date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:25:43 -0500 from: "Bamzai, Anjuli" subject: RE: Your renewal proposal to: "Phil Jones" Phil, Things are moving, but slowly. The house approved an omnibus appropriation, still awaiting the Senate approval. House mark for DOE is couple hundred million less than the President's budget. Don't know final numbers yet. The current CR ends Feb 15. If we have an appropriations by then, we will have a DOE FY 07 budget, however it will take time before it trickles down to program budgets. Regarding the status of your proposal, it now lies in Chicago Operations. They have the final expending authority. All we program managers do is recommend an award be made. Right now Chicago is waiting for the CR to be lifted. My recommendation lies in the queue there. It may take a while for things to straighten, even after the CR is lifted. There is a 90-day pre-award spending that Univ of East Anglia might grant you at their discretion, but given the uncertainty in start date, not sure they will be inclined to do so since it's not clear action on this will be completed within the next 90 days. I wish I could be more helpful. Feb 15 we will know if the CR is continued (further delay at Chicago) or we have appropriations (translating to program budgets and Chicago acting on pending action items). It'll be nice to get first-hand impression of the Paris meeting from you, perhaps at the IDAG next month. I watched on C-SPAN and recognized faces. Anjuli -----Original Message----- From: Phil Jones [mailto:p.jones@uea.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:16 AM To: Bamzai, Anjuli Subject: Re: Your renewal proposal Anjuli, I heard whilst in Paris last week, that some parts of the US Depts will soon be off continuing resolution including DoE. Is this correct? If so when do you reckon you might be able to issue a new contract? I hope you are all pleased with the IPCC outcome. Those of us there were very happy, even if completely exhausted at the end of the week. The US wasn't the problem - concerns mainly came from China. Best Regards Phil At 00:55 16/12/2006, you wrote: >Phil, > >Thanks to your email response to the reviewer concerns. I believe you >have given careful consideration to the issues raised by them. I'm >recommending an award at the requested level. I look forward to >continued contributions to CCPP from your team. > >There is further processing and approvals that need to take place. I'm >going to be on annual leave Dec 18-Jan 12, so I'm requesting Wanda to >keep the paperwork moving.(Thanks Wanda, file is in Karen's inbox). > >We are still on Continuing Resolution and don't have FY 07 program >budgets yet. We don't expect to receive these in the near future. I >hope this will not affect renewals. I'm not sure what an extended CR >implies. > >Happy holiday season and best wishes for the new year. > >Anjuli Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----