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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4719 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4719

  To provide the Secretary of Energy with the authority to enter into 
   contracts and cooperative agreements to improve the security and 
 resilience of defense critical electric infrastructure and reduce the 
 vulnerability of critical defense facilities to the disruption of the 
     supply of energy to those facilities, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 11 (legislative day, July 10), 2024

Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself and Mr. Mullin) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL

 
  To provide the Secretary of Energy with the authority to enter into 
   contracts and cooperative agreements to improve the security and 
 resilience of defense critical electric infrastructure and reduce the 
 vulnerability of critical defense facilities to the disruption of the 
     supply of energy to those facilities, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Guaranteeing Resilient Installations 
for Defense Act of 2024'' or the ``GRID Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. DEFENSE CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY.

    Section 215A of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824o-1) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (4), by striking ``of the 48 
                contiguous States or the District of Columbia'' and 
                inserting ``State'';
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (8) as paragraph 
                (9); and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
            ``(8) Resilience.--The term `resilience' has the meaning 
        given the term in section 1304A(j) of the Energy Independence 
        and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17384a(j)).'';
            (2) in subsection (c), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by striking ``the 48 contiguous States and the District of 
        Columbia'' and inserting ``any State''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Authority To Address Vulnerabilities.--The Secretary may, to 
the extent that funds are made available for such purposes in advance 
in appropriations Acts, enter into contracts or cooperative agreements 
with external providers of energy--
            ``(1) to improve the security and resilience of defense 
        critical electric infrastructure; and
            ``(2) to reduce the vulnerability of critical defense 
        facilities designated under subsection (c) to the disruption of 
        the supply of energy to those facilities.''.
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