[CPEO-MEF] PFCs: "Senate military authorization bill passes with PFC amendments"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Senate military authorization bill passes with PFC amendments

By Kyle Bagenstose
Intelligencer (PA)
September 19, 2017


The U.S. Senate Monday night passed a $700 billion military authorization bill, which includes $7 million for a nationwide health study on communities impacted by perfluorinated compound contamination. Those are chemicals found in firefighting foam, the use of which contaminated the drinking water of tens of thousands of residents and military personnel in Bucks and Montgomery counties.

Both the authorization bill and the health study measure have high hurdles to clear before coming to fruition: They need to survive reconciliation with the House’s authorization bill, as well as a separate military appropriations process later this year.

Still, lawmakers such as Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh County, cheered the passage.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theintell.com/news/horsham-pfos/senate-military-authorization-bill-passes-with-pfc-amendments/article_467276ae-9d50-11e7-ac7c-9798c9cd36f5.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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