Sec. 1. Establishment of National Nuclear Forensics Center
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The National Nuclear Security Administration Act ( 50 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 3221 the following new section: There is within the Administration a National Nuclear Forensics Center (in this section referred to as the Center ). The mission of the Center shall be to coordinate stewardship, planning, assessment, gap analysis, exercises, improvement, including operational improvements and research, development, testing, and evaluation, and integration for all Federal nuclear forensics and attribution activities to ensure an enduring national technical nuclear forensics capability to strengthen the collective response of the United States to nuclear terrorism or other nuclear attacks. .
The table of contents at the beginning of such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 3221 the following new item: Sec. 3222. National Nuclear Forensics Center. . Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator for Nuclear Security shall develop and implement a plan to modify the university program of the National Nuclear Security Administration established under section 4814 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act ( 50 U.S.C. 2795 ) to include the development of expertise in nuclear forensics in supporting scientific and engineering advancement in key Department of Energy defense and national security program areas.
The Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act ( Public Law 111–140 ) is hereby repealed. Title XIX of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 590 et seq.) is amended as follows: In section 1923— in subsection (a)— by striking
(a); Mission.— in paragraph (9), by striking the semicolon and inserting ; and ; by striking paragraphs (10), (11), (12), and (13); and by redesignating paragraph
(14)as paragraph (10); and by striking subsection (b). In section 1927(a)(1) ( 6 U.S.C. 596a(a)(1) )— in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking the semicolon and inserting ; and ; in subparagraph (B)(iii), by striking ; and and inserting a period; and by striking subparagraph (C). Any reference in any law, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center established within the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office of the Department of Homeland Security, formerly the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, shall be deemed to be a reference to the National Nuclear Forensics Center established by section 3222 of the National Nuclear Security Administration Act, as added by subsection (a).
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Establishment of National Nuclear Forensics Center
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