S.Amdt. 506

SA 506. Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Ms. Collins, and Mrs. Clinton) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 762, making supplemental appropriations to support Department of Defense operations in Iraq, Department of Homeland Security, and Related Efforts for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 89, between lines 4 and 5, insert the following:

TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS, THIS ACT

Sec. 501. (a) The head of a department or agency of the United States that obligates or expends funds appropriated under this Act for contracts that are not awarded using full and open competition for the repair, maintenance, rehabilitation or reconstruction of infrastructure in Iraq shall, before entering into the contract, publish in the Federal Register or Commerce Business Daily and otherwise make available to the public:

(1) a brief description of the dollar amount and scope of the contract;

(2) a description of how the agency identified and solicited companies to perform the functions required by the contract and the names of the companies solicited; and

(3) the justification and approval documents on which the determination to use such procedures are based, except that the head of a department or agency of the United States may withhold publication of a classified document or redact any part of a document that contains classified information.

(b) In the case of any contract described in subsection (a) that was entered into by the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development or the Secretary of Defense during fiscal year 2003 but before the date of the enactment of this Act, the justification and approval documents described in such subsection shall be published in the Federal Register or Commerce Business Daily not later than 10 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and the documents shall be made available in accordance with section 303(f)(4) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 253(f)(4)) or section 2304(f)(4) of title 10, United States Code, as applicable, except that the head of a department or agency of the United States may withhold publication of a classified document or redact any part of a document that contains classified information.

(c) Whenever a document or part of a document is withheld or redacted pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), an unredacted version of the document shall be made available to the Chairmen and Ranking Minority members of the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Government Reform of the House of Representatives, and the appropriate authorizing and appropriations committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives.