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Vol. 7, No. 5 - March 12,
2009
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FY 2009 and FY 2010
Appropriations Update
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FY 2009
Yesterday, President Obama signed the FY 2009 Omnibus
Appropriations Act into law, providing funding for those
departments and agencies that had previously been operating
under a Continuing Resolution. This means that funding for the
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Cooperative State
Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) is finally
in place. There were NO changes to the CSREES program amounts as
reported in our report dated February 23.
FY 2010
As you are probably aware, the Obama Administration submitted an
FY 2010 budget "overview" to Congress on February 26. This
overview document ("A New Era of Responsibility") did NOT
contain any specifics concerning any program.
The current plan is for OMB to submit its agency-by-agency
detailed budget justifications to the congressional
appropriations committees sometime in mid to late April. Thus,
we will not have proposed programmatic funding levels for the
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (which replaces
CSREES on Oct. 1, 2009) until that time. This delay in
submission of the President's budget is expected to push the
entire appropriations process back a couple of months.
The Cornerstone Team
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