S.Amdt. 1605

SA 1605. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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

SEC. 3124. LIMITATION ON ACCELERATION OF DISMANTLEMENT OF
RETIRED NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

(a) Limitation.--Except as provided in subsections (b) and
(c), none of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this
Act or otherwise made available for any of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 for the National Nuclear Security Administration
may be obligated or expended to accelerate the dismantlement
of the nuclear weapons of the United States to a rate faster
than the rate mandated by the total projected dismantlement
schedule included in table 2-7 of the annex to the stockpile
stewardship and management plan for fiscal year 2016
submitted to Congress in March 2015 under section 4203 of the
Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2523).
(b) Exception for Compliance With Certain Commitments.--
(1) Certification.--The limitation under subsection (a)
shall not apply with respect to a fiscal year if the
President submits to the appropriate congressional committees
a certification that the President has--
(A) requested, in the budget of the President for that
fiscal year submitted to Congress under section 1105(a) of
title 31, United States Code, sufficient amounts to fulfill
for that fiscal year all commitments related to nuclear
modernization funding, capabilities, and schedules that the
President made to the Senate during the consideration by the
Senate of the resolution of advice and consent to
ratification of the New START Treaty, as described in--
(i) the document entitled, ``Message from the President on
the New START Treaty'', dated February 2, 2011; and
(ii) the fiscal year 2012 update to the report required by
section 1251 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111-84; 123 Stat. 2549),
submitted to Congress in February 2011; and
(B) except as provided in paragraph (2), fulfilled all such
commitments.
(2) Exception.--If, for any fiscal year covered by the
limitation under subsection (a), an appropriations Act is
enacted that appropriates amounts that are insufficient for
the President to fulfill the commitments described in
paragraph (1)(A), the President may certify under paragraph
(1)(B) that the President has fulfilled such commitments to
the extent possible with available funds.
(c) Exception for Certain Stockpile Management
Activities.--The limitation under subsection (a) shall not
apply to activities necessary to conduct maintenance or
surveillance of the nuclear weapons stockpile or activities
to ensure the safety or reliability of the stockpile.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the congressional defense committees;
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Select
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
(C) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
Representatives.
(2) New start treaty.--The term ``New START Treaty'' means
the Treaty between the United States of America and the
Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and
Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed on April 8,
2010, and entered into force on February 5, 2011.
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