[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 29, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S11131]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SECURITY AT GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT

 Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I have come to the floor to 
clarify an issue regarding the security at the two uranium enrichment 
facilities. Section 310 of the conference report which deals with the 
allocation between the Department and the private corporation leasing 
the gaseous diffusion plants of the cost of arming and providing arrest 
authority to security police officers at the plants. I want to make it 
very clear that this section does not affect the current responsibility 
of the Department to pay for security for the Department's highly 
enriched uranium activities.
  Mr. President, I would like to take a moment to thank the officials 
with the Department of Energy and the officials from the newly 
privatized United States Enrichment Corporation who sat down with my 
office and negotiated in good faith a solution to this difficult 
matter. I am pleased to have an agreement once and for all.

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