S.Amdt. 2998

SA 2998. 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. 305. (a) Not later than April 1, 2019, and annually
thereafter through 2025, the Chairperson of the Nuclear
Weapons Council established under section 179 of title 10,
United States Code, 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 recommended by the Administrator in a
letter to the congressional defense committees dated May 10,
2018, 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).
(b) 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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