President's FY 2018 Budget Request: A New Foundation for American Greatness ECA
Staff May 25, 2017 The White House released it's FY 2018 budget request on May 23, 2017. The document, entitled, "A New Foundation for American Greatness," has been touted by the Administration as a taxpayer-first budget. A noted feature of the budget request is the increase in federal defense
spending, and decrease in funding for entitlement and other discretionary spending, excluding Social Security and Medicare. >>See the budget request here White House Explanation of Major Savings and Reforms ECA Staff May 25,
2017 Alongside the budget request, the White House has published an "Explanation of Major Savings and Reforms," a document which details the list of
discretionary programs the President has proposed to either eliminate or reduce funding for as a means to not increase the U.S. deficit over the next 10 years.
Specific to DOE, the President has proposed reducing funding for Applied Energy Programs, including
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Fossil Energy, Nuclear Energy, and Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, by $2.2
million.
DOE Programs set for elimination include the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy,
the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program and Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program, and the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MOX).
>>View the document here Department of Energy FY 2018 Congressional Budget Request DOE May 25, 2017 The following documents reflect the FY 2018 Department of Energy's Budget Request to
Congress:
Summary Budget
Documents Budget Fact Sheet - Department of Energy FY2018 Budget Request Fact Sheet
Budget in Brief - A high-level narrative summarization of the Department's budget
request
Detailed Budget Justifications - Energy and Water Development
Appropriations
Nuclear Regulatory Commission FY 2018 Congressional Budget Request NRC May 22, 2017 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Congressional Budget Justification provides the
necessary resources for the Nuclear Reactor Safety and Nuclear Materials and Waste Safety Programs to carry out the agency's mission and achieve the stated goals and desired outcomes for the American public. The NRC's proposed FY 2018 budget is $952 million, including 3,284 full-time equivalents (FTE).
The budget request represents a decrease of $48.3 million, including 311 FTE when compared with the FY 2017 Annualized Continuing Resolution (CR) budget. This FY 2018 proposed budget amount
includes $30 million to support activities for the proposed Yucca Mountain deep geological repository for spent fuel and other high-level radioactive waste.
The following documents reflect the FY 2018 Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Budget Request to
Congress:
BUDGET NEWS ACROSS THE
COMPLEX Tennessee lawmakers cautious about White House spending
plan Times Free Press May 24, 2017 Tennessee Republicans on Tuesday welcomed the Trump administration's attempt to restrain the growth in federal domestic spending, but local lawmakers also took issue with parts of the White House spending
plan.
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, stressed that the legislative branch, not the executive branch, ultimately controls the purse strings to
government.
"Congress will write the budget and set the spending priorities," Alexander said. "Where we find good ideas in the president's budget, we will use
them." >>Continue readingDOE wants $323M for WIPP in FY
18 Current-Argus May 24,
2017 The U.S. Department of Energy is requesting a $6.5
billion budget for fiscal year 2018 — the largest in more than a decade. The DOE hopes to allocate $323 million to Carlsbad's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, $18 million
above the 2016 enacted budget. The 2017 budget request of $325.5 million was never approved, as the federal government has operated on a continuing
resolution for nearly all of fiscal year 2017. Projects included in the WIPP budget include work on the $43 million permanent ventilation system and the associated $19.6
million exhaust shaft. >>Continue reading Trump budget plan boosts funding for New Mexico national labs Santa Fe New Mexican May 23, 2017 President Donald Trump has
proposed an increase of more than $300 million in federal dollars for the national laboratories, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and other Department of Energy facilities in New Mexico for the 2018 budget year, laying the groundwork for substantially more nuclear weapons work and radioactive waste disposal in the
state.
Trump’s proposed budget, which was released Tuesday, also requests a slight increase in environmental cleanup funding at many laboratories, including Los Alamos, which have extensive radioactive and toxic waste stockpiles and contamination resulting from decades of weapons production.
Many of the funding increases would come at the expense of Department of Energy’s scientific endeavors, including work in renewable energy and energy efficiency programs. >>Continue
readingFunding for ORNL could be cut $185 million under president’s budget Oak Ridge Today May 23, 2017 Funding for Oak Ridge National Laboratory could be cut by $185 million under the budget request released by President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
If Trump’s budget request is enacted, the lab’s
funding would drop from about $1.247 billion in Fiscal Year 2017, which ends September 30, to roughly $1.062 billion in Fiscal Year 2018. That would be a decrease of roughly 15 percent.
The reduction would be even greater when compared to
the $1.27 billion allocated to ORNL in Fiscal Year 2016, according to preliminary laboratory tables posted by the U.S. Department of Energy. In that case, it would be about a $206 million decrease over two years. >>Continue
readingTrump budget proposes cuts for DOE,
INL The Post Register May 23,
2017 Tuesday’s release of President Donald Trump’s budget
confirms that he has proposed sharp cuts in a wide variety of areas that would impact Idaho National Laboratory, resulting in hundreds of local job losses if enacted. It’s up to Congress to set a final budget.
The Post Register reported last week that the Office of Nuclear Energy’s budget would be
cut to $703 million. That is the exact number in Trump’s nuclear energy budget. The office is a significant funding source for INL.
The budget includes
steep cuts throughout the U.S. Department of Energy, other than in nuclear weapons programs. While the National Nuclear Security Administration’s budget would increase by $1.4 billion, or 11 percent, the rest of DOE’s budget would be cut by $3.1 billion, or 18
percent.
Democrats from the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources project the proposed budget would deprive Idaho of more than $213 million in
DOE funds, leading to up to 1,000 jobs lost. >>Continue
readingCut of $119M proposed for Hanford budget by Trump
administration The Tri-City Herald May 23,
2017 President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing cutting $119 million from current spending for the Hanford nuclear
reservation in the coming fiscal year.
Almost all of the cut is proposed for the DOE Hanford office in charge of cleaning up of waste sites and facilities, including the aging radioactive waste tunnel that partially collapsed
May 9.
The budget would total $2.2 billion plus some additional spending for security, according to information received by the staff of Sen. Patty Murray,
D-WA. >>Continue readingTrump budget calls for MOX termination at Savannah River
Site The Augusta Chronicle May 24, 2017 President Trump’s budget proposal was released Tuesday slashing federal program budgets, reflecting his campaign rhetoric, and one nuclear nonproliferation program at Savannah River Site ended up on the chopping
block.
The Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, or MOX, is again in the cross-hairs of presidential budgetary targeting. The facility was slated for termination by the Obama Administration in the fiscal year 2017 budget
proposal, and President Trump’s budget follows Obama’s lead. >>Continue readingSearchable database of FY18 funding proposals The New York Times May 23,
2017 The New York Times has created a searchable, interactive
database of each funding proposal in Trump's budget. See how the President's budget request would affect government funding for specific programs over the next 10 years. >>Access tool here New Dept. of Treasury site allows better tracking of federal spending U.S. Department of the Treasury May 25,
2017 The U.S. Department of the Treasury has launched a new beta version of it's website used to track federal government
spending. This new version allows users to search and track spending by state, agency, and fiscal year. >>Access tool here |
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| May 2017 | | 25 | Senate Nomination Hearing for DOE Deputy Secretary, FERC Nominees |
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| May 2017 | | 25 | House Hearing on Fiscal Year 2018 Priorities for Nuclear Forces and Atomic Energy Defense Activities |
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| June 2017 | | 7 | Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Public Hearing on the Plutonium Facility at LANL |
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| June 2017 | | 7 | House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus
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| June 2017 | | 7-8 | EM SSAB Meeting, Hanford |
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| June 2017 | | 14 | INVITATION
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ECA High-Level Waste Committee Strategic Session |
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| June 2017 | | 14 | EM SSAB Meeting, Oak Ridge Reservation |
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| August 2017 | | 8-9 | Intermountain Energy Summitt |
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| August
2017 | | 16-17 | INVITATION ONLY ECA Peer Exchange: Implementation of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park Richland, WA |
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| September 2017 | | 5-7 | Radwaste Summitt 2017 Summerlin, NV |
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| September 2017 | | 12-14 | 2017 National Cleanup
Workshop Alexandria,
VA |
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| September 2017 | | 13 | House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus
Event Washington,
DC
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