STUDY AND PLAN FOR EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PILOT PROGRAM PRINCIPLES.

SEC. 3130. STUDY AND PLAN FOR EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PILOT PROGRAM PRINCIPLES. (a) In General.—The Administrator for Nuclear Security shall conduct a study of the feasibility of, and develop a plan for, extending the principles of the pilot program to improve and streamline oversight of the Kansas City Plant, Kansas City, Missouri, initiated on or about April 2006, to additional facilities of the nuclear security enterprise. (b) Elements.—The study and plan required by subsection (a) shall address the following: (1) The applicability of all or some of the principles of the pilot program to additional facilities of the nuclear security enterprise. (2) The costs, benefits, risks, opportunities, and cost avoidances that may result from the extension of the principles of the pilot program to additional facilities. (3) The cost avoidances that have been realized from the pilot program described in subsection (a) since the pilot program was initiated. (4) The actions and timelines that would be required to extend the principles of the pilot program to additional facilities if the Administrator determines that extending such principles is feasible. (c) Report Required.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes the following: (1) The results of the study and the plan required by subsection (a). (2) The determination of the Administrator regarding whether the principles of the pilot program will be extended to additional facilities of the nuclear security enterprise. (d) Definitions.—In this section: (1) The term “appropriate congressional committees” means the following: (A) The congressional defense committees. (B) The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives. (2) The term “nuclear security enterprise” has the meaning given that term in section 4002 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2501). (3) The term “principles of the pilot program” means the principles regarding the use of third-party certification, industrial standards, best business practices, and verification of internal procedures and performance to improve and streamline oversight, as demonstrated in the pilot program at the Kansas City Plant described in subsection (a).