HR 4648
107th Congress
House
Energy
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control
Arms control agreements
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Grants-in-aid
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International Affairs
Law
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
Plutonium
Radiation safety
Radioactive wastes
To provide for the disposition of weapons-usable plutonium at the Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina.
Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 24, 2002
Executive Comment Requested from DOE.
May 24, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Procurement.
May 17, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
May 2, 2002
Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
May 2, 2002
Introduced in House
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Plain-English summary
Directs the Secretary of Energy to submit to Congress a plan for the construction and operation of a mixed-oxide fuel fabrication facility (for converting plutonium to a fuel for use in commercial nuclear power reactors) at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina. Requires annual reports on plan implementation and on progress in meeting obligations of the United States Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement of September 2000. Requires appropriate corrective actions to be taken to meet plan requirements.
Requires the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board to conduct a study of the adequacy of the K-Area Materials Storage Facility at the Savannah River Site for the storage of defense plutonium and related materials in connection with a specified plutonium disposition program.
What's happening now
Executive Comment Requested from DOE.
Bill text
1 version
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF
Committees of jurisdiction
4
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