Re: PRESIDIO: FROM BRAC TO FUDS

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>]

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@igc.org>

In response to Dottie ...

The military retains responsibility for cleaning up whatever mess it 
has made, but prevailing legal wisdom is that regulatory agencies 
cannot force DOD to spend what Congress chooses not to Appropriate. 
They may, however, be able to force some reallocation of appropriated 
cleanup budgets.

The real world consequence of funding shortfalls is that regulators 
(and sometimes communities) often agree to less cleanup - sometimes 
accompanied by institutional controls on future use - to ensure that 
what is agreed upon will be funded.

I'd like to hear other stories about how much budgets have been cut 
between the facility's development of requirements and the actual 
budget, and particularly plans to transfer BRAC responsibilities to FUDS.

Lenny