S.Amdt. 2948

SA 2948. Mr. SCHATZ (for himself and Ms. Hirono) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4638, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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 H of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1095. RED HILL HEALTH REGISTRY.

(a) Registry for Impacted Individuals of the Red Hill
Incident.--
(1) Establishment of registry.--The Secretary of Defense,
in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, shall establish within the Department of Defense or
through an award of a grant or contract, as the Secretary
determines appropriate, a Red Hill Incident exposure registry
to collect data on health implications of petroleum-
contaminated water for impacted individuals and potentially
impacted individuals on a voluntary basis.
(2) Contracts.--The Secretary of Defense may contract with
independent research institutes or consultants, nonprofit or
public

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entities, laboratories, or medical schools, as the Secretary
considers appropriate, that are not part of the Federal
Government to assist with the registry established under
paragraph (1).
(3) Consultation.--In carrying out paragraph (1), the
Secretary of Defense shall consult with non-Federal experts,
including individuals with certification in epidemiology,
toxicology, mental health, pediatrics, and environmental
health, and members of the impacted community.
(b) Use of Existing Funds.--The Secretary of Defense shall
carry out activities under this section using amounts
previously appropriated for the Defense Health Agency for
such activities.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Impacted individual.--The term ``impacted individual''
means an individual who, 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.
(2) Potentially impacted individual.--The term
``potentially impacted individual'' means an individual who,
after 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, including an individual
who is not a beneficiary of the military health system.
(3) 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.
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