[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7866-S7867]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4323. Mr. TILLIS 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 B of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 318. REPORTS ON MOBILE MICROREACTOR DEVELOPMENT AND 
                   DEPLOYMENT.

       (a) Report on Plans for Mobile Microreactor Program.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Research and Engineering shall submit to the congressional 
     defense committees a report on the plans by the Department of 
     Defense for the mobile microreactor program of the 
     Department.
       (2) Limitation on use of funds.--Until the report required 
     by paragraph (1) is submitted to the congressional defense 
     committees, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Research and Engineering may not expend more than 25 percent 
     of the funds appropriated to such Office for fiscal year 
     2022.
       (b) Report on Regulatory Framework.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, The Secretary of Defense, in 
     coordination

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     with the Secretary of Energy and in consultation with the 
     Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the commercial nuclear 
     industry, shall submit to the congressional defense 
     committees a report on the regulatory framework for the 
     deployment by the Secretary of Defense of mobile 
     microreactors.
       (2) Contents.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall 
     include--
       (A) a description of the regulatory framework by which the 
     Secretary of Defense will--
       (i) leverage the commercial development of mobile 
     microreactors to deploy such microreactors to military 
     installations in the United States;
       (ii) designate the head of a component of the Department of 
     Defense to carry out clause (i); and
       (iii) develop a scalable pilot program to identify the 
     first 5 installations in the United States that are projected 
     to receive mobile microreactors under clause (i); and
       (B) a summary of expected timelines and projected costs for 
     carrying out clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) of subparagraph 
     (A); and
       (C) such other information as the Secretary of Defense 
     considers appropriate.
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