(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
Sec. 3. Purposes. 
Sec. 4. Suspension of use of depleted uranium munitions. 
Sec. 5. Suspension of sale and export of depleted uranium munitions. 
Sec. 6. Comptroller general investigation of plutonium contamination. 
Sec. 7. Study of health effects of depleted uranium. 
Sec. 8. Epa studies of environmental contamination by depleted uranium. 
Sec. 9. Environmental mitigation and cleanup requirements. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The highest regard should be given to the 
health and safety of the Nation’s military personnel. 
(2) Among the characteristics of depleted ura-
nium munitions are that (A) they are pyrophoric, re-
sulting in the munition burning upon impact with a 
target, and (B) the impact of a depleted uranium 
munition on a target creates aerosol particles, which 
can be inhaled. 
(3) Depleted uranium munitions were used by 
the United States in 1991 during the Persian Gulf 
War in Southwest Asia and during the conflicts in 
the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Bosnia, 
Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro) during the 1990s, 
with approximately 300 metric tons of depleted ura-
nium being used during the Gulf War, three metric 
tons being used in Bosnia, and over nine metric tons 
being used in Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro. 
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(4) The United States has provided or sold de-
pleted uranium and depleted uranium munitions to 
allied nations, and the United Kingdom used de-
pleted uranium munitions during the Persian Gulf 
War. 
(5) Depleted uranium munitions have been used 
at numerous United States military installations, 
proving grounds, and testing facilities. 
(6) The Yugoslav and Iraqi Governments have 
claimed that depleted uranium is affecting the health 
of their people, although such claims have yet to be 
independently verified. 
(7) No definitive cause has been established for 
the various illnesses (commonly referred to as ‘‘Gulf 
War Syndrome’’) that currently affect approximately 
130,000 United States servicemembers and veterans 
who served in Southwest Asia during the Persian 
Gulf War. 
(8) The British Royal Navy, Canadian Navy, 
and United States Navy have all announced that 
they would phase out use of depleted uranium muni-
tions. 
(9) It has been reported that depleted uranium 
munitions use has proliferated to more than 20 na-
tions. 
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(10) Crash investigators of the Federal Aviation 
Administration are instructed, in FAA Advisory Cir-
cular 20–123, dated December 20, 1984, to ‘‘handle 
with caution’’ any depleted uranium that they en-
counter in crash investigations, and are instructed 
that ‘‘the main hazard associated with depleted ura-
nium is the harmful effect the material could have 
if it enters the body,’’ and that ‘‘[i]f particles are in-
haled or digested, they can be chemically toxic and 
cause a significant and long-lasting irradiation of in-
ternal tissues,’’. 
(11) The 1949 Geneva Convention specifically 
outlines the precautions warring nations must take 
to avoid harming civilian populations, and it would 
be a violation of the 1977 Protocol to that Conven-
tion to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suf-
fering to civilians, as depleted uranium has the po-
tential to cause. 
(12) The Department of Defense has acknowl-
edged that stocks of depleted uranium munitions 
have been contaminated with transuranic elements, 
including plutonium. 
(13) Plutonium is an extremely toxic, carcino-
genic, and radioactive material with a half-life of 4.5 
billion years. 
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