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Fleet Maintenance and Planning
Total Request: $9,600,000
[$9,600,000 - Operations, Research & Facilities]
[$0 - Procurement, Acquistion & Construction]
Goal-Based Table
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Table
The following narrative describes the total NOAA program activities
relating to the repair, maintenance and replacement of the NOAA
fleet of vessels. It has been divided to show the Operations,
Research and Facilities (ORF) and Procurement, Acquisition, and
Construction (PAC) accounts.
Fleet Maintenance and Planning (ORF)
Total Request: $9,600,000
Within ORF, funding is requested for the repair and maintenance
of vessels, including related equipment to maintain the existing
fleet and for planning of future modernization.
NOAA requests $9.6 million for Fleet maintenance and planning
in FY 1999. This is a decrease of $3.9 million from the FY 1998
Appropriation. The $9.6 million will provide for the maintenance
of existing ships and repairs to the fisheries research ships
Miller Freeman and David Starr Jordan. The $3.9
million decrease reflects the one-time costs associated with
refurbishing the Relentless in FY 1998.
Fleet Replacement (PAC)
Total Request: $0
Any funds for new construction, conversion, or repair to extend
the life of the vessel will be requested in this section of the
PAC account. In FY 1999, NOAA requests no funding for this activity.
Funds to acquire replacement new fisheries research vessels (FRV)
are planned for future budget requests to replace existing obsolete
and deteriorating research vessels with the first ship identified
for FY 2000. NOAA will request funding for one ship in FY 2000,
FY 2001, FY 2002, and FY 2003, and is currently studying fisheries
needs to identify the most cost effective procurement option. |