[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5793-S5794]
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SA 6260. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe)
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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:
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At the end of subtitle C of title VII, add the following:
SEC. 753. ACCESS TO ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS
IMPACTED BY RED HILL INCIDENT.
(a) Assessment.--At each military medical treatment
facility in Hawaii, the Secretary of Defense shall provide to
impacted individuals, subject to space availability, timely
access for medical assessment.
(b) Treatment.--For each impacted individual diagnosed with
a condition or affliction consistent with exposure to
petroleum contaminated water, whether diagnosed under an
assessment under subsection (a) or otherwise, the Secretary
of Defense shall provide to the impacted individual, subject
to space availability, treatment for the condition or
affliction at a military medical treatment facility in
Hawaii.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Impacted individual.--The term ``impacted individual''
means an individual who--
(A) at the time of the Red Hill Incident, lived or worked
in a building or residence served by the community water
system at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Oahu, Hawaii; and
(B) is not a beneficiary of the military health system.
(2) Red hill incident.--The term ``Red Hill Incident''
means the release of fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage
Facility, Oahu, Hawaii, into the sole-source basal aquifer
located 100 feet below the facility, contaminating the
community water system at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on
November 20, 2021.
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