O'Leary: DOE budget reflects [open quotes]changed priorities[close quotes]
Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary officially unveiled the Energy Department's $19.6 billion fiscal 1994 budget, adding the theme - changed priorities' - and some details to a budget proposal that many in the industry already had seen. Those changed priorities are everywhere: Defense programs, which traditionally has been the largest single program in DOE's budget, now follows environmental restoration and waste management in the budget queue. The department's fiscal 1994 budget, proposes $6.5 billion for ERWM and $5.9 billion for defense. Consistent with President Clinton's stated goals during his campaign and recent DOE pronouncements that deemphasize the department's commitment to nuclear power, DOE is proposing nuclear research and development funding levels that are 45 percent lower than in fiscal 1993. Conversely, funding for energy efficiency and renewables is hot: it is slated to rise 34 percent over this year's budget - crossing the billion-dollar mark for the first time since Jimmy Carter's final budget in fiscal 1981.
- OSTI ID:
- 7022866
- Journal Information:
- Energy Daily; (United States), Vol. 21:65; ISSN 0364-5274
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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