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New NOAA, Census funding proposed, but EDA funding to be cut 53%

The overall budget for the Department of Commerce would increase more than 18% under the outlines of the budget proposal. The majority of that increase is due to necessary preparations for the 2010 census. The proposal calls for a modest increase at NOAA which will, in part, fund additional climate monitoring and climate adaptation work. The NOAA budget provides $981 million for weather and climate monitoring.

Other Commerce programs do not fare as well in the budget. In particular, the Economic Development Administration would be cut by more than half with most of the reduction occurring in public works funding. If approved, EDA funding would have been cut nearly 70% since FY 2001.

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