With fiscal year 2003 now underway and Congress still divided over how much budget money agencies such as OSHA and NIOSH will get, federal agencies are operating on a week-to-week basis with the same funding appropriated for 2002.
OSHA currently receives an appropriation of $443 million. President Bush and the House want to reduce that to $437 million in fiscal 2003. The Senate wants to pump the budget up to $469 million.