Impact of Federal R and D funding on Three Mile Island cleanup costs

Technical Report · Fri Jan 15 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5403862

The Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs requested that GAO respond to several questions concerning the administration's proposed $123 million in Federal funding for data acquisition and research and development activities during the cleanup of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor Unit 2. GAO found that: adequate legislative authority exists to support DOE's proposed data acquisition and research and development activities during the cleanup process; adherence to the estimated timetable for cleanup completion will allow DOE to meet its program objectives within the proposed budget, but slippages would probably make additional funding necessary; and the DOE program will reduce the utility company's financial needs by an estimated $66 to $69 million, about one-third of the Federal share proposed by the Governor of Pennsylvania on July 9, 1981.

• Research Organization: General Accounting Office, Washington, DC (USA). Energy and Minerals Div.
• OSTI ID: 5403862
• Report Number(s): EMD-82-28; ON: DE82903714
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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