<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">​​<i>For your information...</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Summary of reductions to the Earthquake Hazards Program excerpted from the President's proposed <a href="https://prd-wret.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/atoms/files/2018%20Summary%20of%20Program%20Changes.pdf" target="_blank">USGS FY 2018 Budge</a>t released on May 23, 2017. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">USGS (entire agency) <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​budget ​</div>comparison totals:</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">FY16 $1,062,000,000</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">FY17 $1,059,981,000</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">FY18 $922,168,000</font><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><b>USGS </b></font><b style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4">Earthquake Hazards Program     </font></b><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">                                                                   </span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">       (decrease $9,561,000 /-12 FTE)</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Eliminate Implementation of Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast </b></font><font face="georgia, serif"><b>(-$8,200,000):</b> This elimination would end USGS efforts to implement the ShakeAlert </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">earthquake early warning system, suspending internal efforts and eliminating external funding to </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">partners (California Institute of Technology, Central Washington University, University of </span><font face="georgia, serif">California at Berkeley, University of Nevada at Reno, University of Oregon, and the University of </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Washington).</span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Reduce Support for Regional Earthquake Monitoring, Assessments and Research (-$800,000):</b> </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">This reduces support for regional earthquake monitoring, hazard assessment, and research in areas </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">of moderate seismic risk<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​*​</div>, specifically<b><i> Alaska and the Central and Eastern United States</i></b>. This would </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">also reduce grants supporting targeted research by academic, State, and private sector partners, </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">which may slow the rate of updates to seismic provisions in building codes and provide less science </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">to support risk mitigation actions. <b><i>The USGS would also suspend its annual forecast of hazard </i></b></span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b><i>related to both natural and induced seismicity.</i></b></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Reduce Earthquake Hazards Operations (-$561,000):</b> This reduction would diminish the EHP’s </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">ability to execute its core activities including monitoring and reporting on earthquakes, assessing </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">earthquake hazards, as well as delivery of earthquake products to emergency responders, </span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">including equipment, services, and work with partners.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><a href="https://mitigation.eeri.org/files/fema-366b.pdf">​*FEMA 366</a> (</div><i>Estimated Annualized<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​ </div>Earthquake Losses for the<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​ </div>United States</i></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><i>FEMA 366 - April 2008</i>) is one of the documents used to judge "areas of moderate r</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​isk." </div></div></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-si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