CLEANUP BUDGET BREAK-OUT

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>

FY97 DERA SERVICE BREAK-OUTS
The Clinton administration has released more details on its proposed 
Fiscal Year 1997 military cleanup budget. It has proposed four line 
items covering what formerly was known as the consolidated Defense 
Environmental Restoration Account.
Environmental Restoration, Army $356,916,000
Environmental Restoration, Navy (includes Marines) $302,900,000
Environmental Restoration, Air Force $414,700,000
Environmental Restoration, Defense-Wide $258,500,000
TOTAL (former DERA) $1,333,016,000
The supporting language includes the following:
"Beginning in FY 1997, [the Department of Defense] will establish four 
separate environmental restoration accounts, one for each military 
department and a defense-wide account for agencies and formerly used 
defense sites. These four decentralized accounts include all the 
functions formerly funded in the defense environmental restoration account."
Thus, as far as the Department is concerned, "devolvement" is a 
reality. The new information is that formerly used defense sites (FUDS) 
have been moved from the Army budget to Defense-wide. This year (FY 
96), the Defense-wide total is $57,000,000, covering Defense Agencies 
(such as the Defense Logistics Agency) and probably the operation of 
the Environmental Security office's cleanup branch. So the total 
proposed for FUDS in FY 1997 is somewhere around $200,000,000.
The ER line items are within the Operation and Maintenance portion of 
the Defense budget. The other major cleanup account, Base Realignment 
and Closure, is within the Military Construction budget.