[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 30, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4940]
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  SA 3166. Mr. WARNER (for himself and Mr. Kaine) 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 appropriate place in subtitle F of title X, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. 10__. VIRGINIA PENINSULA COASTAL STORM RISK MANAGEMENT, 
                   VIRGINIA.

       (a) In General.--In carrying out the feasibility study for 
     flood risk management, ecosystem restoration, and navigation, 
     Coastal Virginia, authorized by section 1201(9) of the Water 
     Resources Development Act of 2018 (132 Stat. 3802), the 
     Secretary of the Army (referred to in this section as the 
     ``Secretary'') is authorized to use funds made available to 
     the Secretary for water resources development investigations 
     to analyze, at full Federal expense, a measure benefitting 
     Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of another 
     Federal agency.
       (b) Savings Provisions.--Nothing in this section--
       (1) precludes--
       (A) a Federal agency with administrative jurisdiction over 
     Federal land in the study area from contributing funds for 
     any portion of the cost of analyzing a measure as part of the 
     study described in subsection (a) that benefits that land; or
       (B) the Secretary, at the request of the non-Federal 
     interest for the study described in subsection (a), from 
     using funds made available to the Secretary for water 
     resources development investigations to formulate measures to 
     reduce risk to a military installation, if the non-Federal 
     interest shares in the cost to formulate those measures to 
     the same extent that the non-Federal interest is required to 
     share in the cost of the study; or
       (2) waives the cost-sharing requirements of a Federal 
     agency for the construction of an authorized water resources 
     development project or a separable element of that project 
     that results from the study described in subsection (a).
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