RESCISSION UPDATE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

RESCISSION UPDATE

 The House Appropriations Committee has completed action 
on a Supplemental Defense Appropriation for Fiscal Year 1995. The 
bill, which may see action on the House floor next week (as early as 
February 22), would reduce the current year's funding for Defense 
Environmental Restoration by $150 million.

 The Appropriators chose a figure, after the cut, of $1,620 
million, essentially the same as the President's proposed FY 96 
DERA budget.

 Critics of the Supplemental bill are planning to introduce 
modifying amendments, but at this time it is not known whether the 
Defense cleanup reductions will be challenged.

 Once the House approves the legislation, the Senate 
Appropriations Committee will take it up. Senate support for the 
House reductions is NOT a foregone conclusion.