[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2848]
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SA 713. Mr. MARSHALL 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 end of subtitle D of title XXVIII, add the
following:
SEC. 2882. REPORT ON NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS OF FOREIGN-
OWNED AGRICULTURAL LAND NEAR INSTALLATIONS OF
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.
(a) Report Required.--Not later than one year after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense,
in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, shall
submit to Congress a report on foreign-owned agricultural
land located within 50 miles of an installation of the
Department of Defense.
(b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a)
shall include--
(1) a list of each foreign person that owns agricultural
land located within 50 miles of an installation of the
Department of Defense;
(2) in the case of an individual described in paragraph
(1), the citizenship of such individual;
(3) in the case of a foreign person described in paragraph
(1) that is not an individual or government--
(A) the principal place of business of such person; and
(B) the country in which each such person is created or
organized;
(4) the nature of each legal entity holding interest in
such agricultural land and the type of interest;
(5) the legal description and acreage of such agricultural
land; and
(6) an assessment of any threat that foreign ownership of
such agricultural land may have on the readiness of the Armed
Forces, food supply in the United States, and the national
security of the United States.
(c) Agricultural Land Defined.--In this section, the term
``agricultural land'' includes--
(1) crop land, pasture land, wetlands, and marshlands;
(2) land enrolled in a Federal, State, or local
agricultural conservation program; and
(3) land used for animal confinement, concentrated animal
feeding operations, livestock production, timber production,
or forestry.
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