S.Amdt. 3163

SA 3163. Mr. LANKFORD 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 end of subtitle B of title III, add the following:

SEC. 318. MODIFICATIONS TO SALE OF ROYALTIES FOR ENERGY
RESILIENCE PURPOSES.

Section 36 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 192) is
amended by striking the period at the end and inserting ``:
Provided, however, At the request of the Secretary of
Defense, only for the purposes of a Department of Defense
energy resilience pilot program not to exceed one year in
duration, the Secretary of the Interior shall sell royalties
derived only from lands managed by the Department of Defense
for the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in McAlester,
Oklahoma, at or below market price to the Department of
Defense for use only at the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant
and only for energy resilience purposes, and only to the
extent that such royalties do not exceed the natural gas
needs of the installation: And provided further, That the
Secretary of Defense may not store or sale any royalties
received in excess of such needs.''.
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