[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 129 (Monday, July 28, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4779-S4780]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3051. Mr. HEINRICH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 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. 2850. HISTORICAL MARKERS AT HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE AND 
                   WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE COMMEMORATING EFFECTS 
                   OF RADIATION EXPOSURE.

       (a) Historical Markers Required.--
       (1) Holloman air force base.--The Secretary of the Air 
     Force shall place a historical marker in a publicly 
     accessible location at the Holloman Air Force Base to 
     commemorate the effects of radiation exposure on communities 
     in New Mexico as a result of the Manhattan Project and the 
     nuclear test conducted at the Trinity Site.
       (2) White sands missile range.--The Secretary of the Army 
     shall place a historical marker in a publicly accessible 
     location at the White Sands Missile Range to commemorate the 
     effects of radiation exposure on communities in New Mexico as 
     a result of the Manhattan Project and the nuclear test 
     conducted at the Trinity Site.
       (3) Information required.--The historical markers required 
     by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall include the following:
       (A) An unclassified description of the history of the 
     Manhattan Project and its purpose, including a description of 
     the nuclear test conducted at the Trinity Site.
       (B) A description of how the classified nature of the 
     Manhattan Project and the nuclear test conducted at the 
     Trinity Site led to the unknowing exposure of individuals in 
     communities located downwind from such testing to 
     radiological byproducts and how such communities have 
     experienced the associated consequences of such byproducts.
       (4) Definitions.--In this subsection:
       (A) Manhattan project.--The term ``Manhattan Project'' 
     means the Federal military program to develop an atomic bomb 
     that ended on December 31, 1946.
       (B) Trinity site.--The term ``Trinity Site'' means the 
     location in the Jornada del Muerto desert near Alamogordo, 
     New Mexico, where a nuclear weapon was detonated on July 16, 
     1945.
       (b) Briefing Required.--Not later than one year after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air 
     Force and the Secretary of the Army shall jointly provide

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     to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the 
     House of Representatives a briefing on the implementation of 
     the requirements of subsection (a).
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