S.Amdt. 2040

SA 2040. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Donnelly, Mr.
Blumenthal, Mr. Tillis, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Graham, Ms. Stabenow, Ms.
Baldwin, Mr. Markey, Mr. Udall, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Moran, Ms. Warren, Mr.
Wyden, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Peters, and Mrs. Boxer) 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 F of title III, add the following:

SEC. 355. STARBASE PROGRAM.

Of the amount authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year
2016 by section 301 and available for the Department of
Defense for operation and maintenance, Defense-wide, as
specified in the funding table in section 4301--
(1) the amount available for the STARBASE program is hereby
increased by $25,000,000; and
(2) the amount available by reason of increased bulk fuel
cost savings is hereby decreased by $25,000,000.
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