Department of Energy authorizations for fiscal years 1986 and 1987. Oversight hearings before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First and Second Sessions
Energy Secretary John S. Herrington, Kevin Boland of the General Accounting Office, and a panel of witnesses from DOE testified on DOE's budget request of $2.6 billion, an increase of $.3 billion over 1985 and a decrease of $.3 billion from 1984 appropriations. Critical programs include the Monitored Retrieval Storage (MRS) facility for high-level nuclear wastes and uranium enrichment. Herrington and DOE spokesmen defended the budget request and responded to committee questions. Boland reported that, while DOE has made progress in meeting the legislative requirements for the MRS program, it will be difficult to meet the repository siting deadlines and financing requirements for the program. Boland anticipated that legal challenges could delay the program. He also questioned DOE's decentralized field management approach. Two appendices with additional statements and responses submitted for the record follow the testimony.
- OSTI ID:
- 6981592
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: Serial No. 99-20
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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