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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
Op
Calendar No. 217
116TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session J SENATE 116-114
NUCLEAR ENERGY LEADERSHIP ACT
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 903]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 903) to direct the Secretary of Energy to estab-
lish advanced nuclear goals, provide for a versatile, reactor-based
fast neutron source, make available high-assay, low-enriched ura-
nium for research, development, and demonstration of advanced
nuclear reactor concepts, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment (in the na-
ture of a substitute) and recommends that the bill, as amended, do
pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF LONG-TERM POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTS.
Section 501(b)(1) of title 40, United States Code, is amended by striking subpara-
graph (B) and inserting the following:
(B) PUBLIC UTILITY CONTRACTS.-
(i) TERM.-
(I) IN GENERAL.-A contract under this paragraph to purchase
electricity from a public utility may be for a period of not more
than 40 years.
(II) OTHER PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICES.-A contract under this
paragraph for a public utility service other than a service described
in subclause (I) may be for a period of not more than 10 years.
(ii) COSTS.-The cost of a contract under this paragraph for any fiscal
year may be paid from the appropriations for that fiscal year.
SEC. 3. LONG-TERM NUCLEAR POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENT PILOT PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Subtitle B of title VI of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public
Law 109-58; 119 Stat. 782) is amended by adding at the end the following:
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