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Ou ^t/1 < tX Ikzo 5£ c : cgE^ c= ; \ -iZOOc/iwuiu \ SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FISCAL YEAR 1989 ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ORGANIZATION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION INTRODUCTION 1 FY 1989 BUDGET FORMULATION 2 FY 1989 BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS 8 NONAPPROPRIATED SOURCES OF FUNDING 17 SALARIES AND EXPENSES Uncontrollable Increases 21 Research Office of the Assistant Secretary 31 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 34 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 44 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center 52 National Zoological Park 55 Smithsonian Institution Archives 64 Smithsonian Institution Libraries 67 Major Scientific Instrumentation 74 Museums Office of the Assistant Secretary 81 National Museum of Natural History/Museum of Man 85 National Air and Space Museum 97 National Museum of American History 109 National Museum of American Art 118 National Portrait Gallery 126 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 135 Center for Asian Art 139 Archives of American Art 147 Cooper-Hewitt Museum 151 National Museum of African Art 159 Anacostia Museum 167 Conservation Analytical Laboratory 173 Office of Exhibits Central 177 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service 179 . PAGE Public Service Office of the Assistant Secretary 183 Smithsonian Institution Press 188 Directorate of International Activities 191 Special Programs American Studies and Folklife Programs 195 International Environmental Science Program 200 Academic and Educational Programs 205 Museum Support Center 216 Administration 222 Facilities Services Office of Design and Construction 236 Office of Protection Services 238 Office of Plant Services 243 MUSEUM PROGRAMS AND RELATED RESEARCH (SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM) 249 FACILITIES PLANNING, RENOVATION, RESTORATION, AND CONSTRUCTION Construction --Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 251 - -General Post Office Building 252 --Construction Planning 254 Construction and Improvements, National Zoological Park 256 Restoration and Renovation of Buildings 258 - -Maj or Capital Renewal 260 - -Repairs , Restoration and Code Compliance 263 - -Alterations and Modifications 266 - -Administrative Costs 271 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FY 1989 BUDGET REQUEST ($000's) FY 1988 APPROPRIATION CONGRESSIONAL FY 1989 ACCOUNT REQUEST REQUEST Salaries and Expenses $ 204,862 $ 218,262 Instrumentation 1,405 Restoration and Renovation 14,254 40,000 Construction 4,470 7,200 Zoo Construction 5.150 5.600 TOTAL $ 228,736 $ 272,467 INTRODUCTION Centered on the Mall in Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution operates major facilities and activities throughout the country and overseas. It is one of the world's leading research centers and encompasses the world's largest museum complex, attracting millions of visitors annually to its museums, galleries and zoological park. Many others also view Smithsonian traveling exhibitions, which appear across the United States and abroad, and the annual Folklife Festival. As custodian of the National Collections, the Smithsonian possesses more than 100 million art objects, natural history specimens and artifacts. These collections are displayed for the enjoyment and education of visitors and are available for research by the staff of the Institution and by hundreds of visiting students, scientists and historians each year. Other significant study efforts draw their data and results directly from terrestrial, marine and astrophysical observations at various Smithsonian installations. The Smithsonian complex presently consists of 13 exhibition buildings on and near the Mall in Washington, D.C. and New York City in the fields of science, history, technology and art; a zoological park in Washington, D.C. and an animal conservation and research center near Front Royal, Virginia; the Anacostia Museum, which performs research and exhibit activities in a low income area of the city in cooperation with the community; a preservation, storage and air and spacecraft display facility at Suitland, Maryland; two natural preserves, in Panama and on the Chesapeake Bay; an oceanographic research facility at Link Port, Florida; astrophysical stations in Massachusetts and Arizona; and supporting administra- tive, laboratory and storage areas. FY 1989 BUDGET FORMULATION The Smithsonian Institution's FY 1989 budget request to the Office of Manage- ment and Budget were developed following new internal budget formulation pro- cedures. These new procedures were aimed at integrating and strengthening internal planning and budgeting processes and ultimately increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of management decisions. In large measure, the new processes are based upon a model followed by many public institutions of higher education, whose education, research and public service programs, governance and organization structure, and sources of funding are similar to those of the Smithsonian. The following paragraphs highlight the principal features of the process followed to set the Institution's FY 1989 planning and budget priorities. First, in an effort to establish long-term programmatic goals in advance of budget formulation, bureau and office directors were asked to assemble and submit to members of the Secretary's Management Committee their plans and priorities for the next five years. These plans were submitted in early February, and during February and March each Management Committee member held extensive discussions with each bureau and office director to explore fully the issues raised. Based upon these discussions, areas of common interest and opportunities for collaborative efforts among the bureaus were identified on a preliminary basis, along with the potential research and administrative support requirements to accompany those new or expanded programs under contemplation. The identification and examination of the pan- Institutional consequences of individual bureau plans early in the planning process later contributed to improved coordination among bureaus as more refined program and budget plans were developed. After all of these discussions were held, the plans and priorities originally submitted by the bureaus and offices were either endorsed in concept, or indications were given that modifications were in order. In a related and simultaneous effort, the Secretary and the Management Commit- tee endeavored to amplify the Institution's basic mandate "to increase and diffuse knowledge". The intent was to develop an up-to-date, more explicit statement of purpose for the Institution and a set of related long-term goals. Much effort was directed at accurately articulating the essence of the Institution, its management philosophy, its aspirations for program quality and its heightened awareness of the need to reach a wider audience in more resourceful and sensitive ways. An integral part of this effort was also directed at determining an appropriate set of program- matic "areas of emphasis" representing the Institution's most important oppor- tunities and requirements in the years ahead. The "Statement of Purpose" and related long-term goals for the Institution appear in Exhibit 1, and the Secretary's "Areas of Emphasis" appear in Exhibit 2. These documents were endorsed by the Board of Regents at its meeting in May of this year and distributed to the bureaus and offices as the Secretary's formal guidance for budget formulation and further planning for the next five years. Bureaus were instructed to prepare budget plans that were responsive to and consistent with this guidance. After the bureaus submitted their budget plans for the next five years, these documents subsequently guided the establishment of the budget priorities embodied in the Institution's FY 1989 federal budget request, in its FY 1988 and FY 1989 budgets for nonappropriated funds and in its Five-Year Prospectus . " EXHIBIT 1 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The Smithsonian Institution was created by Act of Congress in 1846 to carry out the terms of the will of James Smithson of England, who bequeathed his entire estate in 1826 to the United States of America "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and dif- fusion of knowledge among men." Joseph Henry, the first Secretary, in his efforts to give purpose and direction to activities of the fledgling Institution, commented on Smithson' s will in his annual report for 1864: "He evidently did not intend by these precise terms to found a library or a mere museum for the diffusion of popular information to a limited community, but a cosmopolitan establishment, to increase the sum of human knowledge and to diffuse this to every part of the civilized world. No other interpretation of the will is either in accordance with the terms employed or with the character and habits of the founder. The increase of human knowledge, by which we must understand additions to its sum, would be of little value without its diffusion, and to limit the latter to one city, or even to one country, would be an invidious restriction of the term men . Over the course of its one hundred and forty-one year history, and under the direction of succeeding Secretaries, the Institution has evolved into an eminent research center and the world's largest museum complex.