[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2597 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2597

To clarify that environmental protection, safety, and health provisions 
  continue to apply to the functions of the National Nuclear Security 
Administration to the same extent as those provisions applied to those 
            functions before transfer to the Administration.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 18, 2000

 Mr. Gorton (for himself, Mr. DeWine, Mr. Voinovich, Mrs. Murray, Mr. 
  Crapo, and Mr. Craig) introduced the following bill; which was read 
         twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To clarify that environmental protection, safety, and health provisions 
  continue to apply to the functions of the National Nuclear Security 
Administration to the same extent as those provisions applied to those 
            functions before transfer to the Administration.

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

SECTION 1. CONTINUED APPLICABILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, SAFETY, 
              AND HEALTH PROVISIONS TO THE NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY 
              ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) Compliance Required.--Section 3261 of the National Nuclear 
Security Administration Act (title XXXII of Public Law 106-65; 113 
Stat. 967; 50 U.S.C. 2461) is amended--
            (1) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
    ``(a) Compliance Required.--The Administrator shall ensure that the 
operations and activities of the Administration are executed in full 
compliance with the matters described in subsection (e).''; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new 
        subsections:
    ``(d) Savings Clause.--Nothing in this title shall be construed to 
limit, impair, enlarge, or otherwise alter the matters described in 
subsection (e), or any obligation of the Administration or the 
Department to comply with any such matter.
    ``(e) Matters Included.--The matters referred to in subsections (a) 
and (d) are requirements, whether procedural or substantive, of--
            ``(1) Federal environmental, safety, and health laws, 
        regulations, and rules, including any waivers of Federal 
        sovereign immunity in any such laws;
            ``(2) State, interstate, or local environmental, safety, 
        and health laws, regulations, and rules for which the Federal 
        Government has waived its sovereign immunity;
            ``(3) to the extent authorized by the laws, regulations, 
        rules, and requirements referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) 
        (including any waiver of Federal sovereign immunity in any such 
        laws), any orders, permits, licenses, and other directives 
        issued pursuant to such laws, regulations, rules and 
        requirements, including--
                    ``(A) civil and administrative fines and penalties, 
                whether coercive or punitive, and whether imposed for 
                isolated, intermittent, or continuing violations;
                    ``(B) fees and charges; and
                    ``(C) civil and administrative processes, 
                authorities, and sanctions, including injunctive 
                relief; and
            ``(4) agreements entered into pursuant to those laws, 
        regulations, and rules.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 3296 of such Act (113 Stat. 
971; 50 U.S.C. 2484) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(b) Other Provisions.--'' before 
        ``Unless'';
            (2) by inserting ``other'' before ``provisions''; and
            (3) by inserting before subsection (b) (as designated by 
        paragraph (1)) the following new subsection:
    ``(a) Environmental, Safety, and Health Provisions.--All provisions 
of the matters described in subsection (e) of section 3261 in effect 
immediately before the effective date of this title that are applicable 
to the functions or facilities of the Department of Energy specified in 
section 3291 shall continue to apply to the corresponding functions or 
facilities of the Administration. Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to impair the application to the Administration of any such 
matter that becomes effective on or after the effective date of this 
title.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on March 1, 2000.
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