INDEPENDENT COST ESTIMATE OF ACCELERATOR PRODUCTION OF TRITIUM.

SEC. 3135. INDEPENDENT COST ESTIMATE OF ACCELERATOR PRODUCTION OF TRITIUM. (a) Independent Cost Estimate.—(1) The Secretary of Energy shall obtain an independent cost estimate of the accelerator production of tritium. (2) The estimate shall be obtained from an entity not within the Department of Energy. (3) The estimate shall be conducted at the highest possible level of detail, but in no event at a level of detail below that currently defined by the Secretary as Type III, “parametric estimate”. (b) Report.—Not later than April 1, 2000, the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the independent cost estimate obtained pursuant to subsection (a).