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.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3446 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3446

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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 11, 2025

  Mr. Peters introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. STRATEGY TO ACCELERATE REMEDIATION OF CONTAMINATION FROM 
              PERFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES.

    (a) Strategy.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
congressional defense committees 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. Consistent with CERCLA, the strategy 
shall include--
            (1) criteria that the Department uses to prioritize 
        response actions on military installations and National Guard 
        facilities based on relative risk to human health and the 
        environment, including concentrations of releases of 
        perfluoroalkyl substances or polyfluoroalkyl substances, 
        migration pathways, and proximity to receptors;
            (2) timelines for completing each phase of the cleanup 
        process under CERCLA with respect to such releases for each 
        such military installation or National Guard facility;
            (3) a plan for deploying additional technologies, 
        personnel, or other resources to reduce delays to remediation 
        efforts, including an identification of--
                    (A) the number of laboratories accredited by the 
                environmental laboratory accreditation program of the 
                Department to test for the presence of perfluoroalkyl 
                substances and polyfluoroalkyl substances; and
                    (B) the number of laboratories in the process of 
                being so accredited; and
            (4) benchmarks for evaluating the performance of each 
        military department or Defense Agency in reducing the relative 
        risk with respect to response efforts to address releases of 
        perfluoroalkyl substances and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
    (b) Public Dashboard.--Not later than one year after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish on a publicly 
accessible website of the Department, an online dashboard that provides 
information on the actions of the Department, including each military 
department, addressing releases of perfluoroalkyl substances and 
polyfluoroalkyl substances from activities of the Department. The 
dashboard shall be updated on a semiannual basis and shall include a 
summary of--
            (1) funding that has been obligated or expended address 
        such releases, dissagregated by each military installation or 
        National Guard facility with respect to which efforts are 
        planned or underway;
            (2) the status of response efforts to address such releases 
        under the applicable phase of the cleanup process under CERCLA, 
        including the status of any interim removal actions, at each 
        such site;
            (3) projected and actual timelines for the completion of 
        response actions with respect to such releases at each such 
        site; and
            (4) points of contact for community engagement.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The terms ``CERCLA'', ``National Guard facility'', 
        ``removal'', and ``response'' have the meanings given those 
        terms in section 2700 of title 10, United States Code.
            (2) The term ``Defense Agency'' has the meaning given such 
        term in section 101(a) of title 10, United States Code.
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