[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 99 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3585]
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SA 574. Ms. STABENOW (for herself, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Peters, Mr. Burr,
Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Manchin, and Ms. Hassan)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her 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:
In section 318(a)(2), add at the end the following:
(C) A health advisory under section 1412(b)(1)(F) of the
Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-1(b)(1)(F)).
In section 318(a), add at the end the following:
(3) Other authority.--In addition to the requirements under
paragraph (1), when otherwise authorized to expend funds for
the purpose of addressing ground or surface water
contaminated by a perfluorinated compound, the Secretary of
Defense may, to expend those funds, enter into a grant
agreement, cooperative agreement, or contract with--
(A) the local water authority with jurisdiction over the
contamination site, including--
(i) a public water system (as defined in section 1401 of
the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f)); and
(ii) a publicly owned treatment works (as defined in
section 212 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1292)); or
(B) a State, local, or Tribal government.
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