S.Amdt. 442

SA 442. Mr. COTTON 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 G of title X, insert
the following:

SEC. 10__. INTELLIGENCE DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY.

Section 221(d) of the Department of Agriculture
Reorganization Act of 1994 (7 U.S.C. 6922(d)) is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) through (8) as
paragraphs (12) through (14), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
``(6) be responsible for leveraging the capabilities of the
intelligence community (as so defined) and National
Laboratories intelligence-related research, to ensure that
the Secretary is fully informed of threats by foreign actors
to the food and agriculture critical infrastructure sector;
``(7) advise the Secretary on foreign efforts--
``(A) to steal knowledge and technology from the food and
agriculture critical infrastructure sector; and
``(B) to develop or implement biological warfare attacks,
cyber or clandestine operations, or other means of sabotaging
and disrupting the food and agriculture critical
infrastructure sector;
``(8) prepare, conduct, and facilitate intelligence
briefings for the Secretary and appropriate officials of the
Department of Agriculture;
``(9) be the Federal Senior Intelligence Coordinator of the
Department of Agriculture and operate as the liaison between
the Secretary and the intelligence community (as so defined),
with the authority to request intelligence collection and
analysis on matters relating to the food and agriculture
critical infrastructure sector;
``(10) collaborate with the intelligence community (as so
defined) to downgrade intelligence assessments for broader
dissemination within the Department of Agriculture;
``(11) facilitate sharing information on foreign activities
relating to agriculture, as acquired by the Department of
Agriculture with the intelligence community (as so
defined);''.
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