Sec. 1. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.

MAINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

FOUNDATION

Maine Science and Technology

Foundation

Initiative: Provides funds to match the Maine EPSCoR Capacity Fund to match the final year's match requirement for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's EPSCoR award to the Maine Space Grant Consortium.

The Maine EPSCoR Capacity Fund is established within the Maine Science and Technology Foundation pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 13124-D.

General Fund 2003-04

All Other $307,653

SUMMARY

This bill appropriates $307,653 for fiscal year 2003-04 to match federal and institutional match requirements for the 3rd and final year of a successful award to the Maine Space Grant Consortium under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, a federal and state partnership to build research capacity in 21 states and Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands that have traditionally received a lower proportion of federal research funding.