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Hello --

Here is an ALAWON Action Alert on SENATE AMENDMENT TO ADD FUNDS FOR TIIAP
GRANTS.
If you choose to contact your Senator, you may find the process faciliated
by use of
ACLU's "Contact Members of Congress" Web site which is available at
<http://www.aclu.org/action/concong.html> and includes e-mail and/or URL
addresses.

Thanks,

Katy Poole
Co-Chair, Public Policy Committee
________________________________________

>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 16:44:32 -0400
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>Subject: ALAWON v6, n58 - ACTION ALERT: SENATE TIIAP AMENDMENT
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>ALAWON                                        Volume 6, Number 58
>ISSN 1069-7799                                      July 22, 1997
>
>     American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
>
>In this issue: (74 lines)
>
>ACTION NEEDED ON SENATE AMENDMENT TO ADD FUNDS FOR TIIAP GRANTS
>_________________________________________________________________
>
>ACTION NEEDED ON SENATE AMENDMENT TO ADD FUNDS FOR TIIAP GRANTS
>
>Senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) will offer
>an amendment to restore $10 million in funding for the
>Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance
>Program.  This amendment could be taken up on the Senate floor as
>early as Wednesday, July 23; it is more likely to be taken up
>late in the week or early next week.
>
>The TIIAP program, administered by NTIA in the Commerce
>Department, provides matching funds to promote the widespread
>availability of advanced telecommunications technologies.  Many
>community networking projects, some involving libraries, have
>been funded through this small but effective program.
>
>The current funding for TIIAP is $21.5 million.  The
>Administration requested $36 million, but a House funding
>subcommittee approved level funding at $21.5 million.  However,
>the Senate Appropriations Committee approved only $11 million.
>The Dorgan-Snowe amendment, to be offered to S. 1022, the FY98
>Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary Appropriations Bill, would
>restore $10 million to the TIIAP program to bring the Senate
>level to $21.5 million.
>
>ALA is joining in a letter in support of the amendment from an
>informal coalition of constituencies interested in the TIIAP
>program.
>
>ACTION NEEDED: Contact your Senators (the U.S. Capitol
>Switchboard phone number is 202/224-3121) to urge support for the
>Dorgan-Snowe amendment to S. 1022 to restore $10 million to bring
>the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance
>Program to the FY97 level of $21.5 million.
>
>If your Senator's office is supportive of TIIAP, urge his or her
>staff to contact Jim Morhead, Senate Appropriations staff on this
>issue, at 202/224-0856 to urge that the amendment be included in
>a possible manager's amendment (the Appropriations committee's
>own amendment).  This would increase the likelihood of the TIIAP
>restoration of funds being included in the Senate-passed bill.
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Katherine Poole
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