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PUBLIC LAW 104-201—SEPT. 23, 1996 110 STAT. 2841 (c) REPORT. —Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report on the study carried out under subsection (a) to the following committees: (1) The Committees on Environment and Public Works, Armed Services, and Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate. (2) The Committees on Commerce, National Security, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Resources of the House of Representatives. SEC. 3155. REQUIREMENT FOR ANNUAL FIVE-YEAR BUDGET FOR THE NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY. (a) REQUIREMENT. — The Secretary of Energy shall prepare each year a budget for the national security programs of the Department of Energy for the five-year period beginning in the year the budget is prepared. Each budget shall contain the estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations necessary to support the programs, projects, and activities of the national security programs during the five-year period covered by the budget and shall be at a level of detail comparable to that contained in the budget submitted by the President to Congress under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code. (b) SUBMITTAL. — The Secretary shall submit each year to the congressional defense committees the budget required under subsection (a) in that year at the same time as the President submits to Congress the budget for the coming fiscal year pursuant to such section 1105. SEC. 3156. REQUIREMENTS FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY WEAPONS ACTIVITIES BUDGETS FOR FISCAL YEARS AFTER FISCAL YEAR 1997. (a) IN GENERAL. —The weapons activities budget of the Department of Energy for any fiscal year after fiscal year 1997 shall— (1) set forth with respect to each of the activities under the budget (including stockpile stewardship, stockpile management, and program direction) the funding requested to carry out each project or activity that is necessary to meet the requirements of the Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Memorandum; and (2) identify specific infrastructure requirements arising from the Nuclear Posture Review, the Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Memorandum, and the programmatic and technical requirements associated with the review and memorandum. (b) REQUIRED DETAIL.— The Secretary of Energy shall include in the materials that the Secretary submits to Congress in support of the budget for any fiscal year after fiscal year 1997 that is submitted by the President pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, the following: (1) A long-term program plan, and a near-term program plan, for the certification and stewardship of the nuclear weapons stockpile. (2) An assessment of the effects of the plans referred to in paragraph (1) on each nuclear weapons laboratory and each nuclear weapons production plant. (c) DEFINITIONS. —In this section: 42 USC 7271b. 42 USC 7271c.