[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3494]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 417. Mr. CARPER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 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 in subtitle H of title X, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. 10__. PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES.

       (a) Designation as Hazardous Substances.--Not later than 1 
     year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
     Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 
     designate all per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances as 
     hazardous substances under section 102(a) of the 
     Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
     Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9602(a)).
       (b) Airport Sponsors.--No sponsor (as defined in section 
     47102 of title 49, United States Code), including a sponsor 
     of the civilian portion of a joint-use airport or a shared-
     use airport (as those terms are defined in section 139.5 of 
     title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor 
     regulations)), shall be liable under the Comprehensive 
     Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 
     1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) for the costs of responding to, 
     or damages from, releases to the environment of per- or 
     polyfluoroalkyl substances that resulted from the use of 
     aqueous film-forming foam, if that use was required pursuant 
     to, and carried out in accordance with, part 139 of title 14, 
     Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of 
     enactment of this Act).
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