[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2176 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 2176
To require a report on future activities and resources for the delivery
of specialized infrastructure, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 25 (legislative day, June 24), 2025
Mrs. Fischer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Armed Services
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A BILL
To require a report on future activities and resources for the delivery
of specialized infrastructure, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``NNSA Infrastructure Improvements Act
of 2025''.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Administration.--The term ``Administration'' means the
National Nuclear Security Administration.
(2) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development of the
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and
Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives.
(3) Specialized infrastructure.--The term ``specialized
infrastructure'' means any facility--
(A) that supports the nuclear stockpile mission,
including capabilities to handle and process--
(i) special nuclear materials;
(ii) radioactive, hazardous, and
specialized materials;
(iii) non-nuclear unique components; and
(iv) assembled nuclear weapons;
(B) that supports the global security mission of
the Administration; or
(C) that supports naval spent fuel management,
nuclear material testing and examination, and
functional nuclear laboratory consolidation for naval
nuclear propulsion.
SEC. 3. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) On October 15, 2024, the Administration published the
Enterprise Blueprint, a 25-year roadmap to deliver essential
infrastructure on time and at scale.
(2) The nuclear enterprise infrastructure of the
Administration relies on specialized production facilities and
science and technology infrastructure to meet nuclear
deterrence needs, including--
(A) research and design sites, which offer
specialized research, design, certification,
assessment, simulation, and engineering capabilities
for the nuclear stockpile, nuclear nonproliferation,
and counterterrorism;
(B) technology and manufacturing sites, which
provide unique production, processing, manufacturing,
assembly and disassembly, integration, technology
development, and staging and storage capabilities for
nuclear weapons and materials;
(C) naval reactors sites, which are responsible for
design and engineering of nuclear-powered aircraft
carriers and submarines for the Navy and management and
examination of naval spent fuel; and
(D) the special experimentation site, which hosts
one-of-kind subcritical testing and a broad suite of
unique experimental capabilities for the nuclear
deterrence mission, including the safe handling of
special nuclear and other hazardous materials.
(3) The current state of the nuclear enterprise
infrastructure of the Administration reflects decades of
neglect and insufficient planning, which has resulted in more
than \1/2\ of the facilities within the nuclear enterprise
infrastructure, many of which date back to the Manhattan
Project, being in poor condition.
(4) The United States must recapitalize, modernize, and
expand the nuclear enterprise infrastructure to provide
sufficient capacity and capability to meet the requirements of
nuclear modernization programs of record.
(5) The roadmap outlined in the Enterprise Blueprint
provides a path forward to reconfigure an aged enterprise to
meet dynamic and demanding mission requirements, including--
(A) simultaneous design, development, and
production of more than 6 modernized nuclear weapons
systems; and
(B) enduring stockpile stewardship requirements to
ensure the nuclear deterrent of the United States
remains safe, secure, effective, and credible.
(6) The roadmap aligns the recapitalization strategy to
address targeted needs with the programs of record as of the
date of the enactment of this Act, sequencing projects so that
facilities are replaced before failure and capabilities are
delivered at the speed of relevance.
(7) To effectuate the roadmap in the Enterprise Blueprint,
the Administration must continuously review infrastructure
investment plans for the near-, medium-, and long-term, and
provide Congress with cost estimates, projected schedules, and
workforce requirements to meet nuclear deterrence needs.
SEC. 4. REPORT.
(a) In General.--Not later than February 15, 2026, and annually
thereafter, the Administrator for Nuclear Security shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report on future activities and
resources for the delivery of specialized infrastructure with demands
across the nuclear stockpile, global security, and naval nuclear
propulsion missions, which shall include the following:
(1) An assessment of infrastructure investments necessary
in the 5 fiscal years following the fiscal year of the report,
including--
(A) the cost estimates and schedules for such
infrastructure investments;
(B) the impacts to workforce requirements of the
Administration;
(C) the status of any reviews required by the
National Environmental Policy Act for such
infrastructure investments;
(D) an explanation of the targeted needs addressed
by such infrastructure investments; and
(E) a summary of progress made towards achieving
such infrastructure investments.
(2) For fiscal year 2027 and each subsequent fiscal year,
an explanation of any changes in cost estimates and schedules
for the projects listed in the assessment required by paragraph
(1) for the prior fiscal year.
(3) An assessment of infrastructure investments necessary
in the 6 to 15 fiscal years following the fiscal year of the
report, including--
(A) an estimated schedule for such infrastructure
investments; and
(B) an explanation of the targeted needs addressed
by such infrastructure investments.
(4) For fiscal year 2027 and each subsequent fiscal year,
an explanation of any changes in cost estimates and schedules
for the projects listed in the assessment required by paragraph
(3) for the prior fiscal year.
(5) An assessment of the infrastructure investments
necessary in the 16 to 25 fiscal years following the fiscal
year of the report, including an explanation of the targeted
needs such infrastructure investments are addressing.
(6) For fiscal year 2027 and each subsequent fiscal year,
an explanation of any changes in cost estimates and schedules
for the projects listed in the assessment required by paragraph
(5) for the prior fiscal year.
(b) Form.--Each report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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