WASHINGTON, D.C. - Acting EM Assistant Secretary Sue Cange testified today on EM’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget request before the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. In her testimony, Cange provided an overview of the EM program, key achievements in the past year and planned accomplishments to be achieved with EM’s request of approximately $6.5 billion, which marks EM’s largest budget request in a decade.
“The request will allow EM to maintain a safe and secure posture across the complex, while continuing compliance activities. In FY 2018, we expect to continue to make significant progress in addressing radioactive tank waste at EM sites, as well as to continue our D&D activities and our soil and groundwater remediation activities. In addition, we will continue to manage and disposition special nuclear materials, spent nuclear fuel and transuranic and solid waste," Cange says in her testimony to the House subcommittee.
Cange testified on the FY 2018 budget request before the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces a day earlier.
EM rolled out the budget request Tuesday. The request provides the resources necessary to continue making safe, steady and significant progress in tackling the environmental legacy of decades of nuclear weapons development and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. Read Cange’s written statement before the House subcommittee here.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Environmental Management
