[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 25, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4511]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 875. 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 end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 108___. SUPPORT AND ENHANCEMENT OF DEFENSE CRITICAL 
                   ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE.

       (a) In General.--Subject to the availability of funds 
     provided in any appropriations Act enacted on or after the 
     date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy may 
     use those funds to plan and install new generation, 
     transmission, and distribution assets and resiliency upgrades 
     to existing distribution and transmission assets for the 
     exclusive purpose of enhancing the power supply at military 
     bases identified by the Secretary as containing defense 
     critical electric infrastructure (as that term is 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 physical or cyber threats.
       (b) Generation Assets Excluded.--The Secretary of Energy 
     shall not take any action in carrying out subsection (a) that 
     provides financial support to existing generation assets.
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