S.Amdt. 4653

SA 4653. 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 A of title XXVIII, add the
following:

SEC. 2803. 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
Infrastructure Fund'', $25,350,000,000, to remain available
until expended, to improve, in accordance with subsection
(b), 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) Emergency designation.--The amount appropriated under
paragraph (1) is designated by Congress as being for an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 4112(a) of H. Con.
Res. 71 (115th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the
budget for fiscal year 2018, and to section 251(b) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2
U.S.C. 901(b)).
(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, which shall be transferred to the
Department of Homeland Security, for Coast Guard Yard
facilities, dock, dry dock, capital equipment improvements,
and dredging efforts needed by the shipyard.
(3) 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

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(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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