S.Amdt. 3317

SA 3317. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2400, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Services, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle B of title XXXI, insert the following:

SEC. 3122. BERYLLIUM SCREENING IN MASSACHUSETTS.

(a) Availability of Funds.--Of the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2005 by section 3103 for other defense activities, $250,000 shall be available for beryllium screening, and related outreach, for employees of vendors who supplied beryllium to the Atomic Energy Commission for use in the nuclear weapons program.

(b) Employees of Vendors Defined.--In this section, the term “employees of vendors” means employees of vendors in Massachusetts as follows:

(1) Wyman Gordon, Incorporated.

(2) Norton.

(3) Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation.

(4) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

(5) Any other beryllium vendor identified as such for purposes of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (title XXXVI of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (as enacted into law by Public Law 106-398); 42 U.S.C. 7384 et seq.).