MANUFACTURING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REFABRICATION AND CERTIFICATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS STOCKPILE.

SEC. 3137. MANUFACTURING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REFABRICATION AND CERTIFICATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS STOCKPILE. (a) Manufacturing Program.— The Secretary of Energy shall carry out a program for purposes of establishing within the Government a manufacturing infrastructure that has the capabilities of meeting the following objectives as specified in the Nuclear Posture Review: (1) To provide a stockpile surveillance engineering base. (2) To refabricate and certify weapon components and types in the enduring nuclear weapons stockpile, as necessary. (3) To fabricate and certify new nuclear warheads, as necessary. (4) To support nuclear weapons. (5) To supply sufficient tritium in support of nuclear weapons to ensure an upload hedge in the event circumstances require. (b) Required Capabilities.— The manufacturing infrastructure established under the program under subsection (a) shall include the following capabilities (modernized to attain the objectives referred to in that subsection): (1) The weapons assembly capabilities of the Pantex Plant. (2) The weapon secondary fabrication capabilities of the Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. (3) The tritium production, recycling, and other weapons-related capabilities or the Savannah River Site. (4) The non-nuclear component capabilities of the Kansas City Plant. (c) Nuclear Posture Review.— For purposes of subsection (a), the term “Nuclear Posture Review” means the Department of Defense Nuclear Posture Review as contained in the Report of the Secretary of Defense to the President and the Congress dated February 19, 1995, or subsequent such reports. (d) Funding.— Of the funds authorized to be appropriated under section 3101(b), $143,000,000 shall be available for carrying out the program required under this section, of which— (1) $35,000,000 shall be available for activities at the Pantex Plant; (2) $30,000,000 shall be available for activities at the Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; (3) $35,000,000 shall be available for activities at the Savannah River Site; and 110 STAT. 621 (4) $43,000,000 shall be available for activities at the Kansas City Plant. (e) Plan and Report.— The Secretary shall develop a plan for the implementation of this section. Not later than March 1, 1996, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the obligations the Secretary has incurred, and plans to incur, during fiscal year 1996 for the program referred to in subsection (a).