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To Members of the NASULGC System:
The Senate Ag Appropriations Subcommittee marked-up its F.Y.
2007 appropriations bill today.
Although the bill has not yet been made public (and all
that follows is subject to change/revision), we have been able to obtain
some preliminary -- and very encouraging results:
The following line items within the CSREES budget were reported
to have
received a five percent increase over their F.Y. 2006
enacted levels: (1) Hatch Act; (2) McIntire-Stennis Cooperative
Forestry; (3) Evans-Allen Program; (4) National Research
Initiative; (5) Hispanic Education Partnership Grants; (6)
Smith-Lever 3(b) and 3(c); (7) 1890 Institutions Extension; (8)
Renewable Resources Extension Act; and (9) 1994 Institutions
Extension.
In addition, two other CSREES line items were reported to have doubled
from last year: (1) 1994 Institutions Research; and (2) Payments
to the 1994 Institutions.
Also, the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
was reported to be funded at $63,358,000, which is sufficient to
provide a new "floor" of $100k per eligible institution
(including the 1890 Institutions) without decreasing the amount
that any eligible institution receives (compared to the current
fiscal year (2006) funding). And, another key Extension priority -- eXtension -- would be
funded at $1,985,000 which is the same as the House bill.
Under the "Integrated Activities" program heading: (1) the
Section 406 programs would be funded at their F.Y. 2006 levels; (2) the
Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative (diagnostic labs and
EDEN) would receive $11 million (the same as the House bill); and
(3) the "Asian Soybean Rust" program would receive approximately
$2 million in funding.
A preliminary breakdown of how the BAC's priorities
fared in the Senate Ag Subcommittee markup is presented in the following table:
|
Line Item |
F.Y. 2006 |
F.Y. 2007 |
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Hatch Act |
176,969,000 |
185,817,000 |
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McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry |
22,008,000 |
23,318,000 |
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Evans-Allen Program |
37,215,000 |
39,076,000 |
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Animal Health and Disease |
5,006,000 |
5,006,000 |
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Institution Challenge Grants |
5,423,000 |
5,423,000 |
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Smith Lever 3(b) and 3(c) |
272,973,000 |
286,622,000 |
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Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program |
62,008,000 |
63,358,000 |
|
1890s Extension |
33,529,000 |
35,205,000 |
|
1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants |
12,189,000 |
12,375,000 |
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1890 Facilities (Sec. 1447) |
16,609,000 |
16,609,000 |
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1994 Institutions Research |
1,029,000 |
2,058,000 |
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1994 Institutions Extension |
3,240,000 |
3,402,000 |
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1994 Institutions Equity Grant Program |
2,228,000 |
4,456,000 |
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Graduate Fellowship Grants |
3,701,000 |
3,701,000 |
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New Technologies for Extension (eXtension) |
1,485,000 |
1,985,000 |
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Renewable Resources Extension Act |
4,019,000 |
4,220,000 |
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Resident Instruction Grants - Insular Areas |
495,000 |
? |
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Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative |
9,900,000 |
11,000,000 |
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Agrosecurity Education |
- |
- |
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National Research Initiative |
181,170,000 |
190,229,000 |
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Totals: |
851,196,000 |
897,731,000 |
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Possible
Total Increase above F.Y. 2006 |
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42,664,000 |
These are all the preliminary results that we have been able to obtain.
Please be aware that these can change as the process goes
forward. We will provide further details as soon as we
have them.
The Ag Appropriations bill is scheduled to be marked up by the
full Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday, June 22.
The Cornerstone Team
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