[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3625]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2619. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Udall) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. 
Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) and intended to be proposed to the 
bill H.R. 5515, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle B of title XXXI, add the following:

     SEC. 3119. IMPLEMENTATION OF PLUTONIUM STRATEGY.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) The National Nuclear Security Administration 
     recommended a plutonium pit production strategy to the 
     congressional defense committees in a letter dated May 10, 
     2018.
       (2) The Chairperson of the Nuclear Weapons Council 
     established under section 179 of title 10, United States 
     Code, certified the letter described in paragraph (1) to the 
     congressional defense committees in a letter dated May 4, 
     2018, pursuant to section 3141 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91).
       (b) Annual Certification.--Not later than April 1, 2019, 
     and annually thereafter through 2025, the Chairperson of the 
     Nuclear Weapons Council shall submit to the Secretary of 
     Defense, the Administrator for Nuclear Security, and the 
     congressional defense committees a written certification that 
     the plutonium pit production strategy described in subsection 
     (a)(1) is on track to meet--
       (1) the requirement to begin production of 30 war reserve 
     pits per year at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 
     New Mexico, by 2026; and
       (2) the timelines for demonstrating a capability to produce 
     an additional 50 war reserve plutonium pits per year, as 
     required by section 4219 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 
     U.S.C. 2538a).
       (c) Briefing.--Not later than March 1, 2019, the 
     Chairperson of the Nuclear Weapons Council and the 
     Administrator for Nuclear Security shall jointly provide to 
     the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the 
     Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, 
     and to any other congressional defense committee upon 
     request, a briefing detailing the implementation of the 
     plutonium strategy described in subsection (a)(1), 
     including--
       (1) milestones;
       (2) accountable personnel for such milestones; and
       (3) mechanisms for ensuring transparency with respect to 
     the progress of the strategy for the Department of Defense 
     and the congressional defense committees.
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