March 17, 2014

NNSA WEAPONS PROGRAM, USEC GET FY2013 HELP IN HOUSE DRAFT CONTINUING RESOLUTION

By ExchangeMonitor

House appropriators yesterday unveiled their version of a Continuing Resolution that will fund the government for the first six months of Fiscal Year 2013, and the draft stopgap measure includes exceptions that would boost funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration and USEC’s American Centrifuge Plant project. While most federal programs—including the bulk of the Department of Energy—would be funded at FY2012 levels under the legislation, the Obama Administration pushed Congress to allow the NNSA’s weapons program to spend at the level of its FY2013 request—approximately $7.6 billion, $344 million more than in FY2012—while $100 million would keep the ACP project afloat for the first half of FY2013. The provisions are among a very few anomalies in the mostly “clean” CR. The House will vote on the measure later this week, and then it will be sent to the Senate. 

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