Title: A bill to require the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to undertake remediation oversight of the West Lake Landfill located in Bridgeton, Missouri.
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
This bill directs the Department of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to act as the lead agency with respect to radioactive contamination remediation at the West Lake Landfill in Bridgeton, Missouri.
Nothing in this Act affects the site's designation as a Superfund site.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1211 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1211

   To require the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of 
Engineers, to undertake remediation oversight of the West Lake Landfill 
                    located in Bridgeton, Missouri.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 24, 2017

  Mr. Blunt (for himself and Mrs. McCaskill) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of 
Engineers, to undertake remediation oversight of the West Lake Landfill 
                    located in Bridgeton, Missouri.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TRANSFER OF OVERSIGHT AUTHORITY FROM EPA TO CORPS OF 
              ENGINEERS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers.
            (2) Site.--The term ``site'' means the West Lake Landfill 
        located in Bridgeton, Missouri.
    (b) Transfer.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, as soon 
as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
shall--
            (1) under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action 
        Program, undertake the functions and activities described in 
        section 611 of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations 
        Act, 2000 (10 U.S.C. 2701 note; Public Law 106-60) as the lead 
        agency responding to radioactive contamination at the site; and
            (2) carry out remediation activities at the site in 
        accordance with that section.
    (c) Cost Recovery.--The Secretary, in coordination with the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Attorney 
General, shall--
            (1) seek to recover any response costs incurred by the 
        Secretary in carrying out this section in accordance with the 
        Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
        Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.); and
            (2) return any funds that are recovered under paragraph (1) 
        to be used to carry out the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial 
        Action Program of the Corps of Engineers.
    (d) Funding.--The Secretary shall use amounts made available to the 
Secretary to carry out the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action 
Program to carry out this section.
    (e) Savings Provisions.--
            (1) No liability.--Nothing in subsection (b) creates 
        liability for--
                    (A) the Secretary for--
                            (i) contamination at the site; or
                            (ii) any actions or failures to act by any 
                        past, current, or future licensees, owners, 
                        operators, or users of the site; or
                    (B) any other party involved with the site.
            (2) No effect on liability under other law.--Nothing in 
        subsection (b) alters the liability of any party relating to 
        the site under any other provision of law.
            (3) No effect on superfund status; national priorities list 
        designation.--Nothing in this Act affects the designation of 
        the site as a Superfund site under the Comprehensive 
        Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
        (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) or the listing of the site on the 
        national priorities list under section 105 of that Act (42 
        U.S.C. 9605).
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