S.Amdt. 1482

SA 1482. Mr. BURRIS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1390, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military consruction, 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 92, between lines 18 and 19, insert the following:

SEC. 342. PLAN FOR MANAGING VEGETATIVE ENCROACHMENT AT TRAINING RANGES.

Section 366(a)(5) of the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107-314; 10 U.S.C. 113 note) is amended--

(1) by striking “(5) At the same time” and inserting “(5)(A) At the same time”; and

(2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

“(B) Beginning with the report submitted to Congress at the same time as the President submits the budget for fiscal year 2011, the report required under this subsection shall include the following:

“(i) The results of a service-wide survey of vegetative encroachment at training ranges, including a description of the extent of loss of training range acreage to vegetation encroachment and the types of vegetation involved at each training range.

“(ii) A plan for managing vegetative encroachment at each training range that is negatively impacted by such encroachment.

“(iii) A detailed description of funding data and budgetary resources necessary to carry out the plan developed pursuant to clause (ii).”.