[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5766-S5768]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 6247. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr.
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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 D of title XXVIII, add the
following:
SEC. 2868. ASSESSMENT OF RISKS TO DEFENSE COMMUNITIES.
(a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 169 of title 10,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following new section:
``Sec. 2817. Defense community vulnerability assessments and
exercises
``(a) Program.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish a
program that ensures that, not later than one year after the
date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary of each
military department is able to--
``(1) conduct exercises to assess and to the degree
feasible quantify the potential impact of current and
projected risks to military installation resilience resulting
from vulnerabilities to critical infrastructure inside and
outside of the military installation, including community
infrastructure not under the jurisdiction of the Secretary
concerned; and
``(2) improve collaboration and information sharing of
critical infrastructure vulnerabilities with stakeholders in
the civilian community that are necessary to reduce the risks
to military installation resilience.
``(b) Vulnerability Assessments.--In carrying out the
program under subsection (a), consistent with the use of
military installations and State-owned installations of the
National Guard to ensure the readiness of the armed forces,
the Secretary of each military department shall assess
current and projected vulnerabilities related to military
installation infrastructure and community infrastructure that
impact military installation resilience described in section
2864(c) of this title, including vulnerabilities resulting
from interdependencies in the following critical
infrastructure sectors:
``(1) Energy generation, distribution, and transmission
systems.
``(2) Water and wastewater treatment facilities.
``(3) Telecommunications and information technology
systems.
``(4) Intermodal transportation nodes, including access
roads, railways and railheads, bridges, and harbor and port
infrastructure.
``(5) Emergency services.
``(6) Such other critical infrastructure sectors as the
Secretary concerned determines are important to ensure
military installation resilience.
``(c) Vulnerability Exercises.--(1) In carrying out the
program under subsection (a), each year, the Secretary of
each military department shall conduct a vulnerability
exercise to assess and to the degree feasible quantify the
potential impact of current and projected risks to military
installation resilience at not fewer than five military
installations and identify information gaps necessary to
improve military installation resilience planning under
section 2864(c) of this title.
``(2) The Secretary of each military department shall
develop and conduct exercises under paragraph (1) in
coordination with the following:
``(A) The Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through
the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency and the Administrator of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
``(B) The Secretary of Energy, acting through the director
of the Resilience Optimization Center of the Idaho National
Laboratory.
``(C) The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works,
acting through the Chief of Engineers.
``(D) Representatives of State, tribal, and local emergency
management agencies and resilience agencies, including the
heads of such agencies, as appropriate.
``(E) Representatives of State, tribal, and local
governments with expertise, oversight, or responsibility
regarding the critical infrastructure sectors described in
subsection (b).
``(F) Representatives of private service providers serving
critical infrastructure sectors described in subsection (b).
``(G) Representatives of non-governmental organizations and
local colleges and universities with access to the planning
tools to provide local-level vulnerability analysis to assess
current and projected critical infrastructure vulnerabilities
inside and outside of a military installation.
``(H) The heads of such other Federal or State departments
or agencies as the Secretary concerned considers appropriate
for conducting the exercise under paragraph (1).
``(3) Each exercise under paragraph (1) shall model and
analyze interdependency vulnerabilities related to military
installation infrastructure and community infrastructure
using a uniform method that seeks to combine, to the extent
appropriate and applicable, the following:
``(A) An all hazards analysis that models military
infrastructure and community infrastructure as regionally
linked systems to assess the current and projected risks and
consequences of manmade and natural disasters, including the
impact of extreme weather, on those systems inside and
outside the military installation.
``(B) A science-based analysis that provides for enhanced
modeling of current and projected infrastructure risks to
military installation resilience both within the boundaries
of the military installation and in localities and
communities in which the military installation is located.
``(4) The Secretary of each military department shall
provide to the individuals described in paragraph (2) any
information, in an appropriate form, that is used to develop
the exercises described in paragraph (1), including--
``(A) projections from reliable and authorized sources used
for the military installation resilience component of the
installation master plans of the Department of Defense under
section 2864 of this title;
``(B) modeling and analytical products described in
paragraph (3); and
``(C) any additional material used to inform the conduct of
the exercises under paragraph (1).
``(d) Reports.--(1) Not later than March 1 of each year,
the Secretary of each military department shall submit to the
appropriate congressional committees a report on the program
conducted under this section, including the assessments
conducted under subsection (b) and the exercises conducted
under subsection (c), during the year preceding the report.
``(2) Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall
include the following:
``(A) The name and location of each military installation
with respect to which an assessment and exercise was
conducted under this section in the year covered by the
report, including a list of stakeholders engaged as part of
each exercise under subsection (c).
``(B) The name and location of where each military
department plans to conduct assessments and exercises under
this section in the following year.
``(C) An analysis of what current and future risks the
assessments and exercises addressed and, to the degree
feasible, quantified for each military installation and what
information gaps, if any, persist following the assessments
and exercises.
``(D) An explanation of how the Secretary concerned will
address any persistent information gaps identified under
subparagraph (C).
``(E) An explanation of how the assessments under
subsection (b) informed or will inform military installation
resilience projects under section 2815 of this title or any
other provisions of this title or resilience-related projects
under section 210 of title 23.
``(F) A plan for using available authorities to mitigate
vulnerabilities to military infrastructure and community
infrastructure, including through actions under section 2391
of this title.
``(e) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) The term `appropriate congressional committees'
means--
``(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Subcommittee
on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
and
``(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Subcommittee
on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives.
``(2) The terms `community infrastructure' and `military
installation' have the meanings given those terms in section
2391(e) of this title.''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the
beginning of such subchapter is amended by inserting after
the item relating to section 2816 the following new item:
``2817. Defense community vulnerability assessments and exercises.''.
SEC. 2869. ENHANCEMENT OF RESILIENCE OF DEFENSE COMMUNITY
INFRASTRUCTURE.
Section 2391 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (b)(5)(D)--
(A) by striking ``The Secretary of Defense'' and inserting
``(i) The Secretary of Defense''; and
(B) by adding at the end of the following new clauses:
``(ii) In the case of funds provided under clause (i) for
projects involving the preservation or restoration of natural
features for the purpose of maintaining or enhancing military
installation resilience--
``(I) such funds--
``(aa) may be provided in a lump sum and include an amount
intended to cover the future costs of the natural resource
maintenance and improvement activities required for the
preservation or restoration of such natural features; and
``(bb) may be placed by the recipient in an interest-
bearing or other investment account; and
``(II) any interest or income shall be applied for the same
purposes as the principal.
``(iii) Amounts appropriated or otherwise made available
for assistance under this subparagraph shall remain available
until expended.'';
(2) in subsection (d)(1)(A) by inserting ``to plan for and
implement actions'' after ``to assist State and local
governments''; and
(3) in subsection (e)(4)(B), by adding at the end the
following new clause:
``(iv) A disaster mitigation or risk reduction project.''.
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