[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 123 (Thursday, July 17, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S4487]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2954. Mr. WARNOCK submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2026 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 B of title XXVIII, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 2827. RADON TESTING OF MILITARY HOUSING OWNED OR 
                   CONTROLLED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

       (a) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
     to the congressional defense committees a report identifying 
     the installations of the Department of Defense that have 
     military housing owned or controlled by the Federal 
     Government that should be monitored for levels of radon at or 
     above the action level established by the Environmental 
     Protection Agency, including those installations evaluated in 
     the report dated April 30, 2020, and entitled, ``Evaluation 
     of the DoD's Management of Health and Safety Hazards in 
     Government-Owned and Government-Controlled Military Family 
     Housing'' (DODIG-2020-082).
       (b) Testing Procedures and Standards.--The Secretary of 
     each military department shall establish procedures at 
     installations identified under subsection (a) under the 
     jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned for testing for radon 
     at military housing owned or controlled by the Federal 
     Government at such installations that are consistent with 
     current national consensus standards and are in compliance 
     with applicable Federal regulations in order to ensure radon 
     levels at such housing are below recommended levels 
     established by the Environmental Protection Agency, whether 
     through--
       (1) regular testing (a minimum of one time every five years 
     for all housing, and a minimum of one time every two years 
     for housing that is above recommended radon levels 
     established by the Environmental Protection Agency until 
     radon levels are reduced to at or below such levels) of such 
     housing; or
       (2) the installation of monitoring equipment in such 
     housing.
       (c) Notification Regarding Need for Mitigation.--If, as a 
     result of testing conducted pursuant to procedures 
     established under subsection (b), a unit of military housing 
     owned or controlled by the Federal Government requires radon 
     mitigation to ensure radon levels are below recommended 
     levels established by the Environmental Protection Agency, 
     the head of the installation providing the housing unit shall 
     submit to the Secretary of the military department concerned, 
     not later than seven days after the determination of the need 
     for radon mitigation, the mitigation plan for the housing 
     unit.
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