The Donald Trump administration has proposed a $6.5 billion budget for the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management in fiscal 2020, slightly less than the $6.6 billion requested last year but 11 percent below the $7.2 billion eventually enacted by Congress.
In a top-line budget plan issued Monday, senior DOE officials said the request fulfills the government’s continuing obligation to clean up the environmental legacy of Cold War nuclear weapons development.
The $6.5 billion would fund remediation of 16 sites in 11 states. The figure encompasses line items for Defense Environmental Cleanup, Non-Defense Environmental Cleanup, and the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.
The Trump administration did not release any site-by-site funding breakdown on Monday. More details on the budget are expected Wednesday and next Monday.
The Energy Department would also provide $300 million for its Office of Legacy Management, which is tasked with monitoring sites where cleanup has been completed.
