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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1042 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the Agricultural Research Service to conduct research relating |
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| 6 | 6 | | to wildfire smoke exposure on wine grapes, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH13, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. P |
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| 10 | 10 | | ADILLA(for himself and Mr. MERKLEY) introduced the following bill; |
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| 11 | 11 | | which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nu- |
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| 12 | 12 | | trition, and Forestry |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To require the Agricultural Research Service to conduct re- |
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| 15 | 15 | | search relating to wildfire smoke exposure on wine |
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| 16 | 16 | | grapes, and for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Smoke Exposure Re-4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | search Act’’. 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. WILDFIRE SMOKE EXPOSURE RESEARCH ON WINE 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | GRAPES. 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) R |
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| 25 | 25 | | ESEARCH.— 8 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 1042 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agri-1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | culture, acting through the Administrator of the Ag-2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ricultural Research Service, shall— 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (A) conduct research— 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (i) to identify the compounds respon-5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | sible for smoke taint; and 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (ii) to establish standard methodolo-7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | gies for sampling and testing smoke-ex-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | posed wine grapes and smoke-affected 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | wines, including fast and inexpensive 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | screening methods; 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (B) establish a reliable database of back-12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ground levels of smoke taint compounds that 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | occur naturally in wine grapes; 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (C) develop risk assessment tools or miti-15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | gation methods to reduce or eliminate smoke 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | taint; and 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (D) study compounds that can act as a 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | barrier between wine grapes and smoke com-19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | pounds. 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (2) C |
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| 50 | 50 | | OORDINATION.—The Secretary of Agri-21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | culture, acting through the Administrator of the Ag-22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ricultural Research Service, shall carry out para-23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | graph (1) in coordination with land-grant colleges 24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | and universities (as defined in section 1404 of the 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | •S 1042 IS |
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| 58 | 58 | | National Agricultural Research, Extension, and 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 3103)) lo-2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | cated in the States of California, Oregon, and Wash-3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ington that have conducted research on the effects 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | of smoke exposure on viticulture and enology oper-5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ations and practices. 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (b) A |
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| 65 | 65 | | UTHORIZATION OFAPPROPRIATIONS.—There is 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | $6,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030, 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | to remain available until expended. 10 |
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