[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 93 (Wednesday, June 6, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3239-S3240]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2320. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize

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appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 appropriate place in title III, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. __. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS TO CLOSE AIR NATIONAL 
                   GUARD TRAINING RANGES.

       No funds may be used to proceed with plans for closure, 
     transfer, transition, downgrade, or consolidation of any Air 
     National Guard range until at least 30 days after the 
     Department of Defense submits to the congressional defense 
     committees a plan for the impacted range or ranges that 
     includes the following:
       (1) A description of total usage rates for the range or 
     ranges from all services and United States Special Operations 
     Command users, including active, Guard, and Reserve forces.
       (2) An assessment of the impact of all new mission demands 
     that will require the use of and access to Air National Guard 
     ranges.
       (3) An assessment of the ability of the remaining ranges to 
     absorb the demands of additional training requirements as a 
     result of range closure.
       (4) A cost analysis of increased annual training costs 
     incurred as a result of diverting sorties to ranges further 
     from those ranges currently in use.
       (5) A full inventory of all tactical, electronic, and 
     support equipment and vehicles on each range, by range, and a 
     detailed disposition timeline for execution.
       (6) If plan execution requires the modification of assigned 
     personnel or force structure, a report on what will happen to 
     the people in the losing billets and any impacts a proposed 
     force structure change will have on scheduling flexibility.
       (7) If the Air National Guard plans to transfer a range to 
     another service, the plan must also include a timeline for 
     transition and details of the transfer, including funding 
     changes, decision authorities for transfer, and written 
     commitment from decision authority of the gaining service 
     that they are resourced to take on new mission and are 
     prepared to support range operations and capabilities.
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