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116TH CONGRESS I
1st Session J
SENATE
Calendar No. 173
REPORT
116-71
SECURING ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE ACT
AUGUST 16, 2019.-Ordered to be printed
Filed, under authority of the order of the Senate of August 1, 2019
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 174]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 174) to provide for the establishment of a pilot
program to identify security vulnerabilities of certain entities in
the energy sector, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment, and recommends that the bill, as
amended, do pass.
AMENDMENT
The amendment is as follows:
On page 2, lines 13 and 14, strike entity identified pursuant to
section 9(a) and insert owner or operator described in section
9(c).
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 174 is to provide for the establishment of a
pilot program to identify security vulnerabilities of certain entities
in the energy sector.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Critical infrastructures within the United States are enticing tar-
gets to malicious actors. Notably, these include industrial control
systems, which are operational technologies used to measure, con-
trol, or manage industrial functions (e.g., supervisory control and
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