Sec. 3141. PLUTONIUM CAPABILITIES
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## SEC. 3141 PLUTONIUM CAPABILITIES ###
(a)Report Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator for Nuclear Security shall submit to the congressional defense committees and the Secretary of Defense a report on the recommended alternative endorsed by the Administrator for recapitalization of plutonium science and production capabilities of the nuclear security enterprise. The report shall identify the recommended alternative endorsed by the Administrator and contain the analysis of alternatives, including costs, upon which the Administrator relied in making such endorsement. ###
(b)Certification Not later than 60 days after the date on which the Secretary of Defense receives the report required by subsection (a), the Chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Council shall submit to the congressional defense committees the written certification of the Chairman regarding whether— ####
(1)the recommended alternative described in subsection (a)— #####
(A)is acceptable to the Secretary of Defense and the Nuclear Weapons Council and meets the requirements of the Secretary for plutonium pit production capacity and capability; #####
(B)is likely to meet the pit production timelines and milestones required by section 4219 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2538a); #####
(C)is likely to meet pit production timelines and requirements responsive to military requirements; #####
(D)is cost effective and has reasonable near-term and lifecycle costs that are minimized, to the extent practicable, as compared to other alternatives; #####
(E)contains minimized and manageable risks as compared to other alternatives; and #####
(F)can be acceptably reconciled with any differences in the conclusions made by the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation of the Department of Defense in the business case analysis of plutonium pit production capability issued in 2013; and ####
(2)the Administrator has— #####
(A)documented the assumptions and constraints used in the analysis of alternatives described in subsection (a); and #####
(B)tested and documented the sensitivity of the cost estimates for each alternative to risks and changes in key assumptions. ###
(c)Assessment ####
(1)In general Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation of the National Nuclear Security Administration shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing containing the assessment of the Director of the analysis of alternatives described in subsection (a). ####
(2)Elements The briefing required by paragraph
(1)shall include— #####
(A)descriptions of the scope, risks, and costs for alternatives not considered in the analysis of alternatives that the Director deems viable; and #####
(B)any views of the Administrator regarding such alternatives. ###
(d)Effect of Failure to Identify Recommended Alternative The Administrator shall carry out the modular building strategy (as defined in section 3114(c)(3) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (50 U.S.C. 2535 note)) at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, if, by the date that is 150 days after the date of the enactment of this Act— ####
(1)the Administrator has not identified, in the report required by subsection (a), the recommended alternative proposed by the Administrator for recapitalization of plutonium science and production capabilities of the nuclear security enterprise; or ####
(2)the Chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Council has not certified under subsection
(b)that the recommended alternative proposed by the Administrator meets the criteria described in subparagraphs
(A)through
(F)of paragraph
(1)of that subsection. ###
(e)Nuclear Security Enterprise Defined In this section, the term “nuclear security enterprise” has the meaning given that term in section 4002 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2501).
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- 50 USC 2538a
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