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Thank you, Dr. Lane and Dr. Petersen, and your staff, for being 

 here. 



Dr. Lane. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Ehlers. We appreciate your work at the Foundation. We 

 wish you well in the future, and we will certainly do whatever we 

 can to make your path smooth, even though not paved with gold. 



Thank you very much. 



Dr. Lane. Thank you. 



Mr. Ehlers. With that, the meeting is adjourned. 



[Whereupon, at 11:07 a.m., Friday, March 22, 1996, the hearing 

 was adjourned.] 



[The following material was received for the record:] 



Responses of Dr. Neal Lane to Questions for the Record 

 BACKLOG OF FACILITIES MODERNIZATION 



QUESTION: Since 1990, NSF has spent about a half billion dollars for the 

 modernization of the research facilities at colleges and universities. Cur- 

 rent reports document $8- $10 billion worth of needs. With the FY 97 re- 

 quest, NSF is proposing to terminate the facilities modernization program. 

 How is the Administration handling the backlog? Is this problem under 

 control? Why is NSF proposing elimination of this program? 



ANSWER: Since passage of the Research Facilities Modernization Act of 1988, 

 NSF's Academic Research Infrastructure Program has awarded a total of $253 mil- 

 lion for facilities renovation. The NSF investment over the past seven fiscal years 

 represents less than 3% of the estimated current needs. Recipients of these awards 

 have provided cost sharing at approximately this level, bringing the total impact of 

 the NSF investment to approximately 5% of the estimated current need. NSF's last 

 two surveys of facilities needs suggest that the level of need is stable at approxi- 

 mately $10 billion. These surveys also showed that state sources of support and the 

 resources of the institutions themselves provide the largest portion of support for 

 facilities modernization, totaling 76% of the total investment. Private donations 

 from foundations, industry, and other sources accounted for another 10%. NSF sup- 

 port represented a small portion of the resource pool available to meet these needs. 

 It therefore appears that sources of support other than NSF have stabilized the fa- 

 cilities modernization backlog at the $10 billion level. For these reasons, NSF be- 

 lieves that construction of specialized research facilities are a higher priority within 

 the NSF investment portfolio. 



Appropriations for ARI Facilities Modernization 



[Millions of Dollars] 



NON-FEDERAL FUNDING FOR FACILITIES 



QUESTION: You state in your written testimony that no funding is re- 

 quested for the NSF academic research facilities program because you 

 have concluded that funding for facilities renewal can be found from non- 

 federal sources. 



a. Is it not the case that federal funding has never been the sole source of 

 support for facilities modernization but has provided an important com- 

 ponent of support, which has successfully leveraged non-federal con- 

 tributions? 



ANSWER: NSF support for facilities modernization from FY 1990 to 1996 rep- 

 resents an investment of $253 million. Awardee institutions provided a roughly 

 equal amount in cost sharing, bringing the seven-year total to approximately $500 

 million. In contrast, a recent NSF survey indicated that non-Federal sources contrib- 

 uted approximately $3.1 billion toward renewal of facilities in just a two-year period 



