[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5793-S5794]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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