[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4863]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2534. Mr. McCONNELL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2025 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 B of title I, add the following:

     SEC. 114. CONSTRUCTION OF TNT PRODUCTION FACILITY AT 
                   INSTALLATION WITHIN ARMY ORGANIC INDUSTRIAL 
                   BASE.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Army shall construct 
     a facility for the production of trinitrotoluene (TNT) at an 
     installation of the Department of Defense within the organic 
     industrial base of the Army.
       (b) Selection of Installation.--The installation selected 
     for construction of the facility under subsection (a) shall--
       (1) have an available workforce with experience working 
     with hazardous materials, chemical synthesis, and novel 
     automated processes;
       (2) have a concluding government mission from which 
     existing munitions storage igloos and industrial facilities 
     are available to be repurposed;
       (3) have an established explosive arc and sufficient 
     standoff from population centers; and
       (4) have a robust utility and transportation 
     infrastructure.
       (c) Operation of Facility.--The Secretary of the Army may 
     operate the facility constructed under subsection (a) as a 
     government-owned contractor operated activity regardless of 
     the designation of the selected installation.
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