Budget

USDOE continues to make progress in the cleanup of Hanford. But, there are serious challenges to the milestones and schedules in the Tri-Party Agreement which governs the cleanup of the Hanford Site.

Overall, the Department of Energy has not identified and requested adequate funding to meet the cleanup challenges at Hanford, recover from past shortfalls, nor keep pace with the agreed to schedule set forth in the Tri-Party Agreement.

The Washington State Department of Ecology is concerned about the fiscal-year 2009 funding for Hanford cleanup and USDOE’s proposed baseline for FY 2010 beyond.

For more detail about the budget, please see the links in the right-hand column.