S.Amdt. 1909

SA 1909. Mr. TOOMEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 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 subtitle F of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1065. STUDY ON RADIATION EXPOSURE FROM ATOMIC TESTING
CLEANUP ON THE ENEWETAK ATOLL.

(a) Study Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall, in
coordination with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the
Secretary of Energy, the Director of the National Cancer
Institute, and such others as the Secretary of Defense
considers appropriate, conduct a study on radiation exposure
from the atomic testing cleanup that occurred on the Enewetak
Atoll during the period of years beginning with 1977 and
ending with 1980.
(b) Elements.--The study conducted under subsection (a)
shall include the following:
(1) A determination of the amount of radiation that members
of the Armed Forces and civilians were exposed to as a result
of the atomic testing cleanup that described in subsection
(a), especially with respect to those who were located on
Runit Island during such cleanup.
(2) Identification of the effects of the exposure described
in paragraph (1).
(3) An estimate of the number of surviving veterans and
other civilians who were exposed as described in paragraph
(1).
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