As Members of Congress with long-standing interest in the health and viability of our nation’s oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes, we are writing to request additional funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Fiscal Year 2009. We greatly appreciate the generous support provided to NOAA in the Subcommittee’s Fiscal Year 2008 spending bill, and would like to build on this effort to move the agency closer to the $4.5 billion funding level we recommended last year…

2008-03-13 House Oceans Caucus to House CJS re- FY09 NOAA Approps