[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 199 (Tuesday, November 16, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S8279]
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SA 4695. Mr. HAGERTY 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 C of title XV, add the following:
SEC. 1548. REPORT ON INCREASING TRAINING CAPACITY FOR WEAPONS
OF MASS DESTRUCTION CIVIL SUPPORT TEAMS.
Not later than December 31, 2022, the Secretary of Defense,
in consultation with the Chief of the National Guard Bureau
and the Secretary of Energy, shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report--
(1) assessing the feasibility of increasing training
capacity for weapons of mass destruction civil support teams,
including through--
(A) the establishment of new facilities and programs to
provide such training; and
(B) the augmentation of existing facilities and programs to
provide such training;
(2) estimating the costs associated with increasing
training capacity as described in paragraph (1); and
(3) identifying facilities and programs that could be
established or augmented as described in paragraph (1).
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