[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 134 (Friday, July 30, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5221-S5222]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2127. Mr. WICKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, 
highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

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     SEC. __. NAVY AND COAST GUARD SHIPYARD INFRASTRUCTURE 
                   IMPROVEMENT.

       (a) Appropriation.--
       (1) In general.--Out of any money in the Treasury of the 
     United States not otherwise appropriated, there is 
     appropriated, as an additional amount for ``Defense 
     Production Act Purchases'', $25,350,000,000, to remain 
     available until expended, to improve, in accordance with 
     subsection (b) and using the authority provided by section 
     303(e) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 
     4533(e)), the Navy and Coast Guard shipyard infrastructure of 
     the United States.
       (2) Supplement not supplant.--Amounts appropriated under 
     paragraph (1) shall supplement and not supplant other amounts 
     appropriated or otherwise made available for the purpose 
     described in paragraph (1).
       (3) Waiver of certain limitations.--During the 20-year 
     period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, 
     the following requirements of the Defense Production Act of 
     1950 (50 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.) shall not apply to amounts 
     appropriated under paragraph (1):
       (A) The requirement for a determination of the President 
     under section 303(e)(1) of that Act (50 U.S.C. 4533(e)(1)).
       (B) The requirement under section 304(e) of that Act (50 
     U.S.C. 4534(e)) that amounts in the Defense Production Act 
     Fund in excess of the amount specified in that subsection be 
     paid into the general fund of the Treasury at the end of a 
     fiscal year.
       (4) Emergency designation.--The amount appropriated under 
     paragraph (1) is designated by the Congress as being for an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of 
     the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
     (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)(i)).
       (b) Use of Funds.--
       (1) In general.--As soon as practicable after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     make the amounts appropriated under subsection (a) directly 
     available to the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of 
     Homeland Security for obligation and expenditure in 
     accordance with paragraph (2).
       (2) Allocation of funds.--The amounts appropriated under 
     subsection (a) shall be allocated as follows:
       (A) $21,000,000,000 for Navy public shipyard facilities, 
     dock, dry dock, capital equipment improvements, and dredging 
     efforts needed by such shipyards.
       (B) $2,000,000,000 for Navy private new construction 
     shipyard facilities, dock, dry dock, capital equipment 
     improvements, and dredging efforts needed by such shipyards.
       (C) $2,000,000,000 for Navy private repair shipyard 
     facilities, dock, dry dock, capital equipment improvements, 
     and dredging efforts needed by such shipyards.
       (D) $350,000,000 for Coast Guard Yard facilities, dock, dry 
     dock, capital equipment improvements, and dredging efforts 
     needed by the shipyard.
       (3) Use of funds for procurement of certain services.--
     Notwithstanding any provision of the Defense Production Act 
     of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.), amounts appropriated under 
     subsection (a) may be used for the procurement of architect-
     engineer and construction services at Navy public shipyards.
       (4) Projects in addition to other construction projects.--
     Construction projects undertaken using amounts appropriated 
     under subsection (a) shall be in addition to and separate 
     from any military construction program authorized by any Act 
     to authorize appropriations for a fiscal year for military 
     activities of the Department of Defense and for military 
     construction.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Coast guard yard.--The term ``Coast Guard Yard'' means 
     the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland.
       (2) Navy public shipyard.--The term ``Navy public 
     shipyard'' means the following:
       (A) The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia.
       (B) The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii.
       (C) The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine.
       (D) The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington.
       (3) Navy private new construction shipyard.--The term 
     ``Navy private new construction shipyard''--
       (A) means any shipyard in which one or more combatant or 
     support vessels included in the most recent plan submitted 
     under section 231 of title 10, United States Code, are being 
     built or are planned to be built; and
       (B) includes vendors and suppliers of the shipyard building 
     or planning to build a combatant or support vessel.
       (4) Navy private repair shipyard.--The term ``Navy private 
     repair shipyard''--
       (A) means any shipyard that performs or is planned to 
     perform maintenance or modernization work on a combatant or 
     support vessel included in the most recent plan submitted 
     under section 231 of title 10, United States Code; and
       (B) includes vendors and suppliers of the shipyard 
     performing or planning to perform maintenance or 
     modernization work on a combatant or support vessel.
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