[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3461]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1979. Ms. CANTWELL 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:

       At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1085. REQUIREMENT TO USE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT 
                   AUTHORITIES TO INVEST IN ALUMINUM PRODUCTION 
                   CAPACITY IN UNITED STATES.

       If aluminum production capacity in the United States falls 
     below 895,000 tons in a year, as determined by the United 
     States Geological Survey, the Secretary of Defense shall, 
     without the need for the authorization of the President under 
     paragraph (1) of section 301(a) of the Defense Production Act 
     of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4531(a)) or a determination by the 
     President described in paragraph (2) of that section, use the 
     authorities provided by title III of that Act (50 U.S.C. 4531 
     et seq.) to expand the production capacity of the aluminum 
     industry in the United States.
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