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SA 5724. Mr. SCOTT of Florida submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 X, insert the following:
SEC. __. STANDARDIZATION OF SECTIONAL BARGE CONSTRUCTION FOR
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE USE ON RIVERS AND
INTERCOASTAL WATERWAYS.
The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that any sectional barge used by the Department of Defense--
(1) is built to a design that has been reviewed and approved, to the extent possible, by the American Bureau of Shipping, for the intended barge service, and using the rule set of the American Bureau of Shipping for building and classing steel vessels for service on rivers and intercoastal waterways; and
(2) has a deck design that provides for a minimum concentrated load capacity of 10,000 pounds per square foot.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 156
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