FY05 Environmental Appropriations

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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On July 22, 2004, both houses of Congress overwhelmingly passed the
Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Appropriations Act. President Bush is expected
to sign the bill soon. Remember, this is not the Defense Authorization
Act, which is tied up in the debate over base closure.

The text and tables of the legislation are available as 
"House Report 108-622 - MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2005, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."

This can be downloaded from http://thomas.loc.gov/. Click on "Status of
FY2005 Appropriations Bills" and then scroll down to Defense.

Here are the environmental cleanup budgets from that legislation.
Remember that Base Realignment and Closure cleanup funding is included
in a separate Appropriations bill, Military Construction. Table figures
are in US$ thousands.

The three columns below represent the FY04 Congressional appropriation,
the President's request for FY05, and the FY05 Congressional
appropriation. For easiest reading, convert the table to a monospace
font such as Courier. 

              04 Ap      05 Req    05 Ap

Army         396,018    400,948   400,948
Navy         256,153    266,820   266,820
Air Force    384,307    397,368   397,368
Defense-Wide  24,081     23,684    23,684
FUDS*        284,619    216,516   266,516,

*Formerly Used Defense Sites 

In Section 8044 of the bill, Congress once again appropriated
"$10,000,000 for the mitigation of environmental impacts, including
training and technical assistance to tribes, related administrative
support, the gathering of information, documenting of environmental
damage, and developing a system for prioritization of mitigation and
cost to complete estimates for mitigation, on Indian lands resulting
from Department of Defense activities."

Section 8134 mandates a report, to be delivered by October 15,
2004, on how the Department of Defense (DOD) is reducing the dud rate of
cluster munitions.

Congress slightly increased the funding for the Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program (SERDP) from the President's request of
$56,936,000 to $57,936,000.

As we previously reported, Congress added $5.5 million to the
Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) request
of $32,546,000, bringing the total to $38,046,000.

It also appropriated $10 million for Unexploded Ordnance Detection &
Clearance research and development. Reportedly this includes the funds
sought by Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) for the demonstration
of wide-area assessment technologies.


LS
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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