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                                                             ISSN 1069-7799
                                  ALAWON
                      ALA Washington Office Newsline
                     An electronic publication of the
              American Library Association Washington Office

                            Volume 4, Number 16
                             February 28, 1995

   In this issue: (80 lines)
     FY1995 RESCISSIONS - ALAWON REPORT CORRECTED

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               FY1995 RESCISSIONS - ALAWON REPORT CORRECTED

Thanks to an alert ALAWON reader, we are running a correction on the FY95
rescission amounts proposed by House appropriations subcommittees.  We
erroneously indicated in ALAWON, #15 of February 24 that all but $5 million
each of current funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Humanities had been proposed to be cut. 
Actually, the subcommittee proposed a cut of $5 million each for NEA and
NEH.

In collecting information from several House subcommittees, reported in
varying formats, we erred as we quickly put it all together in one article. 
Prompt reporting increases the possibility of occasional error, but our
math is better than this error would indicate.  Our apologies to our
readers and to the Endowments.

A corrected table of proposed rescission appears below:

PROGRAM                             FY95 FUNDING       FY95 AMOUNT PROPOSED
                                    (in millions)         FOR DEFUNDING
                                                          (in millions)

LSCA II pub. lib. construction        $  17.8             $  15.3
LSCA VI lib. literacy program             8.0                 8.0
HEA II-B lib. ed. & training              4.9                 4.9
HEA II-B lib. research & demo.            6.5                 6.5
ESEA III educ. tech                      40.0                30.0
Star schools                             30.0                30.0
School facilities                       100.0               100.0
Inexp. book distrib. (RIF)               10.3                 5.3
Natl. Institute for Literacy              4.9                 4.9
Four other small literacy programs       41.1                41.1
Natl. Endowment for the Arts            167.7                 5.0*
Natl. Endowment for the Humanities      177.4                 5.0*
NTIA Info. Infrastructure Grants         64.0                30.0
Corp. for Public Broadcasting   ($285.6m - cut 15% in FY96, 30% in FY97)

* Corrections from previous table.

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