Under the agreement, the balance of the U.S. Office of Fusion Energy Sciences effort will remain constant at about $278 million, the same amount provided in FY 2008.

The following language accompanies the House version of the FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.

Fusion Energy Sciences (Office of Science)

"The bill provides $402,550,000 for this program. Within this amount, $208,690,000 is provided for Facility Operations with $36,361,000 for DIII-D, $15,977,000 for Alcator C-Mod, $29,774,000 for NSTX, no funds for NCSX, and $124,000,000 for ITER, and $64,404,000 is provided for Alternative Concepts Experimental Research with $16,690,000 for Experimental Plasma Research and no funds for NCSX. The control level is at the Fusion Energy Science level."

Inertial Confinement Fusion Ignition and High Yield (NNSA)

"The bill provides $436,915,000 for the Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Yield Campaign, including $203,282.000 for Facility Operations and Target Production of which $13,310,000 above the request is for National Ignition Facility operations and target production, and $15,000,000 above the request is to support single shift operations on the Z machine and to explore advanced concepts including $2,000,000 for linear transformer driver concepts."

The complete bill and report language is posted at:

http://appropriations.house.gov/FY2009_consolidated.shtml