Overview of Stimulus Bill

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Overview of Stimulus Bill

• 787 B signed 2/17/09
• 310B in appropriations,
• 477B in tax cuts and entitlement spending
• 22.5 B in R D spending
• 18.0B to conduct R D,
• 3.5B for RD facilities and large research
  equipment
• 1.0B in science infrastructure

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Ten Federal Agencies Will Receive 22.5 B in
Research and Construction Funds from the Stimulus
Bill
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The 787 B Stimulus Bill Provides Considerable
Funding to the Federal Research Portfolio
(only 4 biggest agencies shown)
35
34
44
23

Science Research
OS ARPA-E
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If the UW-Madison Receives a Proportional
Increase (from what we got in FY08) from the
Stimulus Bill This Could Amount to as Much as
144 M in FY 2009-10 (only 4 biggest agencies
shown)
74.9 M
46.4 M
19.9 M
2.5 M

OS ARPA-E
Science Research
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Example of How NIH Will Spend 10.4 B

• 8.2 B for research-7.4 allocated across NIH
  Institutes, Centers, Divisions, and Common Fund.
  800 M remain at the Office of the Director.
• 1 B for extramural construction, repairs, and
  alterations through the National center for
  Research Resources.
• 300 M shared instrumentation.
• 500 M for construction improvements on the NIH
  campus.

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Example of How NSF Will Spend 3.0 B

• 2.0 B for research grants already through NSFs
  regular peer review process but not funded due a
  lack of funds
• 300 M for Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
  program competitively awarded to university
  researchers.
• 200 M to restart the Academic Research
  Infrastructure program for laboratory
  construction grants, primarily to Universities

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NIH Extramural Research Facilities Improvement
Program (C06)

• 2-15 M
• 3 per Institution
• 3 deadlines based on range
• Scope major alterations and renovations to
  existing facilities, additions, completion, new
  construction
• http//grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-R
  R-09-008.html

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NIH Core Facility Renovation, Repair and
Improvement (G20)

• 1-10 M
• 2 per Institution
• September 17
• Scope core facilities are defined as centralized
  shared resources that provide access to
  instruments, technologies or services.
• http//grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-R
  R-09-007.html

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APPLICATION TIME SCALE

• C06

• G20

• Due Dates May 6, June 17, July 17,
• Peer Review June 2009/Oct 2009
• Council Review Oct 2009/Jan 2010
• Start Date Dec 2009/Apr 2010

• Due Date September 17, 2009
• Peer Review February 10, 2010
• Council Review May 10, 2010
• Start Date July 10, 2010