[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3456]
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  SA 1964. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mr. Barrasso) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4049, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 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:

       Strike section 3159 and insert the following:

     SEC. 3159. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON EXTENSION OF LIMITATIONS ON 
                   IMPORTATION OF URANIUM FROM RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

       It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) a secure nuclear fuel supply chain is essential to the 
     economic and national security of the United States;
       (2) the United States should--
       (A) expeditiously complete negotiation of an extension of 
     the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping Investigation on 
     Uranium from the Russian Federation (commonly referred to as 
     the ``Russian Suspension Agreement''); or
       (B) if an agreement to extend the Russian Suspension 
     Agreement cannot be reached, impose antidumping duties under 
     title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.) 
     on imports of uranium from the Russian Federation--
       (i) to maintain a nuclear fuel supply chain in the United 
     States, consistent with the national security and 
     nonproliferation goals of the United States; and
       (ii) to protect the United States nuclear fuel supply chain 
     from the continued manipulation of the global and United 
     States uranium markets by the Russian Federation and Russian-
     influenced competitors;
       (3) a renegotiated, long-term extension of the Russian 
     Suspension Agreement is an important component of a broader 
     strategy to prevent adversaries of the United States from 
     monopolizing the nuclear fuel supply chain;
       (4) as was done in 2008, upon completion of a new 
     negotiated long-term extension of the Russian Suspension 
     Agreement, Congress should enact legislation to codify the 
     terms of extension into law to ensure long-term stability for 
     the domestic nuclear fuel supply chain; and
       (5) if the negotiations to extend the Russian Suspension 
     Agreement prove unsuccessful, Congress should enact 
     legislation extending the current limits to prevent the 
     manipulation by the Russian Federation of global uranium 
     markets and potential domination by the Russian Federation of 
     the United States uranium market.
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