S.Amdt. 6360

SA 6360. Mr. TUBERVILLE 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

SEC. ___. FUNDING FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT RELATING TO RARE EARTH ELEMENTS.

(a) Increase.--Notwithstanding the amounts set forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized to be appropriated for the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund, as specified the funding table in section 4501, is hereby increased by $2,000,000 (with the amount of such increase to be used to strengthen and implement the domestic industrial base for rare earth metallization related to permanent magnet production and related projects.

(b) Offset.--Notwithstanding the amounts set forth in the funding tables in division D, the amount authorized to be appropriated in section 201 for research, development, test, and evaluation, Army, as specified in the corresponding funding table in section 4201, for system development and demonstration, integrated personnel and pay system-Army (IPPS-A) (PE 0605018A), line 123, is hereby reduced by $2,000,000.