S.Amdt. 1491

SA 1491. Mr. PRYOR 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 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:

Beginning on page 552, line 25, strike “installations; and” and all that follows through page 553, line 6, and insert the following: “installations;

(2) to comprehensively assess the needs and degree of Federal assistance to communities to effectively implement the various initiatives of the Department of Defense while aiding communities to either recover quickly from closures or to accommodate growth associated with troop influxes; and

(3) that the methods of property disposal, including public benefit transfers, economic development conveyances at cost and no cost, negotiated sales, other conveyances, and public sales are equally assessed and decided with consideration to the needs of affected communities.