The other major facility we have right now in the waste program. is the Waste isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico It has an estimated TEC of $350 million, and is now about 80 percent complete in terms of construction. The design has been completed. This particular photograph shows the waste nandung building This is the main shaft that goes down some 215 feet into a salt zone where the TRU waste will be emplaced. On the right is the exhaust shart. The waste handiing building is snown nere. Suce follows: • ASSURES CONTINUED SAFE WASTE MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS IN SUPPORT OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS PRODUCTION AND WEAPONS FABRICATION • PROVIDES MAJOR STEPS TOWARD PERMANENT DISPOSAL OF DEFENSE WASTE 63(3) SUMMARY Our budget request for 1987 marginally meets the stockpile requirements, and supports the priority safety, security and environmental improvements. In terms of the waste program, we are on a path to manage waste effectively within this program, and reach that point where we will reduce, or at least not accumulate into our storage inventory, any additional waste. ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY AND HEALTH FUNDING Admiral Foley asked me to address now for overall Defense Programs some of the environmental activities and get those in the record, in terms of the budget request. I will do that with three brief slides of a few comments. [Slide follows:] |