To make it more likely that the cleanup and closure of the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site will be completed on or before December 15, 2006.

This bill, introduced in 2002, aimed to ensure the timely cleanup and closure of the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site in Colorado by setting strict deadlines for the removal of weapons-grade nuclear materials. It required the Department of Energy to develop alternative disposal plans if shipments of these materials were delayed and mandated that the federal government pay financial assistance to the State of Colorado if all specified nuclear materials were not removed by November 2003. For citizens, the legislation was designed to prevent the site from becoming a de facto permanent storage facility for radioactive waste, ensuring instead that the land could be safely transitioned for other uses by the end of 2006.