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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3207
To authorize research, development, and demonstration activities under sec-
tion 311 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,
and Liability Act of 1980 for fiscal years 2000 through 2004.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 3, 1999
Mr. SENSENBRENNER (for himself, Mr. HALL of Texas, Mr. CALVERT, and
Mr. COSTELLO) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure, and Science, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To authorize research, development, and demonstration ac-
tivities under section 311 of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of
1980 for fiscal years 2000 through 2004.
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 ‘‘Superfund Research,
Development, and Demonstration Act of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) The Superfund Innovative Treatment and
Evaluation (SITE) program carried out under the
authority of section 311(b) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity Act of 1980 has helped private sector developers
to market innovative Superfund clean-up treatment
technologies for more than 10 years.
(2) Technologies demonstrated and evaluated
through the SITE program have been successfully
deployed at many Superfund and Resource Con-
servation and Recovery Act sites, resulting in signifi-
cant cost savings and faster remediation of those
sites.
(3) The Environmental Protection Agency’s
Science Advisory Board has found that SITE pro-
gram accomplishments have been ‘‘impressive’’ and
that ‘‘the need for improved technology to prevent,
reduce, or remediate environmental contamination
remains a national priority’’.
(4) The University Hazardous Substance Re-
search Centers authorized under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity Act of 1980 have played an important role in
conducting basic research, developing innovative
clean-up technologies, and providing invaluable tech-
nical assistance to communities.
(5) The SITE program and related hazardous
substance research program should be reauthorized
with an emphasis on meeting the emerging technical
and scientific challenges presented by the use of re-
mediated sites (including brownfields), developing
technologies to address remediation at remaining
sites with complex contamination characteristics,
and transferring technology and technical capabili-
ties to a wider variety of remediation needs.
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS.
(a) Section 111(n) of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of
1980 (42 U.S.C. 9611(n)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘1987, 1988,
1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004’’;
(2) by amending paragraph (2) to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(2) SECTION 311(a).—For each of the fiscal
years 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004, not more
than $35,000,000 of the amounts available in the
Fund may be used for the purposes of section
311(a). Not more than 10 percent of such amounts