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Executive Summary (cont.)
It also allows NOAA to perform an essential role in a number of Departmental,
interagency and Presidential initiatives, including the Clean Water Initiative,
the Natural Disaster Reduction Initiative, the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration
Initiative, and the National Oceanographic Partnership Program. Compared
with the FY 1999 base, significant changes in the FY 1999 budget include:
- $28.3 million to maintain the National Weather
Service operational infrastructure and ensure the provision of weather
warnings and forecasts to the public, consistent with the recommendations
contained in a study conducted by John F. Kelly, BGD/Gen (Ret), An Assessment
of the Fiscal Requirements to Operate the Modernized National Weather Service
during Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999; and contribute to the National
Disaster Reduction Initiative (NDRI).
- $19.9 million to build on the modernized weather service infrastructure
(described above) and to provide for NOAA's critical contributions to the
interagency and DOC-wide President's Natural Disaster Reduction Initiative
(NDRI), including $4.2 million for the Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System
(AHPS) to initiate national implementation of AHPS, a real-time modeling
and data analysis system which will significantly improve flood forecasting
and water management in the U.S.; $3.4 million to continue the replacement
of the currently obsolete radiosonde upper air network; $5.0 million to
lease or purchase a massively parallel processing computer for NOAA's Forecast
System Laboratory to improve national and regional-scale weather prediction
models; $1.1 million to ensure the continued provision of environmental
data and information products, services and assessments to industry, agriculture,
government and other sectors; and $1.4 million to expand work with coastal
states in developing risk atlases. Additional NDRI efforts designed to
mitigate the impacts of coastal hazards to our communities and natural
resources are described below.
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