S.Amdt. 1963

SA 1963. Mr. FLAKE (for himself, Mr. McCain, and Mr. Heinrich)
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:

At the end of subtitle A of title XVI, add the following:

SEC. 1614. REPORT ON FEASIBILITY, COSTS, AND COST SAVINGS OF
ALLOWING FOR COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS OF EXCESS
BALLISTIC MISSILE SOLID ROCKET MOTORS.

(a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the
United States shall submit to the appropriate congressional
committees a report assessing--
(1) the feasibility of permitting excess ballistic missile
solid rocket motors, including

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excess ballistic missile solid rocket motors from the
Minotaur launch vehicle, to be made available for commercial
applications;
(2) the costs of, and the cost savings anticipated to
result from, making such motors available for commercial
applications;
(3) the effects of making such motors available for
commercial applications on programs of the Department of
Defense; and
(4) any implications of making such motors available for
commercial applications for the international obligations of
the United States.
(b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--
(1) the congressional defense committees; and
(2) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the
House of Representatives.

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