[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 102 (Tuesday, June 18, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3660-S3661]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 638. Ms. CANTWELL 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 E of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 360. MONITORING OF NOISE FROM FLIGHTS AND TRAINING OF 
                   EA-18G GROWLERS ASSOCIATED WITH NAVAL AIR 
                   STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND.

       (a) Monitoring.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall provide for 
     real-time monitoring of noise from local flights of EA-18G 
     Growlers associated with Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, 
     including field carrier landing practice at Naval Outlying 
     Field (OLF) Coupeville and Ault Field.
       (2) Public availability.--The Secretary shall publish the 
     results of monitoring conducted under paragraph (1) on a 
     publicly available Internet website of the Department of 
     Defense.
       (3) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House

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     of Representatives a report on the progress of monitoring 
     conducted under paragraph (1) and the results of such 
     monitoring.
       (b) Plan for Additional Monitoring.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 
     the House of Representatives a plan for real-time monitoring 
     described in subsection (a)(1) of noise relating to field 
     carrier landing practice conducted above or adjacent to 
     Olympic National Park, Olympic National Forest, and Ebey's 
     Landing National Historical Reserve.
       (2) Development of plan.--The Secretary shall work with the 
     Director of the National Park Service and the Chief of the 
     Forest Service in developing the plan under paragraph (1).
       (c) Funding.--
       (1) In general.--The amount authorized to be appropriated 
     by this Act for Navy Operation and Maintenance is hereby 
     increased by $1,000,000 and the amount of such increase shall 
     be made available to carry out this section.
       (2) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by 
     this Act for Marine Corps Operation and Maintenance for SAG 
     4A4G is hereby reduced by $1,000,000.
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