S.Amdt. 6260

SA 6260. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 C of title VII, add the following:

SEC. 753. ACCESS TO ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS IMPACTED BY RED HILL INCIDENT.

(a) Assessment.--At each military medical treatment facility in Hawaii, the Secretary of Defense shall provide to impacted individuals, subject to space availability, timely access for medical assessment.

(b) Treatment.--For each impacted individual diagnosed with a condition or affliction consistent with exposure to petroleum contaminated water, whether diagnosed under an assessment under subsection (a) or otherwise, the Secretary of Defense shall provide to the impacted individual, subject to space availability, treatment for the condition or affliction at a military medical treatment facility in Hawaii.

(c) Definitions.--In this section:

(1) Impacted individual.--The term “impacted individual” means an individual who--

(A) at the time of the Red Hill Incident, lived or worked in a building or residence served by the community water system at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Oahu, Hawaii; and

(B) is not a beneficiary of the military health system.

(2) Red hill incident.--The term “Red Hill Incident” means the release of fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, Oahu, Hawaii, into the sole-source basal aquifer located 100 feet below the facility, contaminating the community water system at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on November 20, 2021.