§6174 Future-years Defense Environmental Cleanup Plan

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must send Congress each year, about the same time the President’s budget is sent, a future-years defense environmental cleanup plan. The plan must show the estimated spending and requested funding in that budget for the Department of Energy’s defense cleanup work. It must cover the fiscal year of the budget and at least the four following fiscal years. The plan must describe the cleanup projects and activities at the listed sites, give the proposed budget authority, estimated expenditures, and requested appropriations, and list enforceable cleanup milestones for each site for each year. For any milestone not met, the plan must explain why and give a new expected date and show current, original, and any interim milestones. Sites: Idaho National Laboratory (Idaho); Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (Carlsbad, New Mexico); Savannah River Site (Aiken, South Carolina); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, Tennessee); Hanford Site (Richland, Washington); any DOE defense closure site; any National Nuclear Security Administration site. Activities: program support; program direction; safeguards and security; technology development and deployment; and federal contributions to the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund (established under section 1801 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 42 U.S.C. 2297g).