A lot of our military bases, not only do they expose veterans, by the way, but the communities that live around the bases also have very high levels of PFAS, oftentimes. And we see that in Michigan, in places like Oscoda. So We passed a bunch of amendments, everything from making sure we're doing PFAS testing at DoD, sorry, National Guard installations, placing moratoriums on incinerating that firefighting foam. Right. Let's not make things worse. But then also requiring, first of all, the Pentagon to notify Congress of all releases of PFAS foam and then doing things to incentivize, as you say, the research. (10:59–11:15)
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