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 110 STAT. 626 PUBLIC LAW 104-106—FEB. 10, 1996 (1) an individual acting within the scope of that individual's employment with a Federal agency should not be personally subject to civil or criminal sanctions (to the extent such sanctions are provided for by law) as a result of the failure to comply with an environmental cleanup requirement under the Solid Waste Disposal Act or the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act or an analogous requirement under a comparable Federal, State, or local law, in any circumstance under which such failure to comply is due to an insufficiency of funds appropriated to carry out such requirement; (2) Federal and State enforcement authorities should refrain from an enforcement action in a circumstance described in paragraph (1); and (3) if funds appropriated for a fiscal year after fiscal year 1995 are insufficient to carry out any such environmental cleanup requirement. Congress should elicit the views of Federal agencies, affected States, and the public, and consider appropriate legislative action to address personal criminal liability in a circumstance described in paragraph (1) and any related issues pertaining to potential liability of a Federal agency. SEC. 3158. RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEFENSE PROGRAMS EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM. The Office of Military Applications under the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs shall retain responsibility for the Defense Programs Emergency Response Program within the Department of Energy. 42 USC 7271b SEC. 3159. REQUIREMENTS FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY WEAPONS note. ACTIVITIES BUDGETS FOR FISCAL YEARS AFTER FISCAL YEAR 1996. (a) IN GENERAL.— The weapons activities budget of the Department of Energy shall be developed in accordance with the Nuclear Posture Review, the Post Nuclear Posture Review Stockpile Memorandum currently under development, and the programmatic and technical requirements associated with the review and memorandum. (b) REQUIRED DETAIL. — The Secretary of Energy shall include in the materials that the Secretary submits to Congress in support of the budget for a fiscal year submitted by the President pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, a long-term program plan, and a near-term program plan, for the certification and stewardship of the nuclear weapons stockpile. (c) DEFINITION.— In this section, the term "Nuclear Posture Review" means the Department of Defense Nuclear Posture Review as contained in the report of the Secretary of Defense to the President and the Congress dated February 19, 1995, or in subsequent such reports. SEC. 3160. REPORT ON HYDRONUCLEAR TESTING. (a) REPORT.— The Secretary of Energy shall direct the joint preparation by the Directors of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory of a report on the advantages and disadvantages with respect to the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile of permitting alternative limits to the current limit on the explosive yield of

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