Sec. 315. FUNDING OF STUDY AND ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES CONTAMINATION IN DRINKING WATER BY AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY
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## SEC. 315 FUNDING OF STUDY AND ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES CONTAMINATION IN DRINKING WATER BY AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY ###
(a)Funding Paragraph
(2)of section 316(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 (Public Law 115-91) is amended to read as follows: > > #### “(2) Funding > > > ##### “(A) Source of funds > > The study and assessment performed pursuant to this section may be paid for using funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense under the heading ‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide’. > > > ##### “(B) Transfer authority > > > ######
(i)> > Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2018, not more than $10,000,000 shall be transferred by the Secretary of Defense, without regard to section 2215 of title 10, United States Code, to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to pay for the study and assessment required by this section. > > > ###### “(ii) > > Without regard to section 2215 of title 10, United States Code, the Secretary of Defense may transfer not more than $10,000,000 a year during fiscal years 2019 and 2020 to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to pay for the study and assessment required by this section. > > > ##### “(C) Expenditure authority > > Amounts transferred to the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall be used to carry out the study and assessment under this section through contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants. In addition, such funds may be transferred by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to other accounts of the Department for the purposes of carrying out this section. > > > ##### “(D) Relationship to other transfer authorities > > The transfer authority provided under this paragraph is in addition to any other transfer authority available to the Department of Defense.” > . ###
(b)Report to Congress on Department of Defense Assessment and Remediation Plan Not later than 180 days after the date on which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency establishes a maximum contaminant level for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(PFAS)contamination in drinking water in a national primary drinking water regulation under section 1412 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300g-1), the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing a plan to— ####
(1)assess any contamination at Department of Defense installations and surrounding communities that may have occurred from PFAS usage by the Department of Defense; ####
(2)identify any remediation actions the Department plans to undertake using the maximum contaminant level established by the Environmental Protection Agency; ####
(3)provide an estimate of the cost of such remediation and a schedule for accomplishing such remediation; and ####
(4)provide an assessment of past expenditures by local water authorities to address contamination before the Environmental Protection Agency established a maximum contaminant level and an estimate of the cost to reimburse communities that remediated water to a level not greater than such level. ###
(c)Assessment of Health Effects of PFAS Exposure The Secretary of Defense shall conduct an assessment of the human health implications of PFAS exposure. Such assessment shall include— ####
(1)a meta-analysis that considers the current scientific evidence base linking the health effects of PFAS on individuals who served as members of the Armed Forces and were exposed to PFAS at military installations; ####
(2)an estimate of the number of members of the Armed Forces and veterans who may have been exposed to PFAS while serving in the Armed Forces; ####
(3)the development of a process that would facilitate the transfer between the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs of health information of individuals who served in the Armed Forces and may have been exposed to PFAS during such service; and ####
(4)a description of the amount of funding that would be required to administer a potential registry of individuals who may have been exposed to PFAS while serving in the Armed Forces.
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FUNDING OF STUDY AND ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF PER- AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES CONTAMINATION IN DRINKING WATER BY AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY
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