[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 23, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3110-S3111]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 5972. Mr. SCHIFF submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2027 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 title III, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 3__. LIMITATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO OFFSHORE 
                   WIND ENERGY PROJECTS.

       (a) Limitation on Reversal of Prior Approval.--
       (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, the Secretary of Defense may not object to, pause, or 
     recommend the suspension or revocation of any lease, 
     easement, right-of-way, or construction and operations plan 
     for an offshore wind energy project under the Outer 
     Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) if the 
     Secretary previously concurred with, signed off on, or found 
     no unmitigable adverse impact for such project during the 
     initial Federal environmental or regulatory review process.
       (2) Unmitigable adverse impacts.--An unmitigable adverse 
     impact under paragraph (1) shall not include radar clutter or 
     operational inconveniences that can be reasonably 
     accommodated through software filtering, data-sharing 
     agreements, or any other reasonable mitigation measures.
       (b) Requirements for New or Revised National Security 
     Objections.--The Secretary of Defense may not issue an 
     objection regarding the impact of a new offshore wind energy 
     project on operations of the Armed

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     Forces, radar systems, or national security unless the 
     Secretary first submits to the appropriate committees of 
     Congress a report containing the following:
       (1) An unclassified summary of the specific, newly 
     emergent, and quantifiable threat of such project to national 
     security or readiness of the Armed Forces.
       (2) Material and scientific evidence demonstrating that the 
     specific radar interference, target masking, or operational 
     conflict cannot be resolved through alternative deployment 
     strategies of the Armed Forces.
       (3) A certified cost-benefit analysis comparing the stated 
     risk to national security against the economic impact of 
     project cancellation and the risk to energy grid resilience 
     in the United States.
       (c) Mandatory Mitigation Collaboration.--The Secretary of 
     Defense may not finalize an objection to or halt an offshore 
     wind energy project unless--
       (1) the Secretary and the developer for such project have 
     engaged in a good-faith negotiation period of not less than 
     180 days to implement technical mitigations; and
       (2) the Secretary demonstrates that all available technical 
     mitigations are technically unfeasible.
       (d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this 
     section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' 
     means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Natural Resources of the House of Representatives.
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