S.Amdt. 5530

SA 5530. Ms. COLLINS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 3001, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 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 240, between lines 6 and 7, insert the following:

SEC. 854. BIENNIAL REVIEW OF THE SMALL ARMS INDUSTRIAL BASE.

Section 2473(c) of title 10, United States Code, is amended--

(1) by striking “In this section” and inserting “(1) In this section”;

(2) by inserting before the period at the end the following: “, and any subsequent modifications to such list of firms pursuant to the review required by paragraph (2)”; and

(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

“(2) The Secretary of the Army shall direct the Army Science Board, not later than January 1, 2009, and every two years thereafter, to review and determine, based upon manufacturing capability and capacity--

“(A) whether any firms included in the small arms production industrial base should be eliminated or modified and whether any additional firms should be included; and

“(B) whether any of the small arms listed in subsection (d) should be eliminated or modified and whether any additional small arms, such as handguns, including revolvers or pistols, should be included in the list.”.