To add an amount of Army RDT&E funding for human tissue engineering, and to provide offsets within the same authorization of appropriations.

SA 707. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1050, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 25, between lines 11 and 12, and insert the following:

SEC. 213. HUMAN TISSUE ENGINEERING.

(a) Amount.--Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under section 201(1), $1,710,000 shall be available in PE 0602787A-874 for human tissue engineering.

(b) Offsets.--Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under section 201(1)--

(1) the total amount available in PE 0603015A for the Institute for Creative Technology, is hereby reduced by $710,000;

(2) the total amount available in PE 0602308A-DO2 for the Institute for Creative Technology, is hereby reduced by $500,000; and

(3) the total amount available in PE 0602712A for chemical vapor sensing, for landmine detection by Fido, is hereby reduced by $500,000.