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SEC. 433. UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS. Not later
than May 1, 2000, in administering the underground stor-
age tank program under subtitle I of the Solid Waste Dis-
posal Act (42 U.S.C. 6991 et seq.), the Administrator of
the Environmental Protection Agency shall develop a plan
(including cost estimates)—
(1) to identify underground storage tanks that
are not in compliance with subtitle I of the Solid
Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6991 et seq.) (includ-
ing regulations);
(2) to identify underground storage tanks in
temporary closure;
(3) to determine the ownership of underground
storage tanks described in paragraphs (1) and (2);
(4) to determine the plans of owners and opera-
tors of underground storage tanks described in para-
graphs (1) and (2) to bring the underground storage
tanks into compliance or out of temporary closure;
and
(5) in a case in which the owner of an under-
ground storage tank described in paragraph (1) or (2)
cannot be identified—
(A) to bring the underground storage tank
into compliance; or
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(B) to permanently close the underground
storage tank.
SEC. 434. The comment period on the proposed rules
related to section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act published
at 64 Federal Register 46012 and 46058 (August 23, 1999)
shall be extended from October 22, 1999, for a period of
no less than 90 additional calendar days.
SEC. 435. Section 4(a) of the Act of August 9, 1950
(16 U.S.C. 777c(a)), is amended in the second sentence by
striking ‘‘1999’’ and inserting ‘‘2000’’.
SEC. 436. PROMULGATION OF STORMWATER REGULA-
TIONS. (a) STORMWATER REGULATIONS.—The Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall not
promulgate the Phase II stormwater regulations until the
Administrator submits to the Committee on Environment
and Public Works of the Senate a report containing—
(1) an in-depth impact analysis on the effect the
final regulations will have on urban, suburban, and
rural local governments subject to the regulations, in-
cluding an estimate of—
(A) the costs of complying with the 6 min-
imum control measures described in the regula-
tions; and
(B) the costs resulting from the lowering of
the construction threshold from 5 acres to 1 acre;
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(2) an explanation of the rationale of the Ad-
ministrator for lowering the construction site thresh-
old from 5 acres to 1 acre, including—
(A) an explanation, in light of recent court
decisions, of why a 1-acre measure is any less
arbitrarily determined than a 5-acre measure;
and
(B) all qualitative information used in de-
termining an acre threshold for a construction
site;
(3) 
documentation 
demonstrating 
that
stormwater runoff is generally a problem in commu-
nities with populations of 50,000 to 100,000 (includ-
ing an explanation of why the coverage of the regula-
tion is based on a census-determined population in-
stead of a water quality threshold); and
(4) information that supports the position of the
Administrator that the Phase II stormwater program
should be administered as part of the National Pollut-
ant Discharge Elimination System under section 402
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C.
1342).
(b) PHASE I REGULATIONS.—No later than 120 days
after enactment of this Act, the Environmental Protection
Agency shall submit to the Senate Environment and Public
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Works Committee a report containing a detailed expla-
nation of the impact, if any, that the Phase I program has
had in improving water quality in the United States (in-
cluding a description of specific measures that have been
successful and those that have been unsuccessful).
(c) FEDERAL REGISTER.—The reports described in
subsections (a) and (b) shall be published in the Federal
Register for public comment.
SEC. 437. PESTICIDE TOLERANCE FEES. None of the
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act
shall be used to promulgate a final regulation to implement
changes in the payment of pesticide tolerance processing fees
as proposed at 64 Fed. Reg. 31040, or any similar pro-
posals. The Environmental Protection Agency may proceed
with the development of such a rule.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Veterans
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Inde-
pendent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000’’.
Passed the House of Representatives September 9,
1999.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDAHL,
Clerk.
Passed the Senate September 24, 1999.
Attest:
GARY SISCO,
Secretary.