S.Amdt. 4634

SA 4634. Mr. CASEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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 D of title III, add the following:

SEC. 356. STUDY ON BIOREMEDIATION OF PFAS USING MYCOLOGICAL
ORGANIC MATTER.

(a) Study.--Commencing not later than one year after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense,
acting through the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy,
Installations, and Environment, the Secretary of Agriculture,
acting through the Administrator of the Agricultural Research
Service, and the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency shall jointly carry out a study on the
bioremediation of PFAS using mycological organic matter.
(b) Strategic Environmental Research and Development
Program.--The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy,
Installations, and Environment shall carry out the
responsibilities of the Secretary of Defense for the study
under subsection (a) through the Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program.
(c) Report.--Not later than one year after the commencement
of the study under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense,
the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency shall jointly submit to the
appropriate committees of Congress a report on the study.
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term
``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
(A) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and the Committee on
Environment and Public Works of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Agriculture, and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the
House of Representatives.
(2) PFAS.--The term ``PFAS'' means perfluoroalkyl
substances and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
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