S.Amdt. 5468

SA 5468. Mr. INHOFE (for himself, Mr. Crapo, and Mr. Craig) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 3001, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Strike section 3104 and insert the following:

SEC. 3104. DEFENSE NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL.

(a) In General.--Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2009 for defense nuclear waste disposal for payment to the Nuclear Waste Fund established in section 302(c) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10222(c)) in the amount of $247,371,000.

(b) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by this division (other than the amount authorized to be appropriated for defense nuclear waste disposal) is hereby reduced by $50,000,000, with the amount of the reduction to be allocated among the accounts for which funds are authorized to be appropriated by this division in a manner specified by the Secretary of Energy.