U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

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19–012 2002

107th Congress, 2d Session – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 107–281

REQUESTS FOR FY 2003 BUDGET AMENDMENTS

COMMUNICATION

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

TRANSMITTING

HIS REQUESTS FOR FY 2003 BUDGET AMENDMENTS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION

NOVEMBER 14, 2002.—Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and 

ordered to be printed 


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THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, November 13, 2002. 

Hon. J. DENNIS HASTERT, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 

Washington, DC. 

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: I ask the Congress to consider the enclosed 

requests for FY 2003 budget amendments for the Department of 

Justice and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

In total, these amendments would not affect the budgetary resources proposed in my FY 2003 Budget. 

The details of these requests are set forth in the enclosed letter 

from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. I concur with his comments and observations. 

Sincerely, 

GEORGE W. BUSH. 

Enclosure. 

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[Estimate No. 26, 107th Congress, 2d Session] 

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, 

Washington, DC, November 7, 2002. 

The PRESIDENT, The White House. 

Submitted for your consideration are requests for FY 2003 budget amendments for the Department of Justice and the National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration. The amendments in this 

transmittal would not affect the budgetary resources proposed in 

your FY 2003 Budget. 

As described below and in more detail in the enclosures, the requests include the following: 

Department of Justice 

• $49 million is proposed for the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task 

Force (FTTTF) to support its operations. In October 2001, you directed the Department of Justice to create this Task Force to serve 

an essential function in the war on terrorism. Pursuant to this directive (Homeland Security Presidential Directive-2), the FTTTF is 

charged with ensuring that Federal agencies, including the Department of State, law enforcement components, and the intelligence 

community, have the best available information with which to keep 

foreign terrorists and their supporters out of the United States, 

and put under surveillance, locate, prosecute, detain, or deport 

such aliens already present in the country. 

To offset the $49 million requested for the FTTTF, the following reductions are proposed: $35 million from the Counterterrorism 

Fund; $5 million from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 

including $2 million originally requested for a pay and compensation study; and $9 million from salaries and expense costs of the 

U.S. Marshals Service. The reallocation of these resources to support the FTTTF is the most effective use of these resources. 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

• Two amendments in this transmittal reflect your decision to 

restructure and improve NASA’s Space Launch Initiative (SLI) and 

to ensure that the International Space Station can achieve the 

agreed upon U.S. ‘‘core complete’’ configuration and better address 

research priorities. The proposals would incorporate, in FY 2003, 

$120 million in funding from the Third Generation Reusable 

Launch Vehicle program into the SLI budget. In addition, within 

the SLI budget, $165 million would be reallocated from other SLI 

projects into NASA Unique Systems (renamed Orbital Space 

Plane). The proposals also make changes to NASA’s five-year plan 

to bolster Space Station reserves and ensure the U.S. core complete 

configuration; extend the Space Shuttle’s operational life and add 

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launches to increase the Space Station’s scientific utilization; aggressively pursue the Orbital Space Plane to assure crew transfer 

to and from the Space Station; and develop the technologies that 

will enable future launch systems. 

I have carefully reviewed these proposals and am satisfied that 

they are necessary at this time. Therefore, I join the Attorney General and the NASA Administrator in recommending that you transmit the amendments to the Congress. 

Sincerely, 

MITCHELL E. DANIELS, JR., Director. 

Enclosures. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

FY 2003 Budget Appendix Page: 631

FY 2003 Pending Request: $4,322,662,000

Proposed Amendment: $49,000,000

Revised Request: $4,371,662,000

This proposal would provide $49 million for the operations of the 

Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force (FTTTF). This increase in 

budgetary resources is fully offset by reductions to several accounts 

within the Department of Justice (DOJ), as proposed in accompanying budget amendments. 

The President directed DOJ to create the FTTTF, pursuant to 

Homeland Security Presidential Directive–2. The FTTTF is charged 

with ensuring that Federal agencies, including the Department of 

State, law enforcement components, and the intelligence community, have the best available information with which to keep foreign terrorists and their supporters out of the United States, and 

put under surveillance, locate, prosecute, detain, or deport such 

aliens already present in the country. 

Because of the timing of the directive establishing the FTTTF 

and the planning activities necessary for its activation, DOJ was 

unable to include resources for the FTTTF in the FY 2003 Budget 

request. 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

COUNTERTERRORISM FUND

FY 2003 Budget Appendix Page: 613

FY 2003 Pending Request: $35,000,000

Proposed Amendment: ¥$35,000,000

Revised Request: —

(Under the above heading, all appropriations language should be 

deleted.)

This proposal would eliminate the pending request for the 

Counterterrorism Fund. In an accompanying proposal, the $35, 

million originally requested for the Counterterrorism Fund is now 

requested to be provided to the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task 

Force (FTTTF) to support its operations. 

The $35 million was requested in the Counterterrorism Fund for 

the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operation Division 

prior to the creation of the FTTTF. With the capabilities being developed by the FTTTF, reallocating these resources to support Task 

Force operations is the most effective use of these resources in the 

Department of Justice’s efforts to combat terrorism. 

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* Appropriations language in the FY 2003 Budget Appendix for this account inadvertently 

omitted ‘‘,000’’ from the pending request. 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

LEGAL ACTIVITIES AND U.S. MARSHALS

SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE

FY 2003 Budget Appendix Page: 622–623

FY 2003 Pending Request: $722,193,000

Proposed Amendment: ¥$9,000,000

Revised Request: $713,193,000

This proposal would reduce the pending request for the United 

States (USMS) by $9 million. In an accompanying proposal, the $9 

million is now requested to be provided to the Foreign Terrorist 

Tracking Task Force to support its operations. 

This reduction is possible due to an inadvertent $9 million overstatement of the USMS rent estimates in the FY 2003 Budget request. 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE

IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT

FY 2003 Budget Appendix Page: 636–637

FY 2003 Pending Request: $3,241,798,000* 

Proposed Amendment: ¥$5,000,000

Revised Request: $3,236,798,000

(In the appropriations language under the above heading, delete 

‘‘$3,241,798’’ and substitute $3,236,798,000).

This proposal would reduce the pending request for Immigration 

and Naturalization Service (INS) salaries and expenses by $5 million. In an accompanying proposal, the $5 million is now requested 

to be provided to the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force 

(FTTTF) to support its operations. 

Of the $5 million proposed reduction, $3 million is derived from 

recurring intelligence program resources that were appropriated as 

part of P.L. 107–206, the FY 2002 Emergency Supplemental. This 

amendment provides the most effective use of these funds given the 

unique terrorist tracking capabilities being developed by the 

FTTTF. The $2 million originally requested for INS’s pay and compensation study, addressed by INS in FY 2002, provides the balance of the reduction. 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT

FY 2003 Budget Appendix Page: 1023 

FY 2003 Pending Request: $6,172,900,000

Proposed Amendment: —

Revised Request: $6,172,900,000

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This proposal reflects the President’s decision to restructure 

NASA’s Space Launch Initiative and ensure that the International 

Space Station can achieve the agreed upon U.S. ‘‘core complete’’ configuration and better address scientific research priorities. For 

the five-year plan (FY 2003–2007), the proposal, in aggregate, transfers $1.2 billion to the Human Space Flight account and allocates these funds by: • Adding $706 million to bolster Space Station reserves and 

maintain items requiring long-lead development items for potential enhanced research in response to recently completed 

independent cost estimates and program reviews; and 

• Adding $470 million for the Space Shuttle to ensure its extended viability for supporting Space Station research and operations needs, as well as additional Space Shuttle flights to 

increase scientific utilization of the Space Station. 

This amendment would not affect the FY 2003 budgetary resources proposed in the FY 2003 Budget. 

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

SCIENCE, AERONAUTICS AND TECHNOLOGY

FY 2003 Budget Appendix Page: 1025–1026

FY 2003 Pending Request: $8,918,500,000

Proposed Amendment: —

Revised Request: $8,918,500,000

This proposal reflects the President’s decision to restructure and 

improve NASA’s Space Launch Initiative (SLI) and ensure that the 

International Space Station can achieve the agreed upon U.S. ‘‘core 

complete’’ configuration and better address research priorities. 

NASA has developed a new Integrated Space Transportation Plan 

that provides a systematic approach to its space transportation 

needs. The plan will: extend the Space Shuttle’s operational life 

through at least the middle of the next decade; aggressively pursue 

a crew transfer vehicle called the Orbital Space Plane; and develop 

the technologies that will enable future launch systems, especially 

reusable launch vehicles. Some of these activities would be conducted under a revamped and more effectively focused SLI program. 

For FY 2003, the proposal would: 

• Transfer $165 million within the SLI budget from other 

SLI projects into NASA Unique Systems (renamed Orbital 

Space Plane); and 

• Shift $120 million into the SLI budget due to incorporation 

of the Third Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle program. 

The above changes for FY 2003 will result in significant modifications to the outyear budget, but remain within NASA’s annual 

budget totals. Compared with NASA’s five-year plan (FY 2003–

2007) contained in the FY 2003 Budget, the proposal would: 

• Add $882 million for the SLI Orbital Space Plane to aggressively pursue this critical new capability for Space Station; 

• Add $75 million for Biological and Physical Research to enable processing and transportation of scientific payloads to the 

Space Station on the additional Shuttle flights; 

• Add $1,176 million to the Human Space Flight account; 

• Offset all the above by reducing other SLI projects from 

$3,899 million to $1,766 million, a reduction of $2,133 million. 

These reductions would be achieved by delaying consideration 

for full-scale development of a new reusable launch vehicle 

pending further study of long-term launch requirements; and 

transfer $661 million from the Third Generation Reusable 

Launch Vehicle program into the SLI budget for the next Generation Launch Technology Program. 

This proposal would not affect the FY 2003 budgetary resources 

proposed in the FY 2003 Budget.

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