PROCESSING AND TREATMENT OF HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE AND SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL RODS.

SEC. 3142. PROCESSING AND TREATMENT OF HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE AND SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL RODS. (a) Processing of Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods.— Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to section 3102, there shall be available to the Secretary of Energy to respond effectively to new requirements for managing spent nuclear fuel— (1) not more than $30,000,000, for the Savannah River Site for the development and implementation of a program for the processing, reprocessing, separation, reduction, isolation, and interim storage of high-level nuclear waste associated with aluminum clad spent fuel rods and foreign spent fuel rods; and (2) not more than $15,000,000, for the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory for the development and implementation of a program for the treatment, preparation, and conditioning of high-level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel (including naval spent nuclear fuel), nonaluminum clad fuel rods, and foreign fuel rods for interim storage and final disposition. (b) Implementation Plan.— Not later than April 30, 1996, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a five-year plan for the implementation of the programs referred to in subsection (a). The plan shall include— (1) an assessment of the facilities required to be constructed or upgraded to carry out the processing, separation, reduction, isolation and interim storage of high-level nuclear waste; (2) a description of the technologies, including stabilization technologies, that are required to be developed for the efficient conduct of the programs; (3) a projection of the dates upon which activities under the programs are sufficiently completed to provide for the transfers of such waste to permanent repositories; and (4) a projection of the total cost to complete the programs. (c) Electrometallurgical Waste Treatment Technologies.— Of the amount appropriated pursuant to section 110 STAT. 6233102(c), not more than $25,000,000 shall be available for development of electrometallurgical waste treatment technologies at the Argonne National Laboratory. (d) Use of Funds for Settlement Agreement.— Funds made available pursuant to subsection (a)(2) for the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory shall be considered to be funds made available in partial fulfillment of the terms and obligations set forth in the settlement agreement entered into by the United States with the State of Idaho in the actions captioned Public Service Co. of Colorado v. Batt, Civil No. 91–0035–S–EJL, and United States v. Batt, Civil No. 91–0054–S–EJL, in the United States District Court for the District of Idaho and the consent order of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho, dated October 17, 1995, that effectuates the settlement agreement.