119-s2176

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2176 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 2176

To require a report on future activities and resources for the delivery 
 of specialized infrastructure, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 June 25 (legislative day, June 24), 2025

 Mrs. Fischer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
 referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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 A BILL

To require a report on future activities and resources for the delivery 
 of specialized infrastructure, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``NNSA Infrastructure Improvements Act 
of 2025''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

 In this Act:

    (1) Administration.--The term ``Administration'' means the 
 National Nuclear Security Administration.

    (2) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
 ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
        (A) the Committee on Armed Services and the 
 Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development of the 
 Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
        (B) the Committee on Armed Services and the 
 Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and 
 Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations of 
 the House of Representatives.

    (3) Specialized infrastructure.--The term ``specialized 
 infrastructure'' means any facility--
        (A) that supports the nuclear stockpile mission, 
 including capabilities to handle and process--
            (i) special nuclear materials;
            (ii) radioactive, hazardous, and 
 specialized materials;
            (iii) non-nuclear unique components; and
            (iv) assembled nuclear weapons;
        (B) that supports the global security mission of 
 the Administration; or
            (C) that supports naval spent fuel management, 
 nuclear material testing and examination, and 
 functional nuclear laboratory consolidation for naval 
 nuclear propulsion.

SEC. 3. FINDINGS.

 Congress finds the following:

    (1) On October 15, 2024, the Administration published the 
 Enterprise Blueprint, a 25-year roadmap to deliver essential 
 infrastructure on time and at scale.

    (2) The nuclear enterprise infrastructure of the 
 Administration relies on specialized production facilities and 
 science and technology infrastructure to meet nuclear 
 deterrence needs, including--
        (A) research and design sites, which offer 
 specialized research, design, certification, 
 assessment, simulation, and engineering capabilities 
 for the nuclear stockpile, nuclear nonproliferation, 
 and counterterrorism;
        (B) technology and manufacturing sites, which 
 provide unique production, processing, manufacturing, 
 assembly and disassembly, integration, technology 
 development, and staging and storage capabilities for 
 nuclear weapons and materials;
            (C) naval reactors sites, which are responsible for 
 design and engineering of nuclear-powered aircraft 
 carriers and submarines for the Navy and management and 
 examination of naval spent fuel; and
            (D) the special experimentation site, which hosts 
 one-of-kind subcritical testing and a broad suite of 
 unique experimental capabilities for the nuclear 
 deterrence mission, including the safe handling of 
 special nuclear and other hazardous materials.

    (3) The current state of the nuclear enterprise 
 infrastructure of the Administration reflects decades of 
 neglect and insufficient planning, which has resulted in more 
 than \1/2\ of the facilities within the nuclear enterprise 
 infrastructure, many of which date back to the Manhattan 
 Project, being in poor condition.

    (4) The United States must recapitalize, modernize, and 
 expand the nuclear enterprise infrastructure to provide 
 sufficient capacity and capability to meet the requirements of 
 nuclear modernization programs of record.

    (5) The roadmap outlined in the Enterprise Blueprint 
 provides a path forward to reconfigure an aged enterprise to 
 meet dynamic and demanding mission requirements, including--
        (A) simultaneous design, development, and 
 production of more than 6 modernized nuclear weapons 
 systems; and
        (B) enduring stockpile stewardship requirements to 
 ensure the nuclear deterrent of the United States 
 remains safe, secure, effective, and credible.

    (6) The roadmap aligns the recapitalization strategy to 
 address targeted needs with the programs of record as of the 
 date of the enactment of this Act, sequencing projects so that 
 facilities are replaced before failure and capabilities are 
 delivered at the speed of relevance.

    (7) To effectuate the roadmap in the Enterprise Blueprint, 
 the Administration must continuously review infrastructure 
 investment plans for the near-, medium-, and long-term, and 
 provide Congress with cost estimates, projected schedules, and 
 workforce requirements to meet nuclear deterrence needs.

SEC. 4. REPORT.

    (a) In General.--Not later than February 15, 2026, and annually 
thereafter, the Administrator for Nuclear Security shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report on future activities and 
resources for the delivery of specialized infrastructure with demands 
across the nuclear stockpile, global security, and naval nuclear 
propulsion missions, which shall include the following:

    (1) An assessment of infrastructure investments necessary 
 in the 5 fiscal years following the fiscal year of the report, 
 including--
        (A) the cost estimates and schedules for such 
 infrastructure investments;
        (B) the impacts to workforce requirements of the 
 Administration;
            (C) the status of any reviews required by the 
 National Environmental Policy Act for such 
 infrastructure investments;
            (D) an explanation of the targeted needs addressed 
 by such infrastructure investments; and
        (E) a summary of progress made towards achieving 
 such infrastructure investments.

    (2) For fiscal year 2027 and each subsequent fiscal year, 
 an explanation of any changes in cost estimates and schedules 
 for the projects listed in the assessment required by paragraph

    (1) for the prior fiscal year.

    (3) An assessment of infrastructure investments necessary 
 in the 6 to 15 fiscal years following the fiscal year of the 
 report, including--
        (A) an estimated schedule for such infrastructure 
 investments; and
        (B) an explanation of the targeted needs addressed 
 by such infrastructure investments.

    (4) For fiscal year 2027 and each subsequent fiscal year, 
 an explanation of any changes in cost estimates and schedules 
 for the projects listed in the assessment required by paragraph

    (3) for the prior fiscal year.

    (5) An assessment of the infrastructure investments 
 necessary in the 16 to 25 fiscal years following the fiscal 
 year of the report, including an explanation of the targeted 
 needs such infrastructure investments are addressing.

    (6) For fiscal year 2027 and each subsequent fiscal year, 
 an explanation of any changes in cost estimates and schedules 
 for the projects listed in the assessment required by paragraph

    (5) for the prior fiscal year.

    (b) Form.--Each report required by subsection

    (a) shall be 
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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