[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3372-S3373]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1844. Mrs. FEINSTEIN submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by her to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2021 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:


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       At the title appropriate place in title X, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. __. TRANSFER OF MARE ISLAND NAVAL CEMETERY TO SECRETARY 
                   OF VETERANS AFFAIRS FOR MAINTENANCE BY NATIONAL 
                   CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION.

       (a) Agreement.--Beginning on the date that is 180 days 
     after the date on which the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
     submits the report required by subsection (c)(1), the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall seek to enter into an 
     agreement with the city of Vallejo, California, under which 
     the city of Vallejo shall transfer to the Secretary all 
     right, title, and interest in the Mare Island Naval Cemetery 
     in Vallejo, California, at no cost to the Secretary. The 
     Secretary shall seek to enter into such agreement before the 
     date that is one year after the date on which such report is 
     submitted.
       (b) Maintenance by National Cemetery Administration.--If 
     the Mare Island Naval Cemetery is transferred to the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs pursuant to subsection (a), the 
     National Cemetery Administration shall maintain the cemetery 
     as a national shrine.
       (c) Report.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
     shall submit to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of 
     Representatives a report on the feasibility and advisability 
     of exercising the authority granted by subsection (a).
       (2) Contents.--The report submitted under paragraph (1) 
     shall include the following:
       (A) An assessment of the feasibility and advisability of 
     exercising the authority granted by subsection (a).
       (B) An estimate of the costs, including both direct and 
     indirect costs, that the Department of Veterans Affairs would 
     incur by exercising such authority.
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