PUBLIC LAW 106-65 —OCT. 5, 1999 113 STAT. 927 whether the program can be carried out under the plan or the update (as appHcable)— (1) in the current fiscal year, given the budget for that fiscal year; and (2) in future fiscal years. (f) SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING FUNDING OF PROGRAM.— It is the sense of Congress that the President should include in each budget for a fiscal year submitted to Congress under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, sufficient funds to carry out in the fiscal year covered by such budget the activities under the program under subsection (a) that are specified in the most current version of the plan for the program under this section. SEC. 3134. PROCEDURES FOR MEETING TRITIUM PRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS. (a) PRODUCTION OF NEW TRITIUM. —The Secretary of Energy shall produce new tritium to meet the requirements of the Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Memorandum at the Tennessee Valley Authority Watts Bar or Sequoyah nuclear power plants consistent with the Secretary's December 22, 1998, decision document designating the Secretary preferred tritium production technology. (b) SUPPORT. —To support the method of tritium production set forth in subsection (a), the Secretary shall design and construct a new tritium extraction facility in the H-Area of the Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina. (c) DESIGN AND ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT.—The Secretary shall— (1) complete preliminary design and engineering development of the Accelerator Production of Tritium technology design as a backup source of tritium to the source set forth in subsection (a) and consistent with the Secretary December 22, 1998, decision document; and (2) make available those funds necessary to complete engineering development and demonstration, preliminary design, and detailed design of key elements of the system consistent with the Secretary's decision document of December 22, 1998. SEC. 3135. INDEPENDENT COST ESTIMATE OF ACCELERATOR PRODUCTION OF TRITIUM. (a) INDEPENDENT COST ESTIMATE.— (1) The Secretary of Energy shall obtain an independent cost estimate of the accelerator production of tritium. (2) The estimate shall be obtained from an entity not within the Department of Energy. (3) The estimate shall be conducted at the highest possible level of detail, but in no event at a level of detail below that currently defined by the Secretary as Type III, "parametric estimate". (b) REPORT.— Not later than April 1, 2000, the Secretary shall Deadline, submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the independent cost estimate obtained pursuant to subsection (a). SEC. 3136. NONPROLIFERATION INITIATIVES AND ACTIVITIES. (a) INITIATIVE FOR PROLIFERATION PREVENTION PROGRAM. —(1) Not more than 35 percent of the funds available in any fiscal year after fiscal year 1999 for the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention program (IPP) may be obligated or expended by the
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