DEFENSE MONEY BILLS

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

The President has signed the Defense Appropriations Act, so the Defense 
Environmental Restoration Account - or at least the separate funds that 
formerly made up that account - is appropriated $1,411 Million in 
fiscal year 1996, already undwerway.

Rumor has it, however, that passage of the Defense Authorization Act 
may not happen. If so, the drastic Senate language for limiting Defense 
State Memoranda of Agreement and assistance to Restoration Advisory 
Boards will not be enacted. However, the Appropriations bill does not, 
by itself, clarifly how much money will be spent on those programs.

Lenny Siegel