S.Amdt. 4290

SA 4290. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 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 I of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1097. RISK MANAGEMENT WITH RESPECT TO CIVIL UNMANNED
AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS.

(a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall, in
coordination with the Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration and the heads of other relevant Federal
agencies, submit to Congress an assessment of risk posed by
civil unmanned aircraft systems operating at or below 400
feet above ground level to--
(1) the safety of aircraft of the Armed Forces operating in
military special use airspace and on military training
routes; and
(2) the security of military installations located in the
United States that directly support strategic operations of
the Armed Forces.
(b) Addressing Identified Risks.--Not later than 180 days
after the Secretary submits to Congress the assessment
described in subsection (a), the Secretary and the
Administrator shall jointly, and in coordination with the
heads of other relevant Federal agencies--
(1) assess the adequacy of current laws, regulations,
procedures, and activities to address risks described in the
assessment and identify additional actions that may be
appropriate and necessary to address such risks; and
(2) submit to Congress a summary of the assessment and any
additional actions identified under paragraph (1).
(c) Civil Unmanned Aircraft System Defined.--In this
section, the term ``civil unmanned aircraft system'' means an
unmanned aircraft system (as that term is defined in section
331 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public
Law 112-95; 49 U.S.C. 40101 note)) that is a civil aircraft
(as that term is defined in section 40102 of title 49, United
States Code).
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