To increase by $8,000,000 and deposit in the Former Soviet Union Threat Reduction Account the amount appropriated for Cooperative Threat Reduction.

SA 3599. Mr. LUGAR (for himself, Mr. Obama, Mr. Domenici, Mr. Levin, Mr. Hagel, Mr. Reed, Mr. Chafee, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Allen, Mr. Bayh, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Lautenberg, and Mr. Durbin) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 4939, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 117, between lines 9 and 10, insert the following:

Sec. 1312. (a) The amount appropriated by this chapter under the heading “Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide” and available for Cooperative Threat Reduction is increased by $8,000,000.

(b) Of the amount appropriated by this chapter under the heading “Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide” and available for Cooperative Threat Reduction, as increased by subsection (a), $44,500,000 shall be deposited in the Former Soviet Union Threat Reduction Account and shall remain available until September 30, 2008.

(c) The amount made available under subsection (a) is designated as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 402 of H. Con. Res. 95 (109th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006.