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U.S. Response II: House Appropriations Subcommittee Approves Reduced Funding for Nuclear Weapons Programs The House Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee yesterday unanimously approved the fiscal 2004 energy and water appropriations bill, which includes reduced funding for the Bush administration’s nuclear and nonproliferation efforts, according to Reuters (see GSN, March 11). The $27.1 billion bill cuts $326 million from the White House funding request for the U.S. Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees U.S. nuclear weapons programs. The bill does include, however, $8.5 billion for the NNSA, an increase of $330 million over the current fiscal year, Reuters reported. The bill also cuts most of the $15.5 million White House request to conduct research on new, smaller nuclear weapons, according to Reuters (see GSN, June 13). In addition, the bill reduces by $60 million the administration funding request for an Energy program to help Russia dispose of its Soviet-era arsenal. The bill does include increased funding for a project to build a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, Reuters reported (see GSN, Feb. 20). Most of increased funding, more than $174 million over the Bush administration’s request, is slated to go toward building a railroad line to transport waste to the repository around Las Vegas as part of efforts to reduce opposition to the project in Nevada (Reuters/Planet Ark, July 9).
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