S.Amdt. 640

SA 640. Ms. BALDWIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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:

In section 319, add at the end the following:
(d) Use of Amounts.--Section 2703 of such title is amended
by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(i) Use of Funds in National Guard Accounts.--
``(1) In general.--Funds authorized for deposit in an
account under paragraph (6) or (7) of subsection (a) may be
obligated or expended only for the environmental remediation
of perfluoroalkyl substances and polyfluoroalkyl substances
at real property owned or leased by the Federal Government
that is licensed to and operated by a State for training for
the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard.
``(2) Definitions.--In this section:
``(A) The term `perfluoroalkyl substances' means aliphatic
substances for which all of the H atoms attached to C atoms
in the nonfluorinated substance from which they are
notionally derived have been replaced by F atoms, except
those H atoms whose substitution would modify the nature of
any functional groups present.
``(B) The term `polyfluoroalkyl substances' means aliphatic
substances for which all H atoms attached to at least one
(but not all) C atoms have been replaced by F atoms, in such
a manner that they contain the perfluoroalkyl moiety
C<inf>n</inf>F<inf>2n+1</inf>_ (for example,
C<inf>8</inf>F<inf>17</inf>CH<inf>2</inf>CH<inf>2</inf>OH).''.

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