The US Geological Survey's $807 million budget request represents a 6 per cent increase over last year's appropriation, but funding is projected to decline slightly, to $796 million, by 2003. The 1999 increase includes money for clean water initiatives, species and habitat conservation studies, and $15 million for a multi-agency natural disaster information network.
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Disaster network boost in increase for USGS. Nature 391, 522 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/35218
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