S.Amdt. 1830

SA 1830. Mr. CARDIN 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, 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:

On page 820, between lines 19 and 20, insert the following:
(b) Protection of Whistleblowers.--Section 4602(d) of the
Atomic Energy Defense Act (50 U.S.C. 2702(d)) is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new
paragraph (5):
``(5) In the case of a protected disclosure relating to the
contract described in subsection (b) of section 4446
(relating the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization
Plant), the owner's agent specified in subsection (a) of that
section.''.
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