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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The
incoming chairs of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees announced
this past Monday that they plan to enact a continuing resolution (CR) for the
duration of FY07. The current CR runs through Feb. 15, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Only
two FY07 spending bills have been signed into law: Defense and Homeland
Security. The proposed extension of the current CR will fund programs at their
FY 2006 levels or the FY 2007 level proposed by the House or Senate, whichever
is lowest. Limited adjustments in the CR might be made to address important
policy priorities, but no priorities have been set as yet. Because of
strong bipartisan support, there is hope that the American Competitiveness
Initiative legislation, which included among other things significant increases
in funding for NSF and the Department of Energy Office of Science, might be one
of the "limited adjustments" that Congress would carve out of the CR.</span><br>
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In a related announcement today, the National Institutes of Health released a
Notice explaining that it is striving to minimize the potential damage that
could result from the combination of no budget increases in recent years,
operating under a CR for 2007, the commitments to existing investigators and
research projects, and the growing number of new grant applications. As
stated in the Notice, inflationary adjustments for existing non-competing
renewal awards will not be made in FY2007. Non-competing awards that were
expected to include an inflationary increase in FY 2007, including modular
grants will not receive any inflationary increase.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>For
more information regarding the proposed extension of the CR and the NIH fiscal
policy for FY 2007 awards, please see <a href="http://or.ucr.edu/">the News
section of the OR Website</a>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
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font-family:Arial'>Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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