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Executive Summary (cont.)
With its public and private partners, NOAA is a leader in climate diagnostic
research and forecasts, environmental monitoring and research, fisheries
management, and sustainable use of the coast. Most recently, NOAA demonstrated
its scientific preeminence by the successful advance forecast of the 1997/1998
El Niño and the provision of global climate change information to
policymakers at the U.N. climate conference in Kyoto, Japan.
In fulfilling NOAA's key trustee responsibilities for marine resources,
NOAA has taken a number of important steps to ensure the recovery of depleted
fisheries, such as New England groundfish. NOAA is also pioneering innovative
federal-state partnerships through the Endangered Species Act to recover
marine species at risk. NOAA has played a key role in Federal efforts to
assist the states and coastal communities in assessing, monitoring and responding
to harmful algal bloom outbreaks such as pfiesteria and red and brown tides.
In a period of strongly competing government priorities, the President's
FY 1999 Budget Request for the Department of Commerce includes strong support
for NOAA, which demonstrates the Agency's important contribution by providing
the resources to maintain essential services, ensure continuing progress
in critical investment areas, and address statutory obligations. This proposed
budget represents an appropriate balance among the environmental assessment
and prediction and environmental stewardship needs of the Nation.
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