S.Amdt. 1787

1. Adds SEC. 3136. UPDATED REPORT ON THE STATUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES TO ACCELERATE THE REDUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS AND CHALLENGES POSED BY THE LEGACY OF THE COLD WAR 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. UPDATED REPORT ON THE STATUS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INITIATIVES TO ACCELERATE THE REDUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS AND CHALLENGES POSED BY THE LEGACY OF THE COLD WAR.

   Inserted: (a) In General.--On the date referred to in subsection (c), the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the congressional defense committees and the Comptroller General of the United States an update to the report on the status of environmental management initiatives required by section 3130 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110-181; 122 Stat. 585) to fully evaluate the progress made by the Department of Energy toward--

   Inserted: (1) reducing the environmental risks and challenges that result from the legacy of the Cold War; and

   Inserted: (2) complying with the mandatory environmental cleanup milestones of the Department.

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

   Inserted: (1) A list of the major mandatory environmental cleanup milestones of the Department of Energy by site that the Department may miss, including--

   Inserted: (A) a statement explaining the reason or reasons for missing each such milestone;

   Inserted: (B) an assessment of any penalties that the Department could incur as a result of missing each such milestone;

   Inserted: (C) an estimate of the amount of funding necessary to ensure the compliance of the Department with each such milestone; and

   Inserted: (D) an assessment of the specific environmental risks that may continue because of, or result from, missing each such milestone.

   Inserted: (2) A list of the major mandatory environmental cleanup milestones of the Department of Energy by site that the Department has missed since January 1, 2000, including--

   Inserted: (A) a statement explaining the reason or reasons for missing each such milestone;

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   Inserted: (B) a report on any financial penalties that the Department incurred as a result of missing each such milestone;

   Inserted: (C) an assessment of whether budget requests of the Department to Congress requested funding sufficient to allow the Department to meet each such milestone; and

   Inserted: (D) a discussion of the specific environmental risks that continued because of, or resulted from, missing each such milestone.

   Inserted: (3) Recommendations with respect to legislative or regulatory changes or clarifications that would improve or accelerate environmental management activities to reduce the environmental risks and challenges that face the Department of Energy as a result of the legacy of the Cold War.

   Inserted: (c) Date for Submittal of Report.--The date referred to in this subsection is the date on which the budget justification materials in support of the Department of Energy budget for fiscal year 2011 (as submitted with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code) are submitted to Congress.

   Original wording

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

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