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<br />001881 <br /> <br />SBSC must "cost share" a total of $600,000 to the overhead assessment out of USGS appropriated funds. <br /><The only source of funds the center has to pay such a large amount is the $1,000,000 in USGS funds that <br />pi rector Groat has provided to GCMRC in FY 04 and FY 05. Therefore, instead ofthere being $IM for <br />science from USGS, there is actually only $400,000 remaining at this point. In the next item you will see <br />that this number goes down even further before any science can be covered. <br /> <br />SBSC, in addition, must assess a cost center overhead charge of$190,000 against these USGS funds, thus <br />leaving only $210,000 for science support ofthe AMP. <br /> <br />These three assessments are examples of how the USGS overhead policy found itself somewhat at war <br />with the Director's attempt to add science dollars to the AMP program. <br /> <br />Between these three amounts ($630,000 AMP + $600;000 USGS arid $190,000 USGS), a total of <br />$1,420,000 is taken for overhead costs that would otherwise be available for science at the same funding <br />level under the 0% overhead scenario of earlier years. <br /> <br />SBSC does its best to mitigate these charges by using the assessment funds to pay costs that in earlier <br />years would have been direct charged to the AMP. fu this way, we can reduce the impact on GCMRC. In <br />FY 04 we contributed an estimated $680,000 from the SBSC burden account to GCMRC expenses, or in <br />other words, $50,000 more than USGS/Reston collected from the AMP assessment, and $250,000 more <br />than SBSC received from all of its assessment collections. However, SBSCcannot budget upfront for a <br />large portion ofthis center contribution to GCMRC (and the AMP) because we don't mow in advance <br />what our total assessment income wil1 be. In FY 04 we had a good year at SBSC and could be generous. <br />It might not always work out that way however, so presently the FY 05 and FY 06 budgets are very <br />}nservative in this regard, with somewhat less than $300,000 in SBSC burden dollars earmarked to <br />support GCMRC costs. . <br /> <br />Attachment No. 1 <br /> <br />Center Costs that USGS Requires be Paid by Overhead Account <br /> <br />Category <br />Office Manaaement;. <br />Cost Center Chief <br />Associate Cost Center Chief <br />Section Chief <br />Sub-Cost Center Chief <br />Field Office Chief <br />Other Supervisors . <br />Secretary <br />\ <br />JAdministration: . <br />Administrative Officer <br />AccountinQ Technicians <br /> <br />3 <br />