S.Amdt. 2708

SA 2708. Mr. BURR submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain)
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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:

Beginning on page 320 strike line 16 and all that follows
through ``(d)'' on page 321, line 1 and insert the following:
(c) Recommendations for Additional Exposures and Related
Illnesses to Be Included.--Not later than five years after
the date of the enactment of this Act, and every five years
thereafter, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in
consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall
submit to Congress recommendations for additional chemicals
with respect to which individuals exposed to such chemicals
should be included in the registry established under
subsection (a).
(d) List of Conditions Connected to Exposure.--
(1) Categorization of connection.--With respect to each
condition associated with exposure to PFAS, the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs shall categorize the evidence of connection
of the condition to exposure to PFAS as--
(A) sufficient to conclude with reasonable confidence that
exposure is a cause of the condition;
(B) modest supporting causation, but not sufficient to
conclude with reasonable confidence that exposure is a cause
of the condition; or
(C) no more than limited supporting causation;
(2) Publication of list.--
(A) In general.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
publish in the Federal Register and on an Internet website of
the Department of Veterans Affairs--
(i) a list of each condition determined by the Secretary to
be associated with PFAS, including the categorization under
paragraph (1) of the evidence of connection; and
(ii) with respect to each condition listed under clause
(i), the bibliographic citations for all literature reviewed
in making the determination and categorization described in
such clause.
(B) Update.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall update
the list published under subparagraph (A) to add conditions
determined by the Secretary to be associated with PFAS,
including the categorization under paragraph (1) of the
evidence of connection, since such list was last published or
updated under this paragraph.
(e)
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