statewide 

rollout of two major criminal justice information integration services.

200,000 Coleman, Klobuchar 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ CARITAS, Inc., Pawtucket, RI, for comprehensive case management services for adolescents receiving substance 

abuse treatment.

200,000 Reed 
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DOJ—Byrne ................................ Central Mountain Training Foundation, Canon City, CO, for interoperable communications equipment procurement and 

training.

300,000 Salazar 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, SD, for law enforcement, court operations, prosecutors, the public defender’s office, and detention programs. 750,000 Johnson DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Albuquerque Police Department, Albuquerque, NM, for a family advocacy center supporting forensic training 

and a crisis support team.

200,000 Bingaman 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Allentown, Allentown, PA, for an anti-youth gang initiative in Allentown ................................................................ 200,000 Casey DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Baltimore Police Department, Baltimore, MD, to reduce illegal gun trafficking and gun violence ........................ 1,100,000 Mikulski, Cardin DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, for gang prevention and intervention training, project marketing, and outreach to 

hotspots.

250,000 Dole 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Fernley, Nevada, Fernley, NV, for law enforcement equipment ................................................................................. 300,000 Reid, Ensign DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, to decrease crime and murders in Jacksonville ....................................................... 500,000 Martinez DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, for copper wire theft prevention efforts ....................................................................... 400,000 Reid DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Luverne, Luverne, AL, for police equipment .............................................................................................................. 150,000 Shelby DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of New Haven, New Haven, CT, to develop a prisoner reentry initiative in collaboration with local law enforcement 

and homeless, behavioral, physical health, and family service providers.

300,000 Dodd, Lieberman 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Oakland, Oakland, CA, to recruit and hire additional police officers from within the Oakland community .......... 300,000 Boxer DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Richmond, Richmond, VA, to upgrade security at the Courts Building ................................................................... 400,000 Warner, Webb DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Saginaw Police Department, Saginaw, MI, to acquire a gunshot locating system .................................................. 200,000 Levin, Stabenow DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Salem Police Department, Salem, OR, to create an automated citation system ..................................................... 75,000 Smith, Wyden DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of San Jose, San Jose, CA, to assess the city’s gang intervention and preventions programs. ................................. 250,000 Feinstein DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA, for a school-based partnership to provide gang resistance education and 

training.

500,000 Boxer 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of St. Paul, St. Paul, MN, to replace the warning siren system that is used to warn the public about tornadoes, 

terrorism, and hazardous material emergencies..

250,000 Coleman, Klobuchar 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Stockton, Stockton, CA, to support the positions of six youth gang outreach workers ........................................... 200,000 Boxer DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Trenton Police Department, Trenton, NJ, for a gunshot locating system ................................................................. 200,000 Lautenberg, Menendez DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, for a new records management system ....................................................................... 500,000 Murray, Cantwell DOJ—Byrne ................................ City of York, York, PA, for a crime response and coordination project ................................................................................ 300,000 Casey DOJ—Byrne ................................ Clark County Sheriff’s Department, Clark County, KY, to purchase equipment, including portable radios ........................ 90,000 McConnell DOJ—Byrne ................................ Clark County, Las Vegas, NV, to operate a therapeutic foster care facility ........................................................................ 500,000 Reid DOJ—Byrne ................................ Clearfield City, Clearfield City, UT, for technology to combat gang activity ........................................................................ 200,000 Bennett, Hatch DOJ—Byrne ................................ Community Renewal International, Shreveport, LA, to use a CRI Model for neighborhood terrorism and disaster preparedness. 100,000 Landrieu, Vitter DOJ—Byrne ................................ Coos County Sheriff’s Office, Coquille, OR, for personnel and operational costs ................................................................ 100,000 Wyden DOJ—Byrne ................................ Criminal Information Sharing Alliance, Folsom, CA, for a law enforcement information sharing network in Texas .......... 400,000 Hutchison 
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DOJ—Byrne ................................ Criminal Justice Institute, University of Arkansas System, Little Rock, AR, for a national training center for rural law 

enforcement executives.

1,000,000 Pryor, Lincoln 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Dauphin County, Harrisburg, PA, for family group and at-risk youth counseling ................................................................ 250,000 Specter DOJ—Byrne ................................ Daviess County Sheriff’s Department, Daviess County, KY, to purchase mobile data terminals and other communication equipment. 180,000 McConnell DOJ—Byrne ................................ Dona Ana County, Las Cruces, NM, to implement a jail diversion program ........................................................................ 180,000 Bingaman DOJ—Byrne ................................ Downriver Community Conference, Southgate, MI, for equipment upgrades to improve public safety interoperability 

among member communities.

500,000 Levin, Stabenow 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Eastern Shore of Maryland Educational Consortium, Centreville, MD, to maintain and expand the Eastern Shore dropout prevention programs. 250,000 Cardin DOJ—Byrne ................................ Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, Newark, NJ, to expand the program to more witnesses and victims ............................ 150,000 Lautenberg, Menendez DOJ—Byrne ................................ Forrest County Court Team for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers, Forrest Co., MS, to address the critical needs of maltreated infants and toddlers through the specialized Forrest County Court Team for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers. 150,000 Cochran, Wicker DOJ—Byrne ................................ Fort Belknap Indian Community, Fort Belknap, MT, for additional staff, updated electronic data systems, equipment 

and training to ensure quality judicial services in the tribal court.

300,000 Baucus, Tester 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Genesee County, Genesee County, MI, for assistance for those transitioning from prison ................................................. 100,000 Levin, Stabenow DOJ—Byrne ................................ Grambling State University, Grambling, LA, for a workforce education and reentry program for the formerly incarcerated. 200,000 Landrieu DOJ—Byrne ................................ Grant Sawyer Center, University of Reno, NV, for Grant Sawyer Center at University of Nevada, Reno, for judicial education. 200,000 Reid DOJ—Byrne ................................ Haymarket Center, Chicago, IL, for a workforce development program for those with past criminal justice involvement, 

substance abuse, and economic and employment instability.

250,000 Durbin 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Heartland Family Service, Council Bluffs, IA, for family based treatment of drug-addicted mothers ................................ 600,000 Harkin, Grassley DOJ—Byrne ................................ Hennepin County, Hennepin County, MN, to facilitate the sharing of juvenile records between criminal justice agencies. 250,000 Coleman, Klobuchar DOJ—Byrne ................................ Illinois Sheriff’s Association, Springfield, IL, for law enforcement and clean-up of meth production and abuse ............. 250,000 Durbin DOJ—Byrne ................................ Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Indianapolis, IN, to enhance public safety and increase patrol time on 

the street.

150,000 Lugar 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Inner Harbour for Children and Families, Douglasville, GA, to advance neurofeedback treatment to help troubled 

youths overcome deficits, avoid trouble, and become highly functioning members of society.

100,000 Isakson, Chambliss 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Moines, IA, to provide methamphetamine abuse treatment for inmates in Polk, 

Scott, and Story counties.

850,000 Harkin, Grassley 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Iowa Legal Aid, Des Moines, IA, for continued collaboration between the medical and legal communities in servicing 

low-income Iowans.

300,000 Harkin 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Jackson Medical Mall, Jackson, MS, for prevention programs for at-risk youth .................................................................. 400,000 Cochran, Wicker DOJ—Byrne ................................ Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, for emergency responder software development .................................................... 1,000,000 Cochran DOJ—Byrne ................................ Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Birmingham, AL, for law enforcement record integration .............................................. 200,000 Shelby DOJ—Byrne ................................ John A. Logan College, Carterville, IL, to expand a pilot program that electronically tracks purchases of methamphetamine precursors. 100,000 Durbin DOJ—Byrne ................................ King County Sheriff’s Office, Seattle, WA, for the School Resource Officers Program ........................................................ 350,000 Murray 
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DOJ—Byrne ................................ Kings County District Attorney’s Office, Kings County, NY, for the investigation and prosecution of deed theft, mortgage fraud, and related real estate-based crimes. 875,000 Schumer DOJ—Byrne ................................ Latin America Youth Center, Langley Park, MD, to serve at risk youth and promote gang prevention .............................. 500,000 Mikulski DOJ—Byrne ................................ Local Initiatives and Support Corporation-Community Saftey Initiative, Jackson, MS, to promote strategic alliance between community developers and law enforcement, which will reduce crime and spur revitalization in troubled 

neighborhoods.

750,000 Cochran 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Lorain Police Department, Lorain, OH, to purchase in-car video cameras for law enforcement patrol vehicles ............... 500,000 Brown DOJ—Byrne ................................ Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Monterey Park, CA, to upgrade an anti-gang data and analysis database .... 300,000 Feinstein DOJ—Byrne ................................ Louisiana District Attorney’s Association, Baton Rouge, LA, to support an early intervention program for at-risk elementary students. 800,000 Landrieu, Vitter DOJ—Byrne ................................ Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Indian Reservation, SD, for law enforcement, court operations, prosecutors, public defenders office, and detention equipment and operations. 500,000 Johnson DOJ—Byrne ................................ Luna County Sheriff’s Department, Deming, NM, to address border-related criminal activity ........................................... 375,000 Bingaman DOJ—Byrne ................................ Luzerne County Community College, Luzerne County, PA, for training and equipment acquisition .................................... 150,000 Specter DOJ—Byrne ................................ Madison County Commission, Huntsville, AL, for integrated law enforcement records ....................................................... 1,500,000 Shelby DOJ—Byrne ................................ Marshall County Sheriff’s Department, Marshall County, KY, to purchase and upgrade law enforcement equipment ...... 400,000 McConnell DOJ—Byrne ................................ McKinley County, Gallup, NM, for operations at a comprehensive juvenile services center ................................................ 200,000 Bingaman DOJ—Byrne ................................ Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston, TX, for emergency communications equipment ..................................... 300,000 Hutchison DOJ—Byrne ................................ Menifee County Sheriff’s Department, Menifee County, KY, to purchase law enforcement technology equipment ............ 30,000 McConnell DOJ—Byrne ................................ Mercer County, Trenton, NJ, to provide a comprehensive case management system for prisoners returning to the community. 200,000 Lautenberg, Menendez DOJ—Byrne ................................ Metropolitan Crime Commission, New Orleans, LA, to eliminate public corruption and reduce white collar crime ........... 450,000 Vitter DOJ—Byrne ................................ Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, for digital forensic training ............................................................................ 2,500,000 Cochran, Wicker DOJ—Byrne ................................ Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, for law enforcement intelligence .................................................................... 1,500,000 Cochran, Wicker DOJ—Byrne ................................ Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, for training and research ............................................................................... 1,000,000 Cochran DOJ—Byrne ................................ Montana Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, Helena, MT, for enhanced offender monitoring, tracking and notification to ensure public safety. 200,000 Baucus, Tester DOJ—Byrne ................................ Montana State University at Billings, Billings, MT, for an academic program at the Montana Women’s Prison that offers inmates general education coursework toward certificate or Associate degrees. 200,000 Baucus, Tester DOJ—Byrne ................................ Multnomah County, Troutdale and Gresham, OR, to create a position in the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office to investigate and prosecute cases involving the victimization and exploitation of the elderly. 275,000 Smith, Wyden DOJ—Byrne ................................ National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC), Washington, DC, for a national hotline that provides information and 

services to crime victims.

500,000 Mikulski, Shelby 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ National Judicial College, Reno, NV, for judicial education and scholarship of judges ...................................................... 800,000 Reid, Ensign DOJ—Byrne ................................ Nevada Dept. of Public Safety, Carson City, NV, to assist probationers with diagnosed substance abuse problems and 

financial need in receiving treatment.

250,000 Reid 
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DOJ—Byrne ................................ New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Concord, NH, to combat street-level drug trafficking ...................................... 750,000 Gregg DOJ—Byrne ................................ New Hampshire State Police, Concord, NH, to combat gang and drug-related violence and crime .................................. 1,500,000 Gregg DOJ—Byrne ................................ New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, to develop technology to reduce accidental shootings, teen suicides, 

unauthorized use of firearms by family members, and illegal secondary trade of weapons.

250,000 Lautenberg, Menendez 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ New Mexico Administrative Office of the Courts, Santa Fe, NM, to continue drug court programs ................................... 400,000 Bingaman DOJ—Byrne ................................ North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association, Raleigh, NC, for the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association to equip a training facility. 250,000 Dole DOJ—Byrne ................................ Northern Regional Laboratory Group, Greeley, CO, to build a full service crime lab in Northern Colorado ........................ 500,000 Allard, Salazar DOJ—Byrne ................................ Northwest Arkansas Community College, Bentonville, AR, for a training center to reduce cases of child abuse and improve support for victims of child abuse. 500,000 Pryor, Lincoln DOJ—Byrne ................................ Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD, for law enforcement, court operations, prosecutors, public defenders 

office, and detention equipment and operations on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

750,000 Johnson, Thune 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, Oklahoma City, OK, to continue replacement of Oklahoma’s aging communication system. 150,000 Inhofe DOJ—Byrne ................................ Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Oklahoma City, OK, for information-sharing within and between State and 

local law enforcement agencies.

100,000 Inhofe 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Oneida County District Attorney’s Office, Utica, NY, for an information-sharing database to analyze gang related 

crime.

215,000 Schumer 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Operation Our Town, Altoona, PA, for drug enforcement and gang prevention programs ................................................... 250,000 Specter DOJ—Byrne ................................ Orlando Regional Healthcare, Orlando, FL, for operations of the Sexual Trauma Recovery Center .................................... 125,000 Martinez DOJ—Byrne ................................ Our Children’s Homestead, Rockford, IL, for the tutoring of at-risk youth in the foster system ........................................ 200,000 Durbin DOJ—Byrne ................................ Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, Cumberland County, PA, for a program that engages adults in reporting and intervening in child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania. 250,000 Casey DOJ—Byrne ................................ Phoenix House Florida, Hillsborough County, FL, to upgrade health record technology ....................................................... 300,000 Bill Nelson DOJ—Byrne ................................ Phoenix House, Providence, RI, to upgrade a clinical management system ........................................................................ 1,000,000 Reed, Whitehouse DOJ—Byrne ................................ Providence Police Department, Providence, RI, for a community-policing initiative to reduce drugs and drug-related 

crime.

1,000,000 Reed, Whitehouse 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), Washington, DC, for national anti-sexual assault programs ............ 500,000 Mikulski, Shelby DOJ—Byrne ................................ Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office, Alexandria, LA, for equipment and technology upgrades ................................................. 200,000 Vitter DOJ—Byrne ................................ Safe and Sound, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, for personnel and after-school programs ................................................................ 600,000 Kohl DOJ—Byrne ................................ Safe Streets Campaign, Tacoma, WA, to implement comprehensive gang prevention, intervention and suppression 

strategies.

500,000 Cantwell, Murray 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, for crime lab technologies .......................................................................... 800,000 Hutchison, Cornyn DOJ—Byrne ................................ Sheriffs Youth Programs of Minnesota, Inver Grove Heights, MN, to be used by the Sheriffs Youth Program to expand 

programming at SYP’s horse farm.

100,000 Coleman, Klobuchar 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, CA, to provide sensitivity training to law enforcement when investigating hate 

crimes and civil rights abuses.

1,000,000 Mikulski, Shelby 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ South Royalton Legal Clinic at Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT, to provide legal aid to economically disadvantaged and vulnerable populations in Vermont. 300,000 Leahy DOJ—Byrne ................................ St. Croix County District Attorney, Hudson, WI, for a specialized methamphetamine prosecution unit .............................. 60,000 Kohl 
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DOJ—Byrne ................................ Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Standing Rock Indian Reservation, SD, for law enforcement, court operations, prosecutors, 

the public defender’s office, and detention programs.

250,000 Johnson, Thune 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ State of Alaska, Juneau, AK, for alcohol interdiction for investigation and prosecution of bootlegging crimes as part of 

a statewide effort to reduce Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

1,000,000 Stevens 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ State of Alaska, Juneau, AK, for the training of VPSO’s, and the acquisition of emergency response and search and 

rescue equipment for rural communities.

2,000,000 Stevens 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ State of Alaska, Juneau, AK, to develop a network to allow remote access to the criminal justice information, from a 

single point of access, thus allowing law enforcement and others Courts within the State to access court records.

235,000 Stevens 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ State of Alaska, Juneau, AK, to support coordinator and train law enforcement officers to teach drug abuse resistance 

education.

210,000 Stevens 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Tallahassee Community College, Leon County, FL, to expand intelligence training programs ............................................ 200,000 Bill Nelson DOJ—Byrne ................................ TEAM 2000 Community Development Corporation, Elizabeth, NJ, to provide an integrated system of case management, 

education, and job development services for ex-offenders in the area.

300,000 Lautenberg, Menendez 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX, for emergency communications equipment ................................................................. 400,000 Hutchison DOJ—Byrne ................................ Texas Team Focus, Morgan, TX, to establish a youth mentoring program .......................................................................... 350,000 Hutchison DOJ—Byrne ................................ The Marcus Institute, Atlanta, GA, to provide remediation for the potential consequences of childhood abuse and neglect. 100,000 Isakson, Chambliss DOJ—Byrne ................................ The Providence Center, Providence, RI, to help address barriers that incarcerated men and women face as they reenter their communities. 500,000 Reed, Whitehouse DOJ—Byrne ................................ The University of Southern Mississippi, Gulfport, MS, for statewide public safety information sharing ............................ 1,000,000 Cochran, Wicker DOJ—Byrne ................................ The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, for forensic science technology ................................................. 1,000,000 Cochran DOJ—Byrne ................................ The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, for law enforcement training purposes ..................................... 400,000 Cochran DOJ—Byrne ................................ The University of Tennessee Law Enforcement Innovation Center, Knoxville, TN, for training and technical assistance 

under the Safe Streets Act.

350,000 Alexander 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ The Women’s Sports Foundation, East Meadow, NY, to prevent delinquency and promote wellbeing among young 

women by involving them in physical activity.

250,000 Cantwell 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Town of Brantley, Brantley, AL, for law enforcement equipment .......................................................................................... 75,000 Shelby DOJ—Byrne ................................ Troy University, Troy, AL, for forensics research and operations .......................................................................................... 350,000 Shelby, Sessions DOJ—Byrne ................................ Uhlich Children’s Advantage Network and YouthBuild Lake County, Chicago, IL, for the expansion of a violence prevention service network. 250,000 Durbin DOJ—Byrne ................................ University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, for a mentoring program for at-risk youth to reduce truancy ..... 500,000 Mikulski, Cardin DOJ—Byrne ................................ University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, to equip the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Forensic Institution. 150,000 Inhofe DOJ—Byrne ................................ University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, for community-based gun violence prevention and intervention ................ 500,000 Durbin DOJ—Byrne ................................ University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, to develop scientific, objective and reliable methods for detecting physical child 

abuse.

500,000 McConnell 
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DOJ—Byrne ................................ University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, to expand the regional biocontainment laboratory ................................................. 150,000 Bunning DOJ—Byrne ................................ University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, to University of Memphis, Shelby County, the City of Memphis and the State 

District Attorney General jointly working on combining resources to deal with growing gang numbers and increased violent crime.

1,000,000 Alexander, Corker 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ University of Mississippi, University, MS, to provide legal training for judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and law students 

and develops model programs and publications.

2,250,000 Cochran, Wicker 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, to continue to advance law enforcement research and development ........... 750,000 Gregg DOJ—Byrne ................................ University of North Dakota School of Law, Grand Forks, ND, for the recruitment and retention of American Indian law 

students.

300,000 Dorgan, Conrad 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ University of South Carolina Law School, Columbia, SC, to support efforts of its law clinics ........................................... 100,000 Graham DOJ—Byrne ................................ Vermont Department of Public Safety, Waterbury, VT, to combat increased illegal drug activities ................................... 1,000,000 Leahy DOJ—Byrne ................................ Vermont State’s Attorney’s Office, Montpelier, VT, for the Special Investigation Unit’s task forces .................................. 100,000 Sanders DOJ—Byrne ................................ Wasco County, Wasco County, OR, for relocation costs and new equipment for a new interoperable 9–1–1 Emergency 

Dispatch Center.

300,000 Smith, Wyden 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ West Valley City, West Valley City, UT, for a state-of-the -art crime forensics lab ............................................................ 250,000 Bennett, Hatch DOJ—Byrne ................................ West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, to support a forensic science initiative ........................................................... 4,000,000 Byrd DOJ—Byrne ................................ William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, to support a collaborative effort of law 

schools to provide cost-effective review of potentially viable cases of wrongful convictions.

500,000 Akaka 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Winona State University, Winona, MN, to provide training, technical assistance and publications to child protection 

professionals.

700,000 Coleman, Klobuchar 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Wisconsin Department of Administration, Madison, WI, to support assistant district attorney positions in Milwaukee 

County and other counties that are scheduled to be laid off within the next year.

1,200,000 Kohl 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Women’s Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, to provide a comprehensive range of services for 

victims of domestic violence and their children.

200,000 Casey 

DOJ—Byrne ................................ Youth Service Bureau of Illinois Valley, Ottawa, IL, for programming to assist troubled youth and their families .......... 175,000 Durbin DOJ—Byrne ................................ YWCA of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, to expand services for victims of domestic violence ................................... 300,000 Voinovich, Brown DOJ—Byrne ................................ Zero to Three, Des Moines, IA, for coordinated care for abused and neglected infants and toddlers ............................... 300,000 Harkin, Grassley DOJ—IWN ................................... Washington State Patrol, Mt. Sumas, WA, to complete IWN site at Mt. Sumas, WA ........................................................... 500,000 Murray DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Alabama 4–H Foundation, Auburn, AL, for juvenile justice prevention programs ............................................................... 500,000 Shelby DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, Talladega, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs ...................... 150,000 Shelby DOJ—Juv Just ............................ An Achievable Dream, Newport News, VA, to continue and expand assistance programs for at-risk youth ...................... 300,000 Warner, Webb DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Baptist Child and Family Services, San Antonio, TX, to prevent juvenile delinquency ........................................................ 250,000 Hutchison DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Baton Rouge Bar Foundation, Baton Rouge, LA, for the operations of a teen court with a peer jury trial system ........... 250,000 Landrieu DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Big Brothers Big Sisters of Louisiana, Lake Charles, LA, to increase programming for at-risk children in southwestern 

Louisiana.

200,000 Landrieu 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Bolder Options, Minneapolis, MN, to continue Bolder Options’ unique model of one-on-one mentoring to reduce truancy 

and raise academic standards of Twin Cities youth.

150,000 Coleman 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Boys and Girls Club of Central Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, for a mentoring-based gang prevention program ............ 100,000 Specter DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Boys and Girls Club of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, to provide crime prevention and outreach services to rural youth ............. 1,000,000 Inouye DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Boys and Girls Clubs of the Grand River in South Dakota, McLaughlin, SD, to provide services and programming ........ 150,000 Johnson 
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Account Project Funding Member 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Boys and Girls Home of Nebraska, South Sioux City, NE, for a treatment and services program to serve child and 

teenaged victims of trauma.

250,000 Ben Nelson 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Boys Town New England, Portsmouth, RI, to increase services for at-risk girls and boys in the juvenile justice system. 161,000 Reed, Whitehouse DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation, Baltimore, MD, for youth mentoring programs for at-risk children ........................................ 1,000,000 Mikulski, Shelby DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Cherokee County Family Resource Center, Heflin, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs ....................... 100,000 Shelby DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Children and Families First, Wilmington, DE, to provide service intervention to girls ages 12–18 ................................... 400,000 Biden, Carper DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Chippewa Cree Tribe, Rocky Boy’s Reservation, MT, to restore a detention facility to house juvenile offenders, provide 

in-house education and offer treatment services.

250,000 Baucus, Tester 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Citizenship Trust at American Village, Montgomery, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs ................... 450,000 Shelby DOJ—Juv Just ............................ City of Boston, Boston, MA, to implement a comprehensive community-based youth crime reduction program ............... 750,000 Kennedy, Kerry DOJ—Juv Just ............................ City of Brockton, Brockton, MA, for the expansion of after-school programs designed to reduce youth crime ................. 250,000 Kennedy, Kerry DOJ—Juv Just ............................ City of Chesapeake, Chesapeake, VA, for a gang deterrence program ................................................................................ 100,000 Warner, Webb DOJ—Juv Just ............................ City of Jackson, Jackson, MS, for prevention programs for at-risk teens ............................................................................ 250,000 Cochran, Wicker DOJ—Juv Just ............................ City of Omaha, Omaha, NE, for the expansion of after school educational programming ................................................. 500,000 Ben Nelson DOJ—Juv Just ............................ City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, for the Youth Violence Reduction Partnership ........................................................ 1,000,000 Specter DOJ—Juv Just ............................ City of South Salt Lake, South Salt Lake, UT, for after school program expansions .......................................................... 100,000 Bennett, Hatch DOJ—Juv Just ............................ County of Fresno, Fresno, CA, for a collaborative gang prevention program ....................................................................... 300,000 Boxer DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Friends of CASA of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA, for intervention and permanent placement for infants and 

toddlers in the foster care system.

375,000 Boxer 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Generations, Inc., Camden, NJ, for services to assist families and communities in reducing juvenile violence ............... 150,000 Lautenberg, Menendez DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Girl Scouts USA, Baltimore, MD, for a youth mentoring program for at-risk children of adult offenders .......................... 1,000,000 Mikulski, Shelby DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition, Philadelphia, PA, for the National Comprehensive Center for Fathers for 

a mentoring-based, fatherhood initiative.

250,000 Specter 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Jobs For Delaware Graduates, Inc., Dover, DE, to expand services delivered to at-risk students in middle and high 

school.

1,353,000 Biden, Carper 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Juvenile Justice Program for University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice 

programs.

125,000 Shelby 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Linking Learning to Life At-Risk Youth Training Program, Burlington, VT, to prepare at-risk high school students for 

successful employment and post-secondary education.

500,000 Leahy 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee, WI, to continue the operations of safe summer sites ............................................ 350,000 Kohl DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Morgan County System of Services, Decatur, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs .............................. 125,000 Shelby DOJ—Juv Just ............................ New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, Santa Fe, NM, to implement a pilot juvenile crime prevention 

program.

300,000 Bingaman 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Nez Perce Tribe, Lapwai, ID, to help reduce child neglect and abuse at the Nez Perce Tribe ........................................... 100,000 Craig, Crapo DOJ—Juv Just ............................ OliveCrest, Las Vegas, NV, to expand therapeutic foster care operations ........................................................................... 200,000 Reid 
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DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Pawtucket Police Department, Pawtucket, RI, for youth education programs designed to decrease truancy .................... 493,000 Reed, Whitehouse DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Phoenix House, Dallas, TX, for residential substance abuse treatment for adolescents ..................................................... 250,000 Hutchison DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Police Athletic League of New Jersey, Freehold, NJ, to coordinate a statewide after-school program with the goal of 

deterring juvenile crime.

250,000 Lautenberg, Menendez 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Reconcile New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, for a workforce construction project to provide at-risk youth with the skills 

for successful entry into the hospitality and construction industries.

300,000 Landrieu 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Rose Brooks Center, Kansas City, MO, to provide services to victims of domestic violence and their children ................ 300,000 Bond DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Rosebud Boys and Girls Club, Mission, SD, for services, programming, equipment and supplies .................................... 100,000 Johnson DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Save the Children, Westport, CT, for after-school and summer literacy programs in Arkansas ......................................... 500,000 Pryor, Lincoln DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Sea Research Foundation, Inc., Mystic, CT, to expand academic course offerings in science and technology to an additional 100,000 students each year. 300,000 Dodd, Lieberman DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, ND, for equipment, staffing, and for operations of a youth detention center ..... 1,200,000 Dorgan, Conrad DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Suffolk University, Boston, MA, for the development of comprehensive juvenile justice programs aimed at reducing recidivism. 500,000 Kennedy, Kerry DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Team Focus, Inc., Mobile, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs ............................................................. 600,000 Shelby, Sessions DOJ—Juv Just ............................ TuskMac CDC, Tuskegee, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs .............................................................. 100,000 Shelby DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Union Springs YMCA, Union Springs, AL, for youth mentoring and juvenile justice programs ........................................... 100,000 Shelby DOJ—Juv Just ............................ United Way of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA, for a youth crime prevention and intervention initatiative ................... 400,000 Specter DOJ—Juv Just ............................ University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, to provide planning, training and assistance to schools to help them 

prevent and manage violence.

350,000 Salazar 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ University of Delaware’s Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Newark, DE, to continue a statewide survey of youth 

that provides estimates of student substance abuse, crime and gambling.

65,000 Biden, Carper 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ University of Montana, Missoula, MT, for teacher training, curriculum development and awareness initiatives to combat bullying as well as the development of emergency protocol for school shootings. 400,000 Baucus, Tester DOJ—Juv Just ............................ University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, for youth mentoring and domestic violence prevention programs .................... 400,000 Shelby DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Vermont Department of Children and Families, Waterbury, VT, for state-wide at-risk youth assistance programs .......... 700,000 Sanders DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Village of Richton Park, Richton Park, IL, for the development of a youth intervention program ...................................... 300,000 Durbin DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Visiting Nurse Association of Omaha, Omaha, NE, for a comprehensive crime intervention program for vulnerable 

women, infants, children, and teens.

300,000 Ben Nelson, Hagel 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance, Madison, WI, for a grant program to reduce disproportionate minority juvenile 

contact.

700,000 Kohl 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, for a coordinated, evidence-based approach to serve at-risk youth in the local 

community.

300,000 Brown 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ YWCA Center for Families, Salt Lake City, UT, to provide equipment for new Center for Families, which aims to end 

domestic violence through prevention, intervention and accountability.

300,000 Bennett 

DOJ—Juv Just ............................ YWCA Columbus, Columbus, OH, to expand After-School Programs for At-Risk Youth and Programs for Homeless Families. 750,000 Voinovich, Brown DOJ—Juv Just ............................ YWCA Madison, Madison, WI, to expand a neighborhood and school-based crime reduction program .............................. 500,000 Kohl DOJ—Juv Just ............................ Zero to Three, Omaha, NE, to educate juvenile and family court judges in early childhood development in order to improve the child welfare system for maltreated infants and toddlers. 150,000 Ben Nelson, Hagel 
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Account Project Funding Member 

DOJ—Meth ................................. Alabama District Attorney’s Association, Montgomery, AL, to combat the methamphetamine problem and educated 

citizens of its dangers.

1,100,000 Shelby, Sessions 

DOJ—Meth ................................. Arkansas State Police, Little Rock, AR, to certify and equip officers assigned to investigate, seize, dismantle, and direct the clean-up of clandestine methamphetamine labs. 500,000 Pryor, Lincoln DOJ—Meth ................................. Cape Girardeau County Sheriff’s Office, Cape Girardeau, MO, to provide funding for competitive grants to sheriff’s offices and multi-jurisdiction drug task forces to address specifically methamphetamine production and trafficking. 1,000,000 Bond DOJ—Meth ................................. Carson City, Carson City, NV, for efforts in combating methamphetamine in Northern Nevada ........................................ 300,000 Reid, Ensign DOJ—Meth ................................. City of Montrose, Montrose, CO, for communications and safety equipment to assist a drug task force and for an 

educational outreach program.

150,000 Salazar 

DOJ—Meth ................................. City of Rochester, Rochester, NY, to intensify patrols, improve the tracking of narcotics shipments, provide technical 

support and enhance local crime prevention programs for at-risk youth.

675,000 Schumer 

DOJ—Meth ................................. Clackamas County, Oregon City, OR, to continue the operations of the Clackamas County Meth Enforcement Team ...... 100,000 Smith, Wyden DOJ—Meth ................................. Criminal Justice Institute, University of Arkansas System, Little Rock, AR, to continue providing methamphetamine-focused courses for the Arkansas law enforcement community. 500,000 Pryor, Lincoln DOJ—Meth ................................. Heartland Family Service, Omaha, NE, for the Methamphetamine Treatment Program for Omaha, NE ............................. 100,000 Ben Nelson, Hagel DOJ—Meth ................................. Idaho Meth Project, Boise, ID, for the Idaho Meth Project will support a statewide effort to combat the use of meth ... 300,000 Craig, Crapo DOJ—Meth ................................. Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy, Des Moines, IA, for a multi-tier interdiction initiative to combat drug distribution 

networks.

500,000 Harkin, Grassley 

DOJ—Meth ................................. Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy, Des Moines, IA, for an electronic database to assist efforts to enforce limits on 

sales of pseudoephedrine.

750,000 Harkin, Grassley 

DOJ—Meth ................................. Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy, Des Moines, IA, for coordinated regional meth investigations .................................... 600,000 Harkin, Grassley DOJ—Meth ................................. Minot State University, Minot, ND, for methamphetamine research and public education ................................................. 500,000 Dorgan, Conrad DOJ—Meth ................................. Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, Jackson, MS, to combat methamphetamines .................................................................. 1,500,000 Cochran DOJ—Meth ................................. Montana Meth Project, Missoula, MT, to prevent the use of methamphetamines and the related social problems, especially among teenagers. 1,000,000 Baucus, Tester DOJ—Meth ................................. National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO, for a study that addresses the clean-up and risks of 

former methamphetamine laboratories and smokehouses pose to people, including children.

100,000 Allard, Salazar 

DOJ—Meth ................................. Nebraska Meth Project, Lincoln, NE, to support a campaign to significantly reduce the prevalence of methamphetamine use in Nebraska. 500,000 Ben Nelson DOJ—Meth ................................. New Mexico Attorney General, Albuquerque, NM, to implement a state-wide anti-methamphetamine campaign ............. 500,000 Bingaman DOJ—Meth ................................. Orange County Government, Orlando, FL, to remediate environmental dangers of methamphetamine labs in Orange 

County.

100,000 Martinez 

DOJ—Meth ................................. Pierce County Alliance, Tacoma, WA, for an anti-methamphetamine initiative ................................................................... 1,000,000 Murray, Cantwell DOJ—Meth ................................. Pierce County Alliance, Tacoma, WA, for an information clearinghouse and technical training center to aid in the fight 

against methamphetamine.

1,200,000 Murray 
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DOJ—Meth ................................. Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office, Rockdale County, GA, to identify, seize, and clean up clandestine methamphetamine 

drug labs and assist in the eradication of meth use.

50,000 Chambliss, Isakson 

DOJ—Meth ................................. Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Rosebud Indian Reservation, SD, for law enforcement, court operations, prosecutors, the public 

defenders office and detention programs.

850,000 Johnson, Thune 

DOJ—Meth ................................. State of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, for a statewide meth eradication program ................................................................ 1,000,000 Domenici DOJ—Meth ................................. Tennessee Methamphetamine Task Force, Chattanooga, TN, for a statewide program that supports law enforcement, 

training, intelligence and public awareness in dealing with meth and meth cleanup.

1,250,000 Alexander, Corker 

DOJ—Meth ................................. The Colorado Meth Project, Denver, CO, for an anti-methamphetamine campaign ............................................................ 500,000 Salazar DOJ—Meth ................................. The Wyoming Meth Project, Casper, WY, for fighting the methamphetamine problem ....................................................... 75,000 Enzi, Barrasso DOJ—Meth ................................. The Wyoming Meth Project, Cheyenne, WY, to reduce youth meth use ................................................................................ 100,000 Barasso DOJ—Meth ................................. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, to implement a project to improve Nebraska’s community corrections 

and methamphetamine abuse treatment services.

600,000 Ben Nelson, Hagel 

DOJ—Meth ................................. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, to address gaps in substance abuse treatment and transitional services in the 

State.

50,000 Barasso 

DOJ—Meth ................................. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, to address the need for transitional services for recovering addicts in Wyoming .. 75,000 Enzi, Barrasso DOJ—Meth ................................. Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for the continuation of a statewide anti-methamphetamine initiative ... 1,000,000 Kohl DOJ—Tech ................................. Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC), Montgomery, AL, for law enforcement data gathering and dissemination. 500,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. Arkansas State Police, Little Rock, AR, to implement an interoperable system to provide an interactive picture of law 

enforcement resources in route and at the scene of critical incidents or natural disasters.

200,000 Pryor, Lincoln 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation, Poplar, MT, for the operation of a 9–1–1 call center .......... 100,000 Baucus, Tester DOJ—Tech ................................. Baltimore County, Baltimore County, MD, for technology upgrades ..................................................................................... 1,500,000 Mikulski DOJ—Tech ................................. Berkeley Township Police Department, Bayville, NJ, for a comprehensive video security system ....................................... 500,000 Lautenberg, Menendez DOJ—Tech ................................. Caddo Parish District Attorney, NW Louisiana, LA, to equip a sexual predator task force ................................................. 200,000 Vitter DOJ—Tech ................................. Calhoun County Sheriff, Anniston, AL, for law enforcement data gathering and dissemination ........................................ 350,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. Calvert County, Calvert County, MD, to purchase equipment ............................................................................................... 500,000 Mikulski DOJ—Tech ................................. Centenary College, Shreveport, LA, for improvement of campus security ............................................................................ 500,000 Landrieu, Vitter DOJ—Tech ................................. Center for Technology Commercialization, Westborough, MA, for the continued development of law enforcement technology and training programs. 750,000 Kennedy, Kerry DOJ—Tech ................................. Cherry Hill Township, Cherry Hill, NJ, for law enforcement communications ....................................................................... 250,000 Menendez, Lautenberg DOJ—Tech ................................. Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, SD, for upgrades and maintenance to the 9–1–1 system. 250,000 Johnson DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Allentown, Allentown, PA, for security camera acquisition and installation ............................................................ 400,000 Specter DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Astoria, Astoria, OR, to enhance public safety radio systems .................................................................................. 325,000 Smith, Wyden DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Bayonne, Bayonne, NJ, to purchase equipment for a new centralized command and control operations center ... 600,000 Lautenberg, Menendez DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Billings, Billings, MT, to purchase digital video cameras, a tactical blanket system and a tactical armored security vehicle. 269,000 Baucus, Tester DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Brewton, Escambia, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ........................................................................... 200,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Burien, Burien, WA, for emergency communications upgrades ................................................................................ 150,000 Murray DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Calera, Calera, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ................................................................................... 250,000 Shelby 
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Account Project Funding Member 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Alabama—Tombigbee Regional Commission, Camden, AL, for traffic safety technology and law enforcement equipment. 400,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Camden, Camden, NJ, for the purchase of equipment to more effectively fight crime .......................................... 1,000,000 Lautenberg, Menendez DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, to implement 800MHz radios for non-public safety agencies ...................................... 200,000 Voinovich, Brown DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Dothan, Dothan, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ................................................................................. 300,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Fayetteville, Fayetteville, AR, to purchase, install and implement a simulcast radio system ................................ 500,000 Pryor, Lincoln DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Flint, Flint, MI, for in-car computers and in-car cameras ....................................................................................... 500,000 Levin, Stabenow DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Flora, Flora, MS, for equipment upgrades and improvements for the police department ....................................... 250,000 Cochran DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Gadsden, Gadsden, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ............................................................................ 250,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Greenville Police Department, Greenville, SC, for mobile data terminals ................................................................ 150,000 Graham DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Gulf Shores, Gulf Shores, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ................................................................... 350,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Hartford, Hartford, CT, for equipment at a new public safety complex ................................................................... 750,000 Lieberman, Dodd DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Hartford, Hartford, CT, to purchase first responder and emergency equipment for a new municipal public safety complex. 300,000 Dodd, Lieberman DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Houston, Houston, TX, for interoperability ................................................................................................................. 125,000 Cornyn DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Inglewood Police Department, Inglewood, CA, to upgrade the Inglewood Police Department’s radio system ........ 500,000 Boxer DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Iowa City, Iowa City, IA, for integrated emergency resources ................................................................................... 125,000 Grassley DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Jackson, Jackson, MS, for crime fighting technology ................................................................................................ 750,000 Cochran, Wicker DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Kalispell, Kalispell, MT, to create a public safety training and testing facility for first responders ..................... 750,000 Baucus, Tester DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Kaysville, Kaysville, UT, for police station equipment ............................................................................................... 100,000 Bennett, Hatch DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Kenosha Police Department, Kenosha, WI, for technology upgrades ........................................................................ 100,000 Kohl DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, for law enforcement equipment ............................................................................................... 130,000 Hagel DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Little Rock, Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, to upgrade an 800 MHz communications network and complete its conversion to a digital system. 500,000 Pryor, Lincoln DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, to expand the City of Los Angeles mass notification system ................................. 500,000 Feinstein DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Medford, Medford, OR, to provide for the merging of two existing 9–1–1 dispatch centers into one facility ....... 700,000 Smith, Wyden DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL, to improve the ability to process and store photographic evidence for investigations and emergencies. 400,000 Bill Nelson DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Milwaukee Police Department, Milwaukee, WI, to install a gunshot location system for high crime areas ........... 650,000 Kohl DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, for the purchase of car cameras and mobile data centers for police officers ..... 300,000 Coleman, Klobuchar DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Missoula, Missoula, MT, for a new police headquarters ........................................................................................... 300,000 Baucus, Tester DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Modesto, Modesto, CA, for law enforcement communications equipment ............................................................... 500,000 Feinstein DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Montgomery and Montgomery County, Montgomery, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ......................... 650,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Newark Police Department, Newark, DE, for the purchase of video surveillance cameras in the downtown 

area.

115,420 Biden, Carper 

DOJ—Tech ................................. City of North Las Vegas Police Department, N. Las Vegas, NV, for a records management system ................................. 300,000 Reid 
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DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Oakland, Oakland, CA, to provide law enforcement equipment ............................................................................... 500,000 Feinstein, Boxer DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, for deployment of security cameras in 15 different business districts ....................... 250,000 Casey DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Prattville, Prattville, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ........................................................................... 400,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Radford, Radford, VA, for the transition into a new police department facility ...................................................... 250,000 Warner, Webb DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Seattle, Seattle, WA, for a multi-agency database accessible to police officers in the field ................................. 500,000 Murray DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Sioux City, Sioux City, IA, for meth related training ................................................................................................. 100,000 Grassley DOJ—Tech ................................. City of South Jordan, South Jordan, UT, for high-speed wireless hotspots for police to transfer data and share information. 150,000 Bennett, Hatch DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Spokane, Spokane, WA, for new law enforcement technology .................................................................................. 500,000 Murray, Cantwell DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Stamford, Stamford, CT, to purchase critical console equipment for a new emergency communications platform. 300,000 Dodd, Lieberman DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Williamsport, Williamsport, PA, for a wireless digital video surveillance system .................................................... 450,000 Specter, Casey DOJ—Tech ................................. City of Yonkers Police Department, Yonkers, NY, to reduce non-emergency 9–1–1 calls through the creation of a new 

public hotline.

250,000 Schumer 

DOJ—Tech ................................. City of York, York, PA, for security camera acquisition and installation ............................................................................. 200,000 Specter DOJ—Tech ................................. Clarion County, Clarion County, PA, for an interoperable communications initiative .......................................................... 500,000 Specter DOJ—Tech ................................. Cobb County Office of Economic Development, Cobb County, GA, for public safety first responder regional communications interoperability. 100,000 Chambliss DOJ—Tech ................................. Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police, Denver, CO, for an electronic state-wide law enforcement information-sharing 

network.

400,000 Salazar 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Delaware State University, Dover, DE, to test and evaluate a mobile crime scene and evidence tracking application .... 2,000,000 Biden, Carper DOJ—Tech ................................. Delta County, Delta County, MI, for the installation of laptop computers in police patrol vehicles .................................. 176,000 Levin, Stabenow DOJ—Tech ................................. East Baton Rouge Parish, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, to upgrade law enforcement technologies ................................ 100,000 Landrieu, Vitter DOJ—Tech ................................. East Bay Regional Communications System Authority, Dublin, CA, to create an interoperable communications system. 500,000 Feinstein, Boxer DOJ—Tech ................................. Franklin County Emergency Services Alliance, Franklin County, PA, for an interoperable communications initiative ........ 500,000 Specter DOJ—Tech ................................. Gallatin County Commission, Bozeman, MT, to construct a facility, update emergency response technology, and ensure 

the protection of citizens and regional assets.

500,000 Baucus, Tester 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Goodhue County Sheriff’s Office, Red Wing, MN, to purchase 800 MHz user end radios for all public safety officials in 

Goodhue County.

750,000 Klobuchar 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Goodwater Police Department, Goodwater, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades .................................................... 50,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. Harford County, Harford County, MD, for technology upgrades ............................................................................................ 365,000 Mikulski DOJ—Tech ................................. Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center, Honolulu, HI, to integrate State and local law enforcement databases for better 

access at all levels of the justice system.

1,500,000 Inouye 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Henderson Nevada Police Department, Henderson, NV, to purchase a tactical robot and equip a law enforcement 

training facility.

500,000 Reid 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Hot Springs Police Department, Hot Springs, AR, to equip police vehicles with mobile data terminals and enable their 

access to local, State and Federal databases.

512,000 Pryor, Lincoln 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Idaho State Police, Meridian, ID, for the Criminal Information Sharing Alliance Network to improve coordinated information sharing between participating State law enforcement agencies. 355,000 Craig, Crapo 
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Account Project Funding Member 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Ingham County Law Enforcement Technology Upgrades, Mason, MI, for equipment upgrades ........................................... 500,000 Levin, Stabenow DOJ—Tech ................................. Itasca County, Grand Rapids, MN, for the implementation of a new 800 MHz public safety radio system ...................... 300,000 Klobuchar DOJ—Tech ................................. Johnson County Government, Olathe, KS, to provide a unified radio communication system for Johnson County officials 

and local jurisdictions within the county.

150,000 Roberts 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Johnson County, Franklin, IN, to upgrade the public safety communications system in Johnson County, Indiana ........... 850,000 Lugar, Bayh DOJ—Tech ................................. Kanawha County Commission, Charleston, WV, for Kanawha County to purchase mobile and portable interoperable radios. 1,000,000 Byrd DOJ—Tech ................................. Kansas Adjutant General’s Office, Topeka, KS, to establish a secure database that connects law enforcement and 

emergency management personnel to private sector resources needed in a catastrophic event.

250,000 Roberts 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Lafayette Police Department, Lafayette, LA, for interoperable communication .................................................................... 200,000 Vitter, Landrieu DOJ—Tech ................................. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Las Vegas, NV, for a Total Containment Vessel and other law enforcement 

equipment.

750,000 Reid 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Lenoir Police Department, Lenoir, NC, for law enforcement communications technology ................................................... 200,000 Dole DOJ—Tech ................................. Macomb County, Macomb County, MI, to establish an emergency operations center ......................................................... 500,000 Levin, Stabenow DOJ—Tech ................................. Marshall University, Huntington, WV, for a highly advanced state-of-the-art DNA laboratory ............................................ 5,000,000 Byrd DOJ—Tech ................................. Marshall University, Huntington, WV, to support a training initiative for personnel in the area of computer crime investigations. 825,000 Byrd DOJ—Tech ................................. Mason and Oceana Counties, Pentwater, MI, to operate a joint 9–1–1 emergency communications center ..................... 300,000 Levin, Stabenow DOJ—Tech ................................. Missoula County, Missoula, MT, to build a public safety operations and training center .................................................. 750,000 Baucus, Tester DOJ—Tech ................................. Mobile County Commission, Mobile, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades .............................................................. 650,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. New Orleans Police Foundation, New Orleans, LA, for law enforcement technology integration and information sharing. 500,000 Landrieu, Vitter DOJ—Tech ................................. North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, Raleigh, NC, for firearms and ballistics analysis equipment .................... 100,000 Dole DOJ—Tech ................................. Northwest Citizens Patrol, Baltimore, MD, for information technology system upgrades and support personnel .............. 150,000 Cardin DOJ—Tech ................................. Oakland County Sheriff, Oakland County, MI, to upgrade a biometric identification enhancement project ....................... 200,000 Levin, Stabenow DOJ—Tech ................................. Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge Reservation, SD, for upgrades and maintenance to the tribal 9–1–1 system ................. 250,000 Johnson, Thune DOJ—Tech ................................. Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office, Paterson, NJ, for a regional fiber optic network and the construction of a countywide interoperable communications network. 200,000 Lautenberg, Menendez DOJ—Tech ................................. Pleasant Grove Police Department, Pleasant Grove, UT, for police department’s wireless network ................................... 200,000 Bennett, Hatch DOJ—Tech ................................. Rockland County Office of Fire & Emergency Services, Pomona, NY, for a countywide interoperable public safety communications system. 250,000 Schumer DOJ—Tech ................................. Roseville Police Department, Macomb County, MI, to consolidate police, fire and emergency medical service dispatch 

functions into one entity.

150,000 Levin, Stabenow 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Russellville Police Department, Russellville, Logan County, KY, to purchase mobile data terminals and other communications equipment. 125,000 McConnell 
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DOJ—Tech ................................. Southern Kansas Multi-Jurisdictional SWAT, Cowley, Greenwood, Montgomery, and Sumner Counties, KS, for the implementation of the Law Enforcement Visual Intelligence Tool for four Kansas counties. 150,000 Brownback DOJ—Tech ................................. Springfield Police Department, Springfield, VT, for equipment upgrades ............................................................................ 200,000 Sanders DOJ—Tech ................................. St. Albans City Police Department, St. Albans, VT, to purchase equipment ........................................................................ 100,000 Sanders DOJ—Tech ................................. St. Clair County, St. Clair County, MI, to complete an 800 MHz communications system ................................................. 250,000 Levin, Stabenow DOJ—Tech ................................. State of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, for the phased build-out of a statewide interoperable communications system for 

first responders.

500,000 Cardin, Mikulski 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Talladega County Commission, Talladega, AL, for radio upgrades ...................................................................................... 100,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. The City of Beech Grove, Beech Grove, IN, to enhance public safety with in-car cameras and at hot spots in the City 

to provide real-time feeds to the police command center.

100,000 Lugar 

DOJ—Tech ................................. The City of Shelbyville, Shelbyville, IN, to complete the interoperable wireless public safety communications system for 

first responders in Shelbyville, IN.

900,000 Lugar, Bayh 

DOJ—Tech ................................. The Courage To Speak Foundation, Inc., Norwalk, CT, to expand, develop and evaluate substance abuse prevention 

programs.

950,000 Dodd 

DOJ—Tech ................................. The Delaware State Police Department, Dover, DE, for preliminary engineering assessments before message switcher 

upgrades.

100,000 Biden, Carper 

DOJ—Tech ................................. The Delaware State Police Department, Dover, De, for the purchase of a mobile gunshot locator system ....................... 250,000 Biden, Carper DOJ—Tech ................................. The Delaware State Police Department, Dover, DE, for the purchase and installation of in-car cameras and related 

equipment.

500,000 Biden, Carper 

DOJ—Tech ................................. The New Castle County Police Department, New Castle, DE, for a program to increase the efficiency and effectiveness 

of license plate scanning technology for law enforcement.

200,000 Biden, Carper 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Town of Anderson, Anderson, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ......................................................................... 50,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. Town of Enfield, Enfield, CT, for interoperability communication upgrades and expert consultation ................................. 75,000 Lieberman, Dodd DOJ—Tech ................................. Town of Enfield, Enfield, CT, to evaluate the local emergency communications system and identify areas in need of 

improvement.

75,000 Dodd, Lieberman 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Town of Kearny, Kearny, NJ, for the purchase and installation of a webcam buffer zone monitoring system to specifically monitor the Kuehne chemical plant and CSX rail yards. 200,000 Menendez, Lautenberg DOJ—Tech ................................. Town of Secaucus, Secaucus, NJ, for interoperable law enforcement communications ...................................................... 100,000 Menendez, Lautenberg DOJ—Tech ................................. Town of Somerville, Somerville, AL, for equipment and technology upgrades ..................................................................... 65,000 Shelby DOJ—Tech ................................. University of Colorado, Denver, CO, to establish a forensics center .................................................................................... 100,000 Allard DOJ—Tech ................................. University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, for forensics research and operations ................................................................ 250,000 Reed, Whitehouse DOJ—Tech ................................. Upper Peninsula 15 County Consortium, Upper Peninsula, MI, for equipment to complete a statewide 800 MHz radio 

system.

500,000 Levin, Stabenow 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Vermont Department of Public Safety, Waterbury, VT, for the purchase of mobile computing units and necessary support staff for police vehicles. 500,000 Leahy DOJ—Tech ................................. Vermont Department of Public Safety, Waterbury, VT, to improve and increase the interoperability of statewide radio 

communications systems.

506,000 Sanders 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Vermont State Police, Waterbury, VT, for a statewide digital in-car camera system, an automated vehicle locator system and a replacement scanner. 250,000 Sanders 
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Account Project Funding Member 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Vermont Supreme Court, Court Administrator’s Office, Montpelier, VT, for a judiciary case management and electronic 

filing system.

250,000 Leahy 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Vernon Police Department, Vernon, CT, for police in-car video recording systems ............................................................. 60,000 Lieberman DOJ—Tech ................................. Virginia State Police, Wytheville, VA, to support the Virginia State Police Southwest Virginia Drug Task Forces in their 

efforts to stop methamphetamine and drug-related crimes.

250,000 Warner, Webb 

DOJ—Tech ................................. Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, Washoe, NV, to equip a DNA analysis lab and process DNA samples ............................ 800,000 Reid, Ensign DOJ—Tech ................................. Wells County Sheriff’s Office, Bluffton Police Department, Bluffton 9–1–1 Dispatch Center, Ossian Police Department, 

Wells County, IN, to enhance interoperability between Wells County, the City of Bluffton and the Town of Ossian police and sheriff departments.

100,000 Lugar 

DOJ—Tech ................................. West Virginia Sheriffs’ Association, Charleston, WV, to purchase visualization technology ................................................ 3,400,000 Byrd DOJ—Tech ................................. Will County, Will County, IL, for integrated criminal justice information systems ............................................................... 300,000 Durbin DOJ—VAWA ................................ State of Alaska, Juneau, AK, for sexual assault/domestic violence education, victim assistance, and prosecution ......... 2,500,000 Stevens NASA ........................................... A partnership of Coppin State University, Towson University, and University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, MD, 

to increase the number and quality of science, technology, engineering and mathematics teachers in the region’s public schools.

1,000,000 Mikulski, Cardin 

NASA ........................................... Alabama A & M University Research Institute, Madison, AL, for high temperature materials research ............................ 500,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, to develop a focused research and development initiative on large area flexible solar cell modules. 500,000 Schumer NASA ........................................... Burlington Technical Center, Burlington, VT, to upgrade and improve the post-secondary aviation program ................... 1,000,000 Leahy NASA ........................................... Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, for recruitment and retention for an aerospace engineering academic program. 350,000 Dodd, Lieberman NASA ........................................... Charles County Public Schools, Charles County, MD, for a digital classroom project ........................................................ 500,000 Mikulski NASA ........................................... Chesapeake Information Based Aeronautics Consortium, for a partnership of Morgan State University, University of 

Maryland Eastern Shore, and Bowie State University, MD, for continued aviation safety research and development.

3,000,000 Mikulski, Cardin 

NASA ........................................... Discovery Center Museum, Rockford, IL, for science education for rural and under-served children ................................. 300,000 Durbin NASA ........................................... Flight Research Training Center, Roswell, NM, to continue development and operation of the Flight Research Training 

Center.

250,000 Domenici 

NASA ........................................... Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, Mobile, AL, for educational exhibits ........................................................................ 500,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii, Hilo, HI, for the promotion of astronomy in Hawaii ................................................... 2,000,000 Inouye NASA ........................................... Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, for research and development of nanomaterials ........................................................... 500,000 Specter NASA ........................................... Manned Space Flight Education Foundation, Houston, TX, to create a virtual space community for students ................. 500,000 Hutchison NASA ........................................... Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for a multi-propellant plume diagnostic testbed ........................................ 500,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for material and structural evaluations for composites ............................. 750,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for missions systems recording, archival and retrieval .............................. 475,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for remote engine health and maintenance diagnosis ............................... 500,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for robotic exploration and Lunar material utilization ................................ 750,000 Shelby 
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NASA ........................................... Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for the development of the sensor technologies and integration algorithms necessary for on-orbit assembly and other AR&D missions. 550,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, for the Virtual Learning Magnet for Space Science and Math program as 

outlined in the Gathering Storm Report and NASA will make any award for this program on a competitive basis.

400,000 Alexander 

NASA ........................................... Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, to develop a cost effective nuclear power system to support the longrange objectives of NASA. 500,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, to support the ongoing technology maturation program for liquid oxygen/ 

liquid methane propulsion.

500,000 Shelby 

NASA ........................................... McWane Science Center, Birmingham, AL, for education and science literacy programs ................................................... 400,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... Michigan Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, for aerospace research on joining tubular support structures at low cost 

and high reliability.

1,000,000 Levin, Stabenow 

NASA ........................................... Mid-Atlantic Broadband Cooperative, South Boston, VA, for the counties of Accomack and Northampton for broadband 

deployment.

2,000,000 Warner, Webb 

NASA ........................................... Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, for research and development of advanced technologies that represent departures from current manufacturing methods. 625,000 Cochran NASA ........................................... Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, for a collaborative distance science and technology education program ......... 200,000 Tester NASA ........................................... National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, MD, to develop and apply assistive technology approaches and techniques that enhance participation of blind youth in STEM education. 600,000 Mikulski, Cardin NASA ........................................... New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, for a program to improve K–12 science, engineering, math, and aerospace education. 200,000 Bingaman NASA ........................................... Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, Pittsburgh, PA, for a regenerative therapy delivery initiative ............................. 500,000 Specter NASA ........................................... Science Center of Iowa, Des Moines, IA, to encourage children to go into science and technology through skills-based 

learning exhibits.

400,000 Harkin 

NASA ........................................... Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, for enhancement of K–12 teaching and learning of 

sciences, math, and technology among schools, teachers, and students.

500,000 Bond 

NASA ........................................... Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL, for high temperature materials .................................................................. 750,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, UT, to provide technical support to the satellite sensor calibration team for the 

Global Climate Observing System.

500,000 Bennett 

NASA ........................................... St. Louis Community College BioBench and Training Facility, St. Louis, MO, to provide specialized career and technical training to students for work in the life sciences. 500,000 Bond NASA ........................................... Teach for America, New York, NY, to engage teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics ................. 2,000,000 Mikulski NASA ........................................... Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, to develop new robotic technologies ............................................................... 500,000 Hutchison NASA ........................................... The Delaware Aerospace Education Foundation, Bear, DE, to create a community model for formal and informal earth 

and space education.

500,000 Biden, Carper 

NASA ........................................... The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, for an interactive platform for education of astronomy, space, and planetary 

science.

500,000 Lautenberg, Menendez 

NASA ........................................... Thurgood Marshall College Fund, New York, NY, to recruit minority students who will pursue careers in the sciences .. 2,200,000 Cochran, Landrieu, Voinovich, Wicker NASA ........................................... University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, for optical system .............................................................................. 700,000 Shelby 
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Account Project Funding Member 

NASA ........................................... University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, for a public-private partnership promoting innovation in the 

fields of biotechnology, information technology, and nanotechnology.

1,000,000 Feinstein 

NASA ........................................... University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, to research factors that hinder the wound healing process .................................. 750,000 McConnell NASA ........................................... University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, for the Advanced Study Institute for Environmental Prediction 

to study climate impacts and adaptation in the Mid-Atlantic region.

1,000,000 Mikulski, Cardin 

NASA ........................................... University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, for remote sensing, geospatial, space and aviation legal research, materials, 

education, and outreach.

3,000,000 Cochran, Wicker 

NASA ........................................... University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, to help make data received from NASA satellite images more easily accessible to the public. 3,000,000 Dorgan, Conrad NASA ........................................... University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, to create a national institute to improve science, technology, engineering 

and mathematics education by focusing on young children.

950,000 Harkin, Grassley 

NASA ........................................... University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, for composite materials lab ............................................................................... 200,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, for the Complex Systems Center for Informed Decision-Making and Design to 

develop intelligent systems design and adaptive robotics.

500,000 Leahy 

NASA ........................................... U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL, for museum exhibits ................................................................................... 500,000 Shelby NASA ........................................... Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, for the Institute for Regenerative Medicine ....................... 140,000 Dole NASA ........................................... West Virginia State University, Institute, WV, for a science, engineering, mathematics and aerospace academy 

(SEMAA).

2,000,000 Byrd 

NASA ........................................... Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV, to expand an electronic medical records system adapted from the military’s 

award-winning HEALTHeFORCES program.

3,000,000 Byrd 

NASA ........................................... Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, to continue the development and operation of the National Center for Advanced 

Materials Performance (NCAMP) located at the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR).

250,000 Brownback 

NASA ........................................... Xavier University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, for science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs ........ 1,000,000 Landrieu 
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2008 appropriation Budget estimate Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation 

compared with (∂ or ¥) 

2008 

appropriation Budget estimate 

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Operations and administration ............................................................................................................................................ 413,172 429,870 429,870 ∂16,698 ..........................Offsetting fee collections ..................................................................................................................................................... ¥8,000 ¥9,439 ¥9,439 ¥1,439 ..........................

Direct appropriation ................................................................................................................................................ 405,172 420,431 420,431 ∂15,259 ..........................

Bureau of Industry and Security 

Operations and administration ............................................................................................................................................ 59,228 68,909 68,909 ∂9,681 ..........................CWC enforcement ................................................................................................................................................................. 13,627 14,767 14,767 ∂1,140 ..........................

Total, Bureau of Industry and Security .................................................................................................................. 72,855 83,676 83,676 ∂10,821 ..........................

Economic Development Administration 

Economic development assistance programs ...................................................................................................................... 249,100 100,000 200,000 ¥49,100 ∂100,000 Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 30,832 32,800 32,800 ∂1,968 ..........................

Total, Economic Development Administration ........................................................................................................ 279,932 132,800 232,800 ¥47,132 ∂100,000 

Minority business development ............................................................................................................................................ 28,623 29,000 29,000 ∂377 ..........................Economic and Statistical Analysis ....................................................................................................................................... 81,075 90,621 90,621 ∂9,546 ..........................

Bureau of the Census 

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 202,838 238,740 238,740 ∂35,902 ..........................Periodic censuses and programs ......................................................................................................................................... 1,027,406 2,365,882 2,912,262 ∂1,884,856 ∂546,380 

Total, Bureau of the Census .................................................................................................................................. 1,230,244 2,604,622 3,151,002 ∂1,920,758 ∂546,380 
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2008 appropriation Budget estimate Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation 

compared with (∂ or ¥) 

2008 

appropriation Budget estimate 

National Telecommunications and Information Administration 

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 17,466 19,218 19,218 ∂1,752 ..........................Public telecommunications facilities, planning, and construction ..................................................................................... 18,800 .......................... 20,000 ∂1,200 ∂20,000 Technology opportunities program ....................................................................................................................................... .......................... .......................... 20,000 ∂20,000 ∂20,000 

Total, National Telecommunications and Information Administration ................................................................... 36,266 19,218 59,218 ∂22,952 ∂40,000 

United States Patent and Trademark Office 

Current year fee funding ...................................................................................................................................................... 1,915,500 2,074,773 2,074,773 ∂159,273 ..........................Offsetting fee collections ..................................................................................................................................................... ¥1,915,500 ¥2,074,773 ¥2,074,773 ¥159,273 ..........................

Total, Patent and Trademark Office ....................................................................................................................... .......................... .......................... .......................... .......................... ..........................

National Institute of Standards and Technology 

Scientific and technical research and services .................................................................................................................. 440,517 535,000 489,499 ∂48,982 ¥45,501 

(Transfer out) .............................................................................................................................................................. (¥6,580 ) (¥12,300 ) (¥12,300 ) (¥5,720 ) ..........................

Manufacturing extension partnerships/Industrial technology services ............................................................................... 154,840 4,000 175,000 ∂20,160 ∂171,000 

Manufacturing Extension Partnerships ....................................................................................................................... (89,640 ) (4,000 ) (110,000 ) (∂20,360 ) (∂106,000 ) Technology Innovation Program .................................................................................................................................. (65,200 ) .......................... (65,000 ) (¥200 ) (∂65,000 ) 

Construction of research facilities ....................................................................................................................................... 160,490 99,000 149,000 ¥11,490 ∂50,000 Working capital fund (by transfer) ...................................................................................................................................... (6,580 ) (12,300 ) (12,300 ) (∂5,720 ) ..........................

Total, National Institute of Standards and Technology ......................................................................................... 755,847 638,000 813,499 ∂57,652 ∂175,499 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 

Operations, research, and facilities ..................................................................................................................................... 2,856,277 2,831,253 3,051,911 ∂195,634 ∂220,658 

(by transfer) ................................................................................................................................................................ (77,000 ) (79,000 ) (79,000 ) (∂2,000 ) ..........................Promote and Develop Fund (transfer out) .................................................................................................................. (¥77,000 ) (¥79,000 ) (¥79,000 ) (¥2,000 ) ..........................
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Coastal zone management transfer ............................................................................................................................ 3,000 3,000 3,000 .......................... ..........................

Subtotal .............................................................................................................................................................. 2,859,277 2,834,253 3,054,911 ∂195,634 ∂220,658 

Procurement, acquisition, and construction ........................................................................................................................ 979,207 1,238,660 1,258,010 ∂278,803 ∂19,350 Pacific coastal salmon recovery .......................................................................................................................................... 67,000 35,000 90,000 ∂23,000 ∂55,000 Fisheries disaster mitigation fund ....................................................................................................................................... .......................... .......................... 50,000 ∂50,000 ∂50,000 Coastal zone management fund .......................................................................................................................................... ¥3,000 ¥3,000 ¥3,000 .......................... ..........................Fisheries finance program account ..................................................................................................................................... ¥6,000 ¥1,000 ¥4,000 ∂2,000 ¥3,000 

Total, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ..................................................................................... 3,896,484 4,103,913 4,445,921 ∂549,437 ∂342,008 

Departmental Management 

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 44,294 61,083 44,083 ¥211 ¥17,000 Herbert C. Hoover Building renovation and modernization ................................................................................................. 3,722 7,367 7,367 ∂3,645 ..........................Office of Inspector General .................................................................................................................................................. 22,020 24,766 24,766 ∂2,746 ..........................National Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordination Council ............................................................................... .......................... 1,021 .......................... .......................... ¥1,021 

Total, Departmental Management .......................................................................................................................... 70,036 94,237 76,216 ∂6,180 ¥18,021 Total, title I, Department of Commerce ................................................................................................................. 6,856,534 8,216,518 9,402,384 ∂2,545,850 ∂1,185,866 

Appropriations ................................................................................................................................................ (6,856,534 ) (8,216,518 ) (9,402,384 ) (∂2,545,850 ) (∂1,185,866 ) (By transfer) ................................................................................................................................................... (83,580 ) (91,300 ) (91,300 ) (∂7,720 ) ..........................(Transfer out) ................................................................................................................................................. (¥83,580 ) (¥91,300 ) (¥91,300 ) (¥7,720 ) ..........................

TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

General Administration 

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 97,832 105,805 85,000 ¥12,832 ¥20,805 Justice information sharing technology ............................................................................................................................... 85,540 93,868 86,000 ∂460 ¥7,868 Tactical law enforcement wireless communications ........................................................................................................... 74,260 121,651 121,651 ∂47,391 ..........................

Total, General Administration ................................................................................................................................. 257,632 321,324 292,651 ∂35,019 ¥28,673 

Administrative review and appeals ..................................................................................................................................... 232,649 263,791 268,791 ∂36,142 ∂5,000 

Transfer from immigration examinations fee account ............................................................................................... .......................... ¥4,000 ¥4,000 ¥4,000 ..........................Administrative expenses (emergency) ......................................................................................................................... 8,000 .......................... .......................... ¥8,000 ..........................

Direct appropriation ................................................................................................................................................ 240,649 259,791 264,791 ∂24,142 ∂5,000 

Detention trustee .................................................................................................................................................................. 1,225,920 1,295,319 1,295,319 ∂69,399 ..........................Office of Inspector General .................................................................................................................................................. 70,603 75,681 75,681 ∂5,078 ..........................
146 

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2008 appropriation Budget estimate Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation 

compared with (∂ or ¥) 

2008 

appropriation Budget estimate 

United States Parole Commission 

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 11,462 12,570 12,570 ∂1,108 ..........................

Legal Activities 

Salaries and expenses, general legal activities .................................................................................................................. 735,549 804,007 804,007 ∂68,458 ..........................

Salaries and expenses (emergency) ............................................................................................................................ 10,000 .......................... .......................... ¥10,000 ..........................

Vaccine injury compensation trust fund .............................................................................................................................. 6,833 7,833 7,833 ∂1,000 ..........................Antitrust Division, salaries and expenses ........................................................................................................................... 147,819 150,591 150,591 ∂2,772 ..........................

Offsetting fee collections—current year .................................................................................................................... ¥139,000 ¥150,591 ¥150,591 ¥11,591 ..........................

Direct appropriation ................................................................................................................................................ 8,819 .......................... .......................... ¥8,819 ..........................

United States Attorneys, salaries and expenses ................................................................................................................. 1,747,822 1,831,336 1,831,336 ∂83,514 ..........................

Salaries and expenses (emergency) ............................................................................................................................ 7,000 .......................... .......................... ¥7,000 ..........................

Total, U.S. Attorneys, salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................... 1,754,822 1,831,336 1,831,336 ∂76,514 ..........................

United States Trustee System Fund ..................................................................................................................................... 209,763 217,416 217,416 ∂7,653 ..........................

Offsetting fee collections ............................................................................................................................................ ¥184,000 ¥160,000 ¥160,000 ∂24,000 ..........................Interest on U.S. securities ........................................................................................................................................... ¥5,000 ¥5,000 ¥5,000 .......................... ..........................Prior year unobligated balances ................................................................................................................................. ¥20,000 .......................... .......................... ∂20,000 ..........................

Direct appropriation ................................................................................................................................................ 763 52,416 52,416 ∂51,653 ..........................

Foreign Claims Settlement Commission .............................................................................................................................. 1,606 1,823 1,823 ∂217 ..........................Fees and expenses of witnesses .......................................................................................................................................... 168,300 168,300 168,300 .......................... ..........................Salaries and expenses, Community Relations Service ........................................................................................................ 9,794 9,873 9,873 ∂79 ..........................Assets forfeiture fund .......................................................................................................................................................... 20,990 20,990 20,990 .......................... ..........................

Total, Legal Activities .................................................................................................................................................. 2,717,476 2,896,578 2,896,578 ∂179,102 ..........................
147 

United States Marshals Service 

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 849,219 933,117 968,117 ∂118,898 ∂35,000 

Construction ................................................................................................................................................................ .......................... (2,304 ) (2,304 ) (∂2,304 ) ..........................Salaries and expenses (emergency) ............................................................................................................................ 15,000 .......................... .......................... ¥15,000 ..........................

Construction ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2,304 .......................... .......................... ¥2,304 ..........................

Total, United States Marshals Service ........................................................................................................................ 866,523 933,117 968,117 ∂101,594 ∂35,000 

National Security Division 

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 73,373 83,789 83,789 ∂10,416 ..........................

Interagency Law Enforcement 

Interagency crime and drug enforcement ............................................................................................................................ 497,935 531,581 511,741 ∂13,806 ¥19,840 

Federal Bureau of Investigation 

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 4,041,370 4,339,690 4,359,690 ∂318,320 ∂20,000 

Salaries and expenses (emergency) ............................................................................................................................ 143,539 .......................... .......................... ¥143,539 ..........................

Counterintelligence and national security ........................................................................................................................... 2,308,580 2,725,450 2,725,450 ∂416,870 ..........................

Direct appropriation ................................................................................................................................................ 6,493,489 7,065,140 7,085,140 ∂591,651 ∂20,000 

Construction ......................................................................................................................................................................... 164,200 42,991 184,991 ∂20,791 ∂142,000 

Total, Federal Bureau of Investigation ....................................................................................................................... 6,657,689 7,108,131 7,270,131 ∂612,442 ∂162,000 

Drug Enforcement Administration 

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 2,094,818 2,180,584 2,198,384 ∂103,566 ∂17,800 

Salaries and expenses (emergency) ............................................................................................................................ 2,000 .......................... .......................... ¥2,000 ..........................Diversion control fund ................................................................................................................................................. ¥239,249 ¥244,000 ¥244,000 ¥4,751 ..........................

Total, Drug Enforcement Administration ................................................................................................................ 1,857,569 1,936,584 1,954,384 ∂96,815 ∂17,800 

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives 

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 984,097 1,027,814 1,042,814 ∂58,717 ∂15,000 Construction ......................................................................................................................................................................... 23,500 .......................... .......................... ¥23,500 ..........................

Total, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ............................................................................... 1,007,597 1,027,814 1,042,814 ∂35,217 ∂15,000 

Federal Prison System 

Salaries and expenses ......................................................................................................................................................... 5,050,440 5,435,754 5,435,754 ∂385,314 ..........................
148 

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2008 appropriation Budget estimate Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation 

compared with (∂ or ¥) 

2008 

appropriation Budget estimate 

Buildings and facilities ........................................................................................................................................................ 372,720 95,807 535,807 ∂163,087 ∂440,000 Federal Prison Industries, incorporated (limitation on administrative expenses) .............................................................. 2,328 2,328 2,328 .......................... ..........................

Total, Federal Prison System .................................................................................................................................. 5,425,488 5,533,889 5,973,889 ∂548,401 ∂440,000 

State and Local Law Enforcement Activities 

Office of Violence Against Women: Prevention and prosecution programs 400,000 280,000 415,000 ∂15,000 ∂135,000 Office of Justice Programs: 

Justice assistance ....................................................................................................................................................... 196,184 134,647 240,000 ∂43,816 ∂105,353 State and local law enforcement assistance ............................................................................................................. 908,136 404,000 1,387,000 ∂478,864 ∂983,000 

Presidential convention security (emergency) .................................................................................................... 100,000 .......................... .......................... ¥100,000 ..........................

Weed and seed program fund .................................................................................................................................... 32,100 .......................... 25,000 ¥7,100 ∂25,000 Juvenile justice programs ........................................................................................................................................... 383,513 185,000 400,000 ∂16,487 ∂215,000 

Public safety officers benefits: 

Death benefits ............................................................................................................................................................. 66,000 60,000 60,000 ¥6,000 ..........................Disability and education benefits ............................................................................................................................... 8,834 9,100 9,100 ∂266 ..........................

Subtotal ................................................................................................................................................................... 74,834 69,100 69,100 ¥5,734 ..........................Subtotal, Office of Justice Programs ...................................................................................................................... 1,694,767 792,747 2,121,100 ∂426,333 ∂1,328,353 

Community Oriented Policing Services ................................................................................................................................ 587,233 .......................... 600,000 ∂12,767 ∂600,000 

Total, State and local law enforcement activities ................................................................................................. 2,682,000 1,072,747 3,136,100 ∂454,100 ∂2,063,353 Total, title II, Department of Justice ...................................................................................................................... 23,591,916 23,088,915 25,778,555 ∂2,186,639 ∂2,689,640 

Appropriations ................................................................................................................................................ (23,306,377 ) (23,088,915 ) (25,778,555 ) (∂2,472,178 ) (∂2,689,640 ) Emergency appropriations ............................................................................................................................. (285,539 ) .......................... .......................... (¥285,539 ) ..........................
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TITLE III—SCIENCE 

Executive Office of the President 

Office of Science and Technology Policy ............................................................................................................................. 5,184 5,303 5,184 .......................... ¥119 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

Science ................................................................................................................................................................................. .......................... 4,441,519 4,522,884 ∂4,522,884 ∂81,365 Aeronautics ........................................................................................................................................................................... .......................... 446,500 500,000 ∂500,000 ∂53,500 Exploration ............................................................................................................................................................................ .......................... 3,500,469 3,530,490 ∂3,530,490 ∂30,021 Space operations .................................................................................................................................................................. .......................... 5,774,710 5,774,710 ∂5,774,710 ..........................Education .............................................................................................................................................................................. .......................... 115,600 130,012 ∂130,012 ∂14,412 Cross-agency support ........................................................................................................................................................... .......................... 3,299,902 3,320,404 ∂3,320,404 ∂20,502 Science, aeronautics and exploration .................................................................................................................................. 10,543,100 .......................... .......................... ¥10,543,100 ..........................Exploration capabilities ........................................................................................................................................................ 6,733,700 .......................... .......................... ¥6,733,700 ..........................Office of Inspector General .................................................................................................................................................. 32,600 35,500 35,500 ∂2,900 ..........................

Total, National Aeronautics and Space Administration ......................................................................................... 17,309,400 17,614,200 17,814,000 ∂504,600 ∂199,800 

National Science Foundation 

Research and related activities (non-defense) ................................................................................................................... 4,754,474 5,526,990 5,526,990 ∂772,516 ..........................

Defense function ......................................................................................................................................................... 67,000 67,000 67,000 .......................... ..........................

Subtotal ................................................................................................................................................................... 4,821,474 5,593,990 5,593,990 ∂772,516 ..........................

Major research equipment and facilities construction ........................................................................................................ 220,740 147,510 152,010 ¥68,730 ∂4,500 Education and human resources ......................................................................................................................................... 725,600 790,410 790,410 ∂64,810 ..........................Agency operations and award management ....................................................................................................................... 281,790 305,060 300,560 ∂18,770 ¥4,500 National Science Board ........................................................................................................................................................ 3,969 4,030 4,030 ∂61 ..........................Office of Inspector General .................................................................................................................................................. 11,427 13,100 13,100 ∂1,673 ..........................

Total, National Science Foundation ........................................................................................................................ 6,065,000 6,854,100 6,854,100 ∂789,100 ..........................Total, title III, Science ............................................................................................................................................ 23,379,584 24,473,603 24,673,284 ∂1,293,700 ∂199,681 

TITLE IV—RELATED AGENCIES 

Commission on Civil Rights ................................................................................................................................................. 8,460 8,800 8,800 ∂340 ..........................Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ....................................................................................................................... 329,300 341,925 341,925 ∂12,625 ..........................International Trade Commission .......................................................................................................................................... 68,400 73,600 75,000 ∂6,600 ∂1,400 Payment to the Legal Services Corporation ......................................................................................................................... 350,490 311,000 390,000 ∂39,510 ∂79,000 Marine Mammal Commission ............................................................................................................................................... 2,820 2,400 2,400 ¥420 ..........................
150 

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2009—Continued 

[In thousands of dollars] 

Item 2008 appropriation Budget estimate Committee recommendation 

Senate Committee recommendation 

compared with (∂ or ¥) 

2008 

appropriation Budget estimate 

National Veterans Business Development Corporation ........................................................................................................ 1,410 .......................... .......................... ¥1,410 ..........................Office of the U.S. Trade Representative .............................................................................................................................. 44,120 46,272 46,272 ∂2,152 ..........................State Justice Institute .......................................................................................................................................................... 3,760 .......................... 5,000 ∂1,240 ∂5,000 

Total, title IV, Related agencies ............................................................................................................................. 808,760 783,997 869,397 ∂60,637 ∂85,400 

TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS 

Rescissions ........................................................................................................................................................................... ¥901,825 ¥634,000 ¥622,911 ∂278,914 ∂11,089 

Total, title V, General Provisions ............................................................................................................................ ¥901,825 ¥634,000 ¥622,911 ∂278,914 ∂11,089 

Grand total ........................................................................................................................................................................... 53,734,969 55,929,033 60,100,709 ∂6,365,740 ∂4,171,676 Appropriations ...................................................................................................................................................................... (54,351,255 ) (56,563,033 ) (60,723,620 ) (∂6,372,365 ) (∂4,160,587 ) Emergency appropriations .................................................................................................................................................... (285,539 ) .......................... .......................... (¥285,539 ) ..........................Rescissions ........................................................................................................................................................................... (¥901,825 ) (¥634,000 ) (¥622,911 ) (∂278,914 ) (∂11,089 ) (By transfer) ......................................................................................................................................................................... (83,580 ) (91,300 ) (91,300 ) (∂7,720 ) ..........................(Transfer out) ....................................................................................................................................................................... (¥83,580 ) (¥91,300 ) (¥91,300 ) (¥7,720 ) ..........................

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