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DOE/CF-0113 Department of Energy FY 2016 Congressional Budget Request Budget in Brief February 2015 Office of Chief Financial Officer DOE/CF-0113 Department of Energy FY 2016 Congressional Budget Request Budget in Brief February 2015 Office of Chief Financial Officer Printed with soy ink on recycled paper FY 2016 BUDGET IN BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 1 Funding by Appropriation .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Funding by Organization ................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Nuclear Security National Nuclear Security Administration ............................................................................................................................... 10 Weapons Activities ............................................................................................................................................................. 12 Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation ..................................................................................................................................... 16 Naval Reactors .................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Federal Salaries and Expenses ............................................................................................................................................ 21 Science and Energy ........................................................................................................................................................................ 22 Science ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ................................................................................................................................ 29 Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability ................................................................................................................................ 32 Fossil Energy Research and Development ............................................................................................................................... 35 Fossil Energy Petroleum Accounts ........................................................................................................................................... 38 Nuclear Energy ......................................................................................................................................................................... 40 Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs ........................................................................................................................... 42 Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy .......................................................................................................................... 43 Energy Information Administration ......................................................................................................................................... 44 Credit Programs Title 17 – Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program .............................................................................................. 45 Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program .......................................................................................... 46 Tribal Indian Energy Loan Guarantee Program .................................................................................................................. 47 Management and Performance Environmental Management ................................................................................................................................................... 48 Office of Legacy Management ................................................................................................................................................. 51 Office of Hearings and Appeals ................................................................................................................................................ 52 Departmental Administration .................................................................................................................................................. 53 Environment, Health, Safety and Security ..................................................................................................................................... 55 Enterprise Assessments ................................................................................................................................................................. 56 Office of the Inspector General ..................................................................................................................................................... 57 Power Marketing Administrations ................................................................................................................................................. 58 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ........................................................................................................................................ 60 Appendix Crosscutting Activities to Advance National Energy Goals ...................................................................................................... 62 Funding by Site ......................................................................................................................................................................... 71 OVERVIEW The Department of Energy (DOE) is entrusted with critical responsibilities for America’s security and prosperity: • Sustaining the nuclear deterrent without testing; in an age of global terrorism, advancing the President’s commitment to controlling and eliminating nuclear materials worldwide; supporting the Navy nuclear propulsion program • Enabling the transition to a low-carbon secure energy future, especially by developing low-cost, all-of-the-above energy technologies and a 21st century resilient energy infrastructure; • Providing the backbone for America’s research community, especially in the physical sciences, as the foundation for discovery and innovation; • Protecting public health and safety through a long term commitment to cleaning up the Cold War legacy from nuclear weapons production, and by developing and maintaining emergency response capabilities for nuclear and radiological incidents and energy infrastructure disruptions. The seventeen DOE national laboratories are core scientific and technical assets for carrying out these missions. DOE requests $29.9 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2016, an increase of $2.5 billion from the FY 2015 Enacted level. The domestic energy revolution is one of the great success stories of this new century. The economy is growing at the fastest pace in eleven years, with sustained job creation, in part because of energy. DOE programs have contributed to this revolution through continued progress in our understanding of the scientific foundations of energy sciences and technology; clean energy technological innovation and advanced manufacturing research and demonstration; credit support for early commercial deployments; and new technologies and standards to enhance end use energy efficiency. Yet major opportunities and challenges remain for continued technological innovation that reduces cost and enhances performance, for educating and training the workforce for tomorrow's energy economy, and for modernizing our domestic energy infrastructure for the 21st century economy. The DOE FY 2016 Budget Request includes $10.7 billion, an increase of $1.3 billion from the FY 2015 Enacted level, to address these challenges. The strategic framework for the budget proposals is provided by the Administration's all-of-the-above energy strategy and the President's Climate Action Plan, as described further in the Department's Strategic Plan. The Budget Request highlights new investments in energy infrastructure technology to improve the resilience of the electric grid and to reduce methane emissions from natural gas systems; supports state-level energy assurance planning; and funds maintenance of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and other critical energy infrastructure. These efforts will be further delineated in the Quadrennial Energy Review to be released in early 2015. The Request also strengthens DOE’s world- leading discovery research in the physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and computational sciences. The FY 2016 Budget Request also supports six crosscutting research initiatives, acknowledging that multi-disciplinary, cross-program activities are needed to adequately address our energy challenges. These enterprise-wide approaches to research efforts will produce more effective outcomes and broaden the potential for material impacts on our energy and security goals. The FY 2016 Budget Request for nuclear security is $12.6 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), an increase of $1.2