The AMERICAN RECOVERY

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The AMERICAN RECOVERY REINVESTMENT ACT OF
2009How will the Stimulus Bill affect
KUMC?(Overview from 2/27/09 and updates)

• Gregory S. Kopf, Ph.D.
• Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
  Administration
• Executive Director, KUMC Research Institute

Town Hall Meeting 3/13/09 Version 2
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Category Breakdown of the American Recovery
Reinvestment Act of 2009787 billion total
Tax Relief - includes 15 B for
Infrastructure and Science, 61 B for Protecting
the Vulnerable, 25 B for Education and Training
and 22 B for Energy, so total funds are 126 B
for Infrastructure and Science, 142 B for
Protecting the Vulnerable, 78 B for Education
and Training, and 65 B for Energy.State and
Local Fiscal Relief - Prevents state and local
cuts to health and education programs and state
and local tax increases.
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Outline of Todays Discussion

• Funding Agency Plans for Stimulus Dollars
• National Institutes of Health- Updates
• Health Resources and Services Administration
• Discussion of Oversight
• General Guidance and Comments
• What Investigators Can Do Now to Prepare
• Answers to Questions from 2/27/09 Town Hall
  Meeting
• Other Agency Plans
• National Science Foundation
• Dept. of Energy- Office of Science
• NASA
• Miscellaneous agencies

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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH)39.9
billion total in FY 09
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• 10.4 billion (FY 08 29.6 billion). The final
  bill allocates 7.4 billion to be distributed
  proportionally among the NIHs institutes and
  centers (ICs) through the Office of the Director
  (OD) to fund intramural and extramural research.
  With NIH success rates running below 20 percent
  for grant competitions, the hope is for NIH to
  distribute these funds through regular, already
  scheduled grant review cycles without sacrificing
  quality. Another 800 million would remain in the
  Office of the Director, with priority given for
  2-year, short-term special research grants to be
  awarded competitively. NIH also receives 500
  million for intramural construction in the
  Buildings and Facilities account, and 1.0
  billion for competitively awarded extramural
  grants through a dormant National Center for
  Research Resources (NCRR) program that last
  received 30 million in FY 2005, exclusively for
  the repair and modernization of existing academic
  research facilities. Another 300 million for
  NCRR would provide competitive awards for
  instrumentation and other capital equipment for
  research. And the final stimulus bill also gives
  NIH 400 million to be transferred from the
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  for 'health care comparative effectiveness
  research.' The enormous stimulus appropriation
  would give NIH a total FY 2009 budget of 39.9
  billion, a total that could go even higher in
  final FY 2009 appropriations.

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Focus of NIH Scientific Activity

• Recently peer reviewed, highly meritorious R01s
  and similar mechanisms (R21) capable of making
  significant advances in 2 years (in reality less
  than 18 months)
• Funding of new R01s that have a reasonable
  expectation of making progress in 2 years
• Accelerate the tempo of ongoing science through
  targeted supplements to current grants to expand
  scope and/or infrastructure (e.g., equipment)
  that will be used in the 2 year availability of
  these funds
• Support of a reasonable number of awards to jump
  start the new NIH Challenge Grant program
• Funds not to be used to restore cuts in existing
  grants
• NIH will obligate all of the funds as soon as
  possible.
• All funds (with the exception of NCRR
  renovation/construction and Challenge Grants)
  must be spent by Sept. 30, 2010

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Focus of NIH Scientific Activity (cont)

• No set asides for SBIR and STTR awards in
  legislation
• Centers/Institutes individually could initiate
  programs in support of these funding mechanisms
• As of 3/12/09
• Programs still in continuing resolution with a
  March 20, 2009 deadline
• House and Senate at odds on length of continuing
  resolution
• Argument regarding whether the Small Business
  Administration should permit VC-backed businesses
  to be able to fully participate in the SBIR
  program
• NIH stating that there are not enough high
  quality SBIR proposals to fund with ARRA dollars
  before the expiration date so they are trying to
  exempt the SBIR/STTR programs from ARRA stimulus
  funding
• NIH states that it may use some ARRA monies for
  this program where appropriate and that small
  businesses can apply for Challenge Grants
• Undetermined whether K awards would be impacted
  in this legislation
• Discussion as to whether training grants would
  increase
• No Buy American clause in grants/equipment
  programs

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Detailed Breakdown of NIH Stimulus Dollars

• Grants
• Approximately 14,000 non funded R01 grants from
  FY08 and first cycle FY09 will be reviewed
  internally for programmatic alignment with
  institute/center initiatives, percentile scores
  and potential for funding for a 2 year period.
• NOTE KUMC has 548 grants not funded/pending at
  NIH during this time period
• Potential awardees then contacted to develop a 2
  year research plan and detailed budget (no
  modular budgets allowed)
• At end of 2 years additional funds would need to
  be requested through the normal peer review
  system
• R21s will be considered as a new request through
  RFAs
• Carryover and no cost extensions not allowed in
  this program
• Grant Supplements
• Use of current authorities in grants/contracts to
  supplement existing work (grant must have at
  least 1 year remaining on parent grant)
• Process could either be through administrative
  review or competition based on priority areas
  through RFAs
• Carryover and no cost extensions not allowed in
  this program

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Detailed Breakdown of NIH Stimulus Dollars

• Challenge Grants
• 100-200 million will be set aside for these
  new grants (these dollars will be from the 800
  million in the Office of the NIH Director and
  also from the centers/institutes)
• Response to center/institute-defined challenges
• Two year grant (500K/year total-direct and
  indirect)
• No cap on number of challenge grant proposals
• RFA (now issued)
• If a new investigator receives one of these
  grants they use up their new investigator chip
• Carryover and no cost extensions not allowed in
  this program
• No modular budgets allowed

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Detailed Breakdown of NIH Stimulus Dollars

• Challenge Grants (see previous slide)
• Other special projects
• Innovator Grants-no information available at this
  time

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Challenge Grants (Updated Information)

• RFA issued on March 4, 2009 (RFA-OD-09-003)
  (http//grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-
  OD-09-003.html)
• Title NIH Challenge Grants in Health and
  Science Research (RC1)
• Electronic submission only
• Dates
• Opening March 27
• Applications Due April 27
• Peer Review June/July
• Council August
• Earliest Anticipated Started Sept. 30
• Budget If the applicant is requesting two years
  of funding, the project period would continue
  through 9/29/2011.
• 12 page limit on Research Plan
• More than one PD/PI can be designated on
  application
• Applicants may submit more than one
  scientifically distinct application
• No resubmissions or renewals
• No required cost sharing
• Miscellaneous comments from an NIH program
  officer
• Challenge grants probably best suited to an
  established investigator with an active, basic
  science lab
• Reviewers will need to be convinved that a
  clinical trial can be realistically completed in
  the 2 year time frame
• Advantage of applying is that the PI gets a
  freebie review in a short time period and can
  resubmit as a new R01

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Detailed Breakdown of NIH Stimulus Dollars

• Dollars allocated to the NCRR in support of all
  NIH funded research institutions
• RFA (next slides)
• Support of repairs/renovation/new construction
• Ratio of dollars for each of these not yet
  determined
• Depending on type of project, support can be for
  2-5 years
• Shovel-ready projects likely to have an advantage
• No matching dollars required
• Buy American for such projects in effect
• Documentation of dollars spent, jobs
  created/maintained and progress to be
• subject to quarterly reporting (see OMB
  directives)

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NIH Stimulus Funds for Renovation, Repairs, New
Construction (Updated Information)
To renovate or repair core facilities, eligible
organizations should apply under RFA-RR-09-007.
Funds requested under RFA-RR-09-007 can range
from 1M to 10M.  Title Recovery Act Limited
Competition Core Facility Renovation, Repair,
and Improvement (G20) Request for Applications
(RFA) Number RFA-RR-09-007 Purpose. This FOA
issued by the NCRR, NIH, solicits applications
from institutions that propose to renovate,
repair, or improve core facilities.  The major
objective of this FOA is to upgrade core
facilities to support the conduct of PHS
supported biomedical and/or behavioral research. 
Support can be requested to alter and renovate
(AR) the core facility as well as to improve the
general equipment in the core facility or to
purchase general equipment for specialized groups
of researchers. Specialized equipment over
100,000 in cost cannot be requested as part of
this FOA.  In situations when similar core
facilities exist in different departments at an
institution, funding can be requested in support
of centralizing these core facilities. Key
Dates Release/Posted Date March 5, 2009Opening
Date August 17, 2009 (Earliest date an
application may be submitted to Grants.gov)
Application Due Date(s) September 17, 2009
Peer Review Date(s) February 2010 Council
Review Date(s) May 2010 Earliest Anticipated
Start Date(s) July 2010
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NIH Stimulus Funds for Renovation, Repairs, New
Construction (Updated Information)
To make major alterations and renovations to
existing buildings, add to existing buildings,
complete uninhabitable shell space in existing
buildings, or construct new facilities including
research and animal facilities, eligible
organizations should apply under RFA-RR-09-008. 
Funds requested under RFA-RR-09-008 can range
from 2M to 15M.     Title  Recovery Act
Limited Competition Extramural Research
Facilities Improvement Program (C06) Request for
Applications (RFA) Number RFA-RR-09-008 Purpose.
This FOA issued by the NCRR, NIH, solicits
applications from institutions that propose to
expand, remodel, renovate, or alter biomedical or
behavioral research facilities.  Major objective
is to facilitate and enhance the conduct of
PHS-supported biomedical and behavioral research
by supporting the costs of improving non-Federal
basic research, clinical research, and animal
facilities to meet the biomedical or behavioral
research, research training, or research support
needs of an institution.     Key
DatesRelease/Posted Date March 5, 2009Opening
Date April 6, 2009 Application Due Date(s) 
May 6, 2009 (projects between 2M and 5M) June
17, 2009 (projects between 10M and 15M), July
17, 2009 (projects between 5M and 10M) Peer
Review Date(s) June 2009 and October 2009 
Council Review Date(s) October 2009 and January
2010Earliest Anticipated Start Date(s) December
2009 and April 2010
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WEBINAR Date Monday, March 16, 2009Time
1030 AM - 1230 PM CSTLocation School of
Nursing B018

• Web Seminar regarding application process for
  RFA-RR-09-007 (Core facilities improvement
  projects) and
• RFA-RR-09-008 (Construction, renovation and
  repair improvement projects)
• Notice Number NOT-RR-09-009
• Issued byNational Center for Research Resources
  (NCRR, http//www.ncrr.nih.gov)The American
  Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA or
  Recovery Act), Pub. L. No. 111-5, appropriates
  1B for grants or contracts under section 481A of
  the Public Health Service Act to construct,
  repair or renovate existing non-Federal research
  facilities.  Two related FOAs for construction,
  renovations and repairs to extramural facilities
  have been released in response to the Recovery
  Act. The purpose of this notice is to inform
  the biomedical and behavioral research community
  that a Web Seminar will be conducted regarding
  the application process for RFA-RR-09-007 (Core
  facilities improvement projects) and
  RFA-RR-09-008 (Construction, renovation and
  repair improvement projects).  The Web Seminar
  specifics areThis Web Seminar will provide
  technical assistance in the preparation of
  construction and core facilities improvement
  applications.Date and Time 03/16/2009, 1130
  AM 130 PM (EST)URL https//webmeeting.nih.gov
  /g20c06rfas/Access Anyone who has the URL for
  the meeting can enter the roomTelephony
  Information Conference Number(s)
  1-800-256-1922 Participant Code 447142
• Inquiries
• Direct Inquiries to
• Willie D. McCullough, Ph.D. Division of Research
  Infrastructure National Center for Research
  Resources Democracy One, Room 940 6701
  Democracy Boulevard Bethesda, MD 20892-4874
  Telephone [phone] Fax (301)
  480-3770Email mccullow_at_mail.nih.gov 

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Detailed Breakdown of NIH Stimulus Dollars

• Allocated to National Center for Research
  Resources (NCRR) to support all NIH activities
• Large cost equipment purchases for shared
  purposes
• Response to RFA preferred
• Matching dollars likely not required-under legal
  review
• Buy American not in effect

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NIH Stimulus Funds for Instrumentation (Updated
Information)
NCRR intends to devote equipment funds provided
under the Recovery Act to the Shared Instrument
Grant Program and to the High End Instrument
Program.  These Recovery Act funds are in
addition to the expected 60M of program funding
for fiscal years 2009 and 2010. For shared
instruments in the range of 100,000 to 500,000,
eligible organizations should apply under
PAR-09-028 Title  Shared Instrumentation Grant
Program (S10) Program Announcement (PA) Number
PAR-09-028 Purpose. The NCRR Shared Instrument
Grant (SIG) program solicits applications from
groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase
or upgrade commercially available instruments
that cost at least 100,000.  The maximum award
is 500,000.  Types of instruments supported
include confocal and electron microscopes,
biomedical imagers, mass spectrometers, DNA
sequencers, biosensors, cell sorters, X-ray
diffraction systems, and NMR spectrometers among
others. Key Dates Release/Posted Date
November 14, 2008 Opening Date February 23,
2009 Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s) Not
Applicable Application Submission/ Receipt
Date(s) March 23, 2009 Peer Review Date(s)
June-July, October-November  Council Review
Date(s) October 2009, January 2010 Earliest
Anticipated Start Date(s) April 1, 2010
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NIH Stimulus Funds for Instrumentation (Updated
Information)
NCRR intends to devote equipment funds provided
under the Recovery Act to the Shared Instrument
Grant Program and to the High End Instrument
Program.  These Recovery Act funds are in
addition to the expected 60M of program funding
for fiscal years 2009 and 2010. For instruments
in the high end range of 600,000 to 8M,
eligible organizations should apply under
PAR-09-118.  Title Recovery Act Limited
Competition  High-End Instrumentation Grant
Program (S10) Program Announcement (PA) Number
PAR-09-118 Purpose. The NCRR High-End
Instrumentation Grant (HEI) program encourages
applications from groups of NIH-supported
investigators to purchase a single major item of
equipment to be used for biomedical research that
costs at least 600,000. The maximum award is
8,000,000. Additionally, it is expected that the
funds will be expended expeditiously, within
18-24 months from the date of award. Instruments
in this category include, but are not limited to,
structural and functional imaging systems,
macromolecular NMR spectrometers, high-resolution
mass spectrometers, cryoelectron microscopes and
supercomputers.  Key Dates Release/Posted
Date March 5, 2009Opening Date April 6, 2009
Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s) April 6,
2009Application Due Date(s) May 6, 2009 Peer
Review Date(s) June 2009 and October 2009
Council Review Date(s) October 2009 and January
2010 Earliest Anticipated Start Date(s)
December 2009 and April 2010
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Investigators Who Intend to Submit
Instrumentation Grants
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NIH Stimulus Funds for Instrumentation

• Shared Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
• Application Submission/ Receipt Date(s) March
  23, 2009
• Recovery Act Limited Competition  High-End
  Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
• Application Due Date(s) May 6, 2009
• Please submit your intentions to Paul Terranova
  or Greg Kopf ASAP
• If you are interested in participating as a user
  for some of the equipment requests being made
  (previous table) please contact the investigator
  who will be requesting the equipment

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Detailed Breakdown of NIH Stimulus Dollars

• Details not yet available
• Awaiting clarification of an Institute of
  Medicine Report report regarding focus areas
• Many types of funding mechanisms will be
  supported
• NIH scientific activity focus
• Recently peer reviewed, highly meritorious R01
  and similar applications deemed to making a
  significant advance in 2 years
• New applications
• Targeted supplements to current grants or
  expansion of grant scope
• Awards in area to jump start the Challenge Grants
  with respect to health and science

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Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA)

• Funds towards building / repairing health centers
  to improve access to
• health care services for the uninsured, isolated
  or medically vulnerable
• Purchase of equipment

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OMB Guidance on Economic Recovery Funds

• The Office of Management and Budget on February
  18 issued initial implementation guidance to the
  federal agencies on spending the economic
  recovery funds http//www.whitehouse.gov/omb/asse
  ts/memoranda_fy2009/m09-10.pdf
• NIH and NSF plans for use of funds will need to
  be reviewed and approved by OMB
• Unprecedented oversight when these funds are used
  
• (see page 14 of the OMB guidance document)

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OMB Guidance on Economic Recovery Funds (cont)

•   " As required by Section 1512 of the Recovery
  Act and this guidance, each recipient, as
  described above, is required to report the
  following information to the Federal agency
  providing the award 10 days after the end of each
  calendar quarter, starting on July 10th.
• These reports will include the following data
  elements, as prescribed by the Recovery Act
• The total amount of recovery funds received from
  that agency
• The amount of recovery funds received that were
  obligated and expended to projects
  oractivities.  This reporting will also included
  unobligated Allotment balances to
  facilitatereconciliations.
• A detailed list of all projects or activities for
  which recovery funds were obligated andexpended,
  including
• The name of the project or activity
• A description of the project or activity
• An evaluation of the completion status of the
  project or activity
• An estimate of the number of jobs created and the
  number of jobs retained by theproject or
  activity
• For infrastructure investments made by State and
  local governments, the purpose,total cost, and
  rationale of the agency for funding the
  infrastructure investment withfunds made
  available under this Act, and name of the person
  to contact at the agencyif there are concerns
  with the infrastructure investment.
• Detailed information on any subcontracts or
  subgrants awarded by the recipient to includethe
  data elements required to comply with the Federal
  Funding Accountability andTransparency Act of
  2006 (P.L. 109-282), allowing aggregate reporting
  on awards below25,000 or to individuals, as
  prescribed by the Director of OMB. 

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General Guidance and Comments

• Funds obligated until Sept. 30, 2010 and then
  will disappear
• Dollars not spent will be returned
• Dollars do not impact the future baseline budgets
• Do not make any assumptions about FY11 funding
• FY09 budget (continuing resolution) just passed
  by House- request of 30.3 B for NIH, an increase
  of 938M (3.2 increase)
• Very strong oversight-we need to meet all
  requirements and deadlines or we will be out of
  compliance with OMB, section 1512
• Emphasis on creating/retaining jobs and economic
  impact-need clear documentation
• No carryover or no cost extensions
• If you dont think you can put together a
  proposal in which you spend all of the dollars by
  Sept. 30, 2010, do not apply

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General Guidance and Comments (cont)

• NSF may only look at proposals in their portfolio
  after 10/1/2008
• NSF considering awards going out longer than 2
  years
• Recovery.gov will likely be the site for data
  recovery
• Anticipated awards would start in 30-90 days
• Anticipated Timelines
• March 3, 2009 Federal agencies to begin
  reporting use of funds
• May 3, 2009 Make performance plans publicly
  available Begin reporting on their allocations
  of entitlement programs
• May 15, 2009 Detailed agency financial reports
  to become available
• May 20, 2009 Begin reporting their competitive
  programs and contracts
• July 15, 2009 Recipient of federal funding to
  begin reporting their use of funds

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What Investigators Can Do Now

• Investigators should express gratitude to
  Congress and ensure the prudent use of these
  funds
• Contact your respective program officers for
  information and updates and maintain a dialog
• Scan recovery.gov for NIH RFAs (the RI will be
  scanning this and other sites on a daily basis)
• Scan NSF sites (nsf.gov policy_at_nsf.gov)
• If you had submitted a grant in 1-4Q08 and 1Q09
  and it received a score in the 25th percentile or
  less but is unlikely to be funded by criteria
  pre-Stimulus
• rework a viable research plan with milestones
  that will be completed by 9/30/10
• rework a detailed budget (no modular budgets
  allowed) to accommodate research plan
• heavy emphasis on creating / retaining jobs

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What Investigators Can Do Now (cont)

• Those investigators receiving lower scores should
  not consider themselves out of competition for
  this stimulus money and should plan accordingly
• Start planning for new R01 applications that have
  a reasonable expectation of making progress in
  the 2 year timeframe
• Think about whether your existing award could
  benefit from a targeted supplement (e.g., to
  expand current research award additional
  infrastructure support-equipment) and develop a
  plan
• When planning any grant give strong consideration
  to and document the jobs created/retained with
  these stimulus dollars
• Investigators considering applying for large
  equipment purchases (through the NCRR) should
  FIRST provide a description of the item, vendor,
  cost, and short rationale for application to
  either Greg Kopf or Paul Terranova before putting
  together a full application
• as an institution we will need to develop a
  strategic plan for these purchases to ensure that
  we submit a balanced portfolio of requests
  aligned with our mission

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QUESTIONS FROM 2/27/09 TOWN HALL

• Will non-resident individuals currently on visas
  be allowed on the grant application?
• Still checking
• Will grants that were scored but not funded be
  re-evaluated under the stimulus plan?
• Yes
• If a parent grant is supplemented with stimulus
  dollars, will the no-carry-over provision apply
  towards the entire grant or just towards the
  supplemental monies?
• This just applies to the supplemental funds
• For example, a graduate student who is hired as a
  research assistant, will this be considered as a
  new job created under the stimulus plan?
• No it will be considered a retained position
• What is the timeframe in which grants will be
  reviewed? Will applications submitted in the
  first cycle of FY 09 be considered?
• Variable depends on the RFA
• Challenge Grants 3 mos.
• Other types may take longer up to 5 mos.

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QUESTIONS FROM 2/27/09 TOWN HALL (cont)

• With an emphasis on job retention, how strong of
  an explanation will be required with respect to
  continuation of positions created under the
  stimulus plan after September 30, 2010?
• Still checking
• Will geographical region factor into how grant
  applications will be reviewed?
• Ask whether preference to IDEA stated
• Will new jobs (e.g., grant administrators) be
  created to provide oversight of the new stimulus
  plan?
• Still checking
• We are waiting to hear back from the OMB as to
  whether administrative costs can be put in the
  budget
• Will existing grant submissions for equipment for
  considered under the new stimulus plan?
• No, unless contacted by program officer to be
  eligible for the program funds

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Additional Slides
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF)

• 9 billion total in FY09

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• 2.0 billion would go to research grants
  distributed through NSFs regular peer review
  process, and this will largely be to award grant
  applications already peer-reviewed and deemed of
  high quality but that could not be due to lack of
  funds. The bill would also provide 300 million
  to the Major Research Instrumentation program of
  competitively awarded instrumentation grants for
  university researchers, and 200 million to
  restart the Academic Research Infrastructure
  program, for competitively awarded laboratory
  construction grants, primarily for universities.
  The 100 million education and human resources
  appropriation would provide 60 million to the
  Noyce Teacher Scholarship Pro, 25 million to the
  Math and Science Partnerships program, and 15
  million to a new Professional Masters Science
  Program authorized in the America COMPETES Act.
  Major Research Equipment and Facilities
  Construction spending of 400 million  would
  accelerate the construction of major research
  facilities with unique capabilities at the
  cutting edge of science.

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Detailed Breakdown of NSF Stimulus Dollars

• NSF already has 24,000 proposals in house
• 8,000 reviewed 3,000 fundable
• May only look at proposals submitted after
  10/1/08
• Funds will be used for new awards that otherwise
  might not be funded
• Funds will not be used to supplement existing
  awards-different from NIH
• Reporting requirements similar to NIH
• Looking at possibility of staggering the 2 year
  awards to go out past 2 years

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• There would be 1.6 billion (FY 08 4.0 billion)
  for a mix of extramural basic research, DOE
  laboratory research, facilities upgrades and
  construction, and advanced scientific computing.
  The stimulus appropriation combined with the
  regular appropriation could leave DOE OS with a
  FY 2009 budget of 6.0 billion or higher, well
  above the 5.3 billion authorized for FY 2009 in
  the America COMPETES Act of 2007 and thus on a
  track to double over a decade. In addition to the
  Science funding, the stimulus bill also provides
  400 million to start up the ARPA-E (Advanced
  Research Projects Agency - Energy), authorized in
  the America COMPETES Act of 2007 but never
  appropriated until now.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE)OFFICE OF SCIENCE6
billion total for FY 09
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• 1.0 billion in the final stimulus bill (FY 08
  17.2 billion). The bill provides 400 million
  for the Science portfolio of earth science,
  planetary science, heliophysics, and
  astrophysics, to accelerate the development and
  launch of key earth science climate research
  missions highlighted in a 2007 National Academies
  Decadal Study as being critical to future U.S.
  climate research and requiring extra funds to
  stay on track. There would also be 150 million
  in stimulus funding for aeronautics research, and
  funding (50 million) to reimburse NASA for
  construction and repair costs associated with
  2008 natural disasters. The final bill also
  contains 400 million in development funding to
  Constellation Systems to narrow the looming gap
  in U.S. human space flight capabilities between
  the 2010 retirement of the Space Shuttle and the
  2015 launch of its replacement.

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
(NASA) 18.2 billion total for FY 09
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Other Agencies Receiving Funding

• Other RD funding agencies receiving funding in
  the stimulus bills include the U.S. Department
  of Agricultures (USDA) Agricultural Research
  Service (ARS), 176 million for deferred
  maintenance work at USDA laboratories the
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  (NOAA) in Commerce, 830 million for (non-RD)
  habitat and fisheries restoration projects and
  (non-RD) acquisition and development of NOAA
  satellites and sensors, although some of these
  satellites will eventually be used for climate
  research and climate modeling the U.S.
  Geological Survey (USGS) in Interior, 140
  million for repair and restoration of science
  facilities and laboratory equipment for USGS
  nationwide network of federal laboratories the
  Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  (AHRQ), 1.1 billion in both the House and Senate
  for health care comparative effectiveness
  research divided between a 400 million transfer
  to NIH (already included in NIH totals above), a
  400 million transfer to the Office of the HHS
  Secretary, and 300 million for AHRQ.