[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 19, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4093-S4094]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 765. 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 E of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 360. STUDY ON FEASIBILITY OF INCLUDING ANALYTICAL MODEL 
                   OF WIND TURBINES INTO EXISTING CLEARINGHOUSE 
                   PROCESS.

       (a) Study.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense, in coordination 
     with the Secretary of Transportation and the heads of such 
     other Federal agencies as the Secretary of Defense considers 
     appropriate, shall conduct a study on the feasibility of 
     including an analytical model of wind turbines into the 
     existing clearinghouse process of the Department of Defense.
       (2) Elements.--The study required by paragraph (1) shall 
     include the following:
       (A) An analysis of the following:
       (i) The height and blade dimension of wind turbine 
     structures, the energy generated by such structures, and 
     other factors relating to such structures as the Secretary of 
     Defense determines appropriate.
       (ii) Topographical and environmental considerations 
     associated with the location of wind turbine projects.
       (iii) The impact of individual wind turbine structures and 
     the combined impact of proposed and existing wind turbine 
     structures within a 50-mile radius of commercial or military 
     airfields or military training routes, including the amount 
     and pattern of turbulence from a single wind turbine 
     structure in a horizontal and vertical direction.
       (iv) The proximity of wind turbine structures to general 
     aviation, commercial or military training routes, 
     installations of the Department of Defense, and special use 
     airspace.
       (v) The impact of wind turbine structure operation, 
     individually or collectively, on--

       (I) approach and departure corridors;
       (II) established military training routes;
       (III) radar for the National Weather Service;

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       (IV) radar for air traffic control;
       (V) instrumented landing systems; and
       (VI) other factors, as determined by the Administrator of 
     the Federal Aviation Administration and the Secretary of 
     Defense.

       (B) An assessment of whether including an analytical model 
     of wind turbines into the existing clearinghouse process of 
     the Department of Defense is practical, necessary, or cost-
     beneficial as compared to the current process of the 
     Department.
       (b) Report.--Not later than July 31, 2020, the Secretary of 
     Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of 
     the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the 
     results of the study conducted under subsection (a).
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