S.Amdt. 396

SA 396. Mr. LANKFORD 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 subtitle B of title X, insert
the following:

SEC. 101__. NATIONAL SECURITY-BASED THREAT ASSESSMENT.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, in conjunction
with the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and
Security and the Director of National Intelligence, shall
develop and submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Armed
Services of the Senate, the Committee on Homeland Security of
the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Armed
Services of the House of Representatives a threat assessment
that--
(1) is related to the technologies that are commonly used
to construct illicit, cross-border tunnels;
(2) is focused on--
(A) identifying the technologies that could be used to
construct such tunnels;
(B) how such technologies can be acquired; and
(C) whether such technologies should be subject to
additional regulations, export controls, or other regulatory
measures to safeguard the national security of the United
States; and
(3) considers whether any entities should be added to the
Entity List maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security
of the Department of Commerce and set forth in Supplement No.
4 to part 744 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations.
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