S.Amdt. 2053

SA 2053. Mr. CONRAD (for himself, Mr. Dorgan, Ms. Landrieu, and Mr. Vitter) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 1585, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table, as follows:

At the end of subtitle D of title I, add the following:

SEC. 143. MODIFICATION OF LIMITATIONS ON RETIREMENT OF B-52 BOMBER AIRCRAFT.

(a) Maintenance of Primary and Backup Inventory of Aircraft.--Subsection (a)(1) of section 131 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109-364; 120 Stat. 2111) is amended--

(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking “and” at the end;

(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and

(3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph (C):

“(C) shall maintain in a common configuration a primary aircraft inventory of not less than 63 such aircraft and a backup aircraft inventory of not less than 11 such aircraft.”.

(b) Notice of Retirement.--Subsection (b)(1) of such section is amended by striking “until” and all that follows and inserting the following: “until the later of the following:

“(A) The date that is 45 days after the date on which the Secretary of the Air Force submits the report specified in paragraph (2).

“(B) The date of the completion by the Secretary of written notification of such retirement to the congressional defense committees in accordance with established procedures.”.