FY 1995 Recision Package Unveiled

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Summary

The House Committee on Appropriations approves a recision package to offset FY 1995 supplemental disaster relief aid through cuts in FY 1995 unobligated funding. Although the President's recision package set the celing at $2.2 billion, the House Appropriations package targets $17.2 billion in cuts, including $50 million from Federal cultural agencies. Reductions earmarked totalling $31,012,000 for the Smithsonian are in selected planning, R&R, and construction accounts" including $21.9 million, NMAI Cultural Resource Center construction; $3.9 million, NASM extension master planning; $1.7 million, Old General Post Office Building planning and design; $2.15 million, "alterations and modifications that will delay 10 projects; $987,000, NMAI Mall museum planning and design; $500,000; NZP CRC road improvements; also $2.3 million, WWICS.

Subject

  • Conservation Biology Institute (National Zoological Park)
  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) George Gustav Heye Center
  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
  • National Zoological Park (U.S.)
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  • United States Congress House

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Congressional Record, February 1995.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

February, 1995

Topic

  • Architecture
  • Expenditures, Public
  • Buildings
  • Building

Place

Front Royal (Va.)

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