[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 96 (Monday, June 11, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S3701]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2708. Mr. BURR submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2282 submitted by Mr. Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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:

       Beginning on page 320 strike line 16 and all that follows 
     through ``(d)'' on page 321, line 1 and insert the following:
       (c) Recommendations for Additional Exposures and Related 
     Illnesses to Be Included.--Not later than five years after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act, and every five years 
     thereafter, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the 
     Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall 
     submit to Congress recommendations for additional chemicals 
     with respect to which individuals exposed to such chemicals 
     should be included in the registry established under 
     subsection (a).
       (d) List of Conditions Connected to Exposure.--
       (1) Categorization of connection.--With respect to each 
     condition associated with exposure to PFAS, the Secretary of 
     Veterans Affairs shall categorize the evidence of connection 
     of the condition to exposure to PFAS as--
       (A) sufficient to conclude with reasonable confidence that 
     exposure is a cause of the condition;
       (B) modest supporting causation, but not sufficient to 
     conclude with reasonable confidence that exposure is a cause 
     of the condition; or
       (C) no more than limited supporting causation;
       (2) Publication of list.--
       (A) In general.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
     publish in the Federal Register and on an Internet website of 
     the Department of Veterans Affairs--
       (i) a list of each condition determined by the Secretary to 
     be associated with PFAS, including the categorization under 
     paragraph (1) of the evidence of connection; and
       (ii) with respect to each condition listed under clause 
     (i), the bibliographic citations for all literature reviewed 
     in making the determination and categorization described in 
     such clause.
       (B) Update.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall update 
     the list published under subparagraph (A) to add conditions 
     determined by the Secretary to be associated with PFAS, 
     including the categorization under paragraph (1) of the 
     evidence of connection, since such list was last published or 
     updated under this paragraph.
       (e)
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