[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7662-S7663]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4211. Mr. PADILLA 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. REALIGNMENT OF NATIONAL TECHNICAL NUCLEAR 
                   FORENSICS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 
                   SECURITY TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

       (a) Repeal of the Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act.--
       (1) In general.--The Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act 
     (Public Law 111-140; 124 Stat. 31) is repealed.
       (2) Conforming amendments to homeland security act of 
     2002.--Subtitle B of title XIX of the Homeland Security Act 
     of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 591g et seq.) is amended--
       (A) in section 1923--
       (i) in subsection (a)--

       (I) by striking ``(a) mission.--'';
       (II) in paragraph (9), by striking the semicolon and 
     inserting ``; and'';
       (III) by striking paragraphs (10), (11), (12), and (13); 
     and
       (IV) by redesignating paragraph (14) as paragraph (10); and

       (ii) by striking subsection (b); and
       (B) in section 1927(a)(1)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking the semicolon and 
     inserting ``; and'';
       (ii) in subparagraph (B)(iii), by striking ``; and'' and 
     inserting a period; and
       (iii) by striking subparagraph (C).
       (3) References and construction.--Any reference in any law, 
     regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
     States to the National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center 
     established within the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction 
     Office of the Department of Homeland Security, shall be 
     deemed to be a reference to the National Technical Nuclear 
     Forensics Center established by section 3265 of the National 
     Nuclear Security Administration Act, as added by subsection 
     (b).
       (b) Establishment of a National Technical Nuclear Forensics 
     Center.--
       (1) In general.--Subtitle E of the National Nuclear 
     Security Administration Act (50 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 3265. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL TECHNICAL NUCLEAR 
                   FORENSICS CENTER.

       ``(a) Establishment.--There is established within the 
     Administration a National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center 
     (in this section referred to as the `Center').
       ``(b) Mission.--The mission of the Center shall be to 
     coordinate stewardship, planning, assessment, gap analysis, 
     exercises, improvement, expertise development, and 
     integration for all Federal nuclear forensics and attribution 
     activities to ensure an enduring national technical nuclear 
     forensics capability to strengthen the collective response of 
     the United States to nuclear terrorism or other nuclear 
     attacks.''.
       (2) Clerical amendment.--The table of contents for the 
     National Nuclear Security Administration Act is amended by 
     adding after the item relation to section 3264 the following 
     new item:

``Sec. 3265. Establishment of National Technical Nuclear Forensics 
              Center.''.

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       (c) University Nuclear Leadership Program.--Section 313 of 
     the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 2009 (42 U.S.C. 16274a) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the following:
       ``(3) Minority serving institution participation.--
     Notwithstanding section 954(a)(6) of the Energy Research, 
     Development, Demonstration, and Commercial Application Act of 
     2005 (42 U.S.C. 16274(a)(6)), in carrying out programs under 
     this section and section 954 of that Act, each the Secretary, 
     the Administrator, and the Chairman shall prioritize 
     encouraging the participation of historically Black colleges 
     and universities and other minority serving institutions.''; 
     and
       (2) in subsection (c)--
       (A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (4); and
       (B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
     paragraphs:
       ``(2) Historically black college and university.-- The term 
     `historically Black college and university' has the meaning 
     given the term `part B institution' in section 322 of the 
     Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061).
       ``(3) Minority serving institution.--The term `minority 
     serving institution' means an institution described in 
     section 371(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
     1067q(a)).''.
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