[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 90 (Monday, June 8, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3881]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1849. Mr. BURR (for himself and Mr. Tillis) 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, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
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. 344. REPORT ON USE OF COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE EQUIPMENT 
                   FOR MAINTENANCE FOR WHEELED VEHICLE AND TRACKED 
                   VEHICLE FLEETS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall submit 
     to the congressional defense committees a report setting 
     forth an assessment of the use of commercially available 
     equipment to conduct organizational maintenance and combined 
     support maintenance for the wheeled vehicle and tracked 
     vehicle fleets of the National Guard. The report shall 
     include the following:
       (1) An assessment of the use of such equipment for such 
     maintenance on the operational readiness rates of such 
     fleets.
       (2) A comparison of the cost of the use of such equipment 
     for such maintenance with the current cost of such 
     maintenance.
       (3) An assessment of the extent to which the use of such 
     equipment is viable at the State level to reduce maintenance 
     costs and duration to improve readiness of the fleets.
       (4) Such other matters, and such recommendations, as the 
     Chief of the National Guard Bureau considers appropriate.
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