S.Amdt. 2061

SA 2061. Mr. McCONNELL (for himself, Mr. Salazar, Mr. Allard, and Mr. Bunning) 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:

On page 470, after the table following line 22, add the following:

SEC. 2406. MUNITIONS DEMILITARIZATION FACILITIES, BLUE GRASS ARMY DEPOT, KENTUCKY, AND PUEBLO CHEMICAL ACTIVITY, COLORADO.

(a) Increase in Amount for Construction of Munitions Demilitarization Facility, Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by section 2403(14) for the construction of increment 8 of a munitions demilitarization facility at Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky, is hereby increased by $17,300,000.

(b) Increase in Amount for Construction of Munitions Demilitarization Facility, Pueblo Chemical Activity, Colorado.--The amount authorized to be appropriated by section 2403(13) for the construction of increment 9 of a munitions demilitarization facility at Pueblo Chemical Activity, Colorado, is hereby increased by $32,000,000.

(c) Offset.--The total amount authorized to be appropriated by this Act (excluding the amounts authorized to be appropriated by paragraphs (13) and (14) of section 2403, as amended by subsections (b) and (a), respectively) is hereby reduced by $49,300,000, with the amount of the reduction to be allocated to amounts available for purposes other than chemical demilitarization.

(d) Deadline for Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions Stockpile.--

(1) Deadline.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Defense shall complete work on the destruction of the entire United States stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions, including those stored at Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky, and Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, by the deadline established by the Chemical Weapons Convention, and in no circumstances later than December 31, 2017.

(2) Report.--

(A) In general.--Not later than December 31, 2007, and every 180 days thereafter, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the parties described in paragraph (2) a report on the progress of the Department of Defense toward compliance with this subsection.

(B) Parties receiving report.--The parties referred to in paragraph (1) are the Speaker of the House of the Representatives, the Majority and Minority Leaders of the House of Representatives, the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate, and the congressional defense committees.

(C) Content.--Each report submitted under subparagraph (A) shall include the updated and projected annual funding levels necessary to achieve full compliance with this subsection. The projected funding levels for each report shall include a detailed accounting of the complete life-cycle costs for each of the chemical disposal projects.

(3) Chemical weapons convention defined.--In this subsection, the term “Chemical Weapons Convention” means the Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, with annexes, done at Paris, January 13, 1993, and entered into force April 29, 1997 (T. Doc. 103-21).

(4) Applicability; rule of construction.--This subsection shall apply to fiscal year 2008 and each fiscal year thereafter, and shall not be modified or repealed by implication.