S.Amdt. 5916

SA 5916. Mr. WYDEN 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. LIMITATION ON MODIFICATION OF TRAINING ACTIVITIES IN OREGON PURSUANT TO RECORD OF DECISION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT RELATING TO MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, IDAHO.

The Secretary of the Air Force shall ensure that any record of decision issued by the Secretary for the Airspace Optimization for Readiness Environmental Impact Statement for Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, does not modify existing training regimes and activities of the Air Force in Oregon until the Secretary, in coordination with the United States Geological Survey and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, has conducted and then analyzed in a supplemental draft environmental impact statement comprehensive, primary research on the effects of real noise, the risk of wildfire from the use of flares, and the risk of water pollution from the use of chaff from current and proposed future military training on wildlife and human communities in the Mountain Home Military Operations Area in Oregon.