[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 147 (Tuesday, September 12, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5227]
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SA 967. 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 appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. __. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of
the funds made available by this Act for Sustainment,
Restoration, and Modernization, Defense-wide, not less than
$20,000,000 shall be used by the Air Force and not less than
$15,000,000 shall be used by the Navy for mitigation efforts
by impacted National Guard installations to take actions that
mitigate identified sources of polyfluoroalkyl substances at
sites as a result of surveys conducted by the Air Force or
the Navy (as the case may be) so as to restore public
confidence in potable water which may be affected in those
sites.
(b) Not later than December 31, 2017, the Secretary of
Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees
a report describing how the Secretary will allocate funds in
accordance with subsection (a).
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