The House of Representatives was scheduled to begin floor debate Tuesday on a seven-bill appropriations package for the 2022 fiscal year, lawmakers announced Monday after a meeting of the chamber’s Rules Committee.
Floor debate was scheduled to start at 1:15 eastern time, with votes to begin at 8 p.m., according to a schedule posted online by House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).
The bill would raise the 2022 budget for Department of Energy nuclear weapons cleanup at the Office of Environmental Management about 7.5% year-over-year to $7.8 billion and hold the agency’s nuclear weapons and nonproliferation budget at the National Nuclear Security Administration about flat at $20 billion or so.
The bill also would provide some $20 million for DOE to begin work on a federally owned interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel from power plants. The measure has no funding to develop a permanent waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nye County, Nev.
Overall, the bill includes some $45 billion for the Department of Energy.
