S.Amdt. 3474

SA 3474. Mr. LANKFORD 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, insert the following:

SEC. ___. PROMOTING OPPORTUNITIES TO WIDEN ELECTRICAL
RESILIENCE.

(a) In General.--Section 403 of the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
5170b) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(e) Electric Utilities.--
``(1) Hazard mitigation activities.--An electric utility
may carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities
jointly or otherwise in combination with activities for the
restoration of power carried out with assistance provided
under this section.
``(2) Eligibility for additional assistance.--In any case
in which an electric utility facility receives assistance
under this section for the emergency restoration of power,
the receipt of such assistance shall not render such facility
ineligible for any hazard mitigation assistance under section
406 for which such facility is otherwise eligible.''.
(b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a)
shall only apply to amounts appropriated on or after the date
of enactment of this Act.
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