DESIGNATION OF COVERED FACILITIES AS ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP DEMONSTRATION AREAS.

SEC. 3177. DESIGNATION OF COVERED FACILITIES AS ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANUP DEMONSTRATION AREAS. (a) Designation.— Each defense nuclear facility is hereby designated as an environmental cleanup demonstration area to carry out the purposes of this subtitle, including the utilization and evaluation of new technologies to be used in environmental restoration and remediation at other defense nuclear facilities. (b) Sense of Congress.— It is the sense of Congress that Federal and State regulatory agencies, members of the communities surrounding any defense nuclear facility, and other affected parties with respect to the facility should continue to— (1) develop expedited and streamlined processes and systems for cleaning up such facility; (2) eliminate unnecessary administrative complexity and unnecessaiy duplication of regulation with respect to the cleanup of such facility; (3) proceed expeditiously and cost-effectively with environmental restoration and remediation activities at such facility; (4) consider future land use in selecting environmental cleanup remedies at such facility; and (5) identify and recommend to Congress changes in law needed to expedite the cleanup of such facility.