To increase by $1,000,000 the amount authorized to be appropriated to the Army for research, development, test, and evaluation, to be available for research on and facilitation of technology for converting obsolete chemical munitions to fertilizer, and to provide an offset.

SA 1559. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1042, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 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:

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SEC. 203. FUNDING FOR DEVELOPMENT OF DISTRIBUTED GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES.

(a) Increase in Funds Available to Army for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by section 201(1) for research, development, test, and evaluation for the Army is hereby increased by $1,000,000, with the amount of such increase to be available for research on and facilitation of technology for converting obsolete chemical munitions to fertilizer.

(b) Reduction in Funds Available to Navy for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by section 201(2) for the Navy for research, development, test, and evaluation is hereby reduced by $1,000,000.