Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Requests ($ millions)
 
Agency/Program FY2000 Enacted FY2001 Requested Precent Change
Department of Energy
-- Basic Energy Sciences $771.6 million $1015.8 million 31.7%
       Geosciences Research $21.8 million $22.0 million 1.0%
-- Fossil Energy R&D $379.3 million $406.6 million 7.2%
       Natural Gas R&D $31.6 million $38.8 million 22.6%
       Petroleum R&D $57.3 million $52.6 million -8.2%
Department of the Interior
-- US Geological Survey $813.4 million $895.4 million 10.1%
       Water Resource Investigations $185.8 million $197.6 million 6.3%
       Geologic Division $211.2 million $224.8 million 6.4%
       National Mapping Program $126.7 million $155.3 million 22.5%
NASA
-- Earth Science Enterprise $1443.4 million $1405.8 million -2.6%
       Earth Science Program Science $286.3 million $353.2 million 23.4%
National Science Foundation (NSF)
-- Geoscience Directorate $487.8 million $583.0 million 19.5%
       Atmospheric Science $164.8 million $194.0 million 17.7%
       Earth Science $101.7 million $118.5 million 16.6%
       Ocean Science $221.3 million $270.5 million 22.2%
-- Major Resreach Equipment $93.5 million $138.5 million 48.2%
       Earthscope $17.0 million

Numbers compiled by Margaret Baker, American Geological Institute



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