[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 113 (Tuesday, July 9, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4290-S4291]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2086. Mrs. GILLIBRAND submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed by her to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2025 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 title III, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 3__. STORMWATER DISCHARGE PERMITS AND TESTING AT 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FACILITIES.

       (a) Request for Modification.--Except as provided in 
     subsection (b), not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall, with 
     respect to each permit under section 402(p) of the Federal 
     Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1342(p)) that applies 
     to a facility of the Department of Defense, request from the 
     State that issued the permit, or the Administrator of the 
     Environmental Protection Agency, as applicable, a 
     modification to such permit to require--
       (1) monitoring of discharges of perfluoroalkyl and 
     polyfluoroalkyl substances not less frequently than 
     quarterly; and

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       (2) implementation of appropriate best management practices 
     or control technologies to reduce such discharges consistent 
     with the requirements of such Act.
       (b) Exceptions.--The Secretary of Defense is not required 
     to request a modification to a permit under subsection (a) if 
     such permit contains the elements specified under paragraphs 
     (1) and (2) of such subsection.
       (c) Funding for Monitoring and Reduction of Discharges.--Of 
     the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made 
     available to the Secretary of Defense in each fiscal year for 
     remediation efforts relating to perfluoroalkyl and 
     polyfluoroalkyl substances, not less than one percent shall 
     be obligated or expended annually to carry out activities 
     described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a).
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