S.Amdt. 3118

SA 3118. Mr. CARDIN 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 F of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1291. DEPARTMENT OF STATE INFRASTRUCTURE COORDINATION
TASK FORCE.

(a) Establishment.--There is established at the Department
of State a task force, to be known as the ``Infrastructure
Coordination Task Force'', which shall be led by an
appropriate Senate-confirmed official at the Department of
State. If the leader of the Task Force is not the Under
Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the
Environment, then the leader of the task force shall
coordinate with such Under Secretary on matters related to
the task force.
(b) Duties.--The Infrastructure Coordination Task Force
shall--
(1) coordinate international infrastructure policies and
projects supported by the United States Government, with
participation by the relevant Federal departments and
agencies;
(2) engage international partners such as the Group of
Seven (G7), multilateral development banks, international
financial institutions, the United States private sector,
multinational corporations and banks, nongovernmental
organizations, and other partners in industrialized
countries;
(3) advance United States objectives through initiatives
such as the Blue Dot Network, Infrastructure Transaction
Assistance Network, the Transaction Advisory Fund, and the
Strategic Ports Initiative; and
(4) produce strategic guidance that identifies
international infrastructure projects.

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