S.Amdt. 1964

SA 1964. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Barrasso) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4049, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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:

Strike section 3159 and insert the following:

SEC. 3159. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON EXTENSION OF LIMITATIONS ON
IMPORTATION OF URANIUM FROM RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

It is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) a secure nuclear fuel supply chain is essential to the
economic and national security of the United States;
(2) the United States should--
(A) expeditiously complete negotiation of an extension of
the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on
Uranium from the Russian Federation (commonly referred to as
the ``Russian Suspension Agreement''); or
(B) if an agreement to extend the Russian Suspension
Agreement cannot be reached, impose antidumping duties under
title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.)
on imports of uranium from the Russian Federation--
(i) to maintain a nuclear fuel supply chain in the United
States, consistent with the national security and
nonproliferation goals of the United States; and
(ii) to protect the United States nuclear fuel supply chain
from the continued manipulation of the global and United
States uranium markets by the Russian Federation and Russian-
influenced competitors;
(3) a renegotiated, long-term extension of the Russian
Suspension Agreement is an important component of a broader
strategy to prevent adversaries of the United States from
monopolizing the nuclear fuel supply chain;
(4) as was done in 2008, upon completion of a new
negotiated long-term extension of the Russian Suspension
Agreement, Congress should enact legislation to codify the
terms of extension into law to ensure long-term stability for
the domestic nuclear fuel supply chain; and
(5) if the negotiations to extend the Russian Suspension
Agreement prove unsuccessful, Congress should enact
legislation extending the current limits to prevent the
manipulation by the Russian Federation of global uranium
markets and potential domination by the Russian Federation of
the United States uranium market.
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