[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2316 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2316

  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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 15, 1998

 Mr. McConnell (for himself, Mr. DeWine, and Mr. Glenn) introduced the 
             following bill; which was read the first time

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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 the 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 of 1954 (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described in subsection (a) shall be withdrawn from the United States 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) 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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