To authorize $1,440,000 in planning and design funds for a replacement C-130 aircraft maintenance hangar at Air National Guard New Castle County Airport, and to provide an offset.

SA 2469. Mr. WARNER (for Mr. Carper) proposed an amendment 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; as follows:

On page 337, between lines 4 and 5, insert the following:

SEC. 2602. CONSTRUCTION OF MAINTENANCE HANGAR, NEW CASTLE COUNTY AIRPORT AIR GUARD BASE, DELAWARE.

(a) Authorization of Appropriations.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by section 2601(3)(A) for the Department of the Air Force for the Air National Guard of the United States is hereby increased by $1,440,000.

(b) Use of Funds.--Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by section 2601(3)(A) for the Department of the Air Force for the Air National Guard of the United States, as increased by subsection (a), $1,440,000 is available for planning and design for a replacement C-130 aircraft maintenance hangar at Air National Guard New Castle County Airport, Delaware.

(c) Offset.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by section 2204(a) for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Navy and the amount of such funds authorized by paragraph (11) of such subsection for the construction of increment 3 of the general purpose berthing pier at Naval Weapons Station, Earle, New Jersey, are each hereby decreased by $1,440,000.