[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 95 (Monday, June 15, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4145-S4146]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2028. Mr. FLAKE (for himself, Mr. McCain, and Mr. Heinrich) 
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 A of title XVI, add the following:

     SEC. 1614. REPORT ON FEASIBILITY, COSTS, AND COST SAVINGS OF 
                   ALLOWING FOR COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS OF EXCESS 
                   BALLISTIC MISSILE SOLID ROCKET MOTORS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the 
     United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
     committees a report assessing--
       (1) the feasibility of permitting excess ballistic missile 
     solid rocket motors, including excess ballistic missile solid 
     rocket motors from the Minotaur launch vehicle, to be made 
     available for commercial applications, including an 
     assessment of any policy or statutory restrictions that would 
     prevent the use of such motors for commercial applications;
       (2) the costs to the Federal Government of, and the cost 
     savings for the Federal Government anticipated to result 
     from, making such motors available for commercial 
     applications;
       (3) the effects of making such motors available for 
     commercial applications on programs of the Federal 
     Government;
       (4) any implications of making such motors available for 
     commercial applications for the international obligations of 
     the United States;
       (5) any implications for the United States commercial 
     launch market and launch industrial base of making such 
     motors available for commercial applications; and
       (6) considerations for fair and equitable pricing of such 
     motors if such motors were made available for commercial 
     applications.
       (b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
     means--

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       (1) the congressional defense committees; and
       (2) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
     of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
     House of Representatives.
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