November 27, 2001
On November 26, 2001, the president signed into law the "Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act" for Fiscal Year 2002, which includes funding for the U.S. National Science Foundation. Overall, NSF funding increased by $372.5 million to $4.789 billion. This represents an 8.4% increase over the previous year.
Within the broader accounts, Research and Related Activities will increase by 7.7% ($255.7 million), to $3.598 billion; Education and Human Resources will increase by 11.4% to $875 million; and the Major Research Equipment account will increase by 14.4% 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% 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); and 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); IceCube 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 Research and Related Activities account); 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 million); Undergraduate Workforce Initiative ($5 million); and $105 million to increase the level of graduate student stipends to $21,500.
Please see the table below for details. Numbers are presented in millions of dollars.
|
NSF Account |
FY 2001 Level ($) |
FY 2002 Request ($) |
FY 2002 House Appropriation ($) |
FY 2002 Senate Appropriation ($) |
FY 2002 Final ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Biological Sciences |
485.4 |
483.1 |
529.0 |
500.6 |
509.0 |
|
Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
477.9 |
470.4 |
521.0 |
523.0 |
515.8 |
|
Engineering |
430.8 |
431.0 |
469.0 |
454.0 |
467.5 |
|
Geosciences |
562.2 |
558.5 |
613.0 |
570.0 |
610.7 |
|
Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
850.8 |
863.6 |
927.0 |
897.5 |
922.2 |
|
Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences |
164.4 |
163.2 |
179.0 |
165.2 |
168.9 |
|
Office of Polar Programs |
273.3 |
276.6 |
299.0 |
281.6 |
297.8 |
|
Integrative Activities |
97.8 |
80.6 |
106.0 |
115.6 |
106.5 |
|
Total, Research and Related Activities |
3,342.6 |
3,326.9 |
3,642.3 |
3,514.4 |
3,598.3 |
|
Education and Human Resources |
785.6 |
872.4 |
886.0 |
872.4 |
875.0 |
|
Major Research Equipment |
121.3 |
96.3 |
135.3 |
108.8 |
138.8 |
|
Salaries and Expenses |
160.5 |
170.4 |
170.4 |
170.4 |
170.4 |
|
Office of Inspector General |
6.2 |
6.8 |
6.8 |
6.8 |
6.8 |
|
Total |
$4,416.4 |
$4,472.5 |
$4,840.1 |
$4,672.8 |
$4,789.3 |
Totals may not add due to rounding.