[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3923 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3923

    To authorize the Worker and Community Transition Office of the 
    Department of Energy to manage a fund to assist workers at, and 
   communities surrounding, the Piketon, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky 
                       uranium enrichment plants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 1998

Mr. Strickland (for himself and Mr. Whitfield) introduced the following 
         bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Worker and Community Transition Office of the 
    Department of Energy to manage a fund to assist workers at, and 
   communities surrounding, the Piketon, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky 
                       uranium enrichment plants.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Empowerment and Employee 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. DOE WORKER AND COMMUNITY TRANSITION OFFICE.

    (a) General Rule.--There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary of Energy an amount equal to the amount described in 
subsection (b). Such amount shall be used to provide a fund for the 
Worker and Community Transition Office of the Department of Energy to 
allocate to the communities surrounding and the workers at the Piketon, 
Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky uranium enrichment plants to help train 
displaced workers and to assist in ascertaining future business 
opportunities for such workers. The allocation of funds would be 
directly related to the unemployment rates at the respective sites.
    (b) Fund.--The amount authorized to be appropriated under 
subsection (a) in any fiscal year is the amount paid as tax to the 
Federal Government by the United States Enrichment Corporation in such 
fiscal year.
    (c) Termination.--The authorization of appropriations to the 
Secretary of Energy and the fund to be managed by the Worker and 
Community Transition Office of the Department of Energy shall terminate 
when the local unemployment rates in the counties surrounding both the 
Piketon and Paducah facilities are not greater than the average 
unemployment rate for the States in which such cities are located.
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