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SEC. 3113. MODIFICATION OF LIMITATIONS ON AVAIL-
ABILITY OF FUNDS FOR WASTE TREATMENT
AND IMMOBILIZATION PLANT.
Paragraph (2) of section 3120(a) of the John Warner
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007
(Public Law 109–364; 120 Stat. 2510) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘the Defense Contract Manage-
ment Agency has recommended for acceptance’’ and
inserting ‘‘an independent entity has reviewed’’; and
(2) by inserting ‘‘and that the system has been
certified by the Secretary for use by a construction
contractor at the Waste Treatment and Immobiliza-
tion Plant’’ after ‘‘Waste Treatment and Immobiliza-
tion Plant’’.
Subtitle C—Other Matters
SEC. 3121. NUCLEAR TEST READINESS.
(a) REPEAL OF REQUIREMENTS ON READINESS POS-
TURE.—Section 3113 of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108–136; 117 Stat.
1743; 50 U.S.C. 2528a) is repealed.
(b) REPORTS ON NUCLEAR TEST READINESS POS-
TURES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 4208 of the Atomic
Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2528) is amended to
read as follows:
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‘‘SEC. 4208. REPORTS ON NUCLEAR TEST READINESS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than March 1, 2009, and
every odd-numbered year thereafter, the Secretary of En-
ergy shall submit to the congressional defense committees
a report on the nuclear test readiness of the United States.
‘‘(b) ELEMENTS.—Each report under subsection (a)
shall include, current as of the date of such report, the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(1) An estimate of the period of time that would
be necessary for the Secretary of Energy to conduct
an underground test of a nuclear weapon once di-
rected by the President to conduct such a test.
‘‘(2) A description of the level of test readiness
that the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the
Secretary of Defense, determines to be appropriate.
‘‘(3) A list and description of the workforce skills
and capabilities that are essential to carrying out an
underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
‘‘(4) A list and description of the infrastructure
and physical plant that are essential to carrying out
an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
‘‘(5) An assessment of the readiness status of the
skills and capabilities described in paragraph (3) and
the infrastructure and physical plant described in
paragraph (4).
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‘‘(c) FORM.—Each report under subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.’’.
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The item relating
to section 4208 in the table of contents for such Act
is amended to read as follows:
‘‘Sec. 4208. Reports on nuclear test readiness.’’.
SEC. 3122. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE NUCLEAR NON-
PROLIFERATION POLICY OF THE UNITED
STATES AND THE RELIABLE REPLACEMENT
WARHEAD PROGRAM.
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the United States should reaffirm its commit-
ment to Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Prolifera-
tion of Nuclear Weapons, done at Washington, Lon-
don, and Moscow July 1, 1968, and entered into force
March 5, 1970 (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Nu-
clear Non-Proliferation Treaty’’);
(2) the United States should initiate talks with
Russia to reduce the number of nonstrategic nuclear
weapons and further reduce the number of strategic
nuclear weapons in the respective nuclear weapons
stockpiles of the United States and Russia in a trans-
parent and verifiable fashion and in a manner con-
sistent with the security of the United States;