S.Amdt. 940

SA 940. 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 end of subtitle B of title III, add the following:

SEC. 316. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO MINERAL RIGHTS ON
INSTALLATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary
of the Interior shall jointly review the authorities of
either Secretary to determine--
(1) whether either Secretary, acting alone or jointly, has
the authority to extract or permit the extraction of oil and
gas from an installation of the Department of Defense for the
sole purpose of utilizing the extracted oil and gas for
energy resilience on such installation; and
(2) any additional authorities necessary for the Secretary
of Defense or the Secretary of the Interior to extract or
allow the extraction of oil and gas from installations of the
Department of Defense for such purpose.
(b) Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the
Secretary of the Interior shall jointly submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a report on the
implementation of this section.
(2) Appropriate committees of congress defined.--In this
subsection, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Natural Resources of the House of Representatives.
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