TRITIUM PRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS.

SEC. 3145. TRITIUM PRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS. (a) Evaluation.—(1) The Secretary of Energy shall evaluate— (A) a range of contingency options for meeting potential tritium requirements of the United States before 2008; and (B) long-term options for the production of tritium to meet the tritium requirements of the United States after 2008. (2) Among the long-term options evaluated under paragraph (1)(B), the Secretary of Energy shall consider— (A) those technologies and reactors that are evaluated by the Secretary for plutonium disposition and are appropriate for the production of tritium, for the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of using such technologies and reactors for the production of tritium; and (B) any proposals for the private financing of tritium production facilities or for the commercial production of tritium that the Secretary considers promising. (b) Report.—Not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the Congress a report on the contingency options evaluated under subsection (a)(1)(A) which sets forth the Secretary’s plan for meeting, through 2008, the requirements of the United States for tritium for national security purposes. The report shall include an assessment of the effect of the closing of the K reactor at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, on the ability of the Department of 107 STAT. 1949Energy to meet such requirements. The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, with a classified appendix if necessary. (c) Environmental Impact Statement.—The Secretary of Energy shall include an assessment of the capacity of the Department of Energy to produce tritium after 2008 in the Secretary’s programmatic environmental impact statement under 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C) on the reconfiguration of the Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex. The Secretary snail issue the programmatic environmental impact statement not later than March 1, 1995.