FDA appropriations
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
In a May 26 budget markup, House Appropriations/Agriculture Subcommittee more than doubles FDA's budget for buildings and facilities to just over $18 mil. in FY 1995 from $8.4 mil. in FY 1994. The increase is intended to cover the cost of replacing the agency's Los Angeles laboratory, which Chairman Richard Durbin (D- IL) called a "disaster" and a "dangerous place to work." The committee also provided FDA with $79 mil. in Rx user fees, consistent with funding levels authorized by the 1992 Prescription Drug User Fee Act, but denied the $228 mil. in unauthorized user fees requested by the Administration ("The Rose Sheet" Feb. 14, p. 7). Excluding the user fee revenues, the subcommittee set total FDA funding at $914 mil. In 1994, FDA was appropriated $873 mil., plus $61 mil. in user fees