Title: Strengthening Support of NATO Through Dual Use Infrastructure Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Strengthening Support of NATO Through Dual Use Infrastructure Act
This bill directs the Department of Defense and Department of State to report to Congress on the value of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member-state investments in dual-use infrastructure projects. Dual-use infrastructure projects are those identified by the European Union as upgrades to the Trans-European Transport Network that also improve military mobility.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3202 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3202

      To require a report on the value of investments in dual use 
  infrastructure projects by the member states of the North Atlantic 
 Treaty Organization (NATO) in order to improve military mobility and 
                    interoperability across Europe.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2019

 Mr. Brown of Maryland (for himself and Ms. Spanberger) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
      To require a report on the value of investments in dual use 
  infrastructure projects by the member states of the North Atlantic 
 Treaty Organization (NATO) in order to improve military mobility and 
                    interoperability across Europe.

    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 ``Strengthening Support of NATO 
Through Dual Use Infrastructure Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON VALUE OF INVESTMENTS IN DUAL USE INFRASTRUCTURE 
              PROJECTS BY NATO MEMBER STATES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than June 1, 2020, the Secretary of 
Defense, jointly with the Secretary of State, shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report on the value of 
investments in dual use infrastructure projects by the member states of 
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in order to improve 
military mobility and interoperability across Europe.
    (b) Elements.--The report required by subsection (a) shall include 
the following:
            (1) The value to collective deterrence provided by 
        investments in dual use infrastructure projects by the member 
        states of NATO in order to meet the military mobility goals set 
        out at the 2018 NATO Summit in Brussels.
            (2) An assessment of proposed dual use infrastructure 
        projects for NATO.
            (3) An assessment of proposed dual use infrastructure 
        projects with respect to which the United States can provide 
        support, including a recommended prioritization of such 
        projects.
    (c) Form.--The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted 
in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Dual use infrastructure projects.--The term ``dual use 
        infrastructure projects'' means those projects identified by 
        the European Commission Action Plan on Military Mobility as 
        necessary to improve the trans-European transport network (TEN-
        T) to meet the military requirements for military mobility 
        within and beyond the European Union.
            (2) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the congressional defense committees (as such 
                term is defined in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, 
                United States Code); and
                    (B) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
                Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
                House of Representatives.
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