EM FY16 Budget to Reach $5.82B, Boost ORP and SRS

The Department of Energy’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget request set for release later today is expected to come in at $5.82 billion for the Office of Environmental Management, with significant budget boosts for the Office of River Protection and Savannah River Site and most other sites seeing cuts, WC Monitor has learned. The FY16 request for ORP will be about $200 million more than the FY15 enacted level of $1.21 billion, but the Richland Operations Office took about a $93 million cut to the enacted budget of $941 million. The Savannah River request saw a boost of about $77 million over the enacted funding of $1.12 billion.  

 

Recovery funding for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant totals about $250 million in the FY16 request, a $70 million drop from enacted funding. Funding for cleanup at Portsmouth is cut $49 million in the request compared to the enacted level of $214 million. Paducah was cut $38 million below the $207.2 million enacted level. Cleanup work at the Idaho site was cut $38 million in the FY16 request below the $380 million in enacted funding. Oak Ridge came in $65 million below the $223 million in enacted funding. And Los Alamos National Laboratory came in at about $185 million, matching enacted levels. Cleanup activities paid for through the uranium enrichment D&D fund came in at $542 million in the request.