I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1596 
To provide for the use of funds in the Hazardous Substance Superfund 
for the purposes for which they were collected, to ensure adequate re-
sources for the cleanup of hazardous substances under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 15, 2011 
Mr. BLUMENAUER (for himself, Mr. BISHOP of New York, and Mr. PALLONE) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation 
and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for the use of funds in the Hazardous Substance 
Superfund for the purposes for which they were collected, 
to ensure adequate resources for the cleanup of haz-
ardous substances under the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 
1980, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Superfund Reinvest-
ment Act’’. 
SEC. 2. USE OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND FOR 
CLEANUP. 
(a) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS.—Section 111 of the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, 
and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9611) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘For the pur-
poses specified’’ and all that follows through ‘‘for 
the following purposes:’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘The amount in the Hazardous Substance Super-
fund established under section 9507 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 shall be available, without 
further appropriation, to be used for the purposes 
specified in this section. The President shall use 
such amount for the following purposes:’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Subject to such amounts 
as are provided in appropriations Acts, the’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘The’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (12) by striking ‘‘to the 
extent that such costs’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘and 1994’’. 
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(b) AMENDMENT
TO
THE
INTERNAL
REVENUE 
CODE.—Section 9507 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘appropriated to’’ in subsection 
(a)(1) and inserting ‘‘made available for’’, 
(2) by striking ‘‘appropriated’’ in subsection (b) 
and inserting ‘‘transferred’’, 
(3) by striking ‘‘, as provided in appropriations 
Acts,’’ in subsection (c)(1), and 
(4) by striking ‘‘1995’’ in subsection (d)(3)(B) 
and inserting ‘‘2021’’. 
SEC. 3. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF HAZARDOUS SUB-
STANCE SUPERFUND. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the re-
ceipts and disbursements of the Hazardous Substance 
Superfund established in section 9507 of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986— 
(1) shall not be counted as new budget author-
ity, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for pur-
poses of— 
(A) the budget of the United States Gov-
ernment as submitted by the President; 
(B) the congressional budget (including al-
locations of budget authority and outlays pro-
vided therein); 
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