S.Amdt. 1668

SA 1668. Mr. BOOZMAN 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 D of title III, add the following:

SEC. 332. REPORT ON AIR NATIONAL GUARD MISSION CHANGES AND
IMPACTS TO PUBLIC AIRPORTS.

(a) Report.--
(1) Report required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air
Force shall submit to the congressional defense committees a
report detailing the number of Air National Guard units that
have undergone a mission change in the previous 5 years and
who are tenants at a public airport.

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(2) Elements.--The report required under paragraph (1)
shall include the following elements:
(A) A comprehensive list of Air National Guard units, by
State, that have undergone a mission change from a flying
mission to a remotely piloted aircraft mission, an
intelligence mission, or any other type of mission that does
not involve operating and maintaining manned aircraft at a
public airport in the previous 5 years.
(B) An assessment of which units listed in subparagraph
(A), prior to undergoing a mission change, had an Airport
Joint Use Agreement in place with the public airport where
the unit is a tenant in order to financially compensate that
airport for the use of runways, taxiways, air traffic control
towers, crash, rescue and firefighting services, or any other
relevant services.
(C) The annual amount for the previous 5 years that each
Air National Guard unit listed under subparagraph (B) paid to
the public airport at which they are a tenant under that
unit's Airport Joint Use Agreement.
(D) An assessment of which units listed under subparagraph
(B) have subsequently canceled their Airport Joint Use
Agreement since undergoing a mission change.
(E) A cost assessment, by unit listed in subparagraph (D),
of what the rental value is for the property that the unit
occupies at the public airport where the unit is a tenant.
(F) An evaluation from the Office of Economic Adjustment on
whether and under what circumstances the Office can offer
financial assistance to public airports that have an Air
National Guard unit as a tenant that has undergone a mission
change that resulted in the termination of an Airport Joint
Use Agreement.
(b) Definitions.--
(1) In this section, the term ``public airport,'' means an
airport that is open to civilian air traffic, both private
and commercial.
(2) In this section, the term ``rental value,'' means the
amount which, in a competitive market, a well-informed and
willing lessee would pay and which a well-informed and
willing lessor would accept for the temporary use and
enjoyment of the property.
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