[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7611]
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  SA 4139. Mr. TOOMEY (for himself and Mr. Casey) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. 
Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2022 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 B of title I, add the following:

     SEC. 125. PLAN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PLAN FOR ENSURING 
                   SOURCES OF CANNON TUBES.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Army shall develop 
     and implement an investment and sustainment plan to ensure 
     the sourcing of cannon tubes for the purpose of mitigating 
     risk to the Army and the industrial base.
       (b) Elements.--The plan required by subsection (a) shall 
     include the following:
       (1) An identification of qualified and capable sources from 
     which the Army may procure cannon tubes (not including 
     sources from which the Army procures cannon tubes as of the 
     date of the enactment of this Act).
       (2) A determination of the feasibility, advisability, and 
     affordability of procuring cannon tubes from the sources 
     identified under paragraph (1) on a sustainable basis.
       (c) Report; Implementation.--The Secretary of the Army 
     shall--
       (1) not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act, submit to Congress a report describing how the 
     Army will implement the plan required by subsection (a); and
       (2) not later than 120 days after the date on which the 
     report required by paragraph (1) is submitted, implement the 
     plan required by subsection (a), including by procuring 
     cannon tubes from a source identified in the plan under 
     subsection (b)(1).
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