S.Amdt. 759

SA 759. Ms. BALDWIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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 E of title III, add the following:

SEC. ___. ACCELERATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION
ACTIVITIES AT FORMER ARMY AMMUNITION PLANTS.

(a) Availability of Funds.--Of the amount authorized to be
appropriated for fiscal year 2018 by section 301 and
available for environmental restoration, Army, as specified
in the funding table in section 4301, not less than
$100,000,000 shall be used to accelerate ongoing remediation
activities at former Army ammunition plants.
(b) Remediation Activities Defined.--In this section, the
term ``remediation activities'' includes actions required
under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,
and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) in
connection with environmental remediation, the development,
deployment, and operation of appropriate groundwater
remediation to provide clean drinking water to impacted
communities, the testing of groundwater contaminant levels,
and engagements with such communities to incorporate
preferred approaches to environmental remediation.
In the funding table in section 4201, in the item relating
to the Long Range Standoff Weapon of the Air Force, decrease
the amount in the Senate Authorized column by $100,000,000.
In the funding table in section 4301, in the item relating
to Environmental Restoration, Amy, increase the amount in the
Senate Authorized column by $100,000,000.
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