[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 153 (Thursday, September 22, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S4997]
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  SA 5610. Mr. HAGERTY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 XV, add the following:

     SEC. 1531. REPORT ON INCREASING TRAINING CAPACITY FOR WEAPONS 
                   OF MASS DESTRUCTION CIVIL SUPPORT TEAMS.

       Not later than December 31, 2023, 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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