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104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3522
To amend title 23, United States Code, to ensure consideration of and
planning for reuse or disposal of construction and demolition debris
resulting from highway projects, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 23, 1996
Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To amend title 23, United States Code, to ensure consider-
ation of and planning for reuse or disposal of construc-
tion and demolition debris resulting from highway
projects, 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.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Construction and Dem-
olition Debris Disposal Act’’.
SEC. 2. STANDARDS.
(a) GUIDELINES.—Section 109(h) of title 23, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(4);
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (5) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (5) the follow-
ing:
‘‘(6) method and location of disposal of con-
struction and demolition debris resulting from the
project, including transportation of such debris.’’.
(b) INTENT OF CONGRESS.—Section 109(o) of such
title is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘Congress’’; and
(2) by inserting before the period at the end the
following: ‘‘; and (2) that any project for resur-
facing, restoring, or rehabilitating any highway
(other than a highway access to which is fully con-
trolled) in which Federal funds participate shall in-
clude, to the extent possible, as a part of the project
the reuse or recycling of any construction and demo-
lition debris resulting from the project and, in any
case in which such reuse or recycling is not possible,
include a requirement that the construction and
demolition debris will be disposed of in existing mu-
nicipal landfills or used for fill as permitted under
State and local law’’.
nating subsection (b) as subsection (c) and by inserting
after subsection (a) the following:
‘‘(b) SPECIAL RULES FOR HEARINGS ON DISPOSAL
OF DEBRIS.—
‘‘(1) CONSIDERATION OF OTHER DEBRIS.—The
hearings held under subsection (a) with respect to
the economic, social, environmental, and other ef-
fects of the method and location of disposal of con-
struction and demolition debris resulting from a
project shall include consideration of the following:
‘‘(A) Debris resulting from any previous
construction that must be removed in order to
carry out the project.
‘‘(B) Debris resulting from any renovation,
rebuilding, or construction attributable to the
project, including relocation of dwellings, build-
ings, or other facilities.
‘‘(C) Other construction and demolition de-
bris indirectly attributable to the project.
‘‘(2) PERSONAL NOTIFICATION.—If the location
proposed for the disposal of the construction and
demolition debris is not in an existing municipal
solid waste landfill, contiguous property owners to
the proposed location shall be personally notified of
the public hearing.’’.
SEC. 4. STATEWIDE PLANNING.
Section 135(c) of title 23, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(21) The economic, social, environmental, and
other effects of the method and location of the dis-
posal of construction and demolition debris resulting
from the project, including debris described in sec-
tion 128(b)(1).’’.
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