[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3319-S3320]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4293. Ms. BALDWIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 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 C of title XIV, add the following:

     SEC. 1422. NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES STUDY ON 
                   CONVENTIONAL MUNITIONS DEMILITARIZATION 
                   ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Army shall enter into 
     an arrangement with the Board on Army Science and Technology 
     of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and 
     Medicine to conduct a study of the conventional munitions 
     demilitarization program of the Department of Defense.
       (b) Elements.--The study required pursuant to subsection 
     (a) shall include the following:
       (1) A review of the current conventional munitions 
     demilitarization stockpile, including types of munitions and 
     types of materials contaminated with propellants or 
     energetics, and the disposal technologies used.

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       (2) An analysis of disposal, treatment, and reuse 
     technologies, including technologies currently used by the 
     Department and emerging technologies used or being developed 
     by private or other governmental agencies, including a 
     comparison of cost, throughput capacity, personnel safety, 
     and environmental impacts.
       (3) An identification of munitions types for which 
     alternatives to open burning, open detonation, or non-closed 
     loop incineration/combustion are not used.
       (4) An identification and evaluation of any barriers to 
     full-scale deployment of alternatives to open burning, open 
     detonation, or non-closed loop incineration/combustion, and 
     recommendations to overcome such barriers.
       (5) An evaluation whether the maturation and deployment of 
     governmental or private technologies currently in research 
     and development would enhance the conventional munitions 
     demilitarization capabilities of the Department.
       (c) Submittal to Congress.--Not later than 18 months after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall 
     submit to the congressional defense committees the study 
     conducted pursuant to subsection (a).
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