BES FY 1999 Budget Request

FY 1999 Budget Request

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The BES Budget Archives contain many past Budget Requests and Committee Reports.

The President's FY 1999 Budget Request to Congress contains breakouts of the FY 1997, FY 1998 and FY 1999 BES budgets. The document describes in some detail the mission and goals of the BES program, FY 1997 accomplishments, the research activities and facilities operations that the BES program supports, performance measures, and the proposed future directions of the BES program.

The Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act of 1999 was signed into law on October 7, 1998 (Public Law 105-245; H.R. 4060). The FY 1999 conference agreement included $809.1 million for BES versus the President's Budget Request of $836.1 million.

. Click here to download a Postscript Data Formatted (PDF) file of the Energy Research (ER) Congressional Budget Request for FY 1999. This file can can only be read after downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader, free software. Basic Energy Sciences is one program within Energy Research; BES' budget appears on pages 137-266 of the 311-page ER budget.

. Click here to download a PDF file of the Executive Summary by ER Director Martha A. Krebs that accompanied the ER Congressional Budget Request.

Click the graph to the left to view a histogram of the BES FY 1999 budget request to Congress ($836.100 million) versus the budget appropriation for FY 1998 ($662.535 million). The SNS refers to the Spallation Neutron Source, a next-generation neutron source for neutron scattering and related research in broad areas of the physical, chemical, materials, biological, and medical sciences. The SNS, which begins construction activities in FY 1999, will become a national facility with an open user policy for thousands of scientists from universities, industries, and federal laboratories.

The above PDF files along with those for the other Department of Energy programs can be downloaded from the Department's Chief Financial Officer website (click here for list of available files).

Other information related to the FY 1999 budget requests of federal sciences agencies is available via the American Institute of Physics website (click here for list of available files).