Sec. 3114. Plan for retrieval, treatment, and disposition of tank farm waste at Hanford Nuclear Reservation

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Subtitle D of title XLIV of the Atomic Energy Defense Act ( 50 U.S.C. 2621 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: Not later than March 1, 2014, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the congressional defense committees a comprehensive plan through 2025 for the safe and effective retrieval, treatment, and disposition of nuclear waste contained in the tank farms of Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Richland, Washington. The plan under subsection

(a)shall include the following: A list of all requirements, assumptions, and criteria needed to design, construct, and operate the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant and any required infrastructure facilities at the Hanford Tank Farms. A schedule of activities, construction, and operations at the Hanford Tank Farms and Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant required before 2025 to carry out the safe and effective retrieval, treatment, and disposition of waste in the Hanford Tank Farms. Actions required to accelerate, to the extent possible, the retrieval and treatment of lower-risk, low-activity waste while continuing efforts to accelerate the resolution of technical challenges associated with higher-risk, high-activity waste. A description of how the Secretary will— provide adequate protection to workers and the public under the plan; and incorporate into the plan any new science and technical information that was not available before the development of the plan, including new science and technical information not available as of March 2014. For each requirement, assumption, or criterion identified by the Secretary under subsection (b)(1), the Secretary shall include in the plan under subsection

(a)a determination regarding whether such requirement, assumption or criterion is finalized and will be used to inform planning, design, construction, and operations of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project. For each requirement, assumption, or criterion that the Secretary cannot make a finalized determination for under paragraph

(1)by the date the plan under subsection

(a)is submitted to the congressional defense committees, the Secretary shall— include in the plan— a description of the requirement, assumption, or criterion; a list of activities required for the Secretary to make such determination; and the date on which the Secretary anticipates making such determination; and once the Secretary makes the finalized determination with respect to the requirement, assumption, or criterion, submit to such committees notification that the requirement, assumption, or criterion is finalized and will be used to inform the planning, design, construction, and operations of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project. Subject to subparagraph (B), the Secretary may authorize a change to a requirement, assumption, or criterion that the Secretary determines as finalized under paragraph

(1)or (2)(B). The Secretary shall make changes to a requirement, assumption, or criterion under subparagraph

(A)if the Secretary cannot provide adequate protection without making such changes. If the Secretary authorizes a change to a requirement, assumption, or criterion under subparagraph

(A)or

(B)that will have a material effect on any aspect of the schedule or cost of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant project, the Secretary shall promptly notify the congressional defense committees of such change. The authority of the Secretary under this paragraph may be delegated only to the Deputy Secretary of Energy. . The table of contents at the beginning of the Atomic Energy Defense Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 4444 the following new item: Sec. 4445. Plan for retrieval, treatment, and disposition of tank farm waste at Hanford Nuclear Reservation. .

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