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There are sometimes a few proposals which were not funded in their entirety, those few being scaled back from their original
level of requested funding (allowable under the program).
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For Recommendation #1,the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided funds to USGS for seismic monitoring. Approximately
$19 million of these funds have been used to undertake the modernization component of ANSS, replacing out-dated sensors still
in use by regional networks within ANSS. Funds from the multi-hazards demonstration project were used to support additional
ANSS stations in southern California and the Pacific Northwest. ANSS is now 25% complete. For Recommendation #3, USGS has
established a task in the Pacific Northwest directed toward improved understanding of episodic tremor and slip. USGS organized
and co-funded a second workshop building on one held in 2008 to explore this topic. The workshop brought together researchers
and emergency managers in March 2009 at the University of Washington. For Recommendation #4, the USGS has used funding increases
described in the above Comments section to support additional USGS-hired research scientists as well as to provide support
for external researchers.
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