S.Amdt. 2921

SA 2921. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Udall) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2910 proposed by Mr.
Shelby to the bill H.R. 5895, making appropriations for energy and
water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the end of title III of division A, add the following:
Sec. 311. (a) 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) 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) In this section, the term ``congressional defense
committees'' has the meaning given that term in section
101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code.
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