BES FY 2000 Budget Request

FY 2000 Budget Information

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The President's FY 2000 Budget Request to Congress contains breakouts of the FY 1998 (actual), FY 1999 (estimate) and FY 2000 (request) Basic Energy Sciences (BES) budgets. The document describes in some detail the mission and goals of the BES program, FY 1998 accomplishments, the research activities and facilities operations that the BES program supports, performance measures, and the proposed future directions of the BES program. The total BES FY 2000 Congressional budget request is $888,084 thousand. Brief summaries of the budget requests for the four BES Divisions are provided by clicking here. The latest Congressional actions regarding the FY 2000 BES budget request are given below:

EXECUTIVE ACTION:
9/29/99 Energy and Water Bill signed by the President - becomes Public Law 106-60

CONFERENCE ACTIONS:
9/27/99 Energy and Water Conference Report (106-336) passes House by Yea-Nay Vote: 327-87. (language for BES).
9/28/99 Energy and Water Conference Report (106-336) passes Senate by Yea-Nay Vote: 96-3.

SENATE ACTIONS:
6/16/99 Energy and Water Passes Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote: 97-2. (Senate language for BES)
5/27/99 Energy and Water Development files FY00 bill (S. 1186 / S. Report 106-58 )

HOUSE ACTIONS:
7/27/99 Energy and Water Passes House with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote: 420-8. (House language for BES)
7/20/99 Energy and Water Development files FY00 bill (H.R. 2605 / H.Rept. 106-253)

	DOLLARS in THOUSANDS
		FY 2000 Committee Marks
	FY 2000 Request	House	Senate	Appropriation
Basic Energy Sciences	888,084	735,989	854,545	783,127

Materials Sciences	389,736	389,736	387,100	387,100
- SNS Operations/R&D (MS)	17,900	17,900	17,900	17,900
- SNS/(CRF, FY99) Construction	196,100	50,000	169,000	100,000
Chemical Sciences	215,577	209,582	212,000	209,582
Engineering Research	14,876	14,876	14,876	14,876
Geosciences Research	22,669	22,669	22,669	22,669
Energy Biosciences	31,226	31,226	31,000	31,000
Total BES Excluding SNS/CRF	*674,084*	*668,089*	*667,645*	*665,227*

The total BES FY 2000 Congressional budget request is $888,084 thousand. Brief summaries of the budget requests for the four BES Divisions are provided by clicking here. The FY 1999 BES budget request is also available.

Click on the icon to download the FY 2000 BES Budget Request
PDF format (360 KB, 88 pages)

SC, Part 1 (SC Exec. Summary; High Energy and Nuclear Physics)

SC, Part 2 (Biological & Environmental Research; BES)

SC, Part 3 (CTR; MEL-FS; FES; Program Direction; Education)

Click the 3 PDF icons above to download a Postscript Data Formatted (PDF) file of the Office of Science (SC) Congressional Budget Request for FY 2000. To view these files, you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, free software.

BES is one program within the Office of Science (formerly, the Office of Energy Research); the BES budget appears on pages 51-138 of the SC, Part 2 file; BES is also described in the Executive Summary by SC Director Martha A. Krebs that is provided above (SC, Part 1, first 16 pages)

An overview of the Department of Energy's FY 2000 budget request is provided by the Budget Highlights document entitled "Science, Security and Energy: Powering the 21st Century." The SC programs are described on pages 43-54. These 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).