[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5137-S5138]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3405. Mr. CORNYN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 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 appropriate place in subtitle C of title XXXI, 
     insert the following:

     SEC. 31___. PLAN TO MODERNIZE NUCLEAR SECURITY ENTERPRISE.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Administrator for Nuclear 
     Security shall develop a plan--

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       (1) to accelerate and modernize Material Staging 
     Capabilities to replace aged, over-subscribed facilities 
     within the nuclear security enterprise, which shall include a 
     description of all phases and an estimate of the costs 
     required to carry out such plan; and
       (2) to accelerate near-term Critical Decisions milestones 
     in fiscal year 2026.
       (b) Execution.--The Administrator for Nuclear Security 
     shall carry out the plan required by subsection (a) 
     concurrently with an infrastructure modernization program for 
     high explosives capabilities, including continued 
     construction of the High Explosives Synthesis Formulation and 
     Production facility (21-D-510).
       (c) Briefings.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Administrator for Nuclear 
     Security shall brief the appropriate congressional committees 
     on the Material Staging Capabilities plan required by 
     subsection (a).
       (2) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``appropriated congressional 
     committees'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
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