S.Amdt. 4323

SA 4323. Mr. TILLIS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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 III, add the following:

SEC. 318. REPORTS ON MOBILE MICROREACTOR DEVELOPMENT AND
DEPLOYMENT.

(a) Report on Plans for Mobile Microreactor Program.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for
Research and Engineering shall submit to the congressional
defense committees a report on the plans by the Department of
Defense for the mobile microreactor program of the
Department.
(2) Limitation on use of funds.--Until the report required
by paragraph (1) is submitted to the congressional defense
committees, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for
Research and Engineering may not expend more than 25 percent
of the funds appropriated to such Office for fiscal year
2022.
(b) Report on Regulatory Framework.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, The Secretary of Defense, in
coordination

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with the Secretary of Energy and in consultation with the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the commercial nuclear
industry, shall submit to the congressional defense
committees a report on the regulatory framework for the
deployment by the Secretary of Defense of mobile
microreactors.
(2) Contents.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall
include--
(A) a description of the regulatory framework by which the
Secretary of Defense will--
(i) leverage the commercial development of mobile
microreactors to deploy such microreactors to military
installations in the United States;
(ii) designate the head of a component of the Department of
Defense to carry out clause (i); and
(iii) develop a scalable pilot program to identify the
first 5 installations in the United States that are projected
to receive mobile microreactors under clause (i); and
(B) a summary of expected timelines and projected costs for
carrying out clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) of subparagraph
(A); and
(C) such other information as the Secretary of Defense
considers appropriate.
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