S.Amdt. 5866

SA 5866. Mr. MORAN (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 B of title III, add the following:

SEC. 322. USE OF ALTERNATIVES TO OPEN-AIR BURN PITS IN DISPOSING WASTE.

Section 317 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111-84; 10 U.S.C. 2701 note) is amended--

(1) in subsection (a)--

(A) in paragraph (2), by striking “Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives” each place it appears and inserting “appropriate congressional committees”;

(B) in paragraph (4)(A), in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking “Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives” and inserting “appropriate congressional committees”; and

(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:

“(5) Replacement of open-air burn pits.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, the Secretary shall begin executing a plan to replace any open-air burn pits operated by partners or contracted vendors of the Department of Defense that dispose of waste and are in proximity to members of the Armed Forces with alternative disposal methods.

“(6) Determination of alternative methods of disposal.--Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, the Secretary shall--

“(A) enter into an agreement with a nongovernmental research organization to determine alternative methods of deployable solid waste disposal that meet the needs of world-wide contingency operations; and

“(B) submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the alternative methods determined under subparagraph (A).

“(7) Notification of use of open-air burn pit.--If members of the Armed Forces are in proximity to an open-air burn pit used by the Department of Defense or any partner or contracted vendor of the Department, the Secretary shall notify such members and the appropriate congressional committees of--

“(A) the use of an open-air burn pit in that location; and

“(B) a description of--

“(i) the material burned in the open-air burn pit; and

“(ii) the substances emitted from the open-air burn pit.”;

(2) in subsection (c), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives” and inserting “appropriate congressional committees”; and

(3) in subsection (d)--

(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; and

(B) by inserting before paragraph (2), as redesignated by subparagraph (A), the following new paragraph (1):

“(1) The term ‘appropriate congressional committees' means--

“(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and

“(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives.”.