S.Amdt. 605

SA 605. Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself and Mr. Hickenlooper) submitted
an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 2226, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 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 G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1083. STUDY ON CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES OF CERTAIN FEDERAL
AGENCIES WHO MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO BURN PITS
AND OTHER TOXINS.

(a) In General.--The Comptroller General of the United
States shall conduct a study to investigate--
(1) the approximate number of civilian employees of the
intelligence community, the Department of Defense, the
Department of State, the Department of Justice (including the
Federal Bureau of Investigation), and the Department of the
Treasury who were deployed to locations where they may have
been exposed to burn pits and other toxins; and
(2) what kind of documentation those agencies provided to
those employees that those employees could use as evidence
that they worked in those locations at the relevant times.
(b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit
to Congress a report on the study conducted under subsection
(a).
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