[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7625]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4164. Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. Merkley) 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 III, add the following:

     SEC. 318. LIMITATION ON MODIFICATION OF TRAINING ACTIVITIES 
                   IN OREGON PURSUANT TO RECORD OF DECISION FOR 
                   ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT RELATING TO 
                   MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, IDAHO.

       The Secretary of the Air Force shall ensure that any record 
     of decision issued by the Secretary for the Airspace 
     Optimization for Readiness Environmental Impact Statement for 
     Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, does not modify existing 
     training regimes and activities of the Air Force in Oregon 
     until the Secretary, in coordination with the United States 
     Geological Survey and the Oregon Department of Fish and 
     Wildlife, has conducted and then analyzed in a supplemental 
     draft environmental impact statement comprehensive, primary 
     research on the effects of real noise, the risk of wildfire 
     from the use of flares, and the risk of water pollution from 
     the use of chaff from current and proposed future military 
     training on wildlife and human communities in the Mountain 
     Home Military Operations Area in Oregon.
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