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GAO-03-1070R 1 (2003-08-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaamgy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO Aco untability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 August 11, 2003 The Honorable John McCain Chairman The Honorable Ernest F Hollings Ranking Minority Member Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate Subject: Ocean and Coastal Activities: Information on Federal Funding The Oceans Act of 2000' established the Commission on Ocean Policy (Commission) to make recommendations for a coordinated and comprehensive national ocean policy. The Commission is required to prepare and submit to the Congress and the President a final report of its findings and recommendations, which is scheduled for September 2003. The Oceans Act also requires the President to biennially submit a report to the Congress listing all federal programs related to ocean and coastal activities, including, among other things, current and future funding levels for each program identified, which the Commission can use in its work. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) submitted the first report for the President, entitled Federal Ocean and Coastal Activities Report, to the Congress in March 2003. Because OMB's report only contained actual funding data for ocean and coastal activities for the period fiscal years 2000 through 2001, you asked us to obtain funding levels for these activities for fiscal years 2002, 2003, and projected for 2004. This letter documents the data provided to us by 14 federal agencies. We have provided a summary of total funding, by agency, for ocean and coastal activities, by fiscal year; following the summary are agency-by-agency schedules that show, by fiscal year, the activities funded and the related funding levels (see enclosure). The funding data for fiscal years 2000 through 2003 show that * total funding for ocean and coastal activities was about $34.2 billion; 1Pub. L. No. 106-256, 114 Stat. 644 (2000). GAO-03-1070R Federal Funding of Ocean and Coastal Activities Page 1

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