[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2605]
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SA 446. Mrs. FEINSTEIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 subtitle G of title X, insert
the following:
SEC. 10__. SENSE OF CONGRESS RELATING TO THE STERILE INSECT
RELEASE FACILITY, LOS ALAMITOS, CALIFORNIA.
It is the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense
and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the
Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with local and
State entities, should pursue continued long-term joint
efforts to conduct overdue facility replacements at the
Sterile Insect Release Facility in Los Alamitos, California,
including new, nonpermanent, State-procured structures for
the purpose of ongoing pest control activities that protect
agriculture.
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