S.Amdt. 2812

SA 2812. Ms. CORTEZ MASTO (for herself and Mr. Mullin) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by her 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, insert the following:

SEC. ____. DEFENSE CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY.

Section 215A of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824o-1) is
amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) in paragraph (4), by striking ``of the 48 contiguous
States or the District of Columbia'' and inserting ``State'';
(B) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph (9); and
(C) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
``(8) Resilience.--The term `resilience' has the meaning
given the term in section 1304A(j) of the Energy Independence
and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17384a(j)).'';
(2) in subsection (c), in the matter preceding paragraph
(1), by striking ``the 48 contiguous States and the District
of Columbia'' and inserting ``any State''; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(g) Authority to Address Vulnerabilities.--The Secretary
may, to the extent that funds are made available for such
purposes in advance in appropriations Acts, enter into
contracts or cooperative agreements with external providers
of energy--
``(1) to improve the security and resilience of defense
critical electric infrastructure; and
``(2) to reduce the vulnerability of critical defense
facilities designated under subsection (c) to the disruption
of the supply of energy to those facilities.''.
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