Use of Prior Year (Defense Environmental

What this funds

This PBS can be found within the Defense Environmental Cleanup appropriation. This PBS includes all activities necessary for the disposal of contact-handled and remote-handled transuranic waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Key operations elements include: 1) operation of the disposal facility - including mining, waste handling, and the maintenance/repair of infrastructure to safely maintain the facility and operations in compliance with all Federal and state laws, regulations, and environmental requirements; and 2) environmental compliance - maintenance of compliance certification through monitoring and verifying the performance of the FY 2027 funding includes the following activities: surface and underground operations, including transuranic waste emplacement in existing approved disposal panels and mine stability (ground control); maintenance and repair of facilities and equipment; quality assurance; nuclear safety measures, including Documented Safety Analysis maintenance; security, safety and health programs, including safety management program and oversight program enhancements such as fire protection systems; regulatory compliance; project planning and control; mining and panel closure recruiting events which include purchase of merchandise that highlights the WIPP mission; and management and oversight and interagency programs. It is estimated that around 300 shipm

Extracted from doe fy 2027 volume 5 em, p. 58. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased. This is a different document from the one the figures above were read off — the agency prints this line's dollars in a summary table and its justification elsewhere.

Contracts funded by this line

51 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.

Showing 8 of 51 — most confidently matched first, largest within a confidence tier. These are not necessarily the largest 8.

Confidence mix · 51 medium

Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.

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