DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 22.22 Unobligated balance transferred from 6 23.90 Total budgetary resources available Unobligated balance available, end of 24.40 24.90 The Department of Energy's 1998 budget request for discretionary authority of $19.2 billion is $2.7 billion above its 1997 level. Nearly all of the increase ($2.3 billion) above 1997 is the result of two changes in how construction projects are financed. The first increase is a result of how the funds for DOE construction projects are requested. Starting in the 1998 budget DOE will adopt procedures currently used in many other agencies that require full up front funding of construction projects rather than requesting the funds incrementally 24.99 each year. The change requires that $1.6 billion in budget authority be added to the 1998 request. This will have no effect on how the Department executes its spending programs. Another increase ($0.7 billion) results from the $1 billion 1998 request for the Environmental Management privatization program started by the Congress in 1997. For these projects, DOE contracts with private parties who construct facilities to deliver cleanup services in later years when DOE will pay for the services. Privatization should speed up completion of these projects, ultimately reducing their overall costs. Although the privatization funds are required to proceed with the contracts, outlays will not result until later fiscal years when the private sector delivers the services. Except for these two areas, all other DOE programs total $16.6 billion in 1998, a $0.4 billion increase over the 1997 level. ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES Federal Funds General and special funds: WEAPONS ACTIVITIES 40.00 68.00 For Department of Energy expenses, including the [purchase, construction and] acquisition of [plant and] capital equipment and other incidental expenses necessary for atomic energy defense weapons activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.), [including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion;] and the purchase of passenger motor vehicles (not to exceed [94] 70, for replacement only), [$3,911,198,000, to remain] $3,576,255,000 to become available October 1, 1997 and $3,497,000,000 to become available on October 1, 1998, all of which shall remain available until expended. (Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1997.) Program and Financing (in millions of dollars) 88.40 300 4,897 358 Weapons activities.-This program includes the following activities: Stockpile Stewardship.-This activity provides for the research, development, and engineering activities to support the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile, without underground nuclear testing, through a sciencebased Stockpile Stewardship program. The core stewardship program supports Stockpile Stewardship by maintaining core competencies at the weapons laboratories and the Nevada Test Site, and through research on enhanced safety and reliability of the enduring stockpile, dismantlement techniques, waste minimization, and pollution prevention. In addition, the core stewardship program maintains the capability to execute an underground nuclear test if directed by the President. Research and development on inertial confinement fusion is also included and the transfer of nonsensitive Defense Programs' funded technology to the private sector is promoted. 1,788 116 329 304 358 Federal Funds-Continued General and special funds Continued WEAPONS ACTIVITIES-Continued Stockpile Management.-This activity provides for the maintenance of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, capabilities to modify or produce new weapons if required, lifetime surveillance of the stockpile, and retirement and disposal of weapons and weapon components. The Stockpile Management program also supports activities that include maintenance of technical and operational capabilities for responding to nuclear/radiological accidents and incidents worldwide. A major initiative under the Stockpile Management program is the dual-track strategy for a new tritium source to provide tritium for the Nation's enduring nuclear weapons stockpile. This program also provides for nuclear materials surveillance for storage, handling, shipping, safeguarding, control and accountability, and disposition for defense programs nuclear materials located at former Defense Programs' facilities. Weapons Program Direction.-This activity provides personnel and contractual services for the Federal management, direction, and the administration of selected Defense Programs' missions. Object Classification (in millions of dollars) Personnel compensation: Resources available from recoveries of prior year obligations 5 DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND WASTE MANAGEMENT For Department of Energy expenses, including [the purchase, construction and acquisition of plant and] capital equipment and other expenses necessary for atomic energy defense environmental restoration and waste management activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.), including the [acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion; and the] purchase of passenger motor vehicles (not to exceed [20, of which 19 are] 6, for replacement only), DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Environmental Management.-This program encompasses the following defense-related activities: The Office of Environmental Management must safely manage the generation, handling, treatment, storage, transportation and disposal of DOE nuclear and hazardous waste. The 1998 budget request will support the following major program areas: Environmental Restoration.-Provides for assessments, characterization, remediation, and decontamination and decommissioning at contaminated DOE facilities and sites. Various amounts and types of waste have accumulated at these facilities and sites as a result of past departmental activities spanning nearly five decades. Waste Management.-Provides for the safe, effective and efficient management of wastes generated by defense activities, through treatment, storage and disposal of various waste types including high-level, transuranic, low-level, mixed low-level, hazardous and sanitary wastes in compliance with applicable local, State, and Federal requirements and internal Department of Energy requirements. Technology Development.-Conducts technology development activities which focus on the Department's major environmental management issues while involving the DOE's best talent and that of the national (public and private) science and engineering communities; develop and furnish in conjunction with the Environmental Management (EM) customer programs, innovative technologies to reduce risk to workers, the public, and the environment, reduce cleanup costs; and/or provide solutions that do not exist to current problems shared by multiple sites. The Technology Development program is critical to achieving EM cleanup goals through (1) contributing technologies that enable completion and (2) through savings that can be redirected to other cleanup projects. As the pace of cleanup accelerates, the return on investment in Technology Development will multiply rapidly. Environmental Science Program.-Responsible for establishing, managing and directing a targeted long-term basic research agenda for Environmental Management problems so that "transformational" or breakthrough approaches will lead to significantly reduced long-term cleanup costs and risks to workers and the public; "bridging the gap" between broad fundamental research such as that performed in DOE's Office of Energy Research, and needs driven applied technology development which has been historically supported by Environmental Management; and serving as a stimuli for focusing the nation's science infrastructure on critical environmental management problems. In addition, the Office is responsible for developing risk policy, requirements and guidance to ensure that risk analysis theory and processes are integrated into coherent decision making processes. The goals of these processes must be to meet Departmental missions while protecting public health, worker health and safety, ecosystem viability, and cultural and national resources through integrated risk analysis practices addressing technical, legal and social elements. Nuclear Material and Facility Stabilization.-Manage a national program to stabilize and safeguard excess nuclear materials, currently stored in various forms and locations, to reduce the potential risks posed to workers and the public. Provide the means to achieve cost savings and efficiencies through deactivation of surplus facilities which results in lower costs of maintaining facilities awaiting decontamination and decommissioning. Provide interim storage and stewardship of nuclear materials, including spent nuclear fuel, awaiting ultimate disposition. Support the Nation's nonproliferation goals and policies through the receipt and management of foreign research reactor spent nuclear fuel. Provide policy direction for landlord planning and budgeting, including reducing site infrastructure costs and 23.3 Federal Funds Continued managing workforce restructuring. Manage the national Transportation Management program and the national Pollution Prevention program and provide leadership for crosscutting issues raised by the field and/or Headquarters, as well as serving as an advocate for the field at Headquarters. Policy and Management.-Provides funding for overall direction, planning and management of the EM program and support of crosscutting functions such as public accountability, finance, information management and strategic planning. EM Program Direction.-Provides salaries and benefits, travel and other contractual support costs for the Federal workforce at Headquarters and in the field which support the Environmental Management Program. EM Privatization.-EM privatization will be funded under the Defense EM Privatization Appropriation. Fixed Assets. Full funding of construction projects is included in the Defense Asset Acquisition Account. EM will continue to improve the efficiency of its programs through a variety of management and contracting strategies. In addition to privatization efforts, emphasis will continue on the reduction of support costs and implementation of performance-based contracts. EM is developing a Ten Year Plan to accelerate and complete a substantial amount of the cleanup of the EM complex within the next ten years. To achieve this goal, each EM site is establishing projects with clearly defined "endstates" to clean up wastes, facilities, and materials. Once the Ten Year Plan process is well underway, outyear funding for this program will be re-examined. EM has adopted seven principles to guide its day-to-day operations and the development of the Ten Year Plan: (1) Eliminate the most urgent risks; (2) Reduce mortgage and support costs to free up resources for further risk reductions; (3) Protect worker health and safety; (4) Reduce the generation of waste; (5) Create a collaborative relationship between DOE and its regulators and stakeholders; (6) Focus technology development on cost and risk reduction; (7) Integrate waste treatment and disposal across sites. Identification code 89-0242-0-1-053 Personnel compensation: 11.1 Full-time permanent 190 189 11.3 Other than full-time permanent 4 4 11.5 Other personnel compensation 5 5 11.9 Total personnel compensation 198 12.1 Civilian personnel benefits 41 Personnel Summary 1996 actual 1997 est. 1998 est. 1999 est. 3,214 3,197 3,026 2,941 in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.), [including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, and the purchase of passenger motor vehicles (not to exceed 2 for replacement only), $1,605,733,000, to] $1,605,981,000 to become available on October 1, 1997 and $1,604,000,000, to become available on October 1, 1998, all of which shall remain available until expended. (Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1997.) DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PRIVATIZATION For Department of Energy expenses for privatization projects necessary for atomic energy defense environmental restoration and waste management activities authorized by the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101, et seq.), to remain available until expended. $1,006,000,000 to become available on October 1, 1997, and $800,000,000 to become available on October 1, 1998. Program and Financing (in millions of dollars) Environmental Management Privatization.-Provides funding necessary to proceed with privatization of various DOE environmental management projects that will treat some of DOE's most contaminated soil and highly radioactive waste, as well as deactivate contaminated nuclear facilities that cost excessive amounts of money to maintain. This new approach to cleanup relies on the private sector to construct and operate facilities or proceed with cleanup actions on a fixed-price, fee-for-service basis. These competitively awarded projects are expected to save approximately 30 percent or more over the life-cycle of the projects, when compared to DOE's traditional approach of designing, constructing and operating a government-owned facility. Funds in this account will allow DOE to enter into these contracts and assures private investors that funds will be available to pay for services once the facilities are built. 30 Permanent: OTHER DEFENSE ACTIVITIES For Department of Energy expenses, including the [purchase, construction and] acquisition of [plant and] capital equipment and other expenses necessary for atomic energy defense, other defense activities, Nonproliferation and National Security.-The Department's Nonproliferation and National Security activities consist of the following areas: Nonproliferation and Verification, Research and Development, Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Intelligence, Nuclear Safeguards and Security, Security Investigations, Emergency Management and Program Direction. These activities provide policy, direction, technology development and implementation, and leadership in national and international efforts to reduce the danger to U.S. national security posed by weapons of mass destruction. Key mission areas are: (1) preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction materials, technology, and expertise; (2) detecting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction world wide; (3) reversing the proliferation of nuclear weapons capabilities; and (4) responding to weapons of mass destruction emergencies. Fissile Materials Disposition.-The Fissile Materials Disposition Program is responsible for the Department's technical and management efforts to provide for the safe, secure, environmentally sound future storage of all weaponsusable fissile materials (high enriched uranium and plutonium) and the disposition of all fissile materials declared surplus to national defense needs. Preparations have begun to dispose of surplus weapons high enriched uranium, over time, by blending it down to low enriched uranium for peaceful use as commercial reactor fuel. In addition, DOE will reduce the number of locations where weapons-usable fissile materials are stored and will pursue a plutonium disposition strategy that could involve both immobilization in glass or ceramic form and burning of surplus plutonium as mixed oxide fuel in existing reactors. Over the next two years, DOE will complete tests, process development, demonstrations, environmental reviews and detailed cost proposals for both disposition approaches. Near term efforts also involve implementation of consolidated long-term storage, pending disposition, for those materials; designing and demonstrating a system to disassemble plutonium weapons components and convert the plutonium to forms suitable for long-term storage and either disposition approach; and cooperative activities with Russia on plutonium disposition technologies. ation of a U.S. equivalent nuclear safety culture at Sovietdesigned reactor sites in Russia, Ukraine, and Central and Eastern Europe; continues to address safety and nonproliferation concerns related to breeder reactors and spent fuel management in countries of the former Soviet Union; supports tasks related to securing the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and addressing the ultimate disposition of Chernobyl's Unit-4; and continues efforts at Argonne National Laboratory-West to complete demonstration of the electrometallurgical technology for treatment of EBR-II spent fuel and other DOE spent fuel types. Environment, safety and health (Defense).-The Office of Environment, Safety and Health is a corporate resource that provides Departmental leadership and management to protect the workers, public, and environment. This is demonstrated by conducting independent oversight of the Department's environment, safety, health, and safeguards and security programs; and by providing technical assistance, resources, and information sharing. The programs in the Other Defense Activities are Oversight, Health Studies, and Radiation Effects Research Foundation support. The goal of these programs is to improve the performance and effectiveness of the Department's workforce and contractor employees in matters related to environment, safety, health, and safeguards and security. 25.1 25.2 25.4 25.5 26.0 32.0 41.0 99.9 Worker and Community Transition.—In accordance with Section 3161 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 25.3 1993, DOE is responsible for mitigating the impact on workers and communities that results from reductions in the workforce at defense nuclear facilities. This program provides for the development and implementation of plans to provide options to assist workers affected by workforce restructuring including preference in hiring, outplacement assistance, relocation assistance, and incentives for early retirement or separation. This program also provides impact assistance to local communities. Naval Reactors.-This program performs the design, development, and testing necessary to provide the Navy with safe, militarily effective nuclear propulsion plants in keeping with the Nation's nuclear-powered fleet defense requirements. During 1998, the program expects to reach 4,800 cumulative reactor-years of safe operation, and will continue to support and improve operating reactors and plant components. In addition, the program will continue to develop nuclear reactor plant components and systems for the Navy's new attack submarine, procure equipment needs for development and testing activities, and maintain or shut down aging facilities as appropriate. In 1998, inactivation will continue on six of the program's eight land-based prototypes which have been shut down. Intenational Nuclear Safety and Security. The International Nuclear Safety decision unit supports management and operational safety improvements, engineering and technology upgrades, and encourages development and continu 31.0 Identification code 89-0243-0-1-053 1001 79 3925 Total compensable workyears: DEFENSE NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL For nuclear waste disposal activities to carry out the purposes real property or facility construction or expansion, $200,000,000,] of Public Law 97-425, as amended, [including the acquisition of to remain available until expended, $190,000,000 to become available on October 1, 1997, and $190,000,000 to become available on October 1, 1998. (Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1997.) |