[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8201]
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  SA 4650. 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 B of title XXXI, add the following:

     SEC. 3114. REPORT ON PLANT-DIRECTED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

       Section 4812A of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 
     2793) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections 
     (c) and (d), respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new 
     subsection (b):
       ``(b) Plant-directed Research and Development.--
       ``(1) In general.--The report required by subsection (a) 
     shall include, with respect to plant-directed research and 
     development, the following:
       ``(A) A financial accounting of expenditures for such 
     research and development, disaggregated by nuclear weapons 
     production facility.
       ``(B) A breakdown of the percentage of research and 
     development conducted by each such facility that is plant-
     directed research and development.
       ``(C) An explanation of how each such facility plans to 
     increase the availability and utilization of funds for plant-
     directed research and development.
       ``(2) Plant-directed research and development defined.--In 
     this subsection, the term `plant-directed research and 
     development' means research and development selected by the 
     director of a nuclear weapons production facility.''.
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