I
105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1049
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide financial
assistance to support the assessment, cleanup, and economic redevelop-
ment of brownfield sites; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
to encourage the cleanup of such sites by allowing the expensing of
environmental remediation costs; and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 12, 1997
Mr. SHAYS (for himself and Mr. MALONEY of Connecticut) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in
addition to the Committees on Banking and Financial Services, and Ways
and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker,
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency and the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development to provide financial assistance to support
the assessment, cleanup, and economic redevelopment of
brownfield sites; to amend the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986 to encourage the cleanup of such sites by allow-
ing the expensing of environmental remediation costs;
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Brownfield Economic Revitalization Act of 1997’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I—ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY BROWNFIELDS
ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
Sec. 101. Definitions.
Sec. 102. Grants for inventories, site assessments, and other pre-cleanup activi-
ties.
Sec. 103. Grants for revolving loan programs.
Sec. 104. Assistance for partnership agreements.
Sec. 105. Assistance for workforce training.
Sec. 106. Grants for voluntary cleanup programs.
Sec. 107. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT BROWNFIELDS GRANT PROGRAM
Sec. 201. Economic development grants in connection with community develop-
ment loan guarantees.
TITLE III—EXPENSING OF ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION
COSTS
Sec. 301. Expensing of environmental remediation costs.
TITLE I—BROWNFIELD GRANTS
PROGRAMS
SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS.
In this title:
(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency.
(2) BROWNFIELD SITE.—The term ‘‘brownfield
site’’ means an abandoned, idled, or under-used in-
dustrial or commercial facility where expansion or
redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived
environmental contamination.
(3) ENVIRONMENT.—The term ‘‘environment’’
has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensa-
tion, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601).
(4) ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTAMINATION.—The
term ‘‘environmental contamination’’ means the ex-
istence at a facility of 1 or more hazardous sub-
stances, pollutants, or contaminants that may pose
a threat to human health or the environment.
(5) FACILITY.—The term ‘‘facility’’ has the
meaning given the term in section 101 of the Com-
prehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,
and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601).
(6) GRANT.—The term ‘‘grant’’ includes a co-
operative agreement.
(7) HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE.—The term ‘‘haz-
ardous substance’’ has the meaning given the term
in section 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
(42 U.S.C. 9601).
(8) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Indian tribe’’
has the meaning given the term in section 101 of the