LIMITATION ON OBLIGATION OF FUNDS FOR ROBUST NUCLEAR EARTH PENETRATOR PROGRAM PENDING SUBMISSION OF REPORT.

SEC. 3146. LIMITATION ON OBLIGATION OF FUNDS FOR ROBUST NUCLEAR EARTH PENETRATOR PROGRAM PENDING SUBMISSION OF REPORT. (a) Report-and-Wait Requirement.—None of the funds made available to the Secretary of Energy for fiscal year 2003 for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator program may be obligated until— (1) the Secretary of Defense submits to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report described in subsection (b); and (2) a period of 30 days has passed after such report is received by those committees. (b) Report.—A report under subsection (a)(1) is a report on the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator program, prepared by the 116 STAT. 2736Secretary of Defense in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, that sets forth the following: (1) The military requirements for the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator. (2) The nuclear weapons employment policy regarding the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator. (3) A detailed description of the categories or types of targets that the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator is designed to hold at risk. (4) An assessment of the ability of conventional weapons to defeat the same categories and types of targets as are described pursuant to paragraph (3).