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for the AIIS forward fund and $1,040,000 equivalent is requested for the Moenjadaro project. 

[[underlined]]International Environmental Science Program[[/underlined]]. Increased federal appropriations will be sought in future years for the International Environmental Science Program. This program contributes substantially to institutional research progress, and continues to be considered a high-priority effort. Environmental monitoring is pursued at two permanent Smithsonian sites--the Chesapeake Bay Center and the Tropical Research Institute--and at several temporary sites. Over the next five years, an effort will be made to strengthen the research work at these sites to monitor changed in the natural environment and to stay abreast of biological conservation affairs. Based on outside review, the Institution is conducting long-term environmental monitoring as an activity which matches the basic aims and purposes of the Institution's research programs. Increased funding will allow emphasis to be placed on defined parameters of watershed monitoring, productivity studies of the tropical forests, and on changes in marine indicators at the permanent stations. Over the planning period, monitoring at several nonpermanent sites will be completed and base resources will be reapplied to new sites. It is expected that studies will be completed in Nepal by early FY 1985. Efforts will continue over the planning period on several environmental questions in the Llanos region of Venezuela, and continued efforts will be made to implement fully studies in the People's Republic of China. In addition, more intensive work will be undertaken on the biogeography of the Amazon region of Latin America. New studies will focus on environmental aspects of the Sinai region, selected sites in the Indo-Pacific, the Caribbean basin and the Indian Ocean. More resources will be sought over the period for data analyses, travel, publication, and support costs. 

[[underlined]]Museum Support Center Equipment and Operations[[/underlined]]. Equipment appropriations are expected to be about $3,500,000 in FY 1984, and then begin to decline following the initial move to the center to a relatively stable level of approximately $1,300,000. Future year annual operating and program expenses are expected to grow to about $5,200,000 by FY 1987, about two-thirds of which will be required for plant operation and maintenance and repairs, utilities, protection services, and grounds maintenance.  About one-third will be required to staff and operate the Conservation Training Center and the collections work associated with the Museums of Natural History and of American History. 

[[underlined]]Major Exhibitions[[/underlined]]. This program has supported the successful development of two large exhibitions, one commemorating the 250th anniversary of George Washington's birth (at the Museum of American History) and one focusing on cultural celebrations and collections of folklife materials drawn from all of our museums (at the Renwick Gallery), both of which