[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 194 (Thursday, November 4, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7933]
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  SA 4426. Mr. MANCHIN 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 E of title XXXI, add the following:

     SEC. 31__. DEFENSE CRITICAL ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY.

       Section 215A of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824o-1) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in paragraph (4), by striking ``of the 48 contiguous 
     States or the District of Columbia'' and inserting ``State'';
       (B) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (9); and
       (C) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
       ``(8) Resilience.--The term `resilience' has the meaning 
     given the term in section 1304A(j) of the Energy Independence 
     and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17384a(j)).'';
       (2) in subsection (c), in the matter preceding paragraph 
     (1), by striking ``the 48 contiguous States and the District 
     of Columbia'' and inserting ``any State''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(g) Authority to Address Vulnerabilities.--The Secretary 
     may, to the extent that funds are made available for such 
     purposes in advance in appropriations Acts, enter into 
     contracts or cooperative agreements with external providers 
     of electric energy--
       ``(1) to improve the resilience of defense critical 
     electric infrastructure; and
       ``(2) to reduce the vulnerability of critical defense 
     facilities designated under subsection (c) to the disruption 
     of the supply of electric energy to those facilities.''.
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