S.Amdt. 4638

SA 4638. Mr. RISCH (for himself and Mr. Crapo) 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:

Strike section 143 and insert the following:

SEC. 143. MODIFICATION TO PROHIBITION ON AVAILABILITY OF
FUNDS FOR RETIREMENT AND MINIMUM INVENTORY
REQUIREMENT FOR A-10 AIRCRAFT.

(a) Prohibition on Availability of Funds for Retirement.--
Subsection (a) of section 134 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114-328;
130 Stat. 2037) is amended--
(1) by inserting ``or any fiscal year thereafter'' after
``fiscal year 2017''; and
(2) by inserting ``that reduces the total aircraft
inventory of A-10 aircraft below 218 A-10 aircraft'' after
``any A-10 aircraft''.
(b) Minimum Inventory Requirement.--Subsection (d) of such
section is amended by striking ``171'' and inserting ``141''.
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