Sec. 2404. INDEPENDENT STUDY ON WESTERN EMERGENCY REFINED FUEL RESERVES

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## SEC. 2404 INDEPENDENT STUDY ON WESTERN EMERGENCY REFINED FUEL RESERVES ###

(a)Independent Study Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, seek to enter into a contract with a Federally funded research and development center under which contract such center shall conduct a study on the feasibility (including costs and benefits) of establishing one or more emergency fuel reserves for refined fuel in the Western United States. ###

(b)Elements of Study In conducting the study referred to in subsection (a), the Federally funded research and development center with which the Secretary enters into a contract under such subsection shall analyze the following: ####

(1)An assessment, in the event of a 30 day-interruption in the capability of oil refineries of the West Coast of the United States, Alaska, and Hawaii to refine petroleum, of— #####

(A)the capacity of the Department of Defense to meet defense missions requirements using the Prepositioned War Reserve Requirements of the Department for wartime and peacetime operations through the Prepositioned War Reserve Stock and Operating Stock of the Department; #####

(B)the military installations or missions otherwise served by such refineries that may have unique or limited connection to refined petroleum supply infrastructure; and #####

(C)the capacity of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and connecting pipeline infrastructure to support requirements of the West Coast area of the United States for petroleum and refined petroleum products. ####

(2)An assessment of the practicability of the storage of military specification fuels and jet fuel stock in long-term storage in a salt cavern, hard-rock storage, or tank or other storage. ####

(3)An identification and assessment of various options to provide long-term storage of refined fuels in the Western United States, including through the establishment of one or more Western Emergency Refined Fuel Reserves, including— #####

(A)for the assessment of each option, a proposal for the Federal agency or agencies to be responsible for such option; and #####

(B)for the assessment of the establishment of any such Reserve, an estimate of the costs of construction and operation of such Reserve. ###

(c)Report The contract under subsection

(a)shall require the Federally funded research and development center that conducts the study under the contract to submit to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy a report on the results of study. The report shall be so submitted in both classified and unclassified form. ###

(d)Submittal to Congress ####

(1)In general Not later than 30 days after the date on which the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy receive the report under subsection (c), the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress the following: #####

(A)The report under subsection (c), unaltered, in both classified and unclassified form. #####

(B)Such comments as the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate in light of the report under subsection (c). ####

(2)Appropriate committees of congress defined In this subsection, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— #####

(A)the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and #####

(B)the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. # TITLE XXV INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS ## Subtitle A North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program