States Press White House, DOE To Fully Fund Nuclear Cleanup Budget

摘要

State environmental commissioners are pressing the White House budget office and Energy Department (DOE) to fully fund DOE's nuclear cleanup budget in the next fiscal year even as a DOE waste official warned recently that the cleanup program will likely suffer cuts in the coming years with possible breaches of cleanup milestones. The pressure from the Environmental Council of States (ECOS) comes just weeks before the president's budget request for fiscal year 2013 is set to be sent to Congress and is similar to the group's calls last year urging congressional appropriators to fully fund the $6.13 billion DOE request for FY12.