[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3813]
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SA 1715. Mr. FLAKE 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 G of title X, add the following:
SEC. 1085. RESTRICTIONS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL
MONUMENTS.
Section 320301 of title 54, United States Code, is amended
by adding at the end the following:
``(e) Restrictions on the Establishment of National
Monuments in Military Operations Areas.--The President shall
not establish a national monument under this section on land
that is located under the lateral boundaries of a military
operations area (as the term is defined in section 1.1 of
title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor
regulations)), unless--
``(1) the proclamation includes language that ensures that
the establishment of the national monument would not place
any new limits on--
``(A) low-level overflights of military aircraft;
``(B) the designation of a new unit of special use
airspace;
``(C) the use or establishment of a military flight
training route;
``(D) any flight operations of military aircraft; or
``(E) any ground-based operations in support of military
flight operations; and
``(2) the Secretary of Defense certifies that the
establishment of the national monument--
``(A) would not negatively impact any military flight
operations in airspace above the national monument; and
``(B) would not reduce the ability of any ground-based
operations in support of military flight operations.''.
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