S.Amdt. 875

SA 875. 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 end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 108___. SUPPORT AND ENHANCEMENT OF DEFENSE CRITICAL
ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE.

(a) In General.--Subject to the availability of funds
provided in any appropriations Act enacted on or after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy may
use those funds to plan and install new generation,
transmission, and distribution assets and resiliency upgrades
to existing distribution and transmission assets for the
exclusive purpose of enhancing the power supply at military
bases identified by the Secretary as containing defense
critical electric infrastructure (as that term is 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 physical or cyber threats.
(b) Generation Assets Excluded.--The Secretary of Energy
shall not take any action in carrying out subsection (a) that
provides financial support to existing generation assets.
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