[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 132 (Thursday, July 31, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5106]
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  SA 3344. Mr. CURTIS 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. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON CRITICAL ROLE OF DUGWAY 
                   PROVING GROUND, UTAH, IN NATIONAL DEFENSE.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, plays a vital role in 
     national security as the premier facility of the Department 
     of Defense for chemical, biological, radiological, and 
     nuclear defense testing and countermeasures development;
       (2) the unique geographic isolation and specialized 
     infrastructure of Dugway Proving Ground make it an 
     irreplaceable asset for the safe and controlled testing of 
     advanced defense capabilities, including biodefense, unmanned 
     systems, electronic warfare, and emerging threat mitigation 
     technologies;
       (3) modernizing and sustaining Dugway Proving Ground is 
     essential to ensure its continued ability to support the 
     readiness of the Armed Forces, including its role in the 
     development and validation of next-generation protective 
     measures, decontamination protocols, and live-agent testing 
     of defense technologies;
       (4) investing in infrastructure and research capabilities 
     at Dugway Proving Ground is necessary to maintain the 
     strategic superiority of the United States in chemical, 
     biological, radiological, and nuclear defense and ensure that 
     warfighters are equipped with the most advanced protective 
     systems; and
       (5) the status of Dugway Proving Ground as the leading test 
     facility for biological and chemical defense preparedness in 
     the United States should be preserved, ensuring that the 
     Armed Forces can operate safely in complex threat 
     environments.
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