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handle is hein.crs/goveifv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional Research Service ~Informing the legislative debate since 1914 Updated June 17, 2022 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) FY2022 Budget Request and Appropriations The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) mission is to understand and predict changes in weather, climate, oceans, and coasts; to share that information with others; and to conserve and manage coastal and marine ecosystems and resources. NOAA's work is divided among six line offices: National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Weather Service (NWS), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), and Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO). NOAA also has an overall Mission Support (MS) office, which provides planning, administrative, financial, information technology, and other services to the line offices. Congress provides NOAA, an agency of the Department of Commerce (DOC), with annual mandatory and discretionary appropriations. Mandatory appropriations generally form a small percentage of total NOAA funding and are disbursed to a variety of funds that support programs in NOS, NMFS, and OMAO. Discretionary appropriations typically are included in the annual Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS), and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. Discretionary appropriations support two broad accounts-operations, research, and facilities (ORF) and procurement, acquisition, and construction (PAC)-and a few smaller accounts. This CRS product focuses on NOAA's FY2022 discretionary funding for ORF and PAC, and briefly describes supplemental appropriations. The product also notes potential issues for Congress, including NOAA's climate-related activities, marine and aviation fleet support, and satellite operations. Agency Funding NOAA requested a total of $7.19 billion in discretionary direct obligations for ORF and PAC for FY2022, including $6.92 billion in appropriations (Table 1). Direct obligations include annual appropriations, transfers, and recoveries from prior year obligations. In Division B of P.L. 117-103, Congress provided $6.11 billion for ORF and PAC in FY2022, including $5.83 billion in appropriations. The enacted amounts include $84.35 million for community project funding/congressionally directed spending (the first time Congress has included such Member requested funding since FY2012). The NOAA FY2022 enacted amount is $460 million above the FY2021 enacted level, $333 million over the FY2022 base level (the FY2021 enacted amount plus certain adjustments, such as inflation), and $1.08 billion below the FY2022 request. Over the past 10 years, enacted annual NOAA ORF and PAC direct obligation amounts peaked in FY2016 in adjusted dollars and in FY2022 in nominal dollars (Figure 1). Congress also provided NOAA supplementary appropriations for ORF and PAC for use in FY2022 and beyond for expenses related to hurricanes and wildfires in 2020 and 2021 (P.L. 117-43) and restoration, observation, modeling, and forecasting activities, among others (under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; P.L. 117-58). Figure I. Annual NOAA Direct Obligations for ORF and PAC Accounts, FY20 13-FY2022 ($ in billions) $T , ENOA fleuestd WCongress Enaced Sources: CRS, from NOAA budget justifications, congressional explanatory statements, and OMB, Historical Tables, Table 10.1 Notes: ORF = operations, research, and facilities; PAC = procurement, acquisition, and construction. Graph whiskers denote amounts adjusted for inflation. Direct obligations include annual appropriations, transfers, and recoveries from prior year obligations. Issues for Congress According to NOAA's FY2022 budget summary, the requested budget would have expanded investments in climate-related activities (research, observations, and forecasting; restoration and resilience; offshore wind; and equity), marine and aviation fleet support, and satellite operations (including observational satellites and space weather activities). Climate-Related Activities NOAA requested increases in FY2022 to existing activities and proposed new activities to implement Executive Order 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. According to the agency, the requested climate-related increases and new expenditures totaled $855.1 million over the FY2022 base level. For example, two of NOAA's largest funding increase requests included $40 million to develop a competitive process in NMFS to support large- scale nonfederal habitat restoration projects and $35 million to support additional coastal resilience activities in OAR. In the explanatory statement for P.L. 117-103, Congress did not provide the requested funds for the proposed NMFS and OAR activities but provided FY2021 enacted levels for certain activities and increased funding for other activities across the agency. S

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