[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3944]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1909. Mr. TOOMEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 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 F of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1065. STUDY ON RADIATION EXPOSURE FROM ATOMIC TESTING 
                   CLEANUP ON THE ENEWETAK ATOLL.

       (a) Study Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall, in 
     coordination with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the 
     Secretary of Energy, the Director of the National Cancer 
     Institute, and such others as the Secretary of Defense 
     considers appropriate, conduct a study on radiation exposure 
     from the atomic testing cleanup that occurred on the Enewetak 
     Atoll during the period of years beginning with 1977 and 
     ending with 1980.
       (b) Elements.--The study conducted under subsection (a) 
     shall include the following:
       (1) A determination of the amount of radiation that members 
     of the Armed Forces and civilians were exposed to as a result 
     of the atomic testing cleanup that described in subsection 
     (a), especially with respect to those who were located on 
     Runit Island during such cleanup.
       (2) Identification of the effects of the exposure described 
     in paragraph (1).
       (3) An estimate of the number of surviving veterans and 
     other civilians who were exposed as described in paragraph 
     (1).
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