S.Amdt. 4321

SA 4321. Mr. BOOKER (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr.
Reed and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2022 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 G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1064. PILOT PROGRAM ON PROVISION OF PLANT-BASED PROTEIN
OPTIONS TO MEMBERS OF THE NAVY.

(a) Establishment.--Not later than March 1, 2022, the
Secretary of the Navy shall establish a pilot program to
offer plant-based protein options at forward operating bases
for consumption by members of the Navy.
(b) Locations.--Not later than March 1, 2022, the Secretary
of the Navy shall select not fewer than two naval facilities
to participate in the pilot program established under
subsection (a) and shall prioritize the selection of
facilities where livestock-based protein options may be
costly to obtain or store, such as Joint Region Marianas,
Guam, Navy Support Facility, Diego Garcia, and United States
Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan.
(c) Termination.--The requirement to carry out the pilot
program established under subsection (a) shall terminate
three years after the date on which the Secretary of the Navy
establishes the pilot program.
(d) Report.--Not later than one year after the termination
of the pilot program established under subsection (a), the
Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the Committees on Armed
Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a
report on the pilot program that includes the following:
(1) The consumption rate of plant-based protein options by
members of the Navy under the pilot program.
(2) Effective criteria to increase plant-based protein
options at facilities of the Navy not selected under
subsection (b).
(3) An analysis of the costs of obtaining and storing
plant-based protein options compared to the costs of
obtaining and storing livestock-based protein options at
facilities of the Navy selected under subsection (b).
(e) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
construed to prevent offering livestock-based protein options
alongside plant-based protein options at facilities of the
Navy selected under subsection (b).
(f) Plant-based Protein Options Defined.--In this section,
the term ``plant-based protein options'' means edible
products made from plants (such as vegetables, beans, and
legumes), fungi, or other non-animal sources of protein.
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