[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2844-S2845]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 707. Mr. JOHNSON 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:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ____. ASSESSMENT OF EXISTING LARGE POWER TRANSFORMERS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to 
     Congress an assessment of large power transformers in the 
     United States.
       (b) Requirements.--The assessment required under subsection 
     (a) shall include--
       (1) an identification of the number of large power 
     transformers in the United States as of the date of the 
     assessment;
       (2) a description of the age and condition of the large 
     power transformers identified under paragraph (1);
       (3) an identification of the number of large power 
     transformers identified under paragraph (1) that require 
     replacement or significant repair as of the date of the 
     assessment;
       (4) an estimate of the number of large power transformers 
     that would be required in the United States if there was a 
     need for recovery of the electric grid on a nationwide scale; 
     and
       (5) a cost estimate for the domestic manufacture of a large 
     power transformer.

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