[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3851]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2826. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. 
McCain) 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:

       After section 3116, add the following:

     SEC. 3117. AUTHORIZATION FOR DISPOSAL OF PROLIFERATION-
                   ATTRACTIVE TRANSURANIC WASTE.

       Section 3132 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (50 U.S.C. 2569), as 
     amended by section 3116, is further amended--
       (1) in subsection (c)(1), by adding at the end the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(N) The disposal of proliferation-attractive transuranic 
     waste and related equipment received by the Secretary under 
     the program at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, New Mexico, 
     notwithstanding--
       ``(i) the second sentence of section 213(a) of the 
     Department of Energy National Security and Military 
     Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1980 
     (Public Law 96-164; 93 Stat. 1265); or
       ``(ii) section 2(19) of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant 
     Land Withdrawal Act (Public Law 102-579; 106 Stat. 4779), as 
     amended by section 3182 of the National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201; 110 Stat. 
     2851).''; and
       (2) in subsection (g), by adding at the end the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(7) The term `transuranic waste' has the meaning given 
     that term in section 2 of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant 
     Withdrawal Act (Public Law 102-579; 106 Stat. 4777), as 
     amended by section 3182 of the National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201; 110 Stat. 
     2851).''.
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