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Dr. Topp. It was a brandnew program. 
Dr. McEnroy. It was a brandnew program then. We are budgeting 
more as the program moves ahead. 
Mr. Lennon. I think you did well to move cautiously. 
Do you have the figures, Doctor, for the fiscal year 1969? 
Dr. Toop. For fiscal 1969, the Presidential budget request for the 
Foundation was $500 million, which included $6 million for the Sea 
Grant program. 
Mr. Lennon. And the appropriation ? 
Dr. Topp. The appropriation was $400 million, and to that was 
added $2614 million of reserve funds released by the Bureau of the 
Budget. 
We provided for the Sea Grant program that year the same amount 
we requested in the Presidential budget; a figure of $6 million. 
Mr. Lennon. The fiscal 1970 budget ? 
Dr. Topp. The request for the Foundation was again $500 million, 
and this included $10 million requested for the Sea Grant program. 
The appropriations process is, of course, not yet complete. 
Mr. Lennon. I believe the House has passed the appropriation bill, 
has it not ? 
Dr. McE troy. $420 million. 
Mr. Lennon. $420 million. That was subject beth in fiscal 1969 and 
1970 to the agreement worked out between the Bureau of the Budget 
and the Office of the President and the Congress with respect to a 
level of funding. That is reflected in that reduction in the budget level, 
and what was ultimately appropriated, the arbitrary ceiling that was 
imposed. 
Dr. McErroy. But I point out that we kept the Sea Grant program 
where we originally budgeted it, and we are emphasizing it as a 
high priority program. 
Mr. Mosner. Mr. Chairman, I cannot resist expressing my own 
concern and alarm at the action of the House in appropriating for 
fiscal 1970 for the National Science Foundation at a level that is, as 
T remember, around $70 million less than the Science and Astronautics 
Committee’s recommended authorization figure. 
Also I cannot resist expressing my concern, or I don’t know what the 
right word is, over the fact that we have already appropriated in the 
House when we have not even voted on the authorization bill. It is a 
very peculiar situation. 
From the testimony we have just heard, I judge that for the last 
2 years the National Science Foundation has actually allocated to the 
Sea Grant program more money than was really proposed in the 
actual appropriation bills, in other words, has maintained the National 
Sea Grant program at a level of their requested authorization, even 
when Congress appropriated less. 
You have had to transfer funds from other programs ? 
Dr. McEnroy. That is right. 
Mr. Mosuerr. This does show your emphasis on the National Sea 
Grant program asa high priority, and I must say that I think this 
committee is pleased by that. 
Dr. McEtroy. Mr. Lennon, I want to make sure I understood. Did 
you say that the President agreed to the reduction in the funds? 
