[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3615]
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SA 627. Mr. MORAN 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 end of subtitle D of title III, add the following:
SEC. 342. REPORT ON MIDWEST INTEGRATED AIRSPACE CORRIDOR.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report on--
(1) the current and future needs for established Military
Operating Areas (MOA) for manned or unmanned aircraft;
(2) the training and readiness benefits of a single,
continuous east-west airspace corridor involving Colorado,
Oklahoma, and Kansas that would facilitate the controlled
airspace of military manned or unmanned aircraft to replicate
real-world operations; and
(3) the training and readiness benefits of a single,
continuous north-south airspace corridor involving North
Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas that may intersect
and be used in conjunction with the east-west airspace
corridor.
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