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112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2054 
To provide for the reenrichment of certain depleted uranium owned by the 
Department of Energy, and for the sale or barter of the resulting 
reenriched uranium, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 26, 2011 
Mr. WHITFIELD introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To provide for the reenrichment of certain depleted uranium 
owned by the Department of Energy, and for the sale 
or barter of the resulting reenriched uranium, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy and Revenue 
Enrichment Act of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
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(1) DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘‘Department’’ 
means the Department of Energy. 
(2) ENRICHMENT PLANT.—The term ‘‘enrich-
ment plant’’ means a uranium enrichment plant 
owned by the Department of Energy with respect to 
which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has made 
a 
determination 
of 
compliance 
under 
section 
1701(b)(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 
U.S.C. 2297f(b)(2)). 
(3) QUALIFIED OPERATOR.—The term ‘‘quali-
fied operator’’ means a company that has experience 
in operating an enrichment plant under Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission authorization and has the 
ability and workforce to enrich the depleted uranium 
that is owned by the Department of Energy. 
(4) REENRICHMENT.—The term ‘‘reenrich-
ment’’ means increasing the weight percent of U– 
235 in uranium in order to make the uranium usa-
ble. 
(5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Energy. 
SEC. 3. REENRICHMENT CONTRACT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary shall enter 
into a contract with a qualified operator for a 24- 
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month pilot program for the reenrichment at an en-
richment plant of the depleted uranium described in 
section 2(3) that the Secretary finds economically 
viable. The Secretary shall seek to maximize the fi-
nancial return to the Federal Government in negoti-
ating the terms of such contract. 
(2) AMOUNT OF ENRICHMENT.—The Secretary 
shall, during each year of the pilot program under 
this subsection, conduct uranium reenrichment 
under such program in an amount (measured in sep-
arative work units) equal to approximately 25 per-
cent of the aggregate uranium enrichment conducted 
in the United States during calendar year 2010. 
(3) ECONOMIC
VIABILITY.—For purposes of 
paragraph (1), uranium shall be considered economi-
cally viable if the cost to the United States of the 
reenrichment thereof, including the costs of the con-
tract entered into under paragraph (1), are less than 
the revenue anticipated from the sale of the re-
enriched uranium. 
(b) COMMENCEMENT
OF REENRICHMENT ACTIVI-
TIES.—Reenrichment activities under the contract entered 
into under subsection (a) shall commence as soon as pos-
sible, but no later than June 1, 2012. 
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(c) SALE
OF REENRICHED URANIUM.—The Sec-
retary may from time to time sell the reenriched uranium 
generated pursuant to the contract entered into under 
subsection (a). 
(d) ALLOCATION
AND USE
OF PROCEEDS.—Any 
funds received by the Secretary from the sale of reenriched 
uranium generated pursuant to the contract entered into 
under subsection (a) shall be allocated as follows: 
(1) First, such funds shall be available to the 
Secretary, without further appropriation and without 
fiscal year limitation, to carry out this section, in-
cluding amounts required to be paid under the con-
tract entered into under subsection (a). 
(2) Any amounts not required for the purposes 
described in paragraph (1) shall be transferred to 
the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and De-
commissioning Fund established in section 1801 of 
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2297g), 
to be available for use, without further appropriation 
and without fiscal year limitation. 
SEC. 4. DEPLETED URANIUM. 
(a) TITLE
AND
RESPONSIBILITY
FOR
DISPOSI-
TION.—The Secretary shall assume title to, and responsi-
bility for the disposition of, all depleted uranium generated 
pursuant to the contract entered into under section 3(a). 
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(b) FUNDING
FOR REENRICHMENT.—To provide 
funding for payments under the contract entered into 
under section 3(a), the Secretary may— 
(1) assume title to, and responsibility for the 
disposition of, depleted uranium in addition to the 
depleted uranium specified in subsection (a); and 
(2) transfer to the qualified operator title to 
uranium generated as a result of the reenrichment 
pursuant to the contract entered into under section 
3(a). 
SEC. 5. LIMITATION ON FEDERAL URANIUM SALES. 
(a) 
INITIAL
PERIOD.—Notwithstanding 
section 
3112(d) of the USEC Privatization Act (42 U.S.C. 
2297h–10(d)), during the 24-month pilot program and the 
subsequent 24 months after that program is complete, the 
Secretary may not during any calendar year sell an 
amount of uranium that exceeds 15 percent of the United 
States’ domestic uranium supply for that year. 
(b) SUBSEQUENT PERIOD.—After the expiration of 
the 48-month period described in subsection (a), the Sec-
retary may not during any calendar year sell an amount 
of uranium that exceeds 10 percent of the United States’ 
domestic uranium supply for that year, except to the ex-
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