[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2501 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2501

To establish requirements arising from the delay or restriction on the 
   shipment of special nuclear materials to the Savannah River Site, 
                         Aiken, South Carolina.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 9, 2002

 Mr. Allard (for himself, Mr. Sessions, and Mrs. Hutchison) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                           on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish requirements arising from the delay or restriction on the 
   shipment of special nuclear materials to the Savannah River Site, 
                         Aiken, South Carolina.

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

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO DELAY, RESTRICTION, OR PROHIBITION 
              ON SHIPMENT OF SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS TO SAVANNAH 
              RIVER SITE, AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA.

    (a) Requirements.--Subject to subsection (c), if as of the date of 
the enactment of this Act, or at any time after that date, the State of 
South Carolina acts to delay or restrict, or seeks or enforces a 
judgment to prohibit, the shipment of special nuclear materials (SNM) 
to the Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina, for processing by 
the proposed mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication facility at the 
Savannah River Site, the Secretary of Energy shall--
            (1) reopen the Record of Decision (ROD) on the mixed oxide 
        fuel fabrication facility for purposes of identifying and 
        evaluating alternative locations for the mixed oxide fuel 
        fabrication facility; and
            (2) conduct a study of the costs and implications for the 
        national security of the United States of--
                    (A) converting the Savannah River site to an 
                environmental management (EM) closure site; and
                    (B) transferring all current and proposed national 
                security activities at the Savannah River Site from the 
                Savannah River Site to other facilities of the National 
                Nuclear Security Administration or the Department of 
                Energy, as appropriate.
    (b) Report on Study.--If the Secretary conducts a study under 
subsection (a)(2), the Secretary shall submit to the congressional 
defense committees a report on the study not later than six months 
after the commencement of the study.
    (c) Contingent Suspension of Applicability of Requirements.--If at 
any time before the requirements in subsection (a) otherwise go into 
effect, the Secretary and the State of South Carolina enter into an 
agreement regarding the shipment of special nuclear materials to the 
Savannah River Site for processing by the proposed mixed oxide fuel 
fabrication facility at the Savannah River Site, the requirements in 
subsection (a) shall not go into effect as long, as determined by the 
Secretary, as the Secretary and the State of South Carolina comply with 
the agreement.
    (d) Special Nuclear Materials.--In this section, the term ``special 
nuclear materials'' includes weapons grade plutonium.
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