S.Amdt. 4819

SA 4819. Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself and Mr. Whitehouse) 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 F of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1054. REPORT ON EFFORTS OF COMBATANT COMMANDS TO COMBAT
THREATS POSED BY ILLEGAL, UNREPORTED, AND
UNREGULATED FISHING.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in
consultation with the chair and deputy chairs of the
Interagency Working Group on IUU Fishing and the heads of
other relevant agencies, as determined by the Secretary,
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a
report on the maritime domain awareness efforts of the
combatant commands to combat the threats posed by illegal,
unreported, and unregulated fishing.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include a detailed summary of each of the following for each
combatant command:
(1) Activities undertaken as of the date on which the
report is submitted to combat the threats posed by illegal,
unreported, and unregulated fishing in the geographic area of
the combatant command, including the steps taken to build the
capacity of partners to combat those threats.
(2) Coordination among the United States Armed Forces,
partner countries, and public-private partnerships to combat
the threats described in paragraph (1).
(3) Efforts undertaken to support unclassified data
integration, analysis, and delivery with regional partners to
combat the threats described in paragraph (1).
(4) Information sharing and coordination with efforts of
the Interagency Working Group on IUU Fishing.
(5) Best practices and lessons learned from ongoing and
previous efforts relating to the threats described in
paragraph (1), including strategies for coordination and
successes in public-private partnerships.
(6) Limitations related to affordability, resource
constraints, or other gaps or factors that constrain the
success or expansion of efforts related to the threats
described in paragraph (1).
(7) Any new authorities needed to support efforts to combat
the threats described in paragraph (1).
(c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term
``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
(A) Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation, the Committee on Foreign
Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Natural Resources, the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
(2) Interagency working group on iuu fishing.--The term
``Interagency Working Group on IUU Fishing'' means the
working group established by section 3551 of the Maritime
Security and Fisheries Enforcement Act (16 U.S.C. 8031).

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