FY14 OMNIBUS BILL WOULD PROVIDE $5.8 BILLION FOR EM

For DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, the omnibus would provide approximately $5.8 billion, an increase of approximately $200 million from the Department’s FY 2014 budget request; and an increase of approximately $111 million from FY 2013 enacted funding levels. For defense environmental cleanup activities, which covers most of EM’s major sites, the bill would provide a total of $5 billion, an increase of $150 million from DOE’s budget request. The omnibus would not implement a Departmental proposal to reauthorize federal payments into the uranium enrichment D&D fund, for which DOE had sought $463 million. Non-defense environmental cleanup activities would be funded at a total of approximately $232 million, an increase of $20 million from DOE’s request; while work covered by the uranium enrichment D&D fund would receive a total of approximately $599 million, an increase of $44 million from the Department’s request.

On a site-by-site basis, the omnibus would provide most major cleanup sites with additional funding above what DOE had sought in its budget request. At Hanford, the omnibus would provide $941 million for the Richland Operations Office, an increase of approximately $19 million from the request; and would match DOE’s request of $1.21 billion for the Office of River Protection. Within the ORP funding, the bill would provide $690 million for the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, matching the request. At the Savannah River Site, the omnibus would provide a total of $1.134 billion, an increase of $46 million from DOE’s request. The SRS funding provided by the bill includes $565.5 million for tank waste cleanup activities, a increase of $13 million from the request; and $125 million for the Salt Waste Processing Facility, an increase of $33 million from the request.

At Oak Ridge, the omnibus would provide $215 million in defense environmental cleanup funds, an increase of $17 million; and approximately $196 million in uranium enrichment D&D funding, an increase of $19 million. Cleanup activities at DOE’s Idaho site would receive $387 million under the omnibus, an increase of $22 million from the request.