S.Amdt. 2321

SA 2321. Mrs. DOLE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill H.R. 1585, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1070. NOTIFICATION OF CERTAIN RESIDENTS AND CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES AT CAMP LEJEUNE, NORTH CAROLINA, OF EXPOSURE TO DRINKING WATER CONTAMINATION.

(a) Notification of Individuals Served by Tarawa Terrace Water Distribution System, Including Knox Trailer Park.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall identify and notify directly individuals who were served by the Tarawa Terrace Water Distribution System, including Knox Trailer Park, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, during the years 1958 through 1987 that they were exposed to drinking water contaminated with tetrachloroethylene (PCE) at levels well above the maximum safety level established by the Environmental Protection Administration.

(b) Notification of Individuals Served by Hadnot Point Water Distribution System.--Not later than 120 days after the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) completes its water modeling study of the Hadnot Point water distribution system, the Secretary of the Navy shall identify and notify directly individuals who were served by the system during the period identified in the study of the drinking water contamination to which they were exposed.

(c) Notification of Former Civilian Employees at Camp Lejeune.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall identify and notify directly civilian employees who worked at Camp Lejeune during the period identified in the ATSDR studies of the Tarawa Terrace and Hadnot Point water distribution systems of the drinking water contamination to which they were exposed.

(d) Circulation of Health Survey.--

(1) Finding.--Congress finds that notification and survey efforts related to the drinking water contamination described in this section are necessary due to the duration of exposure and negative health impacts of these contaminants.

(2) National opinion and research council health survey.--

(A) Development.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the National Opinion and Research Council, in conjunction with ATSDR, shall develop a health survey that would voluntarily request of individuals described in subsections (a), (b), and (c) personal health information that may be associated with exposure to TCE, PCE, vinyl chloride, and the other contaminants identified in the ATSDR studies.

(B) Inclusion with notification.--The survey developed under subparagraph (A) shall be distributed by the Secretary of the Navy concurrently with the direct notification required under subsections (a), (b), and (c).

(e) Use of Media to Supplement Notification.--The Secretary of the Navy may use media notification as a supplement to, but not substitution for, direct notification of individuals described under subsections (a), (b), and (c).

(f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2008 to carry out this section.