S.Amdt. 376

SA 376. Ms. DUCKWORTH (for herself, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Ernst, and Mr.
Grassley) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the
bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2018 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 B of title XXVIII, add the
following:

SEC. ___. CERTIFICATION RELATED TO CERTAIN ACQUISITIONS OR
LEASES OF REAL PROPERTY.

Section 2662(a) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended--
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and
inserting the following: ``, as well as the certification
described in paragraph (5).''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(5) For purposes of paragraph (2), the certification
described in this paragraph with respect to an acquisition or
lease of real property is a certification that the Secretary
concerned--
``(A) evaluated the feasibility of using space in property
under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense to
satisfy the purposes of the acquisition or lease; and
``(B) determined that--
``(i) space in property under the jurisdiction of the
Department of Defense is not reasonably available to be used
to satisfy the purposes of the acquisition or lease;
``(ii) acquiring the property or entering into the lease
would be more cost-effective than the use of the Department
of Defense property; or
``(iii) the use of the Department of Defense property would
interfere with the ongoing military mission of the
property.''.
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