§6174 Future-years defense environmental cleanup plan

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must send Congress a yearly multi-year plan for defense environmental cleanup. It must be submitted each year at or about the same time the President’s budget is sent to Congress under 31 U.S.C. 1105(a). The plan must match the budget’s estimated spending and requested appropriations for DOE defense cleanup. It must cover the budget year plus at least the four following fiscal years. Each plan must describe the cleanup projects and activities at the listed sites and give the needed budget authority, estimated spending, and requested appropriations. The covered sites are Idaho National Laboratory (Idaho); Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (Carlsbad, NM); Savannah River Site (Aiken, SC); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN); Hanford Site (Richland, WA); any DOE defense closure site; and any National Nuclear Security Administration site. For each site the plan must list enforceable cleanup milestones for each fiscal year, say whether each milestone will be met, explain any missed or unmet milestone and when it will be met, and show current, original, and any interim milestones for milestones that were missed, renegotiated, or postponed. The plan must cover activities such as program support; program direction; safeguards and security; technology development and deployment; and federal payments to the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund (42 U.S.C. 2297g).