S.Amdt. 579

SA 579. Ms. HIRONO 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 E of title III, add the following:

SEC. __. ANNUAL REPORT ON NAVY ACTIVITIES TO IMPLEMENT THE
REGIONAL BIOSECURITY PLAN FOR MICRONESIA AND
HAWAII.

(a) Annual Report Required.--The Secretary of the Navy
shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the
Senate and the House of Representatives each year, at the
time the budget of the President for the fiscal year
beginning in such year is submitted to Congress under section
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, a report on the
activities of the Department of the Navy to implement the
Regional Biosecurity Plan for Micronesia and Hawaii (RBP).
(b) Elements.--Each report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) A description of Department of the Navy activities to
implement the Regional Biosecurity Plan for Micronesia and
Hawaii during the previous fiscal year.
(2) A description of the activities planned to be
undertaken by the Department during the fiscal year beginning
in the year of such report to implement the Regional
Biosecurity Plan for Micronesia and Hawaii, including the
funding required during such fiscal year for such activities.
(c) Regional Biosecurity Plan for Micronesia and Hawaii
Defined.--In this section, the term ``Regional Biosecurity
Plan for Micronesia and Hawaii'' means the strategic plan
developed jointly by the Department of Navy and other Federal
and non-Federal entities to prevent the introduction of
invasive species to the United States Pacific region and to
control such species in that region.
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