15 Other sites lag much further behind. Some survey work has been done at the Kambarka site, but progress at the other sites has been limited to public involvement and outreach conducted by the international organisation Green Cross International. Reportedly, the Russian Ministry of Defence wants to begin fulfilling Moscow s CWC obligations by using mobile destruction facilities until Russia s chemical weapons destruction facilities are operational. However, others in the Russian Government appear to oppose these plans. Despite the all-important role of the Shchuch ye facility in the Russian chemical demilitarisation effort, the United States is set once again to cut project funding for the next fiscal year.
Funding is addressed in two Congressional bills an appropriations bill and an authorisation bill.
Authorisation bills establish a legal framework in accordance with which appropriations bills can allocate funding. A programme can be authorised, but it does not necessarily follow that it will also be granted funding in an appropriations bill. For a programme to receive money, the appropriations bill must include funding. Both houses of the US legislature the House of Representatives and the Senate separately draft their own authorisation and appropriations bills and then conference to produce a final version of each bill. On the appropriations side, the House and the Senate both agreed to and passed a conference report in July that includes no funding for the Shchuch ye facility.