The House Appropriations Committee has released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 bill for the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee. The bill will be reviewed later tonight (July 14) in
subcommittee, at 6:00pm ET, and you can view the markup live by clicking here.
The bill would provide $48.774 billion for the
Department of Energy (DOE), a decrease of $1.396 billion from the FY2025 level. Find a summary topline funding items relevant to ECA members below:
Atomic Energy Defense Activities
National Nuclear Security Administration – $25,317,000,000, an increase of 1,182,000,000 billion from FY2025.
The bill summary specifically notes that it “provides additional funding for plutonium pit production, the Uranium Processing Facility, the Lithium Processing Facility, and the nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missile (SLCM-N) warhead program.”
- Weapons Activities - $20,661,993,000
- Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation – $1,993,060,000
- Naval Reactors – $2,171,023,000
Environmental & Other Defense Activities – $7,701,346,000
- Defense Environmental Activities – $6,521,396,000
- Other Defense Activities – $1,179,950,000
Office of Nuclear Energy – $1,795,000,000, an increase of $110,000,000 from FY2025. The bill summary notes a focus on funding the “Advanced Nuclear Fuel Availability program, to advance
production of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) … the Advanced Reactors Demonstration Program and small modular reactor research, development, and deployment”
Non-Defense Environmental Cleanup – $337,700,000
Uranium Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund (UD&D) – $844,380,000
Office of Science – $8,400,000,000, an increase of $160,000,000 from FY2025.
Nuclear Waste Disposal – $12,040,000
Nuclear Regulatory Commission – $971,500,000 an increase of $27,400,000 from FY2025.
Read the Committee’s press release by clicking here.
Find the Committee bill summary by clicking here, and the full bill text by clicking here.
ECA will provide a detailed summary of the bill after it goes through Subcommittee markup later
tonight. To view that markup live, or to view a recording afterwards, click here. For more information on the appropriations process in the meantime, visit ECA’s website to learn more!
