S.Amdt. 2619

SA 2619. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Udall) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr.
Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the
bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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:

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

SEC. 3119. IMPLEMENTATION OF PLUTONIUM STRATEGY.

(a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
(1) The National Nuclear Security Administration
recommended a plutonium pit production strategy to the
congressional defense committees in a letter dated May 10,
2018.
(2) The Chairperson of the Nuclear Weapons Council
established under section 179 of title 10, United States
Code, certified the letter described in paragraph (1) to the
congressional defense committees in a letter dated May 4,
2018, pursuant to section 3141 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91).
(b) Annual Certification.--Not later than April 1, 2019,
and annually thereafter through 2025, the Chairperson of the
Nuclear Weapons Council shall submit to the Secretary of
Defense, the Administrator for Nuclear Security, and the
congressional defense committees a written certification that
the plutonium pit production strategy described in subsection
(a)(1) is on track to meet--
(1) the requirement to begin production of 30 war reserve
pits per year at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,
New Mexico, by 2026; and
(2) the timelines for demonstrating a capability to produce
an additional 50 war reserve plutonium pits per year, as
required by section 4219 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50
U.S.C. 2538a).
(c) Briefing.--Not later than March 1, 2019, the
Chairperson of the Nuclear Weapons Council and the
Administrator for Nuclear Security shall jointly provide to
the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives,
and to any other congressional defense committee upon
request, a briefing detailing the implementation of the
plutonium strategy described in subsection (a)(1),
including--
(1) milestones;
(2) accountable personnel for such milestones; and
(3) mechanisms for ensuring transparency with respect to
the progress of the strategy for the Department of Defense
and the congressional defense committees.
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