A BILL 
To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act relating to review 
of regulations under such Act and to amend the Com-
prehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 relating to financial responsibility 
for classes of facilities. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reducing Excessive 
Deadline Obligations Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. REVIEW OF REGULATIONS UNDER THE SOLID 
WASTE DISPOSAL ACT. 
Section 2002(b) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 
U.S.C. 6912(b)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) REVIEW OF REGULATIONS.—The Administrator 
shall review, and revise, as the Administrator determines 
appropriate, regulations promulgated under this Act.’’. 
SEC. 3. FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CLASSES OF FA-
CILITIES UNDER CERCLA. 
Section 108(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 
U.S.C. 9608(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Not later than three years 
after the date of enactment of the Act, the Presi-
dent shall’’ and inserting ‘‘The President shall, 
as appropriate,’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘first’’ after ‘‘for which re-
quirements will be’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘Financial responsibility 
may be established’’ and inserting ‘‘Owners and 
operators may establish financial responsibility’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘any one, or any combina-
tion, of the following:’’ and inserting ‘‘forms of 
security, including’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘or qualification’’ and in-
serting ‘‘and qualification’’. 
SEC. 4. REPORT TO CONGRESS REGARDING FINANCIAL RE-
SPONSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS. 
Section 108(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 
U.S.C. 9608(b)) is further amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(6) The President may not promulgate any financial 
responsibility requirement under this subsection without 
first submitting to Congress a report— 
‘‘(A) describing each facility or class of facilities 
to be covered by such requirement; 
‘‘(B) describing the development of such require-
ment, why the facility or class of facilities proposed 
to be covered by such requirement present the highest 
level of risk of injury, and why the facility or class 
of facilities is not already covered by adequate finan-
cial responsibility requirements; 
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‘‘(C) describing the financial responsibility re-
quirements promulgated by States or other Federal 
agencies for the facility or class of facilities to be cov-
ered by the financial responsibility requirement pro-
posed under this subsection and explaining why the 
requirement proposed under this subsection is nec-
essary; 
‘‘(D) describing the exposure to the Fund for re-
sponse costs resulting from the facility or class of fa-
cilities proposed to be covered; and 
‘‘(E) describing the capacity of the financial and 
credit markets to provide instruments of financial re-
sponsibility necessary to meet such requirement. 
The President shall update any report submitted under this 
paragraph to reflect any revision of the facilities or classes 
of facilities to be covered by a financial responsibility re-
quirement that is the subject of such report.’’. 
SEC. 5. PREEMPTION OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RE-
QUIREMENTS. 
Section 114(d) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 
U.S.C. 9614(d)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) No owner or operator of a vessel or facility who 
establishes and maintains evidence of financial responsi-
bility associated with the production, transportation, treat-
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ment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances pursuant 
to financial responsibility requirements under any State 
law or regulation, or any other Federal law or regulation, 
shall be required to establish or maintain evidence of finan-
cial responsibility under this title, unless the President de-
termines, after notice and opportunity for public comment, 
that in the event of a release of a hazardous substance that 
is not a federally permitted release or authorized by a State 
permit, such other Federal or State financial responsibility 
requirements are insufficient to cover likely response costs 
under section 104. If the President determines that such 
other Federal or State financial responsibility requirements 
are insufficient to cover likely response costs under section 
104 in the event of such a release, the President shall accept 
evidence of compliance with such other Federal or State fi-
nancial responsibility requirements in lieu of compliance 
with any portion of the financial responsibility require-
ments promulgated under this title to which they cor-
respond.’’. 
SEC. 6. EXPLOSIVE RISKS PLANNING NOTIFICATION. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the owner or operator of each facility at which 
substances listed in appendix A to part 27 of title 6, Code 
of Federal Regulations, as flammables or explosives are 
present above the screening threshold listed therein shall no-
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tify the State emergency response commission for the State 
in which such facility is located that such substances are 
present at such facility and of the amount of such sub-
stances that are present at such facility. 
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