S.Amdt. 4251

SA 4251. Mr. DOMENICI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2766, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 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 Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 573, after line 20, add the following:

SEC. 3121. DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING OF PROCESS-CONTAMINATED FACILITIES.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Energy is authorized to undertake immediate decommissioning and decontamination of process-contaminated facilities located at National Nuclear Security Administration facilities. The Secretary shall allocate not less than $75,000,000 for such activities out of the amount made available under section 3102 for fiscal year 2007 for defense environmental cleanup activities.

(b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to Congress a report identifying all excess process-contaminated National Nuclear Security Administration facilities and a plan, including a strategy and budgetary requirements, for decontaminating such facilities.