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• A 48 percent overell funding increase for wetlands 

 protection efforts in the FY 1992 budget to $709 

 million; 



• A nearly three-fold increase, from 816 million in n 1989 to 

 $45 million in FY 1992, for wetlands R&D progreme; 



• The establishment, under the provisions of the 1990 Farm 

 Bill, of a 600,000 acre wetlands reserve. 



To ensure further progress towards the no net loss goal, the 

 Administration today proposed several new initiatives to ei^anoe 

 wetlands protection on Federal and private lands. These include: 



Fully funding the Wetlands Reserve Prooram in the 1990 

 Farm Bill . The 1990 Farm Bill authorized the purchase 

 of up to 1 rolllion acres of wetlands. The Admin- 

 istration will work for this amount in FY 1993 end 

 future budgets. 



I^tiftttn? an AdminlstratiOn-wiae wetlenda restoratton 

 and creation program on Federal lands. Many agencies, 

 including interior, epa. Defense, Commerce, and Energy, 

 have the potential to engage in restoration and 

 creation programs. These activities will be 

 strengthened and coordinated through a standing 

 interagency task force that will develop an overall 

 policy for the moat effective use of new and existing 

 Federal resources . 



Continuing to mak a watlanda a priority in the 

 allocation of Land and Water ConBervation Funds fLWCF). 

 The Administration will seek to maintain or Increase 

 funding for this program. Moreover, it will target a 

 portion of State LWCF funds to wetlands. 



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monitoring program to periodically assess national 

 wetland trends. Satellite imagery provides up-to-date 

 Information on the status and trends of wetlands, and 

 can help in conducting periodic change analysis of 

 high-value wetland areas. The Administration is. 

 accelerating and improving our national inventory of 

 wetlands, with more geographically targeted reporting, 

 and monitoring of the ecological health of our 

 wetlands. 



• Expanding reaearch on watlande. Several agencies 

 independently conduct research on wetlands. The 

 Administration is establishing a process to coordinate, 

 consolidate and establish priorities for wetlands research. 



