S.Amdt. 3362

SA 3362. 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 384, strike line 2 and all that follows through page 385, line 21, and insert the following:

“1 of each year thereafter”. This section shall become effective one day after enactment.

SEC. 3116. ON-SITE TREATMENT AND STORAGE OF WASTES FROM REPROCESSING ACTIVITIES AND RELATED WASTE.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law 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 3119 of this Act shall have no effect.