S.Amdt. 4340

SA 4340. Mr. CASEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 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 B of title III, add the following:

SEC. 306. ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING AND REMEDIATION AT MILITARY
INSTALLATIONS WHERE AQUEOUS FILM FORMING FOAM
HAS BEEN USED.

(a) Identification of Potentially Contaminated Sites.--The
Secretary of Defense shall direct the service secretaries to
identify and make publicly available a list of military
installations located in the United States where the fire
extinguishing agent Aqueous Film Forming Foam was or could
have been discharged.
(b) Testing.--The Secretary of Defense shall make available
to local water authorities and residents located at or near
the military installations identified pursuant to subsection
(a) testing of drinking water for the presence of
perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic
acid (PFOA) above the current Lifetime Health Advisory (LHA)
limits.
(c) Actions Required at Locations With Contamination Found
Above LHA Limits.--If testing under subsection (b) identifies
PFOS and PFOA contamination above LHA limits at or around a
military installation identified under subsection (a), the
Secretary of Defense shall--
(1) notify local residents within 15 days of the test
results;
(2) provide affected individuals with an alternative,
uncontaminated drinking water source within 15 days of such
results that shall remain available until a remediation plan
is fully implemented;
(3) develop and begin implementation of a remediation plan
within 45 days of the results, unless such a plan is not
technically feasible or is cost-prohibitive, in which case
the Secretary may develop and implement a plan to provide a
permanent alternative water supply to affected residents; and
(4) provide public status reports on the progress of
implementation of the remediation plan every 45 days until
remediation is complete.
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