Messrs. Colvin and Barnhart announced that Congress did not pass the CARA legislation in a form anything like the version that had been under discussion several months ago and that offered the promise of major revenues to the Department. They reported that limited funds might arrive through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, perhaps one-time funding of $2.4 million. The appropriations bill for the federal departments of commerce, State and Justice was not yet enacted, but the NMFS and NOAA language was such that New York’s marine fisheries programs could not expect much increase in support. While there had been two separate increases for NOAA, almost all went to NMFS cooperative enforcement, the Great Lakes Basin, and "pork barrel" projects in New Hampshire and the Great Lakes Basin. Everything else was expected to have level funding. The Atlantic Cooperative Coastal Statistics Program (ACCSP), the new coastwide fishery statistics program, did have its own budget line within NMFS and DEC is optimistic about this funding.