COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON CLOSURE OF ROCKY FLATS ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY SITE, COLORADO.

SEC. 3178. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON CLOSURE OF ROCKY FLATS ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY SITE, COLORADO. (a) Report.—Not later than December 31, 2000, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report assessing the progress in the closure of the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, Colorado. (b) Report Elements.—The report shall address and make recommendations on the following: (1) How decisions with respect to the future use of the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site affect ongoing cleanup at the site. (2) How failure to make decisions with respect to the future use of the Rocky Flats site affect ongoing cleanup at that site. (3) Whether the Secretary of Energy could provide additional flexibility to the contractor at the Rocky Flats site in order to accelerate the cleanup of that site. (4) Whether the Secretary could take additional actions throughout the nuclear weapons complex of the Department of Energy in order to accelerate the closure of the Rocky Flats site. (5) The developments, if any, since the April 1999 report of the Comptroller General that could alter the pace of the closure of the Rocky Flats site. (6) The possibility of closure of the Rocky Flats site by 2006. (7) The actions that should be taken by the Secretary or Congress to ensure that the Rocky Flats site will be closed by 2006. (8) The impact of the schedule to transport mixed and unmixed transuranic waste on the ability of the Secretary to close the Rocky Flats site by 2006.