[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5129]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2903. Mr. SCHATZ (for himself and Ms. Hirono) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him 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 end of subtitle H of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1095. RED HILL HEALTH REGISTRY.

       (a) Registry for Impacted Individuals of the Red Hill 
     Incident.--
       (1) Establishment of registry.--The Secretary of Defense, 
     in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services, shall establish within the Department of Defense or 
     through an award of a grant or contract, as the Secretary 
     determines appropriate, a Red Hill Incident exposure registry 
     to collect data on health implications of petroleum-
     contaminated water for impacted individuals and potentially 
     impacted individuals on a voluntary basis.
       (2) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary 
     of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense 
     committees and publish on the website of the Department of 
     Defense a report on--
       (A) the number of impacted and potentially impacted 
     individuals enrolled in the registry established under 
     paragraph (1);
       (B) measures and frequency of follow-up to collect data and 
     specimens related to exposure, health, and developmental 
     milestones as appropriate; and
       (C) a summary of data and analyses on exposure, health, and 
     developmental milestones for impacted individuals.
       (3) Contracts.--The Secretary of Defense may contract with 
     independent research institutes or consultants, nonprofit or 
     public entities, laboratories, or medical schools, as the 
     Secretary considers appropriate, that are not part of the 
     Federal Government to assist with the registry established 
     under paragraph (1).
       (4) Consultation.--In carrying out paragraph (1), the 
     Secretary of Defense shall consult with non-Federal experts, 
     including individuals with certification in epidemiology, 
     toxicology, mental health, pediatrics, and environmental 
     health, and members of the impacted community.
       (b) Use of Existing Funds.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     carry out activities under this section using amounts 
     previously appropriated for the Defense Health Agency for 
     such activities.
       (c) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Impacted individual.--The term ``impacted individual'' 
     means an individual who, 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.
       (2) Potentially impacted individual.--The term 
     ``potentially impacted individual'' means an individual who, 
     after 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, including an individual 
     who is not a beneficiary of the military health system.
       (3) 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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