[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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