[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2627]
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  SA 478. Mr. LUJAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him 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:
       In subtitle D of title XXXI of division C, add at the end 
     the following:

     SEC. 31__. ESTABLISHMENT OF UNITED STATES-ISRAEL DESALINATION 
                   COMMISSION.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Energy, in coordination 
     with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Interior, 
     and the Secretary of State, shall establish a bilateral 
     cooperative commission (referred to in this section as the 
     ``commission'') with Israel to coordinate and support the 
     research and development of desalination technologies.
       (b) Coordination.--The commission shall coordinate with the 
     U.S.-Israel Energy Center, the Israel-U.S. Binational 
     Industrial Research and Development Foundation, and other 
     relevant entities, as determined appropriate by the 
     commission.
       (c) Meetings.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the commission shall convene the first 
     meeting and meet quarterly thereafter.
       (d) Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date on which 
     the commission convenes the first meeting, the commission 
     shall submit to Congress a report on the progress of the 
     commission in coordinating, encouraging, and elevating 
     desalination innovation, including the economic and 
     environmental efficiency of the desalination technological 
     process--
       (1) to create a sustainable source of fresh water for the 
     United States and Israel; and
       (2) to minimize the risk of conflict based on access to 
     fresh water.
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