[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 133 (Friday, August 1, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5245]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3474. Mr. LANKFORD 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, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. PROMOTING OPPORTUNITIES TO WIDEN ELECTRICAL 
                   RESILIENCE.

       (a) In General.--Section 403 of the Robert T. Stafford 
     Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
     5170b) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(e) Electric Utilities.--
       ``(1) Hazard mitigation activities.--An electric utility 
     may carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities 
     jointly or otherwise in combination with activities for the 
     restoration of power carried out with assistance provided 
     under this section.
       ``(2) Eligibility for additional assistance.--In any case 
     in which an electric utility facility receives assistance 
     under this section for the emergency restoration of power, 
     the receipt of such assistance shall not render such facility 
     ineligible for any hazard mitigation assistance under section 
     406 for which such facility is otherwise eligible.''.
       (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall only apply to amounts appropriated on or after the date 
     of enactment of this Act.
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