Federal Funding for Hanford Cleanup is $25 Million More Than in Fiscal 2009

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Federal funding for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the coming fiscal year will be close to $1 billion - about $25 million more than Congress agreed to spend for fiscal 2009 and $87 million more than President Obama requested in his budget blueprint earlier this year. The House and Senate last week resolved differences between competing versions of the fiscal 2010 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, clearing the way for votes on the final legislation. "It has taken an extraordinary amount of work on both sides of the aisle in the House and Senate to achieve this restoration of funds for Hanford considering where we started back in May with the Obama administration's budget request," said Rep. Doc Hastings, the Washington state Republican who has long battled for more money to clean up what is the nation's most polluted Cold War-era site.