[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 795 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 795

 To require the Secretary of Energy to develop a plan to decrease the 
    threat resulting from the theft or diversion of highly enriched 
                                uranium.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2003

Mr. Deutsch (for himself and Mr. Markey) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Energy to develop a plan to decrease the 
    threat resulting from the theft or diversion of highly enriched 
                                uranium.

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

SECTION 1. PLAN.

    Section 307 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 
5877) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d) Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of Energy shall transmit to the Congress a plan 
to decrease the threat resulting from the theft or diversion of highly 
enriched uranium. Such plan shall provide, as appropriate, for--
            ``(1) monitoring of highly enriched uranium supplies at any 
        commercial companies who have access to substantial amounts of 
        highly enriched uranium;
            ``(2) assistance to companies described in paragraph (1) 
        with security and personnel checks;
            ``(3) acceleration of the process of blending down excess 
        highly enriched uranium into low-enriched uranium;
            ``(4) purchasing highly enriched uranium;
            ``(5) paying the cost of shipping highly enriched uranium;
            ``(6) accelerating the conversion of commercial research 
        reactors and energy reactors to the use of low-enriched uranium 
        where they now use highly enriched uranium; and
            ``(7) minimizing, and encouraging transparency in, the 
        further enrichment of low-enriched uranium to highly enriched 
        uranium.''.
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