[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3800-S3801]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1668. Mr. BOOZMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to 
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle D of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 332. REPORT ON AIR NATIONAL GUARD MISSION CHANGES AND 
                   IMPACTS TO PUBLIC AIRPORTS.

       (a) Report.--
       (1) Report required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air 
     Force shall submit to the congressional defense committees a 
     report detailing the number of Air National Guard units that 
     have undergone a mission change in the previous 5 years and 
     who are tenants at a public airport.

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       (2) Elements.--The report required under paragraph (1) 
     shall include the following elements:
       (A) A comprehensive list of Air National Guard units, by 
     State, that have undergone a mission change from a flying 
     mission to a remotely piloted aircraft mission, an 
     intelligence mission, or any other type of mission that does 
     not involve operating and maintaining manned aircraft at a 
     public airport in the previous 5 years.
       (B) An assessment of which units listed in subparagraph 
     (A), prior to undergoing a mission change, had an Airport 
     Joint Use Agreement in place with the public airport where 
     the unit is a tenant in order to financially compensate that 
     airport for the use of runways, taxiways, air traffic control 
     towers, crash, rescue and firefighting services, or any other 
     relevant services.
       (C) The annual amount for the previous 5 years that each 
     Air National Guard unit listed under subparagraph (B) paid to 
     the public airport at which they are a tenant under that 
     unit's Airport Joint Use Agreement.
       (D) An assessment of which units listed under subparagraph 
     (B) have subsequently canceled their Airport Joint Use 
     Agreement since undergoing a mission change.
       (E) A cost assessment, by unit listed in subparagraph (D), 
     of what the rental value is for the property that the unit 
     occupies at the public airport where the unit is a tenant.
       (F) An evaluation from the Office of Economic Adjustment on 
     whether and under what circumstances the Office can offer 
     financial assistance to public airports that have an Air 
     National Guard unit as a tenant that has undergone a mission 
     change that resulted in the termination of an Airport Joint 
     Use Agreement.
       (b) Definitions.--
       (1) In this section, the term ``public airport,'' means an 
     airport that is open to civilian air traffic, both private 
     and commercial.
       (2) In this section, the term ``rental value,'' means the 
     amount which, in a competitive market, a well-informed and 
     willing lessee would pay and which a well-informed and 
     willing lessor would accept for the temporary use and 
     enjoyment of the property.
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