Summary of NSF Appropriation for FY 02
November 27, 2001
Summary of NSF Appropriation for FY 02
On November 26, the President signed into law the
VA-HUD and Independent Agencies appropriations bill
(H.R. 2620) for the 2002 fiscal year, which includes
funding for the National Science Foundation. Overall,
NSF funding increased by $372.5 million to $4.789
billion. This represents an 8.4 percent increase over
the previous year.
Within the broader accounts, Research and Related Activities will increase by 7.7 percent ($255.7 million), to $3.598 billion; Education and Human Resources will increase by 11.4 percent to $875 million; and the Major Research equipment account will increase by 14.4 percent to $138.8 million. Salaries and Expenses will increase by 9.9% to match the $170.0 million request, and the Office of Inspector General will receive the requested 9.7 percent increase to $6.8 million.
The appropriation provides for specific funding levels for Science and Technology Centers ($26.61 million); Major Research Instrumentation ($75.9 million); the Information Technology Research program ($25 million); Nanoscale Science and Engineering ($25 million).
In addition, Major Research and Facilities Construction Projects are identified at the following specified funding levels: Large Hadron Collider ($16.9 million); Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation ($24.4 million); High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research ($35.0 million); Terascale Computing Systems( $35 million); ICE CUBE Neutrino Detector ($15 million); and Atacama Large Millimeter Array ($12.5 million).
Within the Education and Human Resources Directorate, specific funding levels are provided for EPSCoR ($80 million plus $30 million in co-funding from the R&RA account); the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation ($28 million); Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program ($17 million); Mathematics and Science Partnerships ($160 million); Noyce Scholarships ($5 million); Office of Innovative Partnerships ($11.00 million); Undergraduate Workforce Initiative ($5 million); and $105 million to increase the level of graduate student stipends to $21,500.
BIO - Biological Sciences
CISE- Computer and Information Science and Engineering
ENG - Engineering
GEO - Geosciences
MPS - Mathematics and Physical Sciences
SBE - Science, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
OPP - Office of Polar Programs
OIA - Integrative Activities
R&RA - Research and Related Activities
EHR - Education and Human Resources
MRE - Major Research Equipment
S&E - Salaries and Expenses
OIG - Office of Inspector General
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