[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5394]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5923. Mr. BOOZMAN 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. __. RESTORATION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF THE 
                   BATTLE OF THE BULGE MONUMENT BY THE AMERICAN 
                   BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION.

       (a) In General.--After an agreement is made between the 
     Government of the Kingdom of Belgium and the United States 
     Government, the Battle of the Bulge Monument, formerly the 
     Mardasson Memorial, in the Kingdom of Belgium shall be 
     treated, for purposes of section 2104 of title 36, United 
     States Code, as a cemetery for which it was decided under 
     such section that the cemetery will become a permanent 
     cemetery and the American Battle Monuments Commission shall 
     restore, operate, and maintain the Battle of the Bulge 
     Monument (to the degree the Commission considers appropriate) 
     under such section in cooperation with the Government of the 
     Kingdom of Belgium.
       (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated to the Commission for the period of fiscal 
     years 2023 through 2025--
       (1) $30,000,000 for site preparation, design, planning, 
     construction, and associated administrative costs for the 
     restoration of the monument described in subsection (a); and
       (2) amounts necessary to operate and maintain the monument 
     described in subsection (a).
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