[CINAR_PIs] Fwd: RE: Status of CINAR
Don Anderson
danderson at whoi.edu
Tue Sep 8 21:58:01 EDT 2009
>Hi everyone:
Here is some correspondence about the CI budgets in the President's
budget. Terry Schaff is WHOI's congressional contact (lobbyist).
This says we should finalize Pete's letter, and begin sending it to
the appropriate delegations.
Don
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>To: 'Terrence Schaff' <tschaff at whoi.edu>, 'Cisco Werner'
> <cisco at marine.rutgers.edu>, 'Don Anderson'
><danderson at whoi.edu>, 'Michael
> Roman ' <roman at hpl.umces.edu>
>Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:01:39 -0400
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>Terry,
>I have discussed this with Jeremy Weirich, as you know Majority CJS
>Appropriations, and he is going to explore NOAA's intent for CINAR
>further with the NOAA folks, making it clear that now that this CI
>has been competitively awarded the Chairwoman expects that it will
>be used and funded as advertised. He is fully aware of the NGI
>earmark and has told NOAA that that approach is unsustainable for
>the Senate sponsors and the subcommittee members believe that the
>regional CIs be used to the fullest. He is asking for some budget
>numbers that demonstrate their plans. The letters to the MA, NJ,
>ME, and MD members certainly won't hurt.
>Don
>
>From: Terrence Schaff [mailto:tschaff at whoi.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 3:57 PM
>To: Cisco Werner; Donald F. Boesch; Don Anderson
>Subject: Re: Status of CINAR
>
>Below is the language from the FY10 Senate approps bill along with
>the current funding layout. Note that the CI budgets are tied up
>with the NOAA labs.
>
>NGI is a baby of the Minority and has been looked after by Shelby's
>(R-Alabama) staffer, Art Cameron. There are no other earmarks for
>CIs in the Senate bill as far as I can tell and there is no House
>language.
>
>I looked back at the detailed FY2010 NOAA budget. There is only a
>brief narrative for the Labs and CI line which included no breakout
>among the components (i.e., only the $21.84k number). The CIs are
>listed very briefly but with no detail.
>
>Terry
>
>
>The amounts provided for Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes
>Research/Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes are as follows:
>NOAA Request: $21,840,000
>House: $21,840,000
>Senate: $25,040,000 (request + $3,200,000)
>
>
>Senate Report language:
>Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes.-Of the funds provided
>for Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes Research, $3,200,000 is for the
>Northern Gulf Institute [NGI]. The NGI is a cooperative institute
>[CI] that was solicited and competitively selected by NOAA to develop
>regional approaches to ecosystem management, and research
>on the interface between human, watershed, coast, ocean, and atmosphere
>continuum. NGI won the competitive bid and has excelled
>in meeting its goals, as well as the ones independently established
>by NOAA. As a result, NGI has been held up as a model institute,
>created under the new CI process, and has had a major impact
>on regional approaches to research and educational program
>development. The Committee is disappointed that NOAA did not
>request any funding for this cooperative institute that NOAA itself
>created. The Committee believes this is yet another unfortunate example
>of NOAA's failure to provide adequate services that address
>the pressing and critical needs in the Gulf of Mexico. The gulf region
>is a significant contributor to the Nation's economy, and
>NOAA's own data shows that the gulf experiences the highest frequency
>of severe weather and is affected by more disasters than
>any other region. Therefore, the Committee expects NOAA to end
>this inequity by providing adequate base funding for this activity
>in future budget requests.
>
>On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Cisco Werner wrote:
>
>
>
>I attach the Federal Register (Oct 7, 2008) call for the North
>Atlantic Regional Cooperative Institute. The 2nd page, middle
>column, specifies the funding availability. It does say the usual
>"All funding is contingent upon the availability of Federal
>appropriations."
>
>Cheers,
>Cisco.
>
>
>
>On 9/3/09 11:27 PM, "Don Anderson" <<>danderson at whoi.edu> wrote:
>
>Don:
>
>The FFO specified a budget of $7 M, and we wrote the proposal as if
>that was the amount we would have to work with. But we were told by
>the program manager that even though $7M might flow through CINAR in
> a year, most of that would be for projects that were already
>ongoing between PIs in the region, and NOAA. For example, the
>Climate Program Office gives about $4M to Bob Weller here at WHOI
>for mooring arrays in the equatorial Pacific and elsewhere, plus
>ship time, etc. That money was being routed through CICOR - the CI
>that is ending, and it will now go through CINAR. So, in addition to
>funds that NOAA gives to other PIs in the region for other ongoing
>or planned activities, that is the $7M. There is no "new" money in
>the pipeline - hence our need for program development or internal
>research funds.
>
>Don
>
>
>At 11:14 PM -0400 9/3/09, Donald F. Boesch wrote:
>
>Can someone give me a brief summary of what the FFO specified?
>
>From: Cisco Werner
>[<mailto:cisco at marine.rutgers.edu>mailto:cisco at marine.rutgers.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:13 PM
>To: Don Anderson
>Cc: Donald F. Boesch; Terry Schaff
>Subject: Re: Status of CINAR
>
>
>Hi Don,
>
>Thanks for the forward, no problem. Let me know if I can help
>through our Federal Relations office in DC. She was a bit surprised
>when I told her how little we were receiving (as you detailed)
>despite what the FFO specified.
>
>Cheers,
>Cisco.
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:00 PM, Don Anderson <<>danderson at whoi.edu> wrote:
>
>Cisco:
>
>
>Sorry - I did not copy you on this.
>
>Don A.
>
>
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>CC: "'Schaff, Terry'" <<>tschaff at whoi.edu>, "'Kleindinst, Judy'"
> <<>jkleindinst at whoi.edu>
>Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:58:06 -0400
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>Don,
>This is helpful. I'll let you know what I find out.
>Don
>
>From: Don Anderson [<mailto:danderson at whoi.edu>mailto:danderson at whoi.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:52 PM
>To: Donald F. Boesch
>Cc: Schaff, Terry; Kleindinst, Judy
>Subject: Re: Status of CINAR
>
>Don:
>
>Unfortunately, I know nothing of the FY10 CI budgets. But what I
>expect is that for CINAR, they are only budgeting the small amount
>we get for Task 1 activities (administration). For CINAR - that was
>$350K - to cover one month of my salary, an administrator (Judy
>Kleindinst) at half time, a half time staff assistant for budget
>issues (now that all the grants for all 5 partners go through WHOI),
> a bit of web design and data management time, travel for
>investigators to our annual science meeting, and a bit of travel for
>me to Silver Spring. What we need is some money to give out
>competitively for research - right now the non-administrative money
>that comes into CINAR is only for specific projects where a NOAA
>program manager needs help from a specific PI. We don't have any
>"program development" money, nor do we have any discretionary money.
> The Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) has an earmark for $3 M or so
>that they give out competitively among the partners. I believe that
>CILER - Don Scavial's CI for the Great Lakes also has a modest
>earmark.
>
>
>So the bottom line is that I expect that the President's budget
>includes enough for us to get our $350K, and the same for the other
>CIs, but that there will not be any funds for us to build programs,
>or to begin to function as an autonomous CI.
>
>Don
>
>
>Don,
>
>
>Mike has been keeping me posted of the concerns about NOAA's actual
>funding of the CINAR. I have been in touch with the lead staffer
>handling NOAA on Senate Appropriations (our Senator Mikulski is the
>subcommittee chair) and will be discussing this with him further
>tomorrow. He has been informed by NOAA that the FY10 President's
>Request accounts for funding of this CI, as does the Senate mark.
> "The Senate mark for all of the CI lines are at the request or
>above it," they state. I need to know of any information that you
>have to the contrary. Or is it the case that the PR and Senate mark
>are too low to support what is in the agreement? Need feedback
> before 11 am Friday.
>
>Don
>
>Donald F. Boesch, President
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