I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5469 
To provide grants for the revitalization of waterfront brownfields. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 14, 2008 
Ms. SLAUGHTER (for herself, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. COHEN, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. 
MCHUGH, Mr. BRALEY of Iowa, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. THOMPSON of 
California, Mr. KING of New York, Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York, Mr. 
CUELLAR, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Ms. SUT-
TON, Mr. SNYDER, Mr. BARROW, Ms. KAPTUR, and Mr. KENNEDY) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide grants for the revitalization of waterfront 
brownfields. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. WATERFRONT BROWNFIELDS GRANT. 
Section 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 
U.S.C. 9604(k)) is amended— 
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(1) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through 
(12) as paragraphs (5) through (13); 
(2) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘paragraphs 
(4) and (5)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (5) and 
(6)’’; 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(4) GRANTS FOR WATERFRONT BROWNFIELDS 
REVITALIZATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraphs 
(5) and (6), the President shall establish a pro-
gram to provide grants to eligible entities or 
nonprofit organizations to be used at one or 
more waterfront brownfield sites. 
‘‘(B) USE OF FUNDS.—Such grants may 
be used for reuse planning, site characterization 
and assessment, or remediation at waterfront 
brownfields sites, including the integration of 
activities related to the design and implementa-
tion of water quality improvements, low impact 
development approaches, green infrastructure, 
remediation and management of sediments, or 
flood 
damage 
prevention 
associated 
with 
brownfields remediation and reuse. 
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‘‘(C) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this 
section, the term ‘waterfront brownfield site’ 
means a brownfield site any part of which is ad-
jacent to a body of water.’’; 
(4) in paragraph (5)(A) (as redesignated by 
paragraph (1) of this section) by inserting after 
clause (ii) the following: 
‘‘(iii) 
WATERFRONT
BROWNFIELDS 
REVITALIZATION.—A grant made to an eli-
gible entity or nonprofit organization 
under paragraph (4) may not exceed 
$500,000’’; and 
(5) in paragraph (7)(A) (as redesignated by 
paragraph (1) of this section) by inserting ‘‘water-
front brownfields revitalization’’ after ‘‘community 
involvement’’; and 
(6) by striking paragraph (13) (as redesignated 
by paragraph (1) of this section) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(13) FUNDING.— 
‘‘(A) 
AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated 
to carry out this subsection $220,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2008 through 2012. 
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