S.Amdt. 418

SA 418. Mr. GARDNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. SUPPORT AND ENHANCEMENT OF DEFENSE CRITICAL
ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND CRITICAL ELECTRIC
INFRASTRUCTURE.

The Secretary of Energy may use any portion of funds
appropriated by Congress to the Secretary of Energy
(including through financial assistance or other means) to
enhance, improve, develop, or support defense critical
electric infrastructure or critical electric infrastructure
(as those terms are defined in section 215A(a) of the Federal
Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824o-1(a))) to improve the resilience of
the infrastructure against threats or challenges to the
optimal performance of that infrastructure.
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