To require the Comptroller General to conduct a study on the stockpile stewardship program.

1. Adds SEC. 3136. COMPTROLLER GENERAL STUDY OF STOCKPILE STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM at the end of subtitle C of title XXXI

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   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. COMPTROLLER GENERAL STUDY OF STOCKPILE STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM.

   Inserted: (a) In General.--The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a study of the stockpile stewardship program established under section 4201 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2521) to determine if the program was functioning, as of December 2008, as envisioned when the program was established.

   Inserted: (b) Elements.--The study required by subsection (a) shall include the following:

   Inserted: (1) An assessment of whether the capabilities determined to be necessary to maintain the nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear testing have been implemented and the extent to which such capabilities are functioning.

   Inserted: (2) A review and description of the agreements governing use, management, and support of the capabilities developed for the stockpile stewardship program and an assessment of enforcement of, and compliance with, those agreements.

   Inserted: (3) An assessment of plans for surveillance and testing of nuclear weapons in the stockpile and the extent of the compliance with such plans.

   Inserted: (4) An assessment of--

   Inserted: (A) the condition of the infrastructure at the plants and laboratories of the nuclear weapons complex;

   Inserted: (B) the value of nuclear weapons facilities built after 1992;

   Inserted: (C) any plans that are in place to maintain, improve, or replace such infrastructure;

   Inserted: (D) whether there is a validated requirement for all planned infrastructure replacement projects; and

   Inserted: (E) the projected costs for each such project and the timeline for completion of each such project.

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   Inserted: (5) An assessment of the efforts to ensure and maintain the intellectual and technical capability of the nuclear weapons complex to support the nuclear weapons stockpile.

   Inserted: (6) Recommendations for the stockpile stewardship program going forward.

   Inserted: (c) Report.--Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing the results of the study required by subsection (a).

   Original wording

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

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