[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 162 (Tuesday, October 11, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S6613]
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  SA 6471. Mr. REED (for Mr. Braun) submitted an amendment intended to 
be proposed to amendment SA 5499 proposed by Mr. Reed (for himself and 
Mr. Inhofe) to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the Department of Defense 
and 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 subtitle G of 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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