Overall the Senate bill would provide $5.942 billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, $320 million above DOE’s budget request, while the House bill would boost cleanup funds by $6.7 million above the budget request. The Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee has not provided further detail at this point, but the House panel broke down the $5.6 billion in funding it would provide in report language released yesterday. The biggest cut in the House, totaling about $45 million, would come to the Savannah River Site for a total funding level of $1.1 billion. Hanford would receive $2.1 billion, or $2 million above DOE’s request. Idaho National Laboratory would get $380 million in cleanup funds, or $13 million above the request. Oak Ridge would receive about $213 million, or about $6 million above the budget request.
Senate and House Boost DOE Cleanup Funds
Democrats demand an explanation for big changes at NRC
Senate and House Democratic appropriators seek more clarity from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Chair Ho Nieh on the recent overarching changes at the agency initiated by President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14300. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), respective ranking members of the Senate and House Energy and Water Development Appropriations subcommittees, […]