Table 4. Federal Research and Development Subsidies for 
Energy End Use, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1999

(Million 1999 Dollars)

Category Fiscal Year 1992 Fiscal Year 1999 Estimated
Appropriationsa Expendituresb

Building Technology, State and Community Programs

54.1 51.4c 81.0c

Industrial Sector

111.2 110.3 165.9

(Minus Advanced Turbine Systems)d

(e) (e) -33.0

Industrial Sector, Net

111.2 110.3 132.9

Transportation Sector

125.7 124.7 202.1

Unallocated

3.1 3.1 37.7

Federal Energy Management Program Adjustmentf

NA -4.6 NA

Total

294.1 284.9 453.6
aAppropriations taken from the 1992 EIA report (see sources below), adjusted for inflation (14 percent).
bExpenditures taken from the 1992 report, adjusted to reflect the revised definition of subsidy used in this report, revisions in appropriations after the 1992 EIA report was published, and changes in the definitions of end-use categories based on a reassessment of where programs should be assigned.
cAdjustments were made to exclude expenditures for regulatory programs (codes and standards).
dIncluded in EIA's September 1999 subsidy report.
eIncluded in "Natural Gas R&D" in the fiscal year 1992 budget.
fFEMP was included in the 1992 expenditures but is removed here because it is not considered a subsidy.
NA = not applicable.
Note: Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent rounding.
Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Request, DOE/CR-0059 (Washington, DC, May 21, 1999); Energy Information Administration, Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy Markets 1999: Primary Energy, SR/OIAF/99-03 (Washington, DC, September 1999); and Energy Information Administration, Federal Energy Subsidies: Direct and Indirect Interventions in Energy Markets, SR/EMEU/92-02 (Washington, DC, November 1992). U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Building Technologies and State and Community Programs, e-mail from Gale Kabat (February 28, 2000).

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