S.Amdt. 4426

SA 4426. Mr. MANCHIN 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 E of title XXXI, add the following:

SEC. 31__. DEFENSE CRITICAL ELECTRIC INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY.

Section 215A of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824o-1) is
amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in paragraph (4), by striking ``of the 48 contiguous
States or the District of Columbia'' and inserting ``State'';
(B) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (9); and
(C) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
``(8) Resilience.--The term `resilience' has the meaning
given the term in section 1304A(j) of the Energy Independence
and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17384a(j)).'';
(2) in subsection (c), in the matter preceding paragraph
(1), by striking ``the 48 contiguous States and the District
of Columbia'' and inserting ``any State''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(g) Authority to Address Vulnerabilities.--The Secretary
may, to the extent that funds are made available for such
purposes in advance in appropriations Acts, enter into
contracts or cooperative agreements with external providers
of electric energy--
``(1) to improve the resilience of defense critical
electric infrastructure; and
``(2) to reduce the vulnerability of critical defense
facilities designated under subsection (c) to the disruption
of the supply of electric energy to those facilities.''.
______