S.Amdt. 3051

SA 3051. Mr. HEINRICH 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 end of subtitle D of title XXVIII, add the
following:

SEC. 2850. HISTORICAL MARKERS AT HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE AND
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE COMMEMORATING EFFECTS
OF RADIATION EXPOSURE.

(a) Historical Markers Required.--
(1) Holloman air force base.--The Secretary of the Air
Force shall place a historical marker in a publicly
accessible location at the Holloman Air Force Base to
commemorate the effects of radiation exposure on communities
in New Mexico as a result of the Manhattan Project and the
nuclear test conducted at the Trinity Site.
(2) White sands missile range.--The Secretary of the Army
shall place a historical marker in a publicly accessible
location at the White Sands Missile Range to commemorate the
effects of radiation exposure on communities in New Mexico as
a result of the Manhattan Project and the nuclear test
conducted at the Trinity Site.
(3) Information required.--The historical markers required
by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall include the following:
(A) An unclassified description of the history of the
Manhattan Project and its purpose, including a description of
the nuclear test conducted at the Trinity Site.
(B) A description of how the classified nature of the
Manhattan Project and the nuclear test conducted at the
Trinity Site led to the unknowing exposure of individuals in
communities located downwind from such testing to
radiological byproducts and how such communities have
experienced the associated consequences of such byproducts.
(4) Definitions.--In this subsection:
(A) Manhattan project.--The term ``Manhattan Project''
means the Federal military program to develop an atomic bomb
that ended on December 31, 1946.
(B) Trinity site.--The term ``Trinity Site'' means the
location in the Jornada del Muerto desert near Alamogordo,
New Mexico, where a nuclear weapon was detonated on July 16,
1945.
(b) Briefing Required.--Not later than one year after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air
Force and the Secretary of the Army shall jointly provide

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to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the
House of Representatives a briefing on the implementation of
the requirements of subsection (a).
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