[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3445]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 384. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2020 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 XXVIII, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 2826. STUDY ON INSTALLATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
                   DEFENSE THAT ARE DESIGNATED AS REMOTE OR 
                   ISOLATED.

       (a) In General.--The Comptroller General of the United 
     States shall conduct a study on the designation by the 
     Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military 
     departments of installations of the Department of Defense as 
     ``remote'' or ``isolated''.
       (b) Elements of Study.--The study conducted under 
     subsection (a) shall--
       (1) identify--
       (A) the various definitions within the Department of 
     Defense of remote and isolated installations;
       (B) who establishes those definitions; and
       (C) the criteria to meet those definitions;
       (2) assess the uses by the Department of the remote or 
     isolated designation for an installation; and
       (3) review--
       (A) the range of services available at remote 
     installations;
       (B) how those services differ between the military 
     departments; and
       (C) the process used to determine whether those services 
     meet the needs of members of the Armed Forces at those 
     installations.
       (c) Report.--Not later than January 30, 2020, the 
     Comptroller General shall submit to Congress, at a minimum, 
     the initial findings for the study conducted under subsection 
     (a).
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