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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4082 
To authorize the Secretary of Energy to pay affected participants under 
a pension plan referred to in the USEC Privatization Act for benefit 
increases not received. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 16, 2009 
Mr. WHITFIELD introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Energy to pay affected partici-
pants under a pension plan referred to in the USEC 
Privatization Act for benefit increases not received. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION AND DETERMINATION OF 
BENEFITS FOR AFFECTED PARTICIPANTS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION FOR PAYMENT TO AFFECTED 
PARTICIPANTS.—To the extent provided in advance in ap-
propriations Acts, the Secretary of Energy (referred to in 
this Act as the ‘‘Secretary’’)— 
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(1) shall establish a program under which the 
Secretary shall pay any affected participant de-
scribed in subsection (b) a one-time lump sum pay-
ment in an amount to be determined by the Sec-
retary under subsection (c); and 
(2) may contract for the procurement of infor-
mation necessary to enable the Secretary to effec-
tively carry out the provisions of this section. 
(b) AFFECTED PARTICIPANT.—For the purposes of 
this section, an affected participant is a person described 
under section 3110(a)(6)(B) of the USEC Privatization 
Act (42 U.S.C. 2297h–8(a)(6)(B)). 
(c) DETERMINATION OF PAYMENT FOR AFFECTED 
PARTICIPANTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall pay an 
affected participant, pursuant to an application 
timely filed by such participant, a one-time lump 
sum payment equal to an amount which bears the 
same ratio to the total recoverable amount described 
in paragraph (2) as the actuarial present value of 
the accrued benefits of the affected participant 
under the pension plan from which a transfer of 
plan assets and liabilities required under section 
3110(a)(2) of the USEC Privatization Act (42 
U.S.C. 2297h–8(a)(2)) was made (as of immediately 
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before the transfer) bears to the actuarial present 
value of the accrued benefits of all affected partici-
pants under the pension plan from which the trans-
fer under such section was made (as of immediately 
before the transfer). 
(2) TOTAL RECOVERABLE AMOUNT.—For pur-
poses of this subsection, the total recoverable 
amount is an amount equal to the excess of— 
(A) the present value of benefits that 
would have been accrued or accruable by all af-
fected participants under the pension plan from 
which the transfer under section 3110(a)(2) of 
the USEC Privatization Act was made if such 
transfer had not occurred and if benefit in-
creases had occurred, in connection with the 
transferred liabilities, under such plan equiva-
lent to benefit increases that have occurred 
under such plan in connection with the other li-
abilities under such plan, over 
(B) the present value of benefits accrued 
or accruable by all such affected participants 
under the pension plan to which the transfer 
under section 3110(a)(2) of the USEC Privat-
ization Act (42 U.S.C. 2297h–8(a)(2)) was 
made. 
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