S.Amdt. 4341

SA 4341. Mr. CASEY 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 section 1531, add the following:
(c) Availability of Funds for Countering Movement of
Precursor Materials.--
(1) In general.--Of the funds made available for the Joint
Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund for fiscal year 2017
by this Act, up to $15,000,000 may be used by the Secretary
of Defense to provide assistance in the form of training,
equipment, supplies, and services to ministries and other
governmental entities of any country that the Secretary of
Defense, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, has
identified as critical for countering the movement of
precursor materials for improvised explosive devices. Any
such assistance shall be provided for the purpose of
countering the movement of such precursor materials.
(2) Provision through other united states agencies.--If
agreed upon by the Secretary of Defense and the head of
another department or agency of the United States, the
Secretary may transfer funds available under paragraph (1) to
the head of such department or agency for the provision by
such department or agency of assistance described in that
paragraph to ministries and other government entities of a
country identified under that paragraph.
(d) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that
the Department of Defense should increase efforts to combat
the use of improvised explosive devices by the terrorist
group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the
illicit smuggling of improvised explosive device precursor
materials by that terrorist group.
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