[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 201 (Thursday, November 18, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8465-S8466]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 4795. Mr. SHELBY (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Blunt,
Mrs. Capito, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Boozman, Ms. Collins, Mr.
Kennedy, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Tillis, and Mr. Hoeven)
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 appropriate place, insert the following:
TITLE __--AUTHORIZATION OF AMOUNTS FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
INFRASTRUCTURE
SEC. ___1. ESTABLISHMENT OF DEFENSE INFRASTRUCTURE FUND.
There is established in the general fund of the Treasury an
account to be known as the ``Defense Infrastructure Fund''
for the deposit of amounts to be used for improvement of the
infrastructure of the Department of Defense.
SEC. ___2. AUTHORIZATION OF AMOUNTS FOR REDUCTION OF BACKLOG
FOR FACILITY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.
(a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to
the Department of Defense $4,000,000,000 for the Defense
Infrastructure Fund, of which $1,300,000,000 shall be
available for each of the Departments of the Army, the Navy,
and the Air Force, and $100,000,000 shall be for the Defense
Health Agency, to reduce the backlog of facility
infrastructure maintenance projects of the Department of
Defense.
(b) Compliance With Repair Requirements.--Any project
carried out with amounts authorized under subsection (a)
shall comply with the requirements under section 2811 of
title 10, United States Code.
(c) Availability of Amounts.--Amounts authorized under
subsection (a) shall be available for obligation until
September 30, 2026.
SEC. ___3. AUTHORIZATION OF AMOUNTS FOR MODERNIZATION OF TEST
AND TRAINING RANGES OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.
(a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to
the Department of Defense $2,800,000,000 for the Defense
Infrastructure Fund to modernize the test and training ranges
of the Department of Defense, including projects included in
the report required under section 2806 of the Military
Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
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(Division B of Public Law 115-91; 10 U.S.C. 222a note) for
test and evaluation activities.
(b) Availability of Amounts.--Amounts authorized under
subsection (a) shall be available for obligation until
September 30, 2032.
SEC. ___4. AUTHORIZATION OF AMOUNTS FOR REMEDIATION OF
PERFLUORALKYL SUBSTANCES AND POLYFLUOROALKYL
SUBSTANCES.
(a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to
the Department of Defense $700,000,000 for the Defense
Infrastructure Fund to remediate perfluoralkyl substances and
polyfluoroalkyl substances at installations owned by the
Department of Defense.
(b) Availability of Amounts.--Amounts authorized under
subsection (a) shall be available for obligation until
September 30, 2026.
SEC. ___5. AUTHORIZATION OF AMOUNTS FOR DEPOT MODERNIZATION.
(a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to
the Department of Defense $4,325,000,000 for the Defense
Infrastructure Fund for depot modernization.
(b) Availability of Amounts.--Amounts authorized under
subsection (a) shall be available for obligation until
September 30, 2032.
SEC. ___6. AUTHORIZATION OF AMOUNTS FOR AMMUNITION PLANT
MODERNIZATION.
(a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to
the Department of Defense $2,350,000,000 for the Defense
Infrastructure Fund to modernize ammunition plants.
(b) Availability of Amounts.--Amounts authorized under
subsection (a) shall be available for obligation until
September 30, 2026.
SEC. ___7. AUTHORIZATION OF AMOUNTS FOR FIFTH-GENERATION
WIRELESS NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES.
(a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to
the Department of Defense $2,500,000,000 for the Defense
Infrastructure Fund to provide fifth-generation wireless
networking technologies to installations owned by the
Department of Defense.
(b) Availability of Amounts.--Amounts authorized under
subsection (a) shall be available for obligation until
September 30, 2026.
SEC. ___8. AUTHORIZATION OF AMOUNTS FOR NAVY SHIPYARD AND
INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT.
(a) Authorization.--
(1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated to
the Department of Defense $10,325,000,000 for the Defense
Infrastructure Fund to improve, in accordance with subsection
(b), the Navy shipyard infrastructure of the United States.
(2) Availability of amounts.--Amounts authorized under
paragraph (1) shall be available until expended.
(3) Supplement not supplant.--Amounts authorized under
paragraph (1) shall supplement and not supplant other amounts
appropriated or otherwise made available for the purpose
described in paragraph (1).
(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 amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization under
subsection (a)(1) directly available to the Secretary of the
Navy for obligation and expenditure for Navy public shipyard
facilities, dock, dry dock, capital equipment improvements,
and dredging efforts needed by such shipyards.
(2) Projects in addition to other construction projects.--
Construction projects undertaken using amounts appropriated
pursuant to the authorization under subsection (a)(1) 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) Navy Public Shipyard Defined.--In this section, the
term ``Navy public shipyard'' means the following:
(1) The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia.
(2) The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii.
(3) The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine.
(4) The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington.
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