§6174 Future-years Defense Environmental Cleanup Plan

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must send Congress a future-years defense environmental cleanup plan every year when the President’s budget is sent. The plan must match the budget’s estimated spending and requested funds for defense cleanup. It must cover the budget year and at least the four succeeding fiscal years. The plan must describe cleanup projects and activities at specific sites (Idaho National Laboratory; 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). It must show how much budget authority, estimated spending, and requested appropriations are needed. For each site, it must list each enforceable cleanup milestone for every year, say whether each milestone will be met, explain any that will not be met and give a new expected date, and for missed, renegotiated, or postponed milestones show the current, original, and any interim milestones. The plan also covers five activity types: program support, program direction, safeguards and security, technology development and deployment, and federal payments to the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.