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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6171. Ms. LUMMIS (for herself and Mr. Kelly) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. . DEFENSE-RELATED URANIUM MINE SITES.
(a) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) DRUM site.—
(A) In general.—The term “DRUM site” means an abandoned,
inactive defense-related uranium mine site that—
(i) supplied uranium ore to the Atomic Energy Commission
for defense-related activities between 1947 and 1970; and
(ii) has legacy uranium mine waste, including waste rock,
tailings, overburden, stockpiled material, and other residual
materials, that were generated by uranium mining and
processing activities and located on abandoned or active
patented or unpatented mining claims on Federal land open or
closed to mineral entry.
(B) Inclusions.—The term “DRUM site” includes, with
respect to a mine site described in subparagraph (A), adits,
portals, vents, waste-rock piles, structures, highwalls, and
surface pits.
(2) Federal land.—The term “Federal land” means land—
(A) the title to which is held by the United States; and
(B) under the jurisdiction of—
(i) the Secretary of the Interior; or
(ii) the Chief of the Forest Service.
(3) NRC service provider.—The term “NRC service
provider” means an entity that holds a valid license from
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued under part 40 of
title 10, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor
regulation), authorizing the possession and treatment of
radioactive materials solely for the purposes of remediation,
stabilization, and cleanup of DRUM sites.
(4) Remediation.—
(A) In general.—The term “remediation” means an action—
(i) undertaken to eliminate, stabilize, or substantially
reduce the release, mobility, toxicity, or volume of
hazardous or radioactive substances from DRUM sites,
including the recovery of uranium, in order to protect human
health and the environment; and
(ii) that utilizes a technology that the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission has approved for use through a multi-site license
after having issued a finding of no significant impact with
respect to the technology.
(B) Exclusion.—The term “remediation” does not include
the extraction of new ore or the development of new mining or
milling operations.
(5) Secretary of the interior.—The term “Secretary of the
Interior” means the Secretary of the Interior, acting
through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
(b) Remediation and Recovery of Legacy Uranium Waste on
Federal Land.—
(1) In general.—Not later than 9 months after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Chief of the Forest Service and
the Secretary of the Interior, each in conjunction with the
Secretary of Energy, shall revise section 228.4(a)(1) of
title 36 and section 3809.5(1) of title 43, Code of Federal
Regulations, respectively, to authorize NRC service providers
to access DRUM sites on Federal land for the purpose of
remediation and recovery of uranium.
(2) Regulatory frameworks.—In carrying out the revisions
required under paragraph (1), the Chief of the Forest Service
and the Secretary of the Interior shall use existing
regulatory frameworks applicable to activities resulting in
no or negligible disturbance and not requiring a notice of
intent to operate or plan of operations pursuant to part 228
of title 36 and part 3809 of title 43, Code of Federal
Regulations (or successor regulations), respectively.
(3) No or negligible surface disturbance.—Activity carried
out by a NRC service provider within a DRUM site pursuant to
a revision required under paragraph (1) shall be deemed to
result in no or negligible surface disturbance, subject to
the condition that the activity does not involve the
expansion of existing mine pits or the creation of new mine
workings.
(4) Applicability of other law.—Notwithstanding any
requirement under the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), if activity carried out within
a DRUM site pursuant to a revision required under paragraph
(1) is carried out by an NRC service provider, no site-
specific environmental assessment (as defined in section 111
of that Act (42 U.S.C. 4336e)) with respect to that activity
shall be required.