President Joe Biden’s administration requested $47.2 million in funding for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board for fiscal year 2024, up from $41.4 million this year.
That is according to the 1,350-page appendix to the fiscal 2024 budget request released by the White House this week. Fiscal year 2024 begins Oct. 1.
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is an independent, non-regulatory watchdog agency created by Congress in 1988 to provide outside safety advice and recommendations to Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities. Naval Reactors sites are not subject to DNFSB inspection.
The DNFSB had 113 employees by the end of fiscal 2022, according to a December financial report.
The DNFSB is designed as a five-member, Senate-confirmed panel with bipartisan representation.
There are currently three members, DNFSB Chair Joyce Connery, vice chair Thomas Summers and member Jessie Hill Roberson. In February, the Biden administration announced it planned to nominate Patricia Lee, a manager at DOE’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina, to become a board member.
