S.Amdt. 2304

SA 2304. Mr. COTTON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 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 XXVIII, insert the
following:

SEC. 28__. AUTHORITY TO CARRY OUT FOREIGN-FUNDED CONSTRUCTION
PROJECTS INCIDENT TO FOREIGN MILITARY SALES.

(a) In General.--Subchapter I of chapter 169 of title 10,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following new section:

``Sec. 2818. Foreign military sales funded construction

``(a) In General.--The Secretary concerned may carry out a
military construction project not otherwise authorized by law
that is funded in full by a country or countries
participating in the foreign military sales program and is
incident to the sale or lease of defense articles or defense
services under the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et
seq.).
``(b) Notification Required.--When a decision is made to
carry out a military construction project under this section
for which the estimated cost exceeds $250,000,000, the
Secretary concerned shall notify the appropriate committees
of Congress of the scope of the proposed project.
``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
``(1) The terms `defense article' and `defense service'
have the meanings given those terms in section 47 of the Arms
Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2794).
``(2) The term `foreign military sales program' means the
program authorized under chapter 2 of such Act (22 U.S.C.
2761 et seq.).''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the
beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the
item relating to section 2817 the following new item:

``2818. Foreign military sales funded construction.''.
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