110 STAT. 622 PUBLIC LAW 104-106—FEB. 10, 1996 (e) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS. —The Secretary shall, in consultation with the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs, allocate funds available for the fellowship program under subsection (f) among the facilities referred to in subsection (c). The Secretary shall make the allocation after evaluating an assessment by the weapons program director of each such facility of the personnel and critical skills necessary at the facility for carrying out the ongoing mission of the facility. (f) FUNDING. —Of the funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 1996 under section 3101(b), $10,000,000 may be used for the purpose of carrying out the fellowship program under this section. SEC. 3141. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR CERTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES. Funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 1996 under section 3101 may be obligated and expended for activities under the Department of Energy Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program or under Department of Energy technology transfer programs only if such activities support the national security mission of the Department. SEC. 3142. PROCESSING AND TREATMENT OF HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE AND SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL RODS. (a) PROCESSING OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL RODS.— Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to section 3102, there shall be available to the Secretary of Energy to respond effectively to new requirements for managing spent nuclear fuel— (1) not more than $30,000,000, for the Savannah River Site for the development and implementation of a program for the processing, reprocessing, separation, reduction, isolation, and interim storage of high-level nuclear waste associated with aluminum clad spent fuel rods and foreign spent fuel rods; and (2) not more than $15,000,000, for the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory for the development and implementation of a program for the treatment, preparation, and conditioning of high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel (including naval spent nuclear fuel), nonaluminum clad fuel rods, and foreign fuel rods for interim storage and final disposition. (b) IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.—Not later than April 30, 1996, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a five-year plan for the implementation of the programs referred to in subsection (a). The plan shall include— (1) an assessment of the facilities required to be constructed or upgraded to carry out the processing, separation, reduction, isolation and interim storage of high-level nuclear waste; (2) a description of the technologies, including stabilization technologies, that are required to be developed for the efficient conduct of the programs; (3) a projection of the dates upon which activities under the programs are sufficiently completed to provide for the transfers of such waste to permanent repositories; and (4) a projection of the total cost to complete the programs. (c) ELECTROMETALLURGICAL WASTE TREATMENT TECH- NOLOGIES. —Of the amount appropriated pursuant to section
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