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President Bush signed the FY 2008 omnibus package at the end of December 2007.  The package provides funding for 11 appropriations bills, and retains the provision that makes the NIH publish access policy mandatory.  Section 218 of the bill states, in part: ’The Director of the NIH shall require all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to NLM’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication, provided that the NIH sshall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law.’

Division F of the bill provides $3 million for funding for restoration of the EPA libraries recently closed or consolidated by the Administration and directs the Agency to submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations regarding actions it will take to restore publicly available libraries to provide environmental information and data to each EPA region within 90 days of enactment of this Act.

Division G of the bill: $29.23 billion for the NIH, and increase of $328.85 million over FY 2007 and $607.3 million more than requested by President Bush.

$329 million for the National Library of Medicine, a decrease of $608 thousand below FY 2007 and $8.4 million more than requested by President Bush.  $263.5 million for the Institute of Museum & Library Services, an increase of $16.3 million over FY 2007 and 7.75 million below the President’s request.