[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3494]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 418. Mr. GARDNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. SUPPORT AND ENHANCEMENT OF DEFENSE CRITICAL 
                   ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND CRITICAL ELECTRIC 
                   INFRASTRUCTURE.

       The Secretary of Energy may use any portion of funds 
     appropriated by Congress to the Secretary of Energy 
     (including through financial assistance or other means) to 
     enhance, improve, develop, or support defense critical 
     electric infrastructure or critical electric infrastructure 
     (as those terms are defined in section 215A(a) of the Federal 
     Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824o-1(a))) to improve the resilience of 
     the infrastructure against threats or challenges to the 
     optimal performance of that infrastructure.
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