To modify the notice and wait period applicable to modifications of certain contracts for national defense purposes.

SA 4771. Mr. FRIST (for himself, Mr. Alexander, and Mr. Allen)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R.
5631, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for other purposes; as
follows:

At the end of title VIII, add the following:
Sec. 8109. Notwithstanding the first section of Public Law
85-804 (50 U.S.C. 1431), in the event a notice on the
modification of a contract described in that section is
submitted to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate
and the House of Representatives by the Army Contract
Adjustment Board during the period beginning on July 28,
2006, and ending on the date of the adjournment of the 109th
Congress sine die, such contract may be modified in
accordance with such notice commencing on the earlier of--
(1) the date that is 60 calendar days after the date of
such notice; or
(2) the date of the adjournment of the 109th Congress sine
die.
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