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- Title
- U.S. Geological Survey Budget Justifications and Performance Information, Fiscal Year 2006.
- File
- PB2005107888.pdf
- Source
- January 2005, 757 p.
- Abstract
- Since March 3, 1879, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has provided the people and communities of the United States with the science information they need to make important individual and public decisions and to safeguard society. The USGS is the Earth and natural science research bureau for the Department of the Interior and the only integrated natural resources research bureau in the Federal Government. USGS research and data products support the Department's resource and land management needs, and also provide the water, biological, energy, and mineral resources information needed by other Federal, State, Tribal, and local government agencies to guide planning, management, and regulatory programs. Emergency response organizations, natural resource managers, land use planners, and other customers use this information to protect lives and property and to make informed decisions through the application of science. Natural resource and environmental managers apply USGS science research in answering public health questions and in promoting public prosperity for the future well being of our country. The USGS budget request for FY 2006 addresses the outcomes of the Department's Strategic Plan and ensures the implementation of the President's Management Agenda, as adapted by the Secretary of the Interior in her vision for Citizen-Centered Governance and organized around achieving conservation through consultation, cooperation, and communication. Major areas of emphasis for USGS science in FY 2006 include science for Interior land and resource management bureaus, expanded studies of water availability in areas where concerns about water supply are growing, adaptive management research and long-term resource monitoring in the Grand Canyon, deepwater fisheries research in the Great Lakes, research on invasive plants, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, a permanent solution for the Landsat revenue shortfall, enhancements to the Advanced National Seismic System to help reduce the physical losses and economic impacts of earthquakes and tsunamis, and a new Science Impact initiative to improve and expand the use of USGS science information to support decisionmaking by the Department, by other Federal, State, and local government organizations, and by the public. In the area of information technology, the budget includes additional resources for Disaster.gov and other E-Gov initiatives, as well as for certification and accreditation of information systems and support for the Interior Enterprise Information Network.
- Keywords
- Natural resources; Research programs; Environmental management; Federal budgets; Budgets; Performance; US Geological Survey (USGS)