S.Amdt. 4341

SA 4341. Mr. RUBIO (for himself and Mr. Wicker) 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 C of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1023. NOTIFICATION TO CONGRESS AND COASTAL STATES OF
PENDING ACTION TO STRIKE FROM THE NAVAL VESSEL
REGISTER NAVAL VESSELS THAT ARE VIABLE
CANDIDATES FOR ARTIFICIAL REEFING.

(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that
the Secretary of the Navy should explore and solicit
artificial reefing opportunities with appropriate entities
for any naval vessel planned for retirement before initiating
any plans to dispose of the vessel.
(b) Notification.--Not later than 90 days before the date
on which a naval vessel that is a viable candidate for
artificial reefing is to be stricken from the Naval Vessel
Register, the Secretary of the Navy shall notify Congress and
the appropriate agency of each coastal State of such pending
action.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate agency.--The term ``appropriate agency''
with respect to a coastal State means the agency that the
coastal State has designated to administer an artificial reef
program.
(2) Coastal state.--The term ``coastal State''--
(A) means any one of the States of Alabama, Alaska,
California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii,
Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and
Washington; and
(B) includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United
States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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