[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8201-S8202]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4653. Mr. WICKER 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 A of title XXVIII, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 2803. 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 
     Infrastructure Fund'', $25,350,000,000, to remain available 
     until expended, to improve, in accordance with subsection 
     (b), 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) Emergency designation.--The amount appropriated under 
     paragraph (1) is designated by Congress as being for an 
     emergency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con. 
     Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the 
     budget for fiscal year 2018, and to section 251(b) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
     U.S.C. 901(b)).
       (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, which shall be transferred to the 
     Department of Homeland Security, for Coast Guard Yard 
     facilities, dock, dry dock, capital equipment improvements, 
     and dredging efforts needed by the shipyard.
       (3) 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

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       (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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