[CPEO-MEF] Additional amendments

[Aimee Houghton <aimeeh@cpeo.org>]

The following amendments to the Defense Authorization bill
were also filed:


Blumenauer #53 
Transfers $20 million from R&D for the Crusader mobile howitzer to
R&D for unexploded ordnance (UXO) detection and clearance to enable
fielding of technologies to reduce the $15 billion projected cost and
make more reliable and safe the cleanup of UXO. 

Blumenauer #54 
Transfers $120 million from R&D for the Crusader mobile howitzer to
R&D for unexploded ordnance (UXO) detection and clearance, and to
environmental restoration and formerly used Defense sites accounts for
UXO cleanup. 

Hinchey/Pallone/Sanchez #4 
Strikes Title XIV concerning the management of public lands
administered by the Departments of Interior and Agriculture underlying
the airspace of the Utah Test and Training Range. 

Kolbe #61 
Prohibits the DoD from being held responsible for civilian
water consumption that is outside the boundaries of a military
installation and beyond the direct authority and control of the Secretary
of Defense for purposes of the Endangered Species Act. 

Rahall #52 
Strikes sections 311 and 312, which provide the DoD
exemptions from the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Endangered Species
Act. 

Taylor (MS) #16 
Repeals the authority for an additional round of Department of Defense
Base Realignments and Closures in 2005 that was granted in the FY2002
Defense Authorization Act.

Please note new phone number and address below.

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Aimee R. Houghton                                 

Associate Director, CPEO

1101 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1000

Washington, DC  20036

tel: 202-452-8039; fax: 202-452-8095

Email: aimeeh@cpeo.org

www.cpeo.org

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