[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 102 (Tuesday, June 19, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S4040]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2921. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Udall) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2910 proposed by Mr. 
Shelby to the bill H.R. 5895, making appropriations for energy and 
water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on 
the table; as follows:

       At the end of title III of division A, add the following:
       Sec. 311. (a) 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) 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) In this section, the term ``congressional defense 
     committees'' has the meaning given that term in section 
     101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code.
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