§2582a Future-years Defense Environmental Cleanup Plan

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must send Congress a yearly future-years defense cleanup plan when the President sends the federal budget to Congress. The plan must show the Department of Energy’s estimated spending and requested funding for defense cleanup in that budget, and it must cover the budget year plus at least the next four fiscal years. The plan must describe the cleanup projects and activities to be done at certain sites and for certain kinds of work. It must list the budget authority, estimated spending, and requested appropriations needed. For each listed site, the plan must show every milestone in any enforceable cleanup agreement for each year, say whether each milestone will be met, explain why any milestone will not be met and give a new expected date, and, for missed or changed milestones, show the current, original, and any interim milestones. The covered sites include 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. The covered activities include program support, program direction, safeguards and security, technology development and deployment, and federal payments to the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund.