S.Amdt. 5245

SA 5245. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 5194 submitted by Mr. Schumer and intended to be proposed
to the bill H.R. 5376, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title
II of S; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of part 7 of subtitle A of title V of the
amendment, add the following:

SEC. 50174. NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT AT HANFORD SITE.

Section 3116 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108-375;
50 U.S.C. 2602 note) is amended--
(1) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the following
paragraph:
``(3) The State of Washington.'';
(2) in subsection (e)(2), by striking ``the State of
Washington, the State of Oregon'' and inserting ``the State
of Oregon''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following subsection:
``(g) Waste Management at Hanford Site.--If the Secretary,
in consultation with the Commission, classifies any residual
radioactive waste in a tank at the Hanford Site, Richland,
Washington, as other than high-level waste under this
section, the Secretary--
``(1) may not remove such tank; and
``(2) shall treat such waste with grout or another
immobilizing substance, as the Secretary determines
appropriate.''.
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