S.Amdt. 1602

SA 1602. Ms. STABENOW (for herself and Mr. Peters) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr.
McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for
military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for
such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

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

SEC. 1065. REPORT ON PLANS FOR THE USE OF DOMESTIC AIRFIELDS
FOR HOMELAND DEFENSE AND DISASTER RESPONSE.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland
Security and the Secretary of Transportation, submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a report setting forth an
assessment of the plans for airfields in the United States
that are required to support homeland defense and local
disaster response missions.
(b) Considerations.--The report shall include the following
items:
(1) The criteria used to determine the capabilities and
locations of airfields in the United States needed to support
safe operations of military aircraft in the execution of
homeland defense and local disaster response missions.
(2) A description of the processes and procedures in place
to ensure that contingency plans for the use of airfields in
the United States that support both military and civilian air
operations are coordinated among the Department of Defense
and other Federal agencies with jurisdiction over those
airfields.
(3) An assessment of the impact to logistics and resource
planning as a result of the reduction of certain capabilities
of airfields in the United States that support both military
and civilian air operations.
(4) A review of the existing agreements and authorities
between the Commander of the United States Northern Command
and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
that allow for consultation on decisions that impact the
capabilities of airfields in the United States that support
both military and civilian air operations.
(c) Form.--The report under subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term
``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Homeland Security and Government Affairs of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Homeland Security, and the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.
(2) Capabilities of airfields.--The term ``capabilities of
airfields'' means the length and width of runways, taxiways,
and aprons, the operation of navigation aids and lighting,
the operation of fuel storage, distribution, and refueling
system, and the availability of air operations facilities.
(3) Airfields in the united states that support both
military and civilian air operations.--The term ``airfields
in the United States that support both military and civilian
air operations'' means the following:
(A) Airports that are designated as joint use facilities
pursuant to section 47175 of

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title 49, United States Code, in which both the military and
civil aviation have shared use of the airfield.
(B) Airports used by the military that have a permanent
military aviation presence at the airport pursuant to a
memorandum of agreement or tenant lease with the airport
owner that is in effect on the date of the enactment of this
Act.
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