FY18 Omnibus Impact Summary on Stony Brook University

STUDENT FINANCIAL AID AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Boosts maximum Pell Grant award by $175, to $6,095 for the 2018-19 school year

Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG): $840 million ($107 million increase)

Federal Work Study: $1.13 billion ($140 million increase)

Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN): $23 million ($5 million decrease)

International Education and Foreign Language Studies: $72.16 million (FY2017 level)

Institute of Education Sciences (IES): $613 million ($8 million decrease)

Open Textbooks Pilot program - Provides $5 million for a competitive grant program to support projects at institutions of higher education to create new open textbooks or expand their use in order to achieve savings for students while maintaining or improving instruction and student learning outcomes.

Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights: $117 million ($8.5 million increase) - office plays a key role in holding colleges responsible for investigating and adjudicating sexual misconduct cases on campus, as well as gender-based discrimination more broadly

Includes about $350 million in funding to address eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, a top priority for Senator Elizabeth Warren throughout negotiations to fund the government through the rest of the 2018 fiscal year.

Cybersecurity Education: the bill includes $1 million for the Department of Education to establish a pilot grant program to support technological upgrades for community colleges for the purpose of supporting cybersecurity programs.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Department of Defense (DOD):

Science and Technology (6.1-6.2-6.3): $14.9 billion ($890 million increase)
6.1 basic research: $ 2.34 ($6 million increase)
6.2 applied research: $ 5.68 ($38 million increase)
6.3 advanced technology development: $6.84 billion ($40 million increase)
DoD Medical Research: $1.386 billion ($107 million increase)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): $3.071 billion ($182 million increase)

Department of Energy (DOE):

Office of Science: $6.26 billion ($87 million increase)

Advanced Scientific Computing Research: $810 million ($163 million increase)
Basic Energy Sciences: $2.09 billion ($219 million increase)
Biological and Environmental Research: $673 million ($31 million increase)
Fusion Energy Science: $532 million ($152 million increase)
High Energy Physics: $908 million ($83 million increase)
Nuclear Physics: $684 million ($62 million increase)

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE): $2.31 billion ($231 million increase)

Advanced Manufacturing: $153.3 million ($3 million increase), of which $70 million is for five Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation (CEMI) Institutes
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E): $353 million ($47 million increase)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Science and Technology: $706 million (FY2017 level)

Research: Air and energy: $91.9 million (FY2017 level)
Research: Chemical safety and sustainability: $126.9 million (FY2017 level)
Research: Safe and sustainable water: $106.2 million (FY2017 level)
Research: Sustainable and healthy communities: $134.2 million (FY2017 level)

National Science Foundation (NSF): $7.77 billion ($295 million increase)

Research and Related Activities: $6.33 billion ($97 million increase)
Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction: $182.8 million (FY2017 level)
Education and Human Resources Directorate: $902 ($142 million increase)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Hollings Manufacturing Extension Program: $140 million ($10 million increase)
National Network for Manufacturing Initiative (NNMI): $15 million ($10 million decrease)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Oceanic and Atmospheric Research: $507.5 million ($14 million decrease)
Sea Grant & Marine Aquaculture Program: $76.5 million ($4 million increase)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): $20.7 billion ($1.08 billion increase)

Science Mission Directorate: $6.22 billion ($46 million increase)
Aeronautics Research Directorate: $685 million ($25 million increase)
Space Technology: $760 million ($73 million increase)
Space Grant Program: $40 million (FY2017 level)

National Endowment for the Arts

$152.8 million ($3 million increase)

National Endowment for the Humanities

$152.8 ($3 million increase)

HEALTH

National Institute of Health (NIH): $37.084 billion ($3 billion increase)

The bill expects the 8.8 percent increase of funds over the fiscal year 2017 level to support an increase in the number of new and competing Research Project Grants. The agreement expects that NIH will continue its focus on emerging investigators and first-time renewals of these young investigators with actions to significantly reduce the average age of an NIH-supported new investigator.

“All of Us” Precision Medicine Initiative: $380 million ($60 million increase)
Alzheimer’s Disease Research: $1.82 billion ($414 million increase)
Brian Research and through Application of Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN) Initiative: $400 million ($140 million increase)
Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA): $542.12 million ($26 million increase)
Gabriella Miller Kids First Act: $12.60 million (FY2017 level)

Adds $4 billion for combating the opioid epidemic.

Clinical Trials Definition Delay: For FY2018, the bill directs NIH to delay enforcement of the new policy published in the Federal Register on September 21, 2017-including NIH' s more expansive interpretation of "interventions"-in relation to fundamental research projects involving humans. The new policy should go forward for research projects that would have been considered clinical trials under the prior policy. This delay is intended to provide NIH sufficient time to consult with the basic research community to determine the reporting standards best suited to this kind of research.

NIH Salary Cap: The cap remains unchanged at the Executive Level II of to $187,000.

Fetal Tissue Research: There is NO fetal tissue rider or accompanying report language that was included in both the House and Senate bill.

Note: The bill does not include provisions to fund the ACA Cost Sharing Reductions (CSRs) or stabilize the insurance markets.

OTHER PROVISIONS OF INTEREST

Dickey Amendment and Gun Violence Research: While appropriations language prohibits the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and other Health agencies from using appropriated funding to advocate or promote gun control, the omnibus clarifies that “the CDC has the authority to conduct research on the causes of gun violence.”

Internal Revenue Service (IRS): The omnibus would fund the IRS at a total of $11.43 billion (about $196 million more than the enacted level for FY 2017), with $320 million allocated specifically for implementing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Those funds would remain available to the IRS until September 30, 2019 but cannot be used until the head of the IRS provides a spending plan to the appropriations committees. The omnibus does not prevent the IRS from using funds to enforce the Johnson Amendment, the law that prohibits nonprofits with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from endorsing political candidates