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Spring 2015 EM SSAB Chairs MeetingConnie Flohr

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Program Planning and Budget

April 2015

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Dec. 16: FY 2015 Omnibus

(P.L. # 113-235). EM funded at

$5.861M, $239M above request.

Oct. 1st - FY 2015 starts under a

Continuing Resolution

Feb. 2: President releases

FY 2016 budget request

Congressional Hearings begin

for EM’s FY 2016 Budget

Request

Budget Timeline: FY 2015 Events and FY 2016 Outlook

Sep. 30th - Deadline for Congress to

pass an appropriation for FY 2016

Potential exists for FY 2016 caps

lower than the Budget proposesLawmakers in both chambers

release FY 2016 budget resolutions

Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. July – Sep. Oct.



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FY 2016 Budget Focus

EM’s FY 2016 budget supports clear, discrete progress in the cleanup of

the environmental legacy of the Cold War.

In particular, the budget will allow EM to:

� Continue recovery of transuranic waste disposal operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

� Continue construction of the Low Activity, Lab, and Balance of Facilities at Waste Treatment and

Immobilization Facility and design of the Low Activity Waste Pretreatment System at Hanford.

� Continue Defense Waste Processing Facility liquid waste processing and supports construction and

commissioning of Salt Waste Processing Facility at Savannah River Site.

� Complete major facility cleanout and demolition projects.

� Address key infrastructure needs across the complex.

WIPP Recovery (NM) Salt Waste Processing Facility (SC)



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Radioactive Liquid Tank Waste

$ 2,297M / 39%

Facility D&D

$ 835M / 14%

Special Nuclear Materials

and Used Nuclear Fuel*

$ 967M / 17%

Transuranic &

Solid Waste

$ 779M / 13%

Soil and Groundwater

$ 527M / 9%

Site Services**

$ 413M / 7%

**Includes Program Direction, Program Support, Technology Development & Deployment,

Post Closure Administration, Community and Regulatory Support.

*Includes Safeguards and Security

Where Does Each Dollar of Funding Go?

Funding by EM Mission Area in FY 2016

EM’s FY 2016 Budget Request - $5.818 Billion Total



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Sites Remaining in 2012

CA$12M

ID$375M

KY$244M

NV$65M

NM

$455M

NY$61M

OH$265M

SC$1.383B

TN$380M

UT

WA$2.4B

$38M

EM FY 2016 Budget Request Funding by State

Note: State funding values include program

direction costs for each field site.

Total Request: $5.818B



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$332M

TN $427M

EM FY 2014 - FY 2016 Budget Request

Funding by Field Site

(Dollars in the Millions)

Site

FY 2014

Current

($M)

FY 2015

Request

($M)

FY 2015

Enacted

($M)

FY 2016

Request

($M)

Carlsbad 221 220 324 248

Idaho 394 372 405 367

Los Alamos National Laboratory 225 225 190 189

Moab 36 36 36 38

Nevada 62 65 65 62

Oak Ridge 429 385 431 366

Paducah 325 270 270 232

Portsmouth 199 222 276 227

Richland 1,013 914 1,007 914

River Protection 1,210 1,235 1,212 1,414

Savannah River 1,255 1,282 1,260 1,337

West Valley Demonstration Project 66 60 60 61

Program Direction 300 281 281 282

Mission Support 35 28 39 62

Other Sites 61 26 26 19

D&D Fund Deposit 0 463 463 472

Subtotal, Environmental Management 5,832 6,085 6,345 6,290

UED&D Contribution 0 -463 -463 -472

Offset -2 0 -21 0

Total, Environmental Management5,830 5,622 5,861 5,818



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Carlsbad

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Idaho

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Closure Sites

Nevada

Los Alamos

Sandia

Lawrence Livermore

Mission Support

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West Valley

Program Direction

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Moab

UED&D Fund

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Closure Sites

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Nevada

Paducah

Program Direction

Sandia

UED&D Fund

West Valley

TDD

Uranium/Thorium

Idaho

Oak Ridge

Portsmouth

Richland

Carlsbad

Changes to Funding by Site (dollars in millions)

FY 15 Request: $5.622B

FY 15 Enacted: $5.861B

Increase of: +$ 239M

FY 2015 Request versus FY 2015 Omnibus FY 2015 Omnibus versus FY 2016 Request

FY 15 Enacted: $5.861B

FY 16 Request: $5.818B

Decrease of: -$ 43M



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The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013

� Provided sequester relief

temporarily over two years in

FY 2014 and FY 2015.

FY 2016 Budget Outlook

� President’s Request is $74.4B

over caps (+$37.9B for defense

and +$36.5B for non-defense).

� House and Senate Resolutions

claim to adhere to the spending

caps for FY 2016 in both defense

and non-defense accounts.

Budgetary Outlook for FY 2016

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2011

� Imposed spending caps on discretionary programs set to reduce funding by more than $1T

over ten years from FY 2012 – FY 2021.

House /

Senate



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Formulation Timeline: FY 2017

Meetings held with

EM SSAB & other

stakeholders

per memo from

Mark Whitney

dated

Feb. 6, 2015

EM issues budget

guidance to sites

on 3/31/15

EM SSAB & other stakeholders submit

advice to sites

**EM BUDGET

REQUEST BECOMES

EMBARGOED UPON

RECEIPT OF SITE

IPLs**

February to May 2015

EM budget deliberations

between the sites,

DOE leadership, and CFO

June to Sept. 2015 February 2016

1st Monday in

February President

rolls-out budget to

Congress

Oct. 2015 to Jan. 2016

EM identifies request for

programmatic

requirements including all

environmental compliance

requirements in official

OMB budget justification

document (OMBJ)

OMB funding decision

expected in late

November

(Passback)

EM submits final

budget to CFO in

accordance with CFO

schedule (usually by

mid-January)

DOE submits appeals

to OMB Passback and

engages with

OMB/CFO to reach

settlement

Documents

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