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- $151.2 million for continuing geostationary and polar-orbiting weather
satellites development and acquisition; and $30.7 million to converge civilian
and military polar-orbiting satellites.
- $33.6 million to continue the President's commitment to restore the
wealth of America's fisheries, protect marine species faced with extinction,
and conserve habitat important to living marine resources through the implementation
of NOAA's management and research obligations under the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management Act, Endangered Species Act, Marine
Mammal Protection Act, and other authorities. Meeting these commitments
will require additional resources to manage effectively the Nation's billion
dollar commercial fisheries and the marine recreational fisheries enjoyed
by millions around the country. Funding is requested to restore and improve
the research and stock assessment programs that form the scientific basis
for this management, and for programs to identify and protect the habitat
upon which coastal and marine species depend. The request contains funding
to continue the restoration of West coast salmon stocks through multi-agency
recovery programs and coordination with private land owners. The request
continues funding for implementation of the International Dolphin Conservation
Act.
- $24.5 million to improve NOAA's coastal stewardship responsibilities
including the Clean Water Initiative with an increase of $16.8 million
to strengthen critical capabilities of NOAA's Coastal Zone Management Program
and Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program and address outbreaks of
harmful algal blooms (e.g., pfiesteria) and other symptoms of degraded
coastal ecosystems. The request also includes a $2.5 million increase for
NOAA contributions to the Administration's South Florida Interagency Ecosystem
Restoration Initiative including implementation of an integrated coastal
monitoring program. In other coastal efforts supporting the NDRI, an increase
of $3.0 million is requested for the Damage Assessment and Restoration
Program to fulfill NOAA's legislative mandates and public trustee responsibilities
for coastal and marine resources; a $1.4 million increase to support research
on hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico which threatens nationally important
fisheries; and $0.8 million to conduct a program to prevent and control
introductions of non-indigenous species into marine environments.
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