Email correspondence from Lisa Gue from Mark Guiton, September 13, 2002, regarding Obey quote on DOE security shortfall (1 page)

Guiton, Mark From: Sent: To: Subject: Lisa Gue [LISA_GUE@citizen.org] Friday, September 13, 2002 5:09 PM Guiton, Mark Obey quote on DOE security shortfall Mark, here's the Congress Daily article I mentioned that quotes Obey on the security shortfall that I mentioned. We don't know if he'd therefore support transferring $ from the Nuclear 2010 program into security, but it's a start. >House Appropriators Approve $26 Billion Energy and Water Bill >The roughly $26 billion Energy and Water appropriations measure approved Thursday by the House Appropriations Committee is relatively unchanged from the subcommittee bill, but it does contain an additional $66 million requested by the White House to study Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel. >This comes in addition to the $524.7 million that the-White House requested, and the subcommittee fully funded, earlier this year for Yucca Mountain. >The $66 million for the waste repository site was part of an approximately $1 billion budget request submitted by the White House earlier this week. >The Energy and Water spending bill, which was passed by voice vote, contains $4.76 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, an increase of $586 million over the administration request, rather than the funding cut that the White House had sought. >Altogether, the Energy and Water spending bill is $516 million above the budget request. >The National Nuclear Security Administration, which includes the nuclear weapons program, the defense nuclear nonproliferation and naval reactors, is funded at $7.9 billion, $114.9 million below the budget request. >Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., complained that there should be more money earmarked for efforts to secure nuclear weapons and nuclear materials. >He argued that $235 million for such activities was part of the $5.1 billion that the White House refused to spend out of the roughly $2 9 billion FY02 supplemental appropriations bill passed by Congress this summer. >"It ought to be put right back in this bill," Obey told the committee. >The bill funds Department of Energy Science programs at $3.27 billion, and nuclear energy programs got $213.7 million. Renewable energy programs received $396 million, $11 million below the budget request. >Energy Department environmental management cleanup activities got $7.4 9 billion, and $1.1 billion was earmarked for environmental management reform. >Meanwhile, the House Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee Thursday approved a $16.55 billion measure that includes an additional *$200 million for Israel and $50 million for the Palestinians requested this week by President Bush. >To absorb its portion of the new Bush budget request, Appropriations Chairman Young told the panel, "We will have to do some creative adjustments." Young said that targets for spending offsets could be in other FY03 appropriations bills. By Margo MacFarland Lisa 1