S.Amdt. 2902

SA 2902. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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 title III, insert the
following:

SEC. 3__. REPORT ON IMPACT TO ENERGY AND WATER UTILITIES AT
INSTALLATIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN THE
INDO-PACIFIC REGION AS A RESULT OF EXTREME
WEATHER HAZARDS.

(a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and
the House of Representatives a report analyzing the potential
risk exposure of water and energy utilities at installations
of the Department of Defense in the Indo-Pacific region as a
result of extreme weather events.
(b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) A categorized list of incidents or malfunctions that
led to a major disruption of water or energy services as a
result of extreme weather that impeded the utilities at an
installation of the Department in the Indo-Pacific region
from functioning properly.
(2) An assessment of installations of the Department in the
Indo-Pacific region that the Secretary determines are at a
unique risk for energy and water utility disruptions due to
extreme weather events and any mitigating actions those
installations took to reduce that risk.
(3) A list of administrative policies of the Department and
statutes that the Secretary determines are inhibiting the
abilities of installation commanders to better prepare and
develop resilience strategies to address vulnerability of
water and energy utilities to extreme weather events.
(4) An assessment of how the design of water and energy
utility infrastructure at future installations of the
Department is being adjusted to account for extreme weather
events.
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