[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 25, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4519-S4520]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 899. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 764 proposed by Mr. Inhofe 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

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     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.
       (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 air traffic control;
       (IV) instrumented landing systems; and
       (V) 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.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than July 31, 2020, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate 
     committees of Congress a report on the results of the study 
     conducted under subsection (a).
       (2) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
     Representatives.

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