National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024

Floor Speech

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Mrs. GONZALEZ-COLON. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of en bloc amendments No. 2.

I thank Chairman Rogers for including this proposal, and many others, to amend the provision related to former military land in Culebra, which is an island in the archipelago of Puerto Rico, an island municipality to the east of the main island.

In the Military Construction Authorization Act of 1974, some of these lands were transferred for recreational and nature reserve uses. However, this amendment would allow agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers the flexibility to determine and execute environmental cleaning efforts on the island of Culebra to fulfill those recreational and natural reserve uses when it is needed.

Mr. Chair, I urge the House to support the amendment and the en bloc package.

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