DEFENSE CLEANUP - BY CONTINUING RESO

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

DEFENSE CLEANUP - BY CONTINUING RESOLUTION

It is likely that neither the Defense Department Appropriations nor 
Authorization Acts will be passed and take effect until after the 
holidays. That means that Defense Environmental Restoration Account 
funds - and the related allocations to states through the Defense State 
Memoranda of Agreement - will be funded through another continuing 
Appropriations resolution. Funds released will be based on FY1995 
Appropriations, minus a percentage, such as 5%.

Base Realignment and Closure environmental funds have already been 
appropriated, since they are itemized in the Military Construction 
Appropriations Act, which has been signed by the President.

Of course, there remains the possibility that the President and the 
Republican Congressional Majority will not be able to agree on raising 
the debt limit, and who knows what the consequences of that will be!

Lenny