[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 95 (Thursday, July 16, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8412-S8413]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   UNITED STATES ENRICHMENT CORPORATION PRIVATIZATION ACT AMENDMENTS

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                        FORD AMENDMENT NO. 3211

  Mr. BOND (for Mr. Ford) proposed an amendment to the bill (S. 2316) 
to require the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress a plan to 
ensure that

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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; as follows:

       On Page 2, line 3, strike all after ``hexafluoride'' and 
     insert the following:
     consistent with the National Environmental Policy Act.
       (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     (a) shall be withdrawn from the United States Enrichment 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.
       (c) Sense of the Senate.--It is the Sense of the Senate 
     that Congress should authorize appropriations during fiscal 
     year 2000 in an amount sufficient to fully fund the plan 
     described in subsection (a).

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