[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3231 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3231

   To suspend temporarily the duty on certain structures, parts, and 
         components for use in an isotopic separation facility.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 25, 2006

 Mr. Bingaman (for himself and Mr. Domenici) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To suspend temporarily the duty on certain structures, parts, and 
         components for use in an isotopic separation facility.

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

SECTION 1. CERTAIN STRUCTURES, PARTS, AND COMPONENTS FOR USE IN AN 
              ISOTOPIC SEPARATION FACILITY.

    (a) In General.--Subject to the National Enrichment Facility in 
southern New Mexico obtaining a license to operate an isotopic 
separation facility from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the 
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to admit free of 
duty after December 31, 2006, the following articles, provided for in 
heading 8401.20.00 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States, for the use in the construction of such enrichment facility:
            (1) Centrifuge medium frequency drive supply, including 
        medium frequency centrifuge drive converters, distribution and 
        protection systems (isotopic separation equipment).
            (2) Centrifuge supply and support systems, including 
        centrifuge monitoring system, proprietary centrifuge protection 
        system (isotopic separation equipment).
            (3) Centrifuge plant control system, including proprietary 
        software and hardware integration for core plant control 
        systems (isotopic separation equipment).
            (4) Cascade supply equipment (isotopic separation 
        equipment) consisting of--
                    (A) centrifuge components, including individual 
                component parts for the centrifuges to be supplied for 
                assembly at the National Enrichment Facility;
                    (B) cascade header pipe-work modules (CHP), 
                including approximately 2,000 modules specially 
                designed to allow the correct distribution of the 
                process gas into the cascade and made of a special 
                grade aluminum; and
                    (C) cascade valve frames, including approximately 
                50 manifold units to be the interface from the main 
                process plant to the cascade and specially designed to 
                enable optimum operation of the cascades.
            (5) Centrifuge process gas equipment (isotopic separation 
        equipment) consisting of--
                    (A) centrifuge process gas aluminum pipe work of 
                special grade aluminum tubing;
                    (B) centrifuge process gas valves, specially 
                designed for optimum flow control of process gas; and
                    (C) centrifuge process gas delivery pump sets.
    (b) Reliquidation.--If the liquidation of an entry of any article 
described in subsection (a) has become final before December 31, 2011, 
the entry shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, be 
reliquidated on December 31, 2011, in accordance with the provisions of 
this section and the appropriate refund of duty made at the time of 
such reliquidation.
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