[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4234 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4234

  To require the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress a plan to 
   ensure that all amounts accrued on the books of the United States 
    Enrichment Corporation for the disposition of depleted uranium 
    hexafluoride will be used to treat and recycle depleted uranium 
                             hexafluoride.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 1998

   Mr. Whitfield (for himself, Mr. Bunning, Mr. Strickland, and Mr. 
   Baesler) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress a plan to 
   ensure that all amounts accrued on the books of the United States 
    Enrichment Corporation for the disposition of depleted uranium 
    hexafluoride will be used to treat and recycle depleted uranium 
                             hexafluoride.

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

SECTION 1. UNITED STATES ENRICHMENT CORPORATION.

    (a) Plan.--The Secretary of Energy shall prepare, and the President 
shall include in the budget request for fiscal year 2000, a plan and 
proposed legislation to ensure that all amounts accrued on the books of 
the United States Enrichment Corporation for the disposition of 
depleted uranium hexafluoride will be used to commence construction of, 
not later than January 31, 2004, and to operate, an onsite facility at 
each of the gaseous diffusion plants at Paducah, Kentucky, and 
Portsmouth, Ohio, to treat and recycle depleted uranium hexafluoride.
    (b) Limitation.--Notwithstanding privatization of the United States 
Enrichment Corporation and notwithstanding any other provision of law 
(including the repeal of chapters 22 through 26 of the Atomic Energy 
Act (42 U.S.C. 2297 et seq.) made by section 3116(a)(1) of the USEC 
Privatization Act (104 Stat. 1321-349)), no amounts described in 
subsection (a) shall be withdrawn from the United States Enrichment 
Corporation Fund established by section 1308 of the Atomic Energy Act 
of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2297b-7) or the Working Capital Account established 
under section 1316 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2297b-
15) and shall remain in effect until the date that is 1 year after the 
date on which the President submits to Congress the budget request for 
fiscal year 2000.
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