[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 12, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5227]
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SA 965. Mr. SCHUMER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 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 E of title III, add the following:
SEC. 322. REPORT ON RELEASE OF RADIUM OR RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
INTO THE GROUNDWATER NEAR THE INDUSTRIAL
RESERVE PLANT IN BETHPAGE, NEW YORK.
Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress
an addendum to the report submitted to Congress in June 2017
entitled ``2017 Annual Report For Groundwater Impacts at
Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant Bethpage, New York''
that would detail any releases by the Department of Defense
of radium or radioactive material into the groundwater within
a 75-mile radius of the industrial reserve plant in Bethpage,
New York.
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