INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE INFORMATION EXCHANGE.

SEC. 3160. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE INFORMATION EXCHANGE. (a) Findings.— Congress finds the following: (1) Currently in the post—cold war world, there are new opportunities to facilitate international political and scientific cooperation on cost—effective, advanced, and innovative nuclear management technologies. (2) There is increasing public interest in monitoring and remediation of nuclear waste. (3) It is in the best interest of the United States to explore and develop options with the international community to facilitate the exchange of evolving advanced nuclear wastes technologies. (b) Sense of Congress.— It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and other officials as appropriate, should prepare and submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives a report containing the following: (1) An assessment of whether the United States should encourage the establishment of an international project to facilitate the international exchange of information (including costs data) relating to nuclear waste technologies, including technologies for solid and liquid radioactive wastes and contaminated soils and sediments. (2) An assessment of whether such a project could be funded privately through industry, public interest, and scientific organizations and administered by an international nongovernmental organization, with operations in the United States, Russia, and other countries that have an interest in developing such technologies. (3) A description of the Federal programs that facilitate the exchange of such information and of any added benefit of consolidating such programs into such a project. (4) Recommendations for any legislation that the Secretary of Energy believes would be required to enable such a project to be undertaken.