S.Amdt. 4662

SA 4662. Mr. LAUTENBERG (for himself and Mr. Obama, Mr. Menendez,
Mrs. Boxer, and Mr. Kerry) submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5441, making appropriations for the
Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2007, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. --. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON CHEMICAL SECURITY AND
INHERENTLY SAFER TECHNOLOGIES.

In addition to any other amounts appropriated for Science
and Technology Research, Development, Acquisition, and
Operations in this Act, there are appropriated $10,000,000 to
support research and development to foster cost-effective,
inherently safer chemistries and chemical processes, as
recommended in the National Research Council's May 2006
report: ``Terrorism and the Chemical Infrastructure:
Protecting People and Reducing Vulnerabilities'': Provided,
That such amount is designated as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 402 of S. Con. Res. 83 (109th Congress),
the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2007,
as made applicable in the Senate by section 7035 of Public
Law 109-234.
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