909 
SEC. 2906. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN 
FISCAL YEAR 2015 PROJECTS. 
(a) EXTENSION.—Notwithstanding section 2002 of the 
Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2015 (division B of Public Law 113-291; 128 Stat. 3669), 
the authorizations set forth in the table in subsection (b), 
as provided in section 2902 of that Act (128 Stat. 3717), 
shall remain in effect until October 1, 2018, or the date 
of the enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military 
construction for fiscal year 2019, whichever is later. 
(b) TABLE.—The table referred to in subsection (a) is 
as follows: 
Extension of 2015 Air Force OCO Project Authorizations 
Country 
Installation 
Project 
Amount 
Italy .............................
Camp Darby ..........
ERI: Improve Weap-
ons Storage Facility 
$44,450,000 
Poland ...........................
Lask Air Base ........
ERI: Improve Sup-
port Infrastructure 
$22,400,000 
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DIVISION 
C—DEPARTMENT 
OF 
ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY 
AUTHORIZATIONS 
AND 
OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS 
TITLE 
XXXI—DEPARTMENT 
OF 
ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY 
PROGRAMS 
Subtitle A—National Security 
Programs Authorizations 
SEC. 3101. NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRA-
TION. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Funds are 
hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Department of 
Energy for fiscal year 2018 for the activities of the National 
Nuclear Security Administration in carrying out programs 
as specified in the funding table in division D. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF NEW PLANT PROJECTS.— 
From funds referred to in subsection (a) that are available 
for carrying out plant projects, the Secretary of Energy 
may carry out new plant projects for the National Nuclear 
Security Administration as follows: 
Project 18–D–150, Surplus Plutonium Disposi-
tion, Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina, 
$9,000,000. 
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Project 18-D–620, Exascale Computing Facility 
Modernization Project, Lawrence Livermore National 
Laboratory, Livermore, California, $3,000,000. 
Project 18–D–650, Tritium Production Capa-
bility, Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina, 
$6,800,000. 
Project 18–D–660, Fire Station, Y–12 National 
Security 
Complex, 
Oak 
Ridge, 
Tennessee, 
$28,000,000. 
Project 18–D–670, Exascale Class Computer 
Cooling Equipment, Los Alamos National Labora-
tory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, $22,000,000. 
Project 18–D–680, Material Staging Facility, 
Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas, $5,200,000. 
Project 18–D–920, KL Fuel Development Lab-
oratory, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Schenec-
tady, New York, $1,000,000. 
Project 18–D–921, KS Overhead Piping, Kessel-
ring Site, West Milton, New York, $6,688,000. 
Project 18–D–922, BL Component Test Complex, 
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, West Mifflin, Penn-
sylvania, $3,000,000. 
SEC. 3102. DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Funds are hereby authorized to be 
appropriated to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 
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2018 for defense environmental cleanup activities in car-
rying out programs as specified in the funding table in di-
vision D. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF NEW PLANT PROJECTS.— 
From funds referred to in subsection (a) that are available 
for carrying out plant projects, the Secretary of Energy 
may carry out new plant projects for the National Nuclear 
Security Administration as follows: 
Project 18-D–401, Saltstone Disposal Units #8 
and #9, Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Caro-
lina, $500,000. 
Project 18–D–402, Emergency Operations Center 
Replacement, Savannah River Site, Aiken, South 
Carolina, $500,000. 
Project 18–D–404, Modification of Waste Encap-
sulation and Storage Facility, Hanford Site, Rich-
land, Washington, $6,500,000. 
SEC. 3103. OTHER DEFENSE ACTIVITIES. 
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
Department of Energy for fiscal year 2018 for other defense 
activities in carrying out programs as specified in the fund-
ing table in division D. 
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SEC. 3104. NUCLEAR ENERGY. 
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
Department of Energy for fiscal year 2018 for nuclear en-
ergy as specified in the funding table in division D. 
Subtitle 
B—Program 
Authoriza-
tions, Restrictions, and Limita-
tions 
SEC. 3111. NUCLEAR SECURITY ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUC-
TURE RECAPITALIZATION AND REPAIR. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) On September 7, 2016, during testimony be-
fore the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the Com-
mittee on Armed Services of the House of Representa-
tives— 
(A) the Administrator for Nuclear Security, 
Frank Klotz, said— 
(i) ‘‘Our infrastructure is extensive, 
complex, and, in many critical areas, sev-
eral decades old. More than half of NNSA’s 
approximately 6,000 real property assets 
are over 40 years old, and nearly 30 percent 
date back to the Manhattan Project era. 
Many of the enterprise’s critical utility, 
safety, and support systems are failing at 
an increasing and unpredictable rate, which 
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poses both programmatic and safety risk.’’; 
and 
(ii) ‘‘I can think of no greater threat 
to the nuclear security enterprise than the 
state of NNSA’s infrastructure.’’; 
(B) the President and Chief Executive Offi-
cer of Consolidated Nuclear Security, Morgan 
Smith, said, ‘‘Many key facilities at both 
[Pantex and Y–12] were constructed in the 1940s 
and were intended to operate for as little as one 
decade. Many facilities and their supporting in-
frastructure have exceeded or far exceeded their 
expected life, and major systems within the fa-
cilities are beginning to fail.’’; and 
(C) the Director of Los Alamos National 
Laboratory, Dr. Charlie McMillan, said, ‘‘One of 
the things that keeps me up at night is the real-
ization that essential capabilities are held at risk 
by the possibility of such failures; in many cases, 
our enterprise has a single point of failure.’’. 
(2) In a letter sent on December 23, 2015, by the 
Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, to the Director of 
the Office of Management and Budget, Shaun Dono-
van, the Secretary said, ‘‘A majority of the National 
Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) facilities 
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and systems are well beyond end-of-life. . . Infra-
structure problems such as falling ceilings are in-
creasing in frequency and severity, unacceptably risk-
ing the safety and security of both personnel and ma-
terial at NNSA facilities, as well as in some in-
stances, potential offsite risks. The entire complex 
could be placed at risk if there is a single failure 
where a single point would disrupt a critical link in 
infrastructure.’’. 
(3) The Nuclear Posture Review published in 
April 2010 stated that ‘‘In order to sustain a safe, se-
cure, and effective U.S. nuclear stockpile as long as 
nuclear weapons exist, the United States must possess 
a modern physical infrastructure. . . Today’s nuclear 
complex, however, has fallen into neglect. Although 
substantial science, technology, and engineering in-
vestments were made over the last decade under the 
auspices of the Stockpile Stewardship Program, the 
complex still includes many oversized and costly-to 
maintain facilities built during the 1940s and 1950s. 
Some facilities needed for working with plutonium 
and uranium date back to the Manhattan Project. 
Safety, security, and environmental issues associated 
with these aging facilities are mounting, as are the 
costs of addressing them.’’. 
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(4) In 2009, the bipartisan Congressional Com-
mission on the Strategic Posture of the United States 
established by section 1062 of the National Defense 
Authorization for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110– 
181; 122 Stat. 319) stated, with regards to key pro-
duction facilities, that ‘‘existing facilities are genu-
inely decrepit and are maintained in a safe and se-
cure manner only at high cost’’. 
(5) Previous efforts to address the deferred main-
tenance and repair challenges within the nuclear se-
curity enterprise, such as the Facilities Infrastructure 
and Recapitalization Program and the recent halt in 
the growth of backlog metrics, are laudable but insuf-
ficient for the magnitude of the problem. 
(6) Recent figures provided by the Administrator 
for Nuclear Security estimate the backlog of deferred 
maintenance and repair needs of the nuclear security 
enterprise to be approximately $3,700,000,000. 
(b) FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE RECAPITALIZA-
TION AND REPAIR PROGRAM.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Admin-
istrator for Nuclear Security shall establish and carry 
out a program known as the Facilities and Infra-
structure Recapitalization and Repair Program to re-
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duce the backlog of deferred maintenance and repair 
needs of the nuclear security enterprise (as defined in 
section 4002(6) of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 
U.S.C. 2501(6)). The Administrator shall ensure that, 
by not later than five years after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, the program achieves the goal of 
reducing such backlog of deferred maintenance and 
repair needs by 50 percent. 
(2) AUTHORITIES.— 
(A) PROCESS.— 
(i) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary of 
Energy shall provide to the Administrator a 
process that will enhance or streamline the 
ability of the Administrator to carry out the 
program under paragraph (1) in an effi-
cient and effective manner, including with 
respect to— 
(I) the demolition or construction 
of non-nuclear facilities of the Admin-
istration that have a total estimated 
project cost of less than $100,000,000; 
and 
(II) the decontamination, decom-
missioning, and demolition (to be per-
formed in accordance with applicable 
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health and safety standards used by 
the Defense Environmental Cleanup 
Program) of process-contaminated fa-
cilities of the Administration that have 
a total estimated project cost of less 
than $50,000,000. 
(ii) FUNDING.—Clause (i) may be car-
ried out using amounts authorized to be ap-
propriated for fiscal year 2018 or any sub-
sequent fiscal year. 
(B) APPLICATION
OF
CERTAIN
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—For purposes of the Management Proce-
dures Memorandum 2015–01 of the Office of 
Management and Budget, or such successor 
memorandum, in carrying out the program 
under paragraph (1), the Administrator may— 
(i) perform new construction during a 
fiscal year that differs from the fiscal year 
of corresponding facility demolition; 
(ii) perform demolition of different fa-
cility category codes and have that demoli-
tion credit count towards the construction of 
new facilities with a different facility cat-
egory code; and 
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(iii) have the net reduction in infra-
structure footprint for the five fiscal years 
prior to the date of the enactment of this 
Act, and the demolition during the five fis-
cal years following such date of enactment, 
considered as a factor for the purpose of 
meeting the intent of such memorandum. 
(3) PLAN.—Together with the budget of the 
President submitted to Congress under section 
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, for fiscal year 
2019, the Secretary and the Administrator shall joint-
ly submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate a plan to 
carry out the program under paragraph (1) to 
achieve the goal specified in such paragraph. Such 
plan shall include— 
(A) the funding required to carry out the 
program during the period covered by the future- 
years nuclear security program under section 
3253 of the National Nuclear Security Adminis-
tration Act (50 U.S.C. 2453); 
(B) 
the 
criteria 
for 
selecting 
and 
prioritizing projects within the program under 
paragraph (1); 
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