S.Amdt. 309

SA 309. Mr. JOHNSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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 VII, insert the
following:

SEC. ___. REQUIREMENT FOR PROCUREMENT OF DOMESTICALLY
PRODUCED MOLYBDENUM 99.

(a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), on
and after the date of the enactment of this Act, in procuring
molybdenum 99 or technetium-99m for use by the Defense Health
Agency, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
shall procure only--
(1) domestically produced molybdenum 99; or
(2) technetium-99m patient doses derived from domestically
produced molybdenum 99.
(b) Exception.--The Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Health Affairs may procure for a particular geographic
location from sources that do not comply with the
requirements of subsection (a) if the supply of domestically
produced molybdenum 99 or technetium-99m patient doses
derived from domestically produced molybdenum 99 cannot
completely fulfill the needs in that location.
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