News
February 11, 2008
President’s FY’09 DOE and EPA Budget Request
The President's proposed budget for the Federal Government was
released February 4, 2008, in Washington, DC. The FY 2009 budget request
for DOE-EERE activities is $1,255 billion. This is $19 million higher
than the FY’08 request, and a decrease of $467.0 million or 27.1 percent
below actual FY 2008 appropriations. The President’s FY 2009
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget request is $7.14 billion,
which is $56.9 million less than the FY 2008 budget request and $330
million less than FY 2008 appropriations. Some of the highlights of the
DOE-EERE FY’09 budget request include:
- Hydrogen Technology FY’09 request of $146 million, FY’ 08
request of $213 million
- Biomass FY’09 request of $225 million, FY’ 08 request of
$179 million
- Solar Energy FY’09 request of $156 million, FY’ 08
request of $148 million
- Wind Energy FY’09 request of $53 million, FY’ 08 request
of $40 million
- Geothermal Technology FY’09 request, of $30 million FY’
08 request of N/A
- Water Power FY’09 request of $3 million, FY’ 08 request
of N/A
- Vehicle Technologies FY’09 request of $221 million, FY’
08 request of $176 million
- Building Technologies FY’09 request of $124 million, FY’
08 request of $86 million
- Industrial Technologies FY’09 request of $62 million, FY’
08 request of $46 million
- Federal Energy Management Program FY’09 request of $22
million, FY’ 08 request of $17 million
- Weatherization FY’09 request $0, FY’08 request $144
million
- State Energy Program FY’09 request of $50 million ($25M
formula, $25M competitive), FY’08 request $45 million
A PDF of the budget request detail for DOE-EERE is available by
clicking here.
The President’s FY 2009 budget request for Climate Protection
programs includes such programs as Energy Star, SmartWay Transport,
Methane to Markets Partnership and Asia-Pacific Partnership. Following
are highlights of the request:
- ENERGY STAR – $4 million cut from FY'08 to $44 million
- Greenhouse Gas Reporting Registry – $0 a 100% cut from
$3.4 million in FY'08 appropriations
- Climate Science and Technology program – $6.9 million cut
from FY'08 appropriations
- Methane to Markets – $177,000 increase or a 4.1% increase
from FY'08 appropriations
- Asian Pacific Partnership – $5.0 million increase with no
previous appropriation amount
A PDF of the EPA budget can be access at
www.epa.gov/ocfo/budget/2009/2009bib.pdf.
ASERTTI is engaging the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and Congressional staff to ensure state
cost-shared, competitive funding that targets state and local energy and
environmental institutions becomes an important element of federal
funding for FY’09. If you have questions please contact David Terry at
DTerry@asertti.org. |
