S.Amdt. 2127

SA 2127. Mr. WICKER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways,
highway safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes;
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

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SEC. __. NAVY AND COAST GUARD SHIPYARD INFRASTRUCTURE
IMPROVEMENT.

(a) Appropriation.--
(1) In general.--Out of any money in the Treasury of the
United States not otherwise appropriated, there is
appropriated, as an additional amount for ``Defense
Production Act Purchases'', $25,350,000,000, to remain
available until expended, to improve, in accordance with
subsection (b) and using the authority provided by section
303(e) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C.
4533(e)), the Navy and Coast Guard shipyard infrastructure of
the United States.
(2) Supplement not supplant.--Amounts appropriated under
paragraph (1) shall supplement and not supplant other amounts
appropriated or otherwise made available for the purpose
described in paragraph (1).
(3) Waiver of certain limitations.--During the 20-year
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act,
the following requirements of the Defense Production Act of
1950 (50 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.) shall not apply to amounts
appropriated under paragraph (1):
(A) The requirement for a determination of the President
under section 303(e)(1) of that Act (50 U.S.C. 4533(e)(1)).
(B) The requirement under section 304(e) of that Act (50
U.S.C. 4534(e)) that amounts in the Defense Production Act
Fund in excess of the amount specified in that subsection be
paid into the general fund of the Treasury at the end of a
fiscal year.
(4) Emergency designation.--The amount appropriated under
paragraph (1) is designated by the Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
(2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)(i)).
(b) Use of Funds.--
(1) In general.--As soon as practicable after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
make the amounts appropriated under subsection (a) directly
available to the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of
Homeland Security for obligation and expenditure in
accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) Allocation of funds.--The amounts appropriated under
subsection (a) shall be allocated as follows:
(A) $21,000,000,000 for Navy public shipyard facilities,
dock, dry dock, capital equipment improvements, and dredging
efforts needed by such shipyards.
(B) $2,000,000,000 for Navy private new construction
shipyard facilities, dock, dry dock, capital equipment
improvements, and dredging efforts needed by such shipyards.
(C) $2,000,000,000 for Navy private repair shipyard
facilities, dock, dry dock, capital equipment improvements,
and dredging efforts needed by such shipyards.
(D) $350,000,000 for Coast Guard Yard facilities, dock, dry
dock, capital equipment improvements, and dredging efforts
needed by the shipyard.
(3) Use of funds for procurement of certain services.--
Notwithstanding any provision of the Defense Production Act
of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.), amounts appropriated under
subsection (a) may be used for the procurement of architect-
engineer and construction services at Navy public shipyards.
(4) Projects in addition to other construction projects.--
Construction projects undertaken using amounts appropriated
under subsection (a) shall be in addition to and separate
from any military construction program authorized by any Act
to authorize appropriations for a fiscal year for military
activities of the Department of Defense and for military
construction.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Coast guard yard.--The term ``Coast Guard Yard'' means
the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland.
(2) Navy public shipyard.--The term ``Navy public
shipyard'' means the following:
(A) The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia.
(B) The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii.
(C) The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine.
(D) The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington.
(3) Navy private new construction shipyard.--The term
``Navy private new construction shipyard''--
(A) means any shipyard in which one or more combatant or
support vessels included in the most recent plan submitted
under section 231 of title 10, United States Code, are being
built or are planned to be built; and
(B) includes vendors and suppliers of the shipyard building
or planning to build a combatant or support vessel.
(4) Navy private repair shipyard.--The term ``Navy private
repair shipyard''--
(A) means any shipyard that performs or is planned to
perform maintenance or modernization work on a combatant or
support vessel included in the most recent plan submitted
under section 231 of title 10, United States Code; and
(B) includes vendors and suppliers of the shipyard
performing or planning to perform maintenance or
modernization work on a combatant or support vessel.
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