S.Amdt. 1480

1. Adds SEC. 3136. SENSE OF CONGRESS AND REPORT ON EXPANDING THE MISSION OF THE NEVADA TEST SITE at the end of subtitle C of title XXXI

   Adds a section

   In S. 1390 · Placed on Calendar Senate

   The Secretary of Energy shall include in the budget justification materials submitted to Congress in support of the Department of Energy budget for a fiscal year (as submitted with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code) specific identification, as a budgetary line item, of the amounts required to meet the pension obligations of the Department of Energy for contractor employees at each facility of the Department of Energy operated using amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Energy for the National Nuclear Security Administration or for defense environmental cleanup.

   Inserted: SEC. 3136. SENSE OF CONGRESS AND REPORT ON EXPANDING THE MISSION OF THE NEVADA TEST SITE.

   Inserted: (a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--

   Inserted: (1) the Nevada Test Site of the National Nuclear Security Administration can play an effective and essential role in developing and demonstrating--

   Inserted: (A) innovative and effective methods for treaty verification and the detection of nuclear weapons and other materials; and

   Inserted: (B) related threat reduction technologies; and

   Inserted: (2) the Administrator for Nuclear Security should expand the mission of the Nevada Test Site to carry out the role described in paragraph (1), including by--

   Inserted: (A) fully utilizing the inherent capabilities and uniquely secure location of the Site;

   Inserted: (B) continuing to support the Nation's nuclear weapons program and other national security programs; and

   Inserted: (C) renaming the Site to reflect the expanded mission of the Site.

   Inserted: (b) Report on Expanded Mission for the Nevada Test Site.--Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator for Nuclear Security shall submit to the congressional defense committees a plan for improving the infrastructure of the Nevada Test Site of the National Nuclear Security Administration--

   Inserted: (1) to fulfill the expanded mission of the Site described in subsection (a); and

   Inserted: (2) to make the Site available to support the threat reduction programs of the entire national security community, including threat reduction programs of the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies as appropriate.

   Original wording

   At the end of subtitle C of title XXXI, add the following:

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