[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 190 (Thursday, October 28, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7473]
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  SA 3955. Mrs. BLACKBURN submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be 
proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
year 2022 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 E of title XXXI, add the following:

     SEC. 3157. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR NATIONAL NUCLEAR 
                   SECURITY ADMINISTRATION FACILITY-DIRECTED 
                   RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

       (a) In General.--Subtitle B of title XLVIII of the Atomic 
     Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2791 et seq.) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 4815. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR NATIONAL NUCLEAR 
                   SECURITY ADMINISTRATION FACILITY-DIRECTED 
                   RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

       ``(a) Authorization.--The Administrator may authorize the 
     director of each covered nuclear weapons production facility 
     to allocate not more than 5 percent of amounts made available 
     to the facility for a fiscal year pursuant to a DOE national 
     security authorization (as defined in section 4701) to engage 
     in research, development, and demonstration activities in 
     order to maintain and enhance the engineering and 
     manufacturing capabilities at the facility.
       ``(b) Definition.--In this section, the term `covered 
     nuclear weapons production facility' means the following:
       ``(1) The Kansas City National Security Campus, Kansas 
     City, Missouri, as well as related satellite locations.
       ``(2) The Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, 
     Tennessee.
       ``(3) The Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas.
       ``(4) The Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents for the 
     Atomic Energy Defense Act is amended by inserting after the 
     item relating to section 4814 the following new item:

``Sec. 4815. Limitation on use of funds for National Nuclear Security 
              Administration facility-directed research and 
              development.''.
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