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agency shall determine the amount of funds de-
scribed in paragraph (2) that exceed the level nec-
essary to satisfy the minimum funding standard re-
quired by the Employee Retirement Income Security 
Act of 1974. 
(2) FUNDS DESCRIBED.—The funds described 
in this paragraph are amounts appropriated pursu-
ant to a DOE national security authorization for 
any of fiscal years 2012 through 2016 that are 
made available (including by transfer) for contribu-
tions to defined-benefit pension plans for employees 
of management and operating contractors of— 
(A) the National Nuclear Security Admin-
istration; or 
(B) the Office of Environmental Manage-
ment of the Department of Energy. 
(b) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS.—Upon a determina-
tion of amounts under subsection (a)(1), the appropriate 
head of an agency shall promptly make available (includ-
ing by transfer, if necessary) the determined amounts to 
accounts of the agency to be used for high-priority budg-
etary shortfalls, as identified by the head of the agency. 
Any determined amounts so transferred shall be available 
for the same period of time as the accounts to which trans-
ferred. 
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(c) REQUIRED OBLIGATION OF AMOUNTS.—The ap-
propriate head of an agency shall promptly obligate or ex-
pend amounts made available under subsection (b) for the 
purposes provided in such subsection. 
(d) TRANSFER AUTHORITY.— 
(1) 
EFFECT
ON
AUTHORIZATION
OF 
AMOUNTS.—Any transfer made from one account to 
another under this section shall be deemed to in-
crease the amount authorized for the account to 
which the amount is transferred by an amount equal 
to the amount transferred. 
(2) ADDITIONAL TRANSFER AUTHORITY.—The 
transfer authority provided by subsection (b) is in 
addition to any other transfer authority available to 
the Department of Energy or the National Nuclear 
Security Administration. 
(e) NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—The appropriate head of 
an agency shall promptly notify the congressional defense 
committees of determinations and transfers made under 
this section. Such notifications shall include plans by the 
head of the agency to carry out subsection (c) with respect 
to such determinations and transfers. 
(f) SUNSET.—The authorities under this section shall 
terminate on September 30, 2016. 
(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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(1) The term ‘‘appropriate head of an agency’’ 
means— 
(A) the Administrator for Nuclear Secu-
rity, with respect to matters concerning the Na-
tional Nuclear Security Administration; and 
(B) the Assistant Secretary of Energy for 
Environmental Management, with respect to 
matters concerning the Office of Environmental 
Management of the Department of Energy. 
(2) The term ‘‘DOE national security author-
ization’’ has the meaning given that term in section 
4701 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 
2741). 
SEC. 3114. HANFORD WASTE TANK CLEANUP PROGRAM RE-
FORMS. 
Section 4442 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 
U.S.C. 2622) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘, con-
sistent with the policy direction established by the 
Department, all aspects of the River Protection 
Project, Richland, Washington’’ and inserting ‘‘all 
aspects of the River Protection Project, Richland, 
Washington, including Hanford Tank Farm Oper-
ations and the Waste Treatment Plant’’; 
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(2) by amending subsection (d) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(d) NOTIFICATION.—The Assistant Secretary of 
Energy for Environmental Management shall submit to 
the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the 
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Represent-
atives written notification detailing any changes in the 
roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships that in-
volve the Office.’’; and 
(3) by striking subsections (e) and (f) and in-
serting the following new subsection: 
‘‘(e) TERMINATION.—The Office shall terminate on 
September 30, 2019. The Office may be extended beyond 
that date if the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Envi-
ronmental Management determines in writing that termi-
nation would disrupt effective management of the Hanford 
Tank Farm operations.’’. 
SEC. 3115. ADDITIONAL BUDGET ITEM RELATING TO GLOB-
AL THREAT REDUCTION INITIATIVE. 
(a) FUNDING INCREASE AND OFFSETTING REDUC-
TION.—Notwithstanding the amounts set forth in the 
funding tables in division D— 
(1) the amount authorized to be appropriated in 
section 3101 for defense nuclear nonproliferation, as 
specified in the corresponding funding table in divi-
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sion D, is hereby increased by $20,000,000, with the 
amount of the increase allocated to the global threat 
reduction initiative as set forth in the table under 
section 4701; and 
(2) the amount authorized to be appropriated in 
section 201 for research, development, test, and 
evaluation, Army, as specified in the corresponding 
funding table in division D, is hereby reduced by 
$20,000,000, with the amount of the reduction to be 
derived from the Aerostat Joint Project Office as set 
forth in the table under section 4201. 
(b) MERIT-BASED OR COMPETITIVE DECISIONS.—A 
decision to commit, obligate, or expend funds referred to 
in subsection (a)(1) with or to a specific entity shall— 
(1) be based on merit-based selection proce-
dures in accordance with the requirements of sec-
tions 2304(k) and 2374 of title 10, United States 
Code, or on competitive procedures; and 
(2) comply with other applicable provisions of 
law. 
Subtitle C—Reports 
SEC. 3121. REPEAL OF CERTAIN REPORT REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) REPEAL OF REPORT REQUIREMENT FOR NU-
CLEAR CITIES INITIATIVE PROGRAM.—Section 3132 of 
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