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Energy Modernization and Investment Program promotes the sustainability of NNSA’s enduring
facilities and infrastructure and enhances National Security by funding discrete projects across the
enterprise that: reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, increase energy and water efficiency, improve
metering, and support High-Performance Sustainable Building (HPSB) compliance in accordance with
regulatory requirements, e.g., Energy Policy Act, Energy Independence and Security Act, Executive
Orders 13423 and 13514, and DOE Order 430.2B. The program’s projects help NNSA save on energy
usage and cost.
Assuming approval of CD-0, Approval of Mission Need in FY 2011, the FY 2012 funding request for
EMIP would also support $3,000,000 in conceptual design activities for recapitalization or replacement
of the NNSA Service Center Facility residing at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The current energy and maintenance intense facility will be replaced with a state of the art
environmentally sustainable facility.
Construction supports energy efficiency and site utility upgrade projects. In FY 2011, the Sanitary
Effluent Reclamation Facility (SERF) Expansion at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) will
recycle up to 115 million gallons of water annually to avoid discharging to the15 permitted outfall points
to meet new EPA limits and reduce total site water usage by that amount per year. The Electrical
Infrastructure Sustainment and Modernization Project at Y-12 is scheduled to begin in FY 2013, and
additional future projects will be indentified and prioritized at each of the sites across the nuclear
security enterprise. These projects will address environmental compliance and energy and operational
efficiency.
Annual Performance Results and Targets
The Department is in the process of updating its strategic plan, and has been actively engaging
stakeholders including Congress. The draft strategic plan is being released for public comment
concurrent with this budget submission, with the expectation of official publication this spring. The
draft plan and FY 2012 budget are consistent and aligned. Updated measures will be released at a later
date and available at the following link http://www.mbe.doe.gov/budget/12budget/index.htm.
FY 2010 Accomplishments
Nuclear Materials Integration
• The Nuclear Materials Integration effort to remove, by the end of 2012, security category I/II material
from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) remains on schedule with 80 percent of
material packaged and prepared for removal from the LLNL site.
• Surplus Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) from decommissioned Sandia National Laboratories and
Army Proving Ground reactors was consolidated and sent to the Savannah River Site to be downblended
and subsequently made into fuel for commercial nuclear power reactors.
• Acquired 28 Tons of high quality heavy water from the Department of Defense (DoD). In addition to
relieving DoD of the cost of disposing of material it no longer needed, this acquisition enables NNSA
to establish a reserve and defer the need to establish a capability to produce new material.
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FY 2012 Congressional Budget