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Table 360. Federal on-budget funds for education andrelated programs, in current dollars, by agency: Fiscal years 1965 to 1999
[In thousands of current dollars]

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                     Agency                      |    1965    |    1970    |    1975    |    1980    |    1985    |    1990    |    1995    |    1998    |    1999    |    2000
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                        1                        |     2      |     3      |     4      |     5      |     6      |     7      |     8      |     9      |     10     |     11
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  Total .........................................| $5,331,016 |$12,526,499 |$23,288,120 |$34,493,502 |$39,027,876 |$51,624,342 |$71,639,520 |$76,909,232 |$83,137,897 |$90,658,851
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Department of Education .........................|  1,000,567 |  4,625,224 |  7,350,355 | 13,137,785 | 16,701,065 | 23,198,575 | 31,403,000 | 31,558,971 | 34,344,076 | 40,702,440
Department of Agriculture .......................|    768,927 |    960,910 |  2,219,352 |  4,562,467 |  4,782,274 |  6,260,843 |  9,092,089 |  9,952,711 | 10,362,210 | 10,774,202
Department of Commerce ..........................|      9,347 |     13,990 |     38,967 |    135,561 |     55,114 |     53,835 |     88,929 |    110,247 |    104,904 |     91,757
Department of Defense ...........................|    587,412 |    821,388 |  1,009,229 |  1,560,301 |  3,119,213 |  3,605,509 |  3,879,002 |  4,016,189 |  4,149,760 |  3,985,889
Department of Energy ............................|    442,434 |    551,527 |    764,676 |  1,605,558 |  2,247,822 |  2,561,950 |  2,692,314 |  3,499,632 |  3,713,824 |  3,945,114
Department of Health and Human Services .........|  1,027,537 |  1,796,854 |  3,675,225 |  5,613,930 |  5,322,356 |  7,956,011 | 12,469,563 | 13,862,876 | 15,513,397 | 16,463,370
Department of Housing and Urban Development .....|    221,256 |    114,709 |    (52,768)|      5,314 |        438 |        118 |      1,613 |        658 |      2,068 |      1,324
Department of the Interior ......................|    170,088 |    190,975 |    300,191 |    440,547 |    549,479 |    630,537 |    702,796 |    780,356 |    774,584 |    868,994
Department of Justice ...........................|     10,252 |     15,728 |     61,542 |     60,721 |     66,802 |     99,775 |    172,350 |    249,027 |    259,019 |    272,142
Department of Labor .............................|    230,041 |    424,494 |  1,103,935 |  1,862,738 |  1,948,685 |  2,511,380 |  3,967,914 |  4,650,283 |  5,404,040 |  4,525,340
Department of State .............................|     64,200 |     59,742 |     89,433 |     25,188 |     23,820 |     51,225 |     54,671 |    332,238 |    346,936 |    323,364
Department of Transportation ....................|        --- |     27,534 |     52,290 |     54,712 |     82,035 |     76,186 |    135,816 |    102,263 |    108,171 |    110,154
Department of the Treasury ......................|      8,240 |         18 |  1,118,840 |  1,247,463 |    290,276 |     41,715 |     49,496 |     96,000 |     65,000 |     81,000
Department of Veterans Affairs ..................|     97,237 |  1,032,918 |  4,402,212 |  2,351,233 |  1,289,849 |    757,476 |  1,324,382 |  1,417,022 |  1,541,113 |  1,566,199
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           Other agencies and programs           |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |
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ACTION ..........................................|        --- |        --- |      7,081 |      2,833 |      1,761 |      8,472 |        --- |        --- |        --- |        ---
Agency for International Development ............|     63,329 |     88,034 |     78,896 |    176,770 |    198,807 |    249,786 |    290,580 |    353,810 |    326,310 |    351,970
Appalachian Regional Commission .................|        --- |     37,838 |     45,786 |     19,032 |      4,745 |         93 |     10,623 |     10,624 |     10,031 |      9,800
Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence       |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |
  in Education Foundation .......................|        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |      1,033 |      3,000 |      3,000 |      3,000 |      3,000
Corporation for National and Community Service ..|        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |    214,600 |    444,000 |    372,000 |    419,000
Environmental Protection Agency .................|        --- |     19,446 |     33,875 |     41,083 |     60,521 |     87,481 |    125,721 |    145,697 |    144,388 |    139,314
Estimated education share of federal aid to      |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |
  the District of Columbia ......................|     11,350 |     33,019 |     55,487 |     81,847 |    107,340 |    104,940 |     78,796 |    117,259 |    117,710 |    120,703
Federal Emergency Management Agency .............|        --- |        290 |        290 |      1,946 |      1,828 |        215 |    170,400 |     44,192 |     14,356 |     20,000
General Services Administration .................|      4,013 |     14,775 |     22,532 |     34,800 |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        ---
Harry S Truman Scholarship fund .................|        --- |        --- |        --- |     (1,895)|      1,332 |      2,883 |      3,000 |      3,000 |      3,000 |      3,000
Institute of American Indian and Alaskan         |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |
  Native Culture and Arts Development ...........|        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |      4,305 |     13,000 |      4,000 |      4,000 |      2,000
Institute of Museum and Library Services ........|        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |    133,000 |    142,000 |    173,000
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation ....|        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        191 |      2,000 |      1,000 |      2,000 |      2,000
Japanese-United States Friendship Commission ....|        --- |        --- |        --- |      2,294 |      2,236 |      2,299 |      2,000 |      1,000 |      2,000 |      4,000
Library of Congress .............................|     15,111 |     29,478 |     63,766 |    151,871 |    169,310 |    189,827 |    241,000 |    331,000 |    350,000 |    365,000
National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...|    208,788 |    258,366 |    197,901 |    255,511 |    487,624 |  1,093,303 |  1,757,900 |  1,928,702 |  1,950,726 |  2,169,848
National Archives and Records Administration ....|        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |     52,118 |     77,397 |    105,172 |    115,072 |    131,707 |    122,528
National Commission on Libraries and             |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |            |
  Information Science ...........................|        --- |        --- |        449 |      2,090 |        723 |      3,281 |      1,000 |      1,000 |      1,000 |      1,000
National Endowment for the Arts .................|        --- |        340 |      4,754 |      5,220 |      5,536 |      5,577 |      9,421 |      4,778 |     11,136 |      9,293
National Endowment for the Humanities ...........|        --- |      8,459 |     63,955 |    142,586 |    125,671 |    141,048 |    151,727 |     92,655 |     92,100 |     93,580
National Science Foundation .....................|    181,216 |    295,628 |    535,294 |    808,392 |  1,147,115 |  1,588,891 |  2,086,195 |  2,506,864 |  2,728,003 |  2,896,021
Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...................|        --- |        --- |      7,093 |     32,590 |     30,261 |     42,328 |     22,188 |            |            |
Office of Economic Opportunity ..................|    189,871 |  1,092,410 |     16,619 |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |     15,684 |     12,016 |     11,786
Smithsonian Institution .........................|      2,233 |      2,461 |      5,509 |      5,153 |      7,886 |      5,779 |      9,961 |        --- |        --- |        ---
United States Arms Control Agency ...............|        --- |        100 |        --- |        661 |        395 |         25 |        --- |      7,681 |     10,135 |     11,171
United States Information Agency ................|      7,512 |      8,423 |      9,405 |     66,210 |    143,007 |    201,547 |    294,800 |        --- |        --- |        ---
United States Institute of Peace ................|        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |        --- |      7,621 |     12,000 |     11,000 |     12,000 |     13,000
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Other agencies ..................................|     10,055 |      1,421 |      5,949 |        990 |        432 |        885 |        500 |      5,742 |      9,178 |      6,547
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NOTE: Data for fiscal year 2000 are estimated. To the extent possible, amounts reported represent outlays, rather than obligations. Some data have been revised from previously published data. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, compiled from data appearing in U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the U.S. Government, Appendix, fiscal years 1982 to 2001; National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research and Development, fiscal years 1965 to 2000; and unpublished data obtained from various federal agencies. (This table was prepared March 2000.)


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