S.Amdt. 4470

SA 4470. Mr. LAUTENBERG submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2766, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2007 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:

The Comptroller General shall conduct a review of the Army's “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Off-Site Versus On-Site Treatment and Disposal of Newport Caustic Hydrolysate,” dated April 24, 2006, and provide a report to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on the results of that review by December 1, 2006.

The review shall consider and assess the following matters as a minimum:

(1) The adequacy of analysis asserted in dismissing five of the eight technologies directed for consideration by House Report 109-89, dated May 20, 2005.

(2) The rationale for the failure to consider other technical solutions, such as constructing a wastewater disposal system on site.

(3) The adequacy of the cost--benefit analysis presented for the three technologies considered.

The Secretary of the Army shall not to proceed with any action to transport or relocate neutralized bulk nerve agent (other than those small quantities necessary for laboratory evaluation of the disposal process) from the Newport Chemical Depot until 60 days after the Comptroller General has submitted his report.