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National Weather Service: Events Surrounding Fiscal Year 1997 Budget

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 4, 1998
Report No. AIMD-98-69
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Summary:

This report reviews key events related to the fiscal year 1997 budget "shortfall" of the National Weather Service (NWS). Although NWS was able to operate within its appropriated level in fiscal year 1997, it had to operate with a smaller budget than in 1996 and absorb higher costs. NWS referred to this difference in available funds as a budget "shortfall." This report (1) describes the formulation and the execution of the NWS fiscal year 1997 budget and (2) identifies key events regarding NWS' fiscal year 1997 budget "shortfall" and efforts to address it. GAO summarized this report in testimony before Congress; see: National Weather Service: Budget Events and Continuing Risks of Systems Modernization, by Joel C. Willemssen, Director of Civil Agencies Information Systems Issues, before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, House Committee on Science. GAO/T-AIMD-98-97, Mar. 4 (seven pages).

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