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IP: SENATE EARMARK SEEKS TO MOVE THE NORTH MAGNETIC POLE.
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 15:21:40 -0400
The FY 98 NSF budget request includes $25M for an incoherent scatter radar for studies of ionospheric plasmas. The plan was to locate the radar near the north magnetic pole in Resolute Bay, Canada. Canada? Senate Appropriations Committee chair Ted Stevens (R-AK) inserted an earmark in the appropriations report language directing NSF to move the location to Alaska --specifically, to the University of Alaska's auroral research facility, for which Stevens has already earmarked at least $115M from the DOD budget since 1990(WN 15 Nov 96). Moving the north magnetic pole may create an international incident, but opening up the NSF budget to earmarking is more troubling.
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