Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) is expected to introduce the “Maintaining the President’s Commitment to our Nuclear Deterrent and National Security Act of 2012” this week in an attempt to hold the Obama Administration to the modernization commitments it made during debate on the New START Treaty. The bill is expected to strengthen language in the Fiscal Year 2012 Defense Authorization Act that sought to tie progress on modernization to current and future stockpile reductions. Also coming this week:
- NNSA officials will be back before the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, with Administrator Tom D’Agostino, nonproliferation chief Anne Harrington and Naval Reactors chief Adm. Kirkland Donald appearing before the panel at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Room 2362-B of the Rayburn House Office Building.
- The House Cleanup Caucus will hold a briefing on cleanup efforts underway at Hanford’s Richland Operations Office Wednesday from 4-5 p.m. Room HC-8 of the U.S. Capitol. The briefing is expected to include presentations from Department of Energy officials, as well as contractor executives.
- Energy Secretary Steven Chu will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power at 10 a.m. Thursday in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko and DOE Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Pete Lyons will testify before the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Room 2362-B of the Rayburn House Office Building.