A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to submit a strategy to accelerate the response efforts of the Department of Defense with respect to releases of perfluoroalkyl substances or polyfluoroalkyl substances from the activities of the Department.

This bill would require the Secretary of Defense to send Congress's defense committees, within 180 days, a strategy to speed up Department of Defense cleanup of PFAS chemicals released by its activities. The strategy must include how the Department ranks sites by risk, timelines for each cleanup phase at each military installation and National Guard facility, a plan for adding technology, staff, or other resources, counts of accredited testing laboratories, and benchmarks for judging each military department's performance. Within one year, the Department would also have to publish an online public dashboard, updated twice a year, showing funding, cleanup status, timelines, and community contacts for each site.

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Sponsors

• Gary C. Peters Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors