[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 156 (Tuesday, September 27, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5086]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5724. Mr. SCOTT of Florida 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 appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. __. STANDARDIZATION OF SECTIONAL BARGE CONSTRUCTION FOR 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE USE ON RIVERS AND 
                   INTERCOASTAL WATERWAYS.

       The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that any sectional 
     barge used by the Department of Defense--
       (1) is built to a design that has been reviewed and 
     approved, to the extent possible, by the American Bureau of 
     Shipping, for the intended barge service, and using the rule 
     set of the American Bureau of Shipping for building and 
     classing steel vessels for service on rivers and intercoastal 
     waterways; and
       (2) has a deck design that provides for a minimum 
     concentrated load capacity of 10,000 pounds per square foot.
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