[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY DEPARTMENT: "Cleanup Funding and NNSA Funding at Odds in New Senate NDAA Provisions"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup Funding and NNSA Funding at Odds in New Senate NDAA Provisions
Bipartisan group of Senators concerned that DOD and NNSA can decrease EM funding requests in the future

Energy Communities Alliance
June 26, 2020
 

Section 3111 of the Senate’s version of the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) may significantly impact the Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) future budgets by giving the Nuclear Weapons Council (DOD and NNSA) more control over the DOE/NNSA defense budget request.

There is a bipartisan group of Senators leading an opposition to Sec. 3111, and they have introduced amendments this week to strike the provision from the final bill. Several Senators, including Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), and Patty Murray (D-WA), view Section 3111 (and other provisions that bring DOD into the DOE budget process) as problematic.

The NDAA is now on the Senate floor, where amendments will continue to be introduced and the chamber will vote on a final version shortly. Meanwhile, the House Armed Services Committee is expected to approve its version of the bill on July 1.

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For the entire article, see
https://archive.aweber.com/ecabulletin/8Yeyp/h/ECA_Update_Cleanup_Funding_and.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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