[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Pages 17673-17678]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS ACT, FISCAL YEAR 2004

  Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, I now ask unanimous consent that the 
Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 177, H.R. 2559, a 
bill making appropriations for military construction, family housing, 
and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 2559) making appropriations for military 
     construction, family housing, and base realignment and 
     closure for the Department of Defense for fiscal year ending 
     September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the Senate will proceed to 
the measure.
  Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that all after 
the enacting clause be stricken, the text of Calendar No. 176, S. 1357, 
the Senate committee-reported bill, be inserted in lieu thereof, and 
the bill, as amended, be considered as original text for the purpose of 
further amendment, and that no points of order be waived by reason of 
this agreement.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, I yield to the Senator from Texas.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas.
  Mrs. HUTCHISON. Madam President, I am very pleased to join with my 
ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations 
Subcommittee, Senator Feinstein of California, in bringing forward for 
the Senate's consideration the fiscal year 2004 military construction 
appropriations bill. This is a bipartisan bill which received the 
unanimous approval of the Committee on Appropriations.
  I want to take a moment to say Senator Feinstein is in the Judiciary 
markup. She is the best ranking member a chairman could ever have. We 
have a great relationship. We work together well. We see things the 
same way. And our priorities are the same. So this is very much our 
bill together, and it would not have been nearly as easy without her 
wonderful cooperation.
  This is a bill that does focus on quality of life for our troops 
because both Senator Feinstein and I believe it is very important at a 
time like this, when we are asking so much from our troops, that we do 
right by them. This bill provides $9.196 billion for military 
construction, military family housing, and base realignment and closure 
costs.
  This bill is $79 million above the President's budget request, but 
$1.5 billion below the amount appropriated last year. The budget 
constraints under which we all are laboring this year did force us to 
make difficult choices about our spending priorities, but I believe we 
have crafted a bill that attends both to the President's most pressing 
requirements and the concerns of Senators.
  The bill provides $4.6 billion for military construction, $3.95 
billion for military family housing, and $370 million for base 
realignment and closure.
  Our military forces have been severely strained by the extraordinary 
burdens they have been asked to shoulder in the last several years. 
They have undertaken nearly 2 years of continuous combat operations in 
harsh conditions, endured long deployments and reserve activations. 
They have had to deal with severe disruptions to family life resulting 
from lengthy separations.
  We have asked much of our service personnel and their families; and, 
for that reason, we have paid special attention in this bill to 
military construction projects that promote our troops' quality of 
life.
  For example, the bill provides $1.1 billion for 40 new, modern 
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projects; $166 million for the design and construction of new hospital 
and medical facilities; and $16 million for child development centers 
to serve our military families.
  The intense demands of the past few years have extended well beyond 
our Active-Duty forces, and no component has borne a heavier burden in 
that time than our Guard and Reserve Forces who have met the call to 
duty with a high degree of professionalism.
  Unfortunately, military construction for the Guard and Reserve 
continues to be severely underfunded. The administration's fiscal year 
budget request for Reserve components was $370 million, a little more 
than half of what was appropriated last year. This is just inadequate 
for the task we are asking these components to perform. As a result, 
this bill increases funding for the Guard and Reserve by 87 percent to 
$691 million.
  This bill differs from the administration's request in only one 
significant way, and that is in the area of military construction 
overseas. The budget request included over $1 billion for military 
construction at U.S. installations outside the United States, much of 
it destined for facilities constructed for the cold war. For several 
years, Congress has expressed its concern that our overseas basing 
structure has not been updated to reflect the realities of the post-
cold-war world. Our Nation is dealing with new threats, new strategies, 
new force structure, new deployment concepts, and new geopolitical 
realities. Yet a basing structure designed for the cold war endures.
  We have questioned the wisdom of continuing to expend taxpayer 
dollars on overseas facilities that may not be appropriate to the 
Nation's future military needs. The Defense Department continues to 
study this issue and has under way an overseas basing and presence 
study that will lead to, among other things, recommendations for a 
major overhaul of the U.S. overseas basing structure. That study is not 
yet complete. But in testimony before the Military Construction 
Subcommittee in April, two of the combatant commanders, General James 
Jones, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, commander of U.S. European 
Command, and General Leon LaPorte, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, 
presented their visions for military basing in their respective areas 
of responsibility. General Jones described a concept for Europe that 
features fewer large bases, several smaller, more austere bases in 
forward locations, and greater use of rotational forces in and out of 
these facilities rather than permanent stationing of large forces with 
the attendant support infrastructure.
  General LaPorte described a vision for Korea in which U.S. forces are 
consolidated at a greatly reduced number of facilities located further 
south on the Korean peninsula than at present.
  We have been impressed by the combatant commanders' boldness and 
creativity in reassessing basing needs, and we believe their respective 
visions hold great promise for a more efficient and effective basing 
structure that will enhance the ability of the United States to meet 
new threats.
  When fully developed, this vision will provide a sound basis on which 
Congress and the administration will be able to determine the future of 
our overseas basing structure. However, at this point the vision has 
not yet been developed into a comprehensive plan on which decisions to 
pursue new construction initiatives can prudently be based.
  The overseas basing and presence study involves far more than 
military facilities. According to public statements of Defense 
Department officials, it will result in a dramatic change in the 
disposition of U.S. forces abroad, including where they are based, how 
they operate, how they move to and from their theaters of operation, 
and even the number of forces deployed in specific theaters.
  In various press accounts, administration officials have acknowledged 
considering new bases in Australia; Navy ships ported in Vietnam; 
increased U.S. presence in Malaysia and Singapore; bases in Algeria, 
Morocco, and Tunisia, as well as Senegal, Ghana, Mali, and Kenya; bases 
on territory of the former Soviet Union; a rotational model for 
deploying forces overseas; significant reductions to force levels in 
Germany; a major relocation and possible reformation of forces in the 
Republic of Korea. Summarizing the extent of the changes under 
consideration, the Under Secretary of Defense for policy, Douglas 
Feith, stated:

       Everything is going to move everywhere.

  If the sweeping changes under consideration are to be implemented, 
they will require extensive diplomatic efforts both in the nations in 
which the United States seeks a new presence and in those where it will 
reduce or reshape its presence. Because a comprehensive plan is not yet 
developed, we are unwilling to recommend undertaking extensive new 
military construction projects that would begin the implementation of a 
plan without a thorough and deliberate review by Congress. We have been 
particularly concerned about proposed projects in Europe and Korea.
  For example, the budget request includes a number of projects in 
areas in Germany that, according to public statements of the Army and 
other Department of Defense officials, are likely to see significant 
force level reductions.
  In a June 23 letter updating the status of planning Europe, General 
Jones said:

       We have made considerable progress in determining the 
     installations required to support theater goals and the force 
     structure needed to implement our strategy. It is an arduous 
     process but a necessary one. While I realize fully the 
     importance of our progress on these matters, the timeliness, 
     and the effect these decisions will ultimately have on our 
     fiscal year 2004 military construction projects, I must tell 
     you candidly that we have not reached the end point of this 
     process. The changes we are proposing represent the most 
     significant undertaking to realign forces and basis in 
     theater in the past 50 years. The decisions made in the 
     coming weeks will have broad and far-reaching implications; 
     therefore, it is imperative that we get it right.

  General Jones is absolutely right. I appreciate his candor. His 
statements underscore our concern that we are not yet ready to begin 
implementing the restructuring of our overseas bases in Europe. We have 
similar concerns about proceeding too fast in Korea.
  In the budget amendment received May 1, the administration proposed 
moving some $213 million in military construction projects to a single 
base, Camp Humphreys. However, nearly half of that construction is to 
occur on land that the United States does not yet control. Although the 
Korean National Defense Minister has pledged to try to buy the land for 
our use, he is far from clear that this can occur for these projects to 
be fully executed in fiscal year 2004. According to a July 7 article in 
the Korea Times, there is fierce local opposition to the expansion of 
U.S. presence at Camp Humphreys.
  The budget amendment also asked to move a $40 million barracks 
project from an airfield to Camp Humphreys, but then that was reversed.
  There are other examples, but I think this is making it clear that we 
don't really have a fully thought out and reviewed plan from which we 
can base the needs in Korea. Evaluated against a backdrop of 
uncertainty about fundamental aspects of a revised overseas basing 
structure which the department has not yet proposed, the Defense 
Department's overseas basing and presence plan is not yet sufficiently 
mature to enable the Senate to commit to extensive new construction. 
The failure to fund these projects at this time does not indicate 
dissatisfaction with the general direction in which the Department is 
headed. We support the direction. But we do believe that Congress 
should know the extent of the restructuring and the price tag before we 
determine our Nation's priorities. It would be premature to begin new 
construction at this time in these areas. We look forward to receiving 
and evaluating the Department's full recommendations once they become 
available and taking the time to consider these changes.
  Reflecting our continuing concern about this issue, our bill includes 
a provision establishing an independent commission to thoroughly study 
the structure of our overseas military facilities and advise Congress 
on its conclusions. This commission, proposed by

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Senator Feinstein and myself, would provide Congress with an 
independent view of the Nation's overseas basing requirements to help 
inform our decisions about the restructuring of our facilities.
  The report accompanying this bill also directs the Defense Department 
to submit several reports that will aid Congress in its oversight role, 
including a report on the feasibility of privatization and the use of 
commercial building practices in barracks construction, a study of the 
impact of privatized housing on local school districts, and a report on 
the Department's activities related to perchlorate, a chemical used in 
solid rocket propellant that has been found in drinking water supplies 
in 29 States. Senator Feinstein has more to say on perchlorate, but I 
want to say, this is a concern of mine as well.
  While a national standard for perchlorate levels has not yet been 
established, it is important that the Department of Defense be prepared 
to deal with this containment at defense installations once a standard 
is agreed upon.
  All of the projects added to the bill have been carefully vetted by 
the military services. All are top priority for installation 
commanders, and all are included in the services' future years defense 
plan.
  Madam President, the bill before the Senate is a bipartisan product 
that was approved by the Appropriations Committee on a vote of 29 to 0. 
I am pleased to offer it for the Senate's consideration.
  Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Madam President, I am pleased to join my chairman, 
Senator Hutchison, in recommending the 2004 military construction bill 
to the Senate.
  This has been a very challenging year. The President's budget request 
for military construction was $1.5 billion below last year's enacted 
level, a nearly 15 percent reduction in a program that is chronically 
underfunded. And this year, because of across-the-board constraints on 
appropriation allocations, we had little room to maneuver beyond the 
ceiling imposed by the President's budget submission.
  The bill that we bring to the Senate provides $9.2 billion for 
military construction and family housing programs for fiscal year 2004. 
Within that allocation, we had to shoehorn funding for a large number 
of critical programs and projects that were not adequately funded in 
the President's budget request.
  In addition to tight budget constraints, we were faced with another 
challenge this year in determining how to deal with overseas military 
construction programs at a time when the Defense Department is 
proposing what has been described as the most sweeping change in 
America's military presence overseas since World War II.
  The President's budget request included more than $1 billion for 
overseas military construction. Less than 3 months after the budget was 
submitted, the Defense Department unveiled preliminary plans for a 
major restructuring of forces in Europe and Korea, and sent Congress a 
budget amendment to rescind or delete more than half a billion dollars 
in overseas military construction programs from fiscal year 2003 and 
the Fiscal Year 2004 request.
  It became clear to Senator Hutchison and me that the Department was 
far from finalizing its global realignment plans, and indeed, we 
continue to read almost daily about different proposals for moving U.S. 
forces here and there overseas. For this reason, we are recommending a 
pause in funding a number of proposed construction projects in Europe 
and Korea until the Defense Department completes its overseas basing 
review and presents a comprehensive plan to Congress. The overseas 
basing commission that Senator Hutchison and I are proposing in this 
bill will provide another important layer of oversight to this process.
  In Europe, central questions include how many troops will remain 
permanently stationed there, what basing structure will be needed to 
support them, and where and what type of forward operating bases and 
forward operating locations will be needed to support rotational and 
transitory forces.
  In Korea, the issue of where the forces will be realigned has 
apparently been settled--the U.S. is planning to withdraw troops from 
Seoul and the Demilitarized Zone and move them to south central South 
Korea. However, the details of that realignment have yet to be 
presented to Congress, nor has the Korean government provided the land 
needed for the realignment.
  I am aware that the administration would prefer to bank all of the 
proposed funding for the realignment of forces in Korea to keep 
pressure on the South Korean government to transfer the required land 
to the U.S. military. However, I believe that withholding this funding 
until the U.S. has actually secured the land is an equally effective 
incentive for the Korean government if, in fact, it is serious about 
wanting United States military forces to move out of Seoul.
  Moreover, in a year when the administration has slashed the military 
construction budget by nearly 15 percent, it is unrealistic for the 
Defense Department to turn around and ask Congress to wager hundreds of 
millions of dollars that are urgently needed elsewhere on the Korean 
Government's uncertain timetable.
  We have given this matter a great deal of consideration, and I 
commend Senator Hutchison for laying out the position of the 
subcommittee so clearly and completely in the report accompanying our 
bill. This explanation should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that the 
Military Construction Subcommittee understands the importance of 
maintaining strong military ties to our allies overseas and supports 
the Defense Department's efforts to ensure that our overseas basing 
structure reflects the international realities of the post-cold-war 
environment. We look forward to helping implement the construction 
elements of the new overseas basing structure once the Defense 
Department completes its review.
  There is another item in the Military Construction bill that is 
extremely important to me, and that is the environmental clean up of 
military installations. The fiscal year 2004 bill includes just $370 
million for Base Realignment and Closure, BRAC, environmental cleanup. 
This is a significant drop from last year's funding, and it is a level 
of funding that I accept only reluctantly, and only because the Defense 
Department is embarking on a new and ambitious program to raise revenue 
for environmental cleanup at BRAC sites through land sales. The Navy's 
BRAC budget, for example, includes $68 million above the appropriated 
amount in anticipated revenue from land sales, and the Navy anticipates 
that additional land sales revenue could significantly increase the 
amount of money available in fiscal year 2004 for environmental 
cleanup.
  I believe that the Defense Department has the responsibility to 
complete, to the maximum extent possible, the cleanup of military 
installations closed or realigned through previous BRAC rounds before 
embarking on a new BRAC round in 2005. I am hopeful that self-financing 
through land sales will be sufficient to supplement appropriated 
amounts, but I intend to keep a close watch on this program to ensure 
that we do not sacrifice momentum by relying too heavily on land sale 
revenue.
  Madam President, I also want to comment on an issue that I have been 
fighting since this last winter. It is the problem of perchlorate 
contamination in our country's drinking water. This topic is relevant 
to the Department of Defense and Military Construction Appropriations 
as Defense, along with the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, uses 90 percent of the perchlorate produced in the 
United States.
  Perchlorate, a chemical used in solid rocket propellant, explosives 
and munitions has been identified by the Environmental Protection 
Agency (EPA) as an unregulated toxin. No national standard exists for 
perchlorate. Perchlorate contamination has been found in drinking water 
supplies in 29 States, including Arizona, California, Texas, Colorado, 
Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, and New Mexico. More than 300 
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alone are contaminated with perchlorate, as is the Colorado River, 
which supplies drinking water to more than 15 million people in the 
Southwest.
  I am alarmed about the potential impact of perchlorate contamination 
at installations that have been closed through the BRAC process as well 
as at active and inactive Defense sites or where perchlorate has 
migrated off of current and former Defense or contractor properties to 
threaten public water supplies.
  I am also very disappointed that the Department of Defense has been 
unresponsive to requests to take a positive leadership role in 
addressing the concerns of the public and the immediate needs of water 
agencies large and small as perchlorate is detected in more and more 
locations. It is also distressing that the Department is resisting the 
obvious need to test for the presence of perchlorate at BRAC properties 
or other Defense sites.
  The Department of Defense has a moral obligation to the public to 
address the problem now as the water agencies that have to close wells, 
or treat their water supplies, are faced with a real problem today. 
This problem is a result of the activities of the Department or its 
contractors.
  The language I worked to include in the Military Construction 
Subcommittee report moves the Department of Defense toward addressing 
the perchlorate problem. This language directs the Department to submit 
to the Congressional Defense Appropriation Committees the following:
  A report on the activities of the Interagency Perchlorate Steering 
Committee and the activities of the Department on perchlorate as 
described in the Memo of January 24, 2001 from the Under Secretary of 
Defense for Environmental Security to the Secretaries of the military 
departments and the Defense Logistics Agency.
  Identification of sources of perchlorate contamination at BRAC 
properties and to develop a plan to remediate perchlorate contamination 
on BRAC sites that can be implemented rapidly once state or Federal 
perchlorate standards are set.
  Finally, I want to address an issue covered in the report where I 
believe the report language was not wholly accurate, and which I intend 
to attempt to clarify in conference.
  The existing language says, ``The Committee recognizes that, absent a 
state or Federal standard for perchlorate, the Department of Defense is 
under no obligation to remediate perchlorate contamination at defense 
sites.''
  It is more accurate to say that absent a State or Federal standard 
for perchlorate, there is uncertainty as to the level of perchlorate 
cleanup that would be required at each site, but there still is a legal 
obligation to remediate perchlorate contamination under Federal and 
State statutes including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and California's Carpenter-
Presley-Tanner Hazardous Substance Account Act. Remediation would then 
proceed on the basis of a site-specific risk assessment or other 
criteria such as an Applicable, Relevant and Appropriate Requirement.
  Madam President, as I stated earlier, this has been a challenging 
year. Senator Hutchison and I were faced with a difficult set of 
circumstances and a series of hard choices. We were able to develop a 
military construction program that comes within the constraints of the 
budget resolution, but I hope that the administration understands the 
importance of infrastructure as a key element of readiness and quality 
of life, and will present Congress with a more realistic budget request 
next year.
  I thank the members of my Appropriations Committee staff, Christina 
Evans, and B.G. Wright, and to Chris Thompson of my personal staff for 
their hard work on this bill. Also, I wish to express my appreciation 
to Dennis Ward, of Senator Hutchison's staff for his cooperative and 
bipartisan effort throughout this process.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada is recognized.
  Mr. REID. As I said earlier today, the work Senator Durbin has done 
on the legislative appropriations bill is, of course, exemplary, as was 
Senator Feinstein's, the ranking member of the subcommittee.
  As the Senator from Texas knows, last year I made a statement on the 
floor about the great work these two fine Senators had done on the 
military construction appropriations bill. My feelings have not 
changed. I think they have done an excellent job.
  I had the honor of also chairing the subcommittee in years past. It 
is an extremely interesting subcommittee. It does so many important 
things for the men and women representing this country.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona is recognized.
  Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, I rise briefly to make a few remarks 
about the military construction appropriations bill, and, 
uncharacteristically, I commend the Appropriations Committee--
especially Chairman Stevens and Chairperson Hutchison, as well as the 
other members of the committee--for reporting out a bill with the 
lowest number of earmarks I have seen in a long time.
  The military construction appropriations bill for fiscal year 2004 
has $80 million of unrequested and unauthorized military construction 
projects. Obviously, that is a lot of money. But I point out, to the 
great credit of the sponsors of this legislation on both sides of the 
aisle, it is far less than what was added last year, which was $900 
billion.
  What is egregious and objectionable in this year's military 
construction appropriations bill that I have not seen to this degree in 
previous years is the extent to which the appropriators earmarked 
projects in the unspecified minor construction accounts--totaling $80 
million. The authorization committee, once again, was circumvented and 
the President's budget was not requested. But the fact is that this is 
a much smaller number than before.
  In an effort to contain the wasteful spending inherent in member-
requested construction projects, I sponsored, and the Senate adopted, 
merit-based criteria for evaluating member adds as a part of the fiscal 
year 1995 Defense Authorization Act. The criteria are:
  One, the project is in service's future years defense plan.
  Two, the project is mission essential.
  Three, the project can be put under contract in the current fiscal 
year.
  Four, the project doesn't conflict with base realignment proposals.
  Five, the service can offset the proposed expenditure within that 
year's budget request.
  These criteria have been useful in our efforts to determine programs 
of merit or nonmerit.
  Regarding the reduction in the amount of member adds in this 
legislation, there are, of course, a couple we have found that I found 
at least somewhat entertaining. While some of our soldiers and sailors 
have been on food stamps, we have found a way to provide $1.4 million 
to replace a working dog kennel. It is good to see that Fido has not 
been left out of this year's military construction appropriations.
  Having said that, I am grateful to my friends on both sides of the 
aisle, including the chairman of the Appropriations Committee and the 
chairperson of the Military Construction Subcommittee, for their 
arduous work on the bill and their continued unequaled support for our 
men and women in the military. Their attention and commitment to 
supporting only necessary projects that are high priorities of the 
services is exemplary this year, in my view.
  I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a list of the 
projects that were add-ons--not leaving out the replacement of the 
working dog kennel.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

Alaska:
Army:
  Fort Wainwright:
    Chapel Expansion................................................1.5
    Gymnasium Addition..............................................1.5
    Fort Richardson Replace Ship Creek Bridge.......................1.5
    Donnelly Training Area Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Maintenance Facil1.5

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Air Force:
  Elmendorf AFB:
    Repair Alaska Command Headquarters..............................3.0
    Replace Working Dog Kennel......................................1.4
Army National Guard:
    Angoon, White Mountain Federal Scout Readiness Center...........1.0
    Manokotak, Toksook Bay Napaskiak Federal Scout Storage Facilitie0.2
Air National Guard:
    Kulis Mobility Storage Warehouse Addition.......................1.0
California:
Air Force:
    Travis AFB Air Mobility Operations Group [AMOG] Global Reach 
      Deployment Center.............................................1.4
Army National Guard:
    Sacramento Readiness Center.....................................0.3
Air Force Reserve:
    March Air Reserve Base Upgrade Utilities........................1.4
Colorado:
Defense Wide:
    Denver DoD Hospital [Tricare]...................................4.0
Florida:
Navy:
    Pensacola NAS Blue Angels Hanger................................1.4
Hawaii:
Navy:
    Pacific Missile Range Facility Range Operations Complex.........1.3
Defense Wide:
    Honolulu Tripler Army Hospital, Biomedical Center...............4.6
Idaho:
Army National Guard:
    Gowen Field TASS Barracks.......................................1.1
Illinois:
Army National Guard:
    Marseilles Pistol Range Replacement.............................1.1
Iowa:
Army National Guard:
    Camp Dodge Readiness Center.....................................1.5
    Iowa City Readiness Center/Maintenance Shop.....................0.8
Kentucky:
Army
    Fort Knox Dining Facilities Renovation..........................0.2
  Fort Campbell
    Urban Assault Course............................................0.2
    Conversion of Former Officer's Club.............................1.5
Louisiana:
Air Force Reserve:
    Barksdale AFB Squadron Operations Center........................0.4
Maryland:
Navy:
    Craderock Naval Special Warfare Center Engineering Management and 
      Logistics Facility............................................1.5
    Indian Head Naval Special Warfare Center Joint Explosive Ordnance 
      Disposal Technology Support Facility..........................1.2
Mississippi:
Army National Guard:
    Monticello Readiness Center.....................................0.5
    Pascagoula Readiness Center.....................................0.4
Missouri:
Army National Guard
    Whiteman AFB Aviation Support Facility..........................1.8
Montana:
Air Force:
  Malstrom AFB
    Addition/Alteration to Fitness Center...........................0.7
    Corrosion Control Facility......................................0.5
Nebraska:
Army National Guard
    Grand Island Aviation Support Facility..........................1.6
New Hampshire:
Navy:
    Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Structural Shop Consolidation.........1.5
    Norfolk Naval Shipyard Suspect Cargo Handling Facility..........1.4
New Jersey:
Army:
    Fort Monmouth Battery Test Facility.............................0.2
Air Force:
    Lakehurst Combat Offload Ramp...................................0.4
New Mexico:
Air Force:
    Holloman AFB War Reserve Material Storage Facility..............1.0
New York:
Army National Guard
    Rochester Aviation Support Facility.............................1.6
Nevada:
Army:
    Hawthorne Army Depot Water Treatment Facility...................3.0
North Dakota:
Air National Guard:
    Fargo Repair Maintenance Shop...................................1.4
Ohio:
Army National Guard:
    Hamilton Organizational Maintenance Shops.......................1.5
Air Force:
    Wright-Patterson AFB Fire Crash Rescue Station..................1.0
Oregon:
Air National Guard:
    Klamath Falls Munitions Administration Facility.................1.4
Pennsylvania:
Air Force Reserve:
    Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station Headquarters Building, 911th Airlift 
      Wing..........................................................0.7
Rhode Island:
Army National Guard:
    Kingston, Aviation Support Facility.............................2.0
South Carolina:
Air Force:
    Charleston AFB Child Development Center.........................0.5
South Dakota:
Army National Guard:
    Watertown Readiness Center......................................1.2
    Sioux Falls Unit Training Equipment Site........................0.8
Texas:
Army:
  Fort Bliss:
    Chaffee (Main) Gate.............................................0.9
    Robert E. Lee (Main) Gate.......................................1.2
    Tactical Equipment Shop.........................................0.6
    Red River Army Depot Wheeled Vehicle Rebuild Facility...........2.9
Air Force:
    Lackland AFB Addition/Alteration to Training Annex Fire Station.1.0
    Elevated Basic Military Training [BMT] Troop Walk at Carswell 
      Avenue........................................................0.8
  Laughlin AFB:
    Fire Department Addition........................................0.5
    Squadron Operations Facility....................................0.2
    Goodfellow AFB Fitness Center...................................1.5
Utah:
Air Force:
    Hill Air Force Base Consolidated Software Support Facility......1.7
Washington:
Air Force:
    Fairchild AFB Mission Support Complex...........................1.2
Vermont:
Army National Guard:
    Colchester, Camp Johnson Information Systems Facility...........0.5
Air National Guard:
    Burlington Air Mobilization Facility............................0.4
West Virginia:
Defense Wide:
    Bridgeport Biometrics Training Center...........................1.4
Air National Guard:
    Martinsburg C-5 Upgrades........................................5.0
Wisconsin:
Army Reserve:
    Eau Claire Reserve Center.......................................0.6


                              BUY AMERICA

Sec. 108. Prohibits the procurement of steel unless American producers, 
    fabricators, and manufacturers have been allowed to compete.
Sec. 112. Establishes preference for American contractors for military 
    construction in the United States territories and possessions in 
    the Pacific and on Kwajalein Atoll, or in the Arabian Sea.
TOTAL MEMBER ADDS--$80.1 million

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas is recognized.
  Mrs. HUTCHISON. Madam President, I thank the kinder and gentler 
Senator from Arizona. I am very pleased that he looked at our bill and 
found that we did meet the criteria because that is exactly what we 
intended to do.
  The kennel is for dogs at an Air Force base. The dogs are security 
dogs, and they do need a place to stay.
  Mr. McCAIN. Might I ask where that is located?
  Mrs. HUTCHISON. At Elmendorf Air Force Base. I think the Senator 
knows that is in Alaska. Dogs in Alaska need a place to stay, too. 
Maybe it is cold up there and they need shelter. I think it is 
certainly legitimate.
  With that, we did work hard to make the priorities that we thought 
were right for our military personnel. No one deserves better treatment 
right now than the military personnel of our country. I thank the 
Senator from Arizona for his continuing interest in assuring that our 
military personnel have a quality of life. That has been his hallmark 
here.
  I thank, once again, the chairman of the committee, Senator Stevens, 
and Senator Inouye, the ranking member, Senator Byrd, Senator 
Feinstein, my ranking member, and our respective staffs. I am very 
proud of the work we did on the bill, and I do hope our military 
personnel do see better health care facilities, better barracks, better 
living quarters, and from this legislation I think they will.
  Mr. REID. Madam President, I wonder if the Senator from Arizona has 
looked over the managers' package on this bill including 15 different 
items.

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  I am only kidding.
  Mrs. HUTCHISON. Madam President, to clarify the record, and before 
the Senator from Arizona turns into the ``Incredible Hulk,'' there was 
no managers' amendment.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Alaska is recognized.
  Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, when the Senators brought this bill to 
the full committee--Senators Hutchison and Feinstein--I was totally 
astounded at the consensus on this bill. This is a fairly difficult 
bill and there are difficult decisions in which the House may not 
concur. But the two Senators managing the bill proposed decisions for 
the Senate to which not one Senator has objected. I think that is 
really a milestone in dealing with this bill.
  I congratulate the Senator from Texas and the Senator from California 
not only for their work product but for their work ethic, working 
together as a bipartisan team on a very difficult subject. I hope we 
can bring the bill back from the conference as it stands. I am not sure 
we can, but it certainly is an extremely good work product dealing with 
a whole myriad of subjects that affect our bases at home and abroad, 
and I congratulate the Senators for a marvelous job.
  Madam President, we are close to wrap-up. I ask unanimous consent we 
temporarily set aside the pending business, and Senator Dayton be 
allowed to make a statement about Iraq for 15 minutes while we prepare 
the wrap-up for this evening.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas.
  Mrs. HUTCHISON. Madam President, before we move off this bill, I so 
appreciate the chairman's remarks. We could not have done it without 
our excellent staff work. On the majority staff, Dennis Ward has done 
an incredible job of research. He is the most thorough person we could 
have on the committee. I appreciate him very much.
  Also, Christina Evans and B.G. Wright on Senator Feinstein's staff, 
without their working relationship being so good, we could not have 
done so well. I wanted to add that to the record before we moved away 
from the bill.
  Mr. STEVENS. Madam President, for the information of the Senate, I am 
informed we will open the Senate tomorrow at 9:15 a.m. We will have 15 
minutes of debate and then proceed to the three votes that will be 
stacked at that time.
  I renew my request to permit the Senator to speak as in morning 
business for 15 minutes.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The Senator from Minnesota.

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