But it offers only $31 million of new money for the destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles at the Blue Grass facility in Richmond, Ky., and the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colo.

The $2.57 trillion budget, which now goes to Congress, would eliminate or vastly scale back 150 government programs. The proposal covers the fiscal year starting Oct. 1.

A military study conducted last year determined the weapons facilities each needed about $115 million in the coming fiscal year to keep the weapons destruction program on track, said Craig Williams, director of the Chemical Weapons Working Group. An international treaty calls for destruction of the country's stockpile of chemical weapons by 2012.

"It is irresponsible that the Administration continues to spend billions of dollars in Iraq, but will not fulfill its obligation to the citizens of Kentucky by funding the weapons disposal program at the Blue Grass Army Depot," Rep. Ben Chandler, a Democrat who represents a central Kentucky district, said in a statement.

Chandler said he would work to try to increase the amount of money available for the Blue Grass depot.

In other projects, the budget proposal includes $90 million for two new locks at the Olmsted Locks and Dam on the Ohio River and $70 million to replace two navigation locks at the McAlpine Locks and Dam near Louisville.

The budget proposes keeping spending flat at $65 million for the Appalachian Regional Commission's economic development programs, which span the 13-state region. Another $450 million, the same amount as last year, would be spent on the Appalachina Development Highway System, which helps bring roadways into the isolated region.

Rep. Hal Rogers, a Republican who represents Kentucky's 5th District, applauded constant spending on the commission.

"The agency is lifting up our region by bringing opportunities and a better standard of living to our people," he said.The Office of Surface Mining received $58 million more this year than last year under the president's proposal. Much of that money will be spent on accelerating the process of reclaiming dangerous abandoned coal mine lands, said Jeffrey Jarrett, director of the office. By reauthorizing a fee charged to coal-producing companies and using the additional money toward the program, the reclamation of priority sites could be finished in 25 years, instead of 47, according to the office. The fee was set to expire in June.

Kentucky and Tennessee would both benefit from that process.

"Certainly a lot of this money would be going to those two states, the exact amount we wouldn't know yet," Jarrett said.