[ RadSafe ] FY 2006 ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

[John Jacobus]

I really don't see how it can survive spending cuts
with the size of the projected deficit.

--- Susan Gawarecki <loc at icx.net> wrote:
> Spent fuel recycling initiative!
> 
> Yes, I know this has a long way to go before it's
> law, but still, what a 
> change of policy!
> 
> --Susan Gawarecki
> 
> FY 2006 ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS
> [House of 
> Representatives]
> 
> May 12th, 2005 - -
> FUNDING LEVELS:
> 
> The Chairman’s mark provides a total of $29.7
> billion in budget 
> authority for the U.S. Army Corps of
> Engineers-Civil, the Department of 
> Interior including the Bureau of Reclamation, the
> Department of Energy, 
> and several Independent Agencies. This bill is
> $131.7 million below FY05 
> and the same as the President’s budget request.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY:
> 
> The recommendation of $24.6 billion for the
> Department of Energy is $278 
> million over FY05 and $362 million above the budget
> request.
> 
> · The Committee funds the Yucca Mountain repository
> at $661 million, $84 
> million above FY05 and $10 million over the request.
> This includes $310 
> million for Nuclear Waste Disposal and $351 million
> for Defense Nuclear 
> Waste Disposal. The additional funds are provided to
> begin move spent 
> nuclear fuel away from reactor sites to an interim
> DOE storage facility. 
> Resources are included to the Office of Nuclear
> Energy, Science and 
> Technology to develop a spent fuel recycling
> initiative for the United 
> States.
> 
> · The Power Marketing Administrations are funded at
> $265 million, $57 
> million above last year and $208 million above the
> request. The 
> committee does not include a controversial
> Administration proposal to 
> use revenues collected from Power Marketing
> Administrations power sales 
> to augment the budget of the Army Corps.
> 
> · The National Nuclear Security Administration
> (NNSA), which includes 
> the nuclear weapons program, defense nuclear
> nonproliferation, naval 
> reactors and the office of the administrator, is
> funded at $8.8 billion, 
> an increase of $24 million over last year and $549
> million below the 
> President’s request. The bill does not include
> funding for the robust 
> nuclear earth penetrator study but provides
> significant increases for 
> the Sustainable Stockpile Initiative, including
> development of the 
> Reliable Replacement Warhead. Additional resources
> are provided to 
> accelerate the consolidation of sensitive nuclear
> materials into a small 
> number of secure sites. Defense Nuclear
> Nonproliferation activities are 
> funded at $1.5 billion, $8 million above FY05 and
> $136 million below the 
> request. Weapons activities are funded at $6.2
> billion, $296 million 
> below FY05 and $449 million below the request.
> 
> · Energy Supply and Conservation programs are funded
> at $1.8 billion, 
> $13 million above FY05 and $44 million below the
> request.
> 
> · Independent Agencies are funded at the budget
> request, except for the 
> Appalachian Regional Commission which is reduced by
> $27 million. The 
> Denali Commission is reduced by $64 million below
> FY05.
> 
>
http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=478&Month=5&Year=2005
> 
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Hugh Blair, 1783

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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