[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5335]
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  SA 5866. Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) 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 III, add the following:

     SEC. 322. USE OF ALTERNATIVES TO OPEN-AIR BURN PITS IN 
                   DISPOSING WASTE.

       Section 317 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111-84; 10 U.S.C. 2701 note) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ``Committees on Armed 
     Services of the Senate and House of Representatives'' each 
     place it appears and inserting ``appropriate congressional 
     committees'';
       (B) in paragraph (4)(A), in the matter preceding clause 
     (i), by striking ``Committees on Armed Services of the Senate 
     and the House of Representatives'' and inserting 
     ``appropriate congressional committees''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
       ``(5) Replacement of open-air burn pits.--Not later than 90 
     days after the date of the enactment of the James M. Inhofe 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, the 
     Secretary shall begin executing a plan to replace any open-
     air burn pits operated by partners or contracted vendors of 
     the Department of Defense that dispose of waste and are in 
     proximity to members of the Armed Forces with alternative 
     disposal methods.
       ``(6) Determination of alternative methods of disposal.--
     Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of 
     the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 2023, the Secretary shall--
       ``(A) enter into an agreement with a nongovernmental 
     research organization to determine alternative methods of 
     deployable solid waste disposal that meet the needs of world-
     wide contingency operations; and
       ``(B) submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
     report on the alternative methods determined under 
     subparagraph (A).
       ``(7) Notification of use of open-air burn pit.--If members 
     of the Armed Forces are in proximity to an open-air burn pit 
     used by the Department of Defense or any partner or 
     contracted vendor of the Department, the Secretary shall 
     notify such members and the appropriate congressional 
     committees of--
       ``(A) the use of an open-air burn pit in that location; and
       ``(B) a description of--
       ``(i) the material burned in the open-air burn pit; and
       ``(ii) the substances emitted from the open-air burn 
     pit.'';
       (2) in subsection (c), in the matter preceding paragraph 
     (1), by striking ``Committees on Armed Services of the Senate 
     and House of Representatives'' and inserting ``appropriate 
     congressional committees''; and
       (3) in subsection (d)--
       (A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as paragraphs 
     (2) and (3), respectively; and
       (B) by inserting before paragraph (2), as redesignated by 
     subparagraph (A), the following new paragraph (1):
       ``(1) The term `appropriate congressional committees' 
     means--
       ``(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and
       ``(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives.''.
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