S.Amdt. 2534

SA 2534. Mr. McCONNELL 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 end of subtitle B of title I, add the following:

SEC. 114. CONSTRUCTION OF TNT PRODUCTION FACILITY AT
INSTALLATION WITHIN ARMY ORGANIC INDUSTRIAL
BASE.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of the Army shall construct
a facility for the production of trinitrotoluene (TNT) at an
installation of the Department of Defense within the organic
industrial base of the Army.
(b) Selection of Installation.--The installation selected
for construction of the facility under subsection (a) shall--
(1) have an available workforce with experience working
with hazardous materials, chemical synthesis, and novel
automated processes;
(2) have a concluding government mission from which
existing munitions storage igloos and industrial facilities
are available to be repurposed;
(3) have an established explosive arc and sufficient
standoff from population centers; and
(4) have a robust utility and transportation
infrastructure.
(c) Operation of Facility.--The Secretary of the Army may
operate the facility constructed under subsection (a) as a
government-owned contractor operated activity regardless of
the designation of the selected installation.
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