S.Amdt. 3246

SA 3246. Mr. KAINE 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 C of title VIII, add the following:

SEC. 855. WARM BASE MANUFACTURING PILOT PROGRAM TO MAINTAIN
AND IMPROVE DOMESTIC MANUFACTURING SURGE
CAPACITY FOR WARFIGHTER EMERGENCY MEDICAL-GRADE
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT.

(a) Establishment of Pilot Program.--Not later than 180
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of Defense shall establish a pilot program to be

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known as the ``Assuring Critical Infrastructure to Supply
Warfighter Emergency Medical-grade Personal Protective
Equipment Pilot Program''.
(b) Selection of Installations.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, acting
through the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland
Defense and Hemispheric Affairs, shall select geographically
diverse locations in the United States that can surge
medical-grade personal protective equipment for warfighters
to respond to national or international public health
emergencies.
(2) Prioritization.--
(A) In general.--In selecting locations under paragraph
(1), the Secretary of Defense shall give priority to domestic
facilities where the Department has already invested funds to
transform medical-grade personal protective equipment raw
materials into finished products that are essential to
maintain warfighter health and safety in the event of a
national or international public health emergency.
(B) Additional priority.--In selecting locations under
paragraph (1), preference should be given to installations
that--
(i) have the presence of critical transportation
infrastructure immediately adjacent to the selected domestic
facility that facilitates expedited inbound transportation of
medical-grade personal protective equipment raw materials and
outbound transportation of finished medical-grade personal
protective equipment;
(ii) are ISO 13815 certified;
(iii) are subject to periodic audit by the Food and Drug
Administration;
(iv) have the ability to provide and quickly surge medical-
grade personal protective equipment for warfighter use;
(v) have the capacity to support expansion of non-woven
fabric production; and
(vi) can minimize raw material production waste by
utilizing a scrap reclamation process.
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