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ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
demolition and removal of unsafe buildings, structures, and debris. In FY 1996, DoD began a relative risk approach to environmental
cleanup. This process enables the Department to prioritize cleanup activities at sites that pose the greatest danger to the health and
safety of the environment and public in the context of regulatory agreements. The relative risk process is the key tool used by the
Department in the planning, programming, and budgeting of the cleanup program as well as its execution.
Also in FY 1996, the Department developed specific clean-up goals that have been briefed to the Congress, the regulator community,
and the public. Accordingly, the Department funds its environmental restoration program to ensure the Military Departments and
Defense Agencies meet all legal agreements and ensure compliance with DoD cleanup goals. The budget exhibits also clearly
identifies funding requirements for response actions to address UXO, discarded military munitions, and munitions constituents at other
than operational ranges. As shown in the various Component Environmental Restoration budget exhibits for FY 2014, Army, Navy,
and Air Force cleanup programs are essentially on schedule to meet the Department’s cleanup goals; DLA is ahead of schedule, which
is necessary in some cases to meet legal requirements and agreements with states and regulatory agencies; and FUDS is facing
additional challenges due to the continuing addition of new sites, etc. The FUDS program is unique in that there are no physical
boundaries such as a military installation fence line to establish a finite limit of potential contaminated sites and the number of
potential new FUDS sites could grow. Of the 460 FUDS sites categorized as high relative risk, remedies have been put in place at
289 sites which have been removed from the list as of September 2012.
Between FY 2013 and FY 2014, the Department’s Defense ER Program decreases by $121.6 million, reflecting price growth of $27.1
million and programmatic decrease of $148.7 million (-10.4 percent). The FY 2014 program decrease of $148.7 million primarily
reflects a decrease in the Army (-$43.4 million) and Air Force programs (-$99.6 million) in Site Investigation and Analysis as the
Department completes this phase of the program for known sites. There also were small decreases in the Navy ($-0.4 million), FUDS
($-4.6 million) and Defense-Wide ($-0.7 million).
The following table displays the ER Transfer appropriations.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
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