S.Amdt. 3357

SA 3357. Ms. CANTWELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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:

Beginning on page 389, strike line 24 and all that follows through page 391, line 7, and insert the following: later than one year and one day after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3119. ON-SITE TREATMENT AND STORAGE OF WASTES FROM REPROCESSING ACTIVITIES AND RELATED WASTE.

(a) The Department of Energy shall continue all activities related to the storage, retrieval, treatment, separation and on-site disposition of tank wastes currently managed as high-level radioactive waste in accordance with treatment and closure plans approved by the state in which the activities are taking place as part of a program to clean up and dispose of waste from reprocessing spent nuclear fuel at the sites referred to in subsection (c).

(b) Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by section 3102(a)(1) for defense site acceleration completion, $350,000,000 shall be available for the activities to be undertaken pursuant to subsection (a).

(c) Sites.--The sites referred to in this subsection are as follows:

(1) The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho

(2) The Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina

(3) The Hanford Site, Richland, Washington.

(d) Section 3116 of this bill shall have no effect on other states. Nothing in section 3116 shall alter or jeopardize the full implementation of the settlement agreement entered into by the United States with the State of Idaho in the actions captioned Public Service Co. of Colorado v. Batt, Civil No. 91-0035-S-EJL, and United States v. Batt, Civil No. 91-0054-S-EJL, in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho and the consent order of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, dated October 17, 1995, that effectuates the settlement agreement, the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order, or the Hanford Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order. Furthermore, nothing in this section establishes any precedent or is binding on the States of Idaho, Washington, or any other state for the management, storage, treatment, and disposition of radioactive and hazardous materials.