S.Amdt. 2236

1. Adds SEC. 353. LIMITED DECONTAMINATION AUTHORITY FOR PORTIONS OF FORMER NAVAL BOMBARDMENT AREA, CULEBRA ISLAND, PUERTO RICO at the end of subtitle F of title III

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   The Secretary of Defense may immediately transfer up to $4,500,000 from amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for operation and maintenance for Defense-wide activities to the Postal Service Fund for purposes of implementing the modernization of the United States Postal Services's mail delivery system to improve the delivery of absentee ballots to military personnel serving outside the United States.

   Inserted: SEC. 353. LIMITED DECONTAMINATION AUTHORITY FOR PORTIONS OF FORMER NAVAL BOMBARDMENT AREA, CULEBRA ISLAND, PUERTO RICO.

   Inserted: (a) Decontamination Authority.--Notwithstanding section 204(c) of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1974 (Public Law 93-166; 87 Stat. 668), and paragraph 9 of the quitclaim deed relating to the transfer of the former bombardment area on the island of Culebra in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Secretary of Defense may authorize and conduct activities for the removal of unexploded ordnance and munitions scrap from those portions of the former bombardment area that were explicitly identified as having regular public access in the Department of Defense study entitled "Study Relating to the Presence of Unexploded Ordnance in a Portion of the Former Naval Bombardment Area of Culebra Island, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico" and dated April 20, 2012, which was prepared in accordance with section 2815 of the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (Public Law 111-383; 124 Stat. 4464).

   Inserted: (b) Exceptions.--In authorizing and conducting activities for the removal of unexploded ordnance and munitions scrap within the transferred former bombardment area, as authorized by subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense may exclude areas of dense vegetation and steep terrain that--

   Inserted: (1) make public access difficult and public use infrequent; and

   Inserted: (2) would severely hamper the effectiveness and increase the cost of removal activities.

   Inserted: (c) Definitions.--In this section:

   Inserted: (1) The term "quitclaim deed" refers to the quitclaim deed from the United States to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, signed by the Secretary of the Interior on August 11, 1982, for that portion of Tract (1b) consisting of the former bombardment area on the island of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

   Inserted: (2) The term "unexploded ordnance" has the meaning given that term by section 101(e)(5) of title 10, United States Code.

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   At the end of subtitle F of title III, add the following:

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