S.Amdt. 2028

SA 2028. 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 excess ballistic missile solid
rocket motors from the Minotaur launch vehicle, to be made
available for commercial applications, including an
assessment of any policy or statutory restrictions that would
prevent the use of such motors for commercial applications;
(2) the costs to the Federal Government of, and the cost
savings for the Federal Government 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 Federal
Government;
(4) any implications of making such motors available for
commercial applications for the international obligations of
the United States;
(5) any implications for the United States commercial
launch market and launch industrial base of making such
motors available for commercial applications; and
(6) considerations for fair and equitable pricing of such
motors if such motors were made available for commercial
applications.
(b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate congressional committees''
means--

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(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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