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FY 1990 U.S. Global Change Research Program Budget

Over the past year, the CES conducted several interagency global change research budget planning and analysis activities to ensure that the President's Budget includes requests that are well integrated and responsive to the Program's goals and priorities.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program budget includes only research efforts specifically focused on global change issues. Some agency programs that contribute to global change research, but were initiated for and continue to serve other primary purposes, are not included in the focused U.S. Global Change Research Program budget (e.g., the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Upper Atmospheric Research Program and Topex/Poseidon mission, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's meteorological satellites, and several programs from the Department of Defense). It is anticipated, over the next several years, that some of these contributing programs will be incorporated into the focused Program.

In FY 1989, funding for focused global change research activities totals $133.9 million. The President's FY 1990 budget proposes a funding level of $190.5 million for these programs. (See Table 1 on pages 24 for additional details.) The budget includes important ongoing and new research efforts. Some of these ongoing efforts, like the National Science Foundation's Global Geosciences program, have laid the foundation for the proposed FY 1990 effort. This budget will allow the Program to expand and accelerate its research activities across all areas of global change.