To reauthorize the West Valley demonstration project, and for other purposes.

H.R. 1138 was signed into law on December 20, 2019, as Public Law 116-95. It reauthorizes the West Valley Demonstration Project Act, increasing the annual authorization from $5 million (FY1981) to $75 million for each fiscal year from 2020 through 2026. The bill also requires a GAO report on radioactive waste volumes, origins, types, and disposal options at the Western New York Service Center. This is a narrow, site-specific authorization for environmental remediation at a former nuclear fuel reprocessing facility in West Valley, New York. The funding is authorized, not appropriated, meaning actual spending depends on separate appropriations bills. The project involves cleanup of legacy nuclear waste from Cold War-era reprocessing activities. No publicly traded companies are directly named or clearly positioned to benefit from this authorization. The cleanup is managed by the Department of Energy and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, with contractors likely being specialized environmental remediation firms that are either private or too small for public market relevance. The $75 million annual authorization is modest in the context of federal nuclear cleanup spending (the DOE Environmental Management budget is ~$7-8 billion annually).