S.Amdt. 698

SA 698. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. Menendez) 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 end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1083. REPORT ON AVAILABILITY OF GOODS AND TECHNOLOGIES
RELATED TO UNDERSEA CABLES.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for 3
years, the President, acting through the Secretary of
Commerce and with the concurrence of the Secretary of State,
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a
report on the availability of goods and technologies capable
of supporting undersea cables.
(b) Matters To Be Included.--The report required under
subsection (a) shall include the following:
(1) An identification of goods and technologies capable of
supporting the construction, maintenance, or operation of an
undersea cable project.
(2) An identification of United States and multilateral
export controls and licensing policies for goods and
technologies identified pursuant to paragraph (1) with
respect to foreign adversaries.
(3) An identification of allies and partners of the United
States that have a share of the global market with respect to
the goods and technologies so identified, including a
detailed description of the availability of those goods and
technologies without restriction in sufficient quantities and
comparable in quality to those produced in the United States.
(4) A description of ongoing negotiations with other
countries to achieve unified export controls and licensing
policies for goods and technologies so identified.
(5) An identification of all entities under the control,
ownership, or influence of a foreign adversary that support
the construction, operation, or maintenance of undersea
cables.
(6) A description of efforts taken to promote United States
leadership at international standards-setting bodies for
equipment, systems, software, and virtually defined networks
relevant to undersea cables, taking into account the
different processes followed by those bodies.
(7) A description of the presence and activities of foreign
adversaries at international standards-setting bodies
relevant to undersea cables, including information on the
differences in the scope and scale of the engagement of
foreign adversaries at those bodies compared to engagement at
those bodies by the United States and allies and partners of
the United States, and the security risks raised by the
proposals of foreign adversaries at those bodies.
(c) Form.--Each report required under subsection (a) shall
be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a
classified annex.

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(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term
``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives.
(2) Foreign adversary.--The term ``foreign adversary''--
(A) has the meaning given that term in section 8(c) of the
Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 (47
U.S.C. 1607(c)); and
(B) includes the People's Republic of China.
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