Final FY2000 "DERP" budget

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Defense Appropriations Conference Committee has completed its work
on the Defense Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2000. It is extremely
unlikely that the funding for environmental restoration - that is,
cleanup other than at closing bases - will change before enactment of
the law. (Cleanup money for bases being closed under the Base
Realignment and Closure program is in the already enacted Military
Construction Appropriations Act.)  The total, excluding Kaho'olawe and
Camp Edwards, is $1,303 million, a 1.5% increase over fiscal year 1999.

Congress generally approved the President's request, with the expected
Senatorial plus-up of $40 million for formerly uses Defense sites. The
conferees approved $35 million for payment to the Kaho'olawe Island
Conveyance, Remediation, and Environmental Restoration Fund, and they
enacted a provision (Sec. 8154) allowing Operation and Maintenance
funding to be used for "characterization and remediation activities at
the Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts,
resulting from environmental problems pertaining to use of Camp Edwards
as a training range and impact area and any administrative orders issued
by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address those problems."

Here are the Fiscal Year 2000 Defense Environmental Restoration totals,
by component:

Army                         $378,170,000 

Navy                         $284,000,000

Air Force                    $376,800,000

Formerly Used Defense Sites  $239,214,000 

Defense-Wide                  $25,370,000 

TOTAL                      $1,303,554,000


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/968-1126
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org