S.Amdt. 2954

SA 2954. Mr. WARNOCK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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 B of title XXVIII, add the
following:

SEC. 2827. RADON TESTING OF MILITARY HOUSING OWNED OR
CONTROLLED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

(a) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit
to the congressional defense committees a report identifying
the installations of the Department of Defense that have
military housing owned or controlled by the Federal
Government that should be monitored for levels of radon at or
above the action level established by the Environmental
Protection Agency, including those installations evaluated in
the report dated April 30, 2020, and entitled, ``Evaluation
of the DoD's Management of Health and Safety Hazards in
Government-Owned and Government-Controlled Military Family
Housing'' (DODIG-2020-082).
(b) Testing Procedures and Standards.--The Secretary of
each military department shall establish procedures at
installations identified under subsection (a) under the
jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned for testing for radon
at military housing owned or controlled by the Federal
Government at such installations that are consistent with
current national consensus standards and are in compliance
with applicable Federal regulations in order to ensure radon
levels at such housing are below recommended levels
established by the Environmental Protection Agency, whether
through--
(1) regular testing (a minimum of one time every five years
for all housing, and a minimum of one time every two years
for housing that is above recommended radon levels
established by the Environmental Protection Agency until
radon levels are reduced to at or below such levels) of such
housing; or
(2) the installation of monitoring equipment in such
housing.
(c) Notification Regarding Need for Mitigation.--If, as a
result of testing conducted pursuant to procedures
established under subsection (b), a unit of military housing
owned or controlled by the Federal Government requires radon
mitigation to ensure radon levels are below recommended
levels established by the Environmental Protection Agency,
the head of the installation providing the housing unit shall
submit to the Secretary of the military department concerned,
not later than seven days after the determination of the need
for radon mitigation, the mitigation plan for the housing
unit.
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