States Urge Appropriators To Restore FUDS Cleanup Funds In FY13 Budget

摘要

State regulators are urging congressional appropriators to reject the Obama administration's proposed 15 percent cut to the Defense Department's (DOD) formerly used defense sites (FUDS) cleanup program budget in fiscal year 2013, arguing such a reduction would halt "most" pending cleanups and site investigations. "A reduction of this magnitude would stop most ongoing investigations, cleanups and any planned work, essential to protecting the public from the threats that these FUDS sites pose," the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS) warned in a May 21 letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI).