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granularity of the costs required to operate and maintain nuclear security enterprise facilities. Work has
been organized by capabilities provided, such as material operations, component production, fabrication
and assembly, and testing. Infrastructure funding ensures environmental compliance and energy and
operational efficiency throughout the nuclear security enterprise, while modernizing, streamlining,
consolidating, and sustaining the stewardship and vitality of the sites.
The NNSA will continue to institutionalize responsible and accountable corporate facilities management
processes and incorporate best practices from industry and other organizations. This includes
implementation of a planning process that results in the submission of Ten-Year Site Plans that establish
the foundation for the strategic planning of the facilities and infrastructure of the enterprise. The NNSA
works proactively with its contractors, external regulators, and host communities to assure that facilities
and operations are in compliance with all applicable statutes and agreements to preclude any adverse
impact to the environment, safety, and health of workers and the public and to address emergency
management issues while minimizing unscheduled disruption to program activities that could affect
performance.
Infrastructure investments play a critical role in revitalizing the nuclear weapons manufacturing and
research and development enterprise. Investments improve the responsiveness and/or utility of the
infrastructure and its technology base. The NNSA focuses its construction on two primary objectives:
(1) planning, and prioritization of the projects required to support the weapons programs, and
(2) development and execution of these projects within approved cost and schedule baselines.
The FY 2012 contains significant investments in CMRR-NF and UPF. The high priority of both
projects was highlighted in the Nuclear Posture Review. Consistent with NNSA’s increased emphasis
on project management rigor, baseline cost and schedule will not be finalized until the projects achieve
90% design maturity. The projects are scheduled to achieve 90% design maturity in late FY 2012, and
the Department will set the performance baseline in FY 2013. The increased funding level in the
FY 2012-FY 2016 period is needed to support the required schedule of construction completion in
FY 2020 and a ramp-up to full operations by FY 2023 for CMRR-NF and FY 2024 for UPF.
In FY 2012, funding will also support investments to shift production operations at the Kansas City
Plant to a new leased facility (currently under construction) and specific projects at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory (LANL), Pantex Plant, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and Y-12 National
Security Complex. The Transuranic Waste Facility Project at LANL will allow the site to comply with
an Order of Consent with the State of New Mexico which requires the cleanup and vacating of
Technical Area 54. Projects for TA-55 Reinvestment Project Phase II support infrastructure system
upgrades to extend the life of the existing facility at LANL. The High Explosive Pressing Facility
project at Pantex will replace current facilities which are nearing the end of their service lives. The Test
Capabilities Revitalization–Phase II Project at SNL will refurbish non-nuclear capabilities to support
timely certification components for the B61 and future LEPs. The Nuclear Facility Risk Reduction
Project at Y-12 will upgrade infrastructure systems in buildings 9212 and 9204-2E to ensure continuity
of capability and continued safe operations until they are transitioned to UPF.
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