[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 133 (Saturday, August 6, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S4249]
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  SA 5245. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 5194 submitted by Mr. Schumer and intended to be proposed 
to the bill H.R. 5376, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title 
II of S; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of part 7 of subtitle A of title V of the 
     amendment, add the following:

     SEC. 50174. NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT AT HANFORD SITE.

       Section 3116 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108-375; 
     50 U.S.C. 2602 note) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the following 
     paragraph:
       ``(3) The State of Washington.'';
       (2) in subsection (e)(2), by striking ``the State of 
     Washington, the State of Oregon'' and inserting ``the State 
     of Oregon''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following subsection:
       ``(g) Waste Management at Hanford Site.--If the Secretary, 
     in consultation with the Commission, classifies any residual 
     radioactive waste in a tank at the Hanford Site, Richland, 
     Washington, as other than high-level waste under this 
     section, the Secretary--
       ``(1) may not remove such tank; and
       ``(2) shall treat such waste with grout or another 
     immobilizing substance, as the Secretary determines 
     appropriate.''.
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