[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: "Farr Presses DOD on BRAC Cleanup Funds"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Farr Presses DOD on BRAC Cleanup Funds

Defense Communities 360
March 14, 2014

Troubled by a steep drop in the budget to clean up installations  
closed during previous BRAC rounds, California Rep. Sam Farr (D)  
asked defense installation officials at a House hearing Wednesday to  
explain why the department’s unobligated balance for BRAC cleanup  
funds was so high.

Farr said he had learned that the department had about $900 million  
in unobligated funds for BRAC cleanup. He was equally concerned about  
the fiscal 2015 budget request for $270 million, which would  
represent a 40 percent drop in funding from this year’s allocation  
and a 64 percent decline from FY 2013′s allocation.

The Army has committed, but not yet obligated, the majority of its  
share of unobligated funds, responded Katherine Hammack, assistant  
secretary for installations, energy and environment. Hammack offered  
to provide more detail later.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.defensecommunities.org/headlines/farr-presses-dod-on-brac- 
cleanup-funds/#

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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