bill_id,congress,bill_type,bill_number,title,policy_area,introduced_date,latest_action_date,latest_action_text,origin_chamber,sponsor_name,sponsor_state,sponsor_party,sponsor_bioguide_id,cosponsor_count,summary_text,update_date,url
96-hr-8453,96,hr,8453,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act.,Environmental Protection,1980-12-13,1980-12-13,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]",CA,D,M000725,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act to revise a required provision for State implementation plans. Permits the construction or modification of a major stationary source in a nonattainment area, even if the emissions from such facility will cause or contribute to concentrations of any pollutant for which a national ambient air quality standard is exceeded in such area, if, at the time of application for a permit, such construction or modification shall result in the reduction of emissions of such pollutant from an existing stationary source.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-8411,96,hr,8411,Nuclear Powerplant Cost Assurance Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-12-03,1980-12-03,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Drinan, Robert F. [D-MA-4]",MA,D,D000499,0,"Nuclear Powerplant Cost Assurance Act of 1980 - Title I:  Standards and Estimates - Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to promulgate standards for:  (1) the management and disposal of radioactive waste and spent fuel from commercial nuclear powerplants; and (2) the decommissioning of such powerplants.  Directs the NRC to estimate the full cost of compliance with such standard for each such powerplant in operation, under construction, or for which a construction license application is pending. Title II:  Availability of Funds - Directs the NRC to publish and submit to State regulatory agencies each such cost estimate.  Requires a licensee, permittee, or applicant for a nuclear powerplant construction permit or operating license to certify to the NRC that sufficient funds for paying estimated costs will be available at the end of the useful life of such powerplant.  Prohibits charging consumers as a result of such assurance, when the powerplant is not in operation or under maintenance.  Requires notification of consumers of any additional costs incurred through compliance with this Act. Title III:  Reports - Directs the NRC to submit to Congress annaul progress reports on its compliance with this Act.",2025-09-02T13:55:11Z,
96-hr-8412,96,hr,8412,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the payment of claims resulting from a certain discharge of pentachlorophenol into the Mississippi River Gulf outlet.,Environmental Protection,1980-12-03,1980-12-03,Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.,House,"Rep. Livingston, Bob [R-LA-1]",LA,R,L000371,0,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the payment of claims resulting from a certain discharge of pentachlorophenol into the Mississippi River Gulf outlet. Authorizes appropriations up to $10,000,000 for such purpose.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
96-hr-8378,96,hr,8378,Nuclear Waste Policy Act,Environmental Protection,1980-11-21,1980-12-03,"Measure laid on table in House, S. 2189 passed in lieu.",House,"Rep. Udall, Morris K. [D-AZ-2]",AZ,D,U000001,5,"Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Title I: Disposal of Transuranic Waste, High-Level Radioactive Wastes and Spent Nuclear Fuel - Directs the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the United States Geological Survey, to issue guidelines for the recommendation of sites for repositories (any facility for the permanent disposal of transuranic waste, high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, or any combination of such wastes or fuel, whether or not such facility is designated to permit the subsequent recovery of materials placed in the repository).  Exempts such guidelines from requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Requires the Secretary, by January 1, 1982, to identify and recommend to the President at least two sites suitable for site characterization (activities to determine the potential of a site as a repository). Requires the Secretary, by February 1, 1985, to identify and recommend to the President at least two additional sites. Requires each recommendation to include a statement of the basis for the recommendation.  Directs the Secretary to notify the State Review Board of the State in which the site is located, or any Indian Tribe on whose reservation the site is located, of the recommendation.  Requires the Secretary to hold public hearings in the vicinity of any site to be recommended to the President. Requires the President to: (1) review each site recommended; (2) either approve or disapprove the recommendation within 60 days; and (3) transmit his or her decision to the Secretary and the appropriate State Review Board.  Provides that Presidential failure to approve or disapprove a site within the 60 day period (or failure to invoke authority as granted to delay the determination) shall be considered as an approval. Directs the Secretary, before sinking shafts at any site, to submit to the Commission and to the appropriate State Review Board, or Indian tribe, for their review and comment: (1) an environmental assessment; (2) a site characterization plan; and (3) proposals describing the possible form or packaging for the waste material and spent fuel which would be emplaced in the repository. Directs the Secretary to conduct tests at sites at which site characterization activities are being conducted in order to provide the necessary data for an application for a construction authorization for a repository at the site and for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Prohibits the use of any radioactive materials during site characterization tests, subject to stated exceptions. Requires the Secretary to hold public hearings if a selected site is determined to meet applicable requirements.  Requires the Secretary to submit a recommendation and a report to the President if the Secretary affirms the determination. Requires the President to submit to Congress not later than March 30, 1987, a recommendation of a site qualified for application for a license as a repository.  Requires the President, if the recommended site is disapproved by Congress, to recommend another site within a year.  Requires the Secretary, if a site designation isnot disapproved by Congress, to submit to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) a license application for the construction ofa repository at the site.  Requires the NRC to approve or disapprove the application by: (1) January 1, 1990; or (2) no later than four years after the submission of the application, whichever occurs later. Provides that a site designation shall be effective 30 days after the President recommends the site to Congress unless a State Review Board or an affected Indian tribe petitions Congress in accordance with the provisions of this Act.  Provides that unless Congress passes a resolution approving such petition the designation shall be effective. Defines ""State Review Board"" and authorizes such Board to: (1) review activities under this Act with respect to the effect any site within a State would have upon the State; (2) represent the State in any proceeding before the Commission respecting a site; and (3) submit petitions of disapproval to Congress respecting sites.  Directs the Secretary to make grants to State Review Boards. Requires the Secretary to seek to enter into a written agreement with a State Review Board and with any affected Indian tribe as soon as possible after deciding to study an area as a possible repository site. Requires this agreement to specify procedures: (1) for the State or Indian tribe to study, determine, comment on, and make recommendations regarding the repository; (2) which permit the Secretary to consider and respond to comments and recommendations made by the State Review Board and the Indian tribe; (3) by which the Secretary and either the State Review Board or the Indian tribe may periodically review or modify the agreement; and (4) for public notification of the above three subparagraphs. Directs the Secretary to provide funds to any affected Indian tribe to assist the tribe in conducting activities pursuant to this Act. Makes provisions for the judicial review of agency actions relating to site characterization, repository site designation, and construction or operation of a facility. Requires any Federal officer or agency issuing or granting a certificate, right-of-way, permit, lease, or other authorization related to the characterization, construction, or initial operation of any recommended site to issue or grant any such authorization at the earliest practicable date. Requires any repository for the disposal of high-level waste and spent fuel to be designed and constructed so that the spent fuel may be retrieved. Requires the Secretary to submit a report to Congress proposing fees to be collected to offset all construction, operation, administrative, and other costs incurred in providing for the management, interim storage, and disposal of nuclear wastes and spent fuel. Title II: Low-Level Radioactive Waste - Declares it to be the policy of the Federal Government that: (1) each State is responsible for the disposal of non-Federal low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders; and (2) non-Federal low-level radioactive waste can be most safely and efficiently managed on a regional basis.  Permits the States to enter compacts as necessary to provide for the establishment and operation of facilities for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste can be most safely and effectively managed on a regional basis. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress a report on assisting States in carrying out this policy. Directs the Secretary to investigate whether it is appropriate to fund 90 percent of the cost of cleanup of the uranium mill tailing site at Edgemont, South Dakota (which is under the control of the Tennessee Valley Authority) under the provisions of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978.  Requires that a report on the appropriate legislative recommendations and the views and recommendations of the Tennessee Valley Authority be submitted to the Congress.",2025-09-02T13:55:07Z,
96-hr-8355,96,hr,8355,Nonattainment Area Postponement Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-11-17,1980-11-17,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Watkins, Wes [D-OK-3]",OK,D,W000194,0,Nonattainment Area Postponement Act of 1980 - Amends the Clean Air Act to postpone by three years the dates required for:  (1) adoption and submission of State implementation plans for areas which have failed to attain national air quality standards; and (2) attainment of such standards. Amends the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 to make conforming amendments.,2025-09-02T13:55:10Z,
96-s-3200,96,s,3200,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to repeal the requirement that the State implementation plans provide for the periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles.,Environmental Protection,1980-11-14,1980-11-14,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye [R-CA]",CA,R,H000384,0,Amends the Clean Air Act to repeal the requirement that State implementation plans for meeting the national primary ambient air quality standard provide for periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-hr-8256,96,hr,8256,State Legislative and Administrative Procedure Protection Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-10-01,1980-10-01,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Hansen, George V. [R-ID-2]",ID,R,H000171,0,"State Legislative and Administrative Procedure Protection Act of 1980 - Requires any final rule promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency which would nullify any State law or administrative procedure to be transmitted to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives.  Prohibits such a rule from becoming effective if either House passes a resolution disapproving it within 30 days of continuous session after it is transmitted to such committees.",2025-09-02T13:55:05Z,
96-hr-8170,96,hr,8170,Integrated Environmental Assistance Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-09-19,1980-09-19,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,F000215,0,"Integrated Environmental Assistance Act of 1980 - States that the programs covered by this Act are environmental programs for which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible and which permit or require environmental programs by States, local governments, or interstate agencies under the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Noise Control Act. Authorizes the Administrator to issue regulations permitting a recipient of assistance to develop, for two or more covered programs, an integrated program plan to:  (1) increase program management efficiency and environmental effectiveness; (2) reduce program duplication and overlap; and (3) limit the transfer of such recipient's Federal and non-Federal funds to any covered program.  Directs the Administrator to assure that such plans further the objectives of this Act and the covered programs. Authorizes appropriations for supplementary assistance for fiscal years 1982-1986.  Directs the Administrator to establish criteria for such assistance, and specifies the minimum considerations for such criteria.  Prohibits additional EPA support for any activity funded by  supplementary assistance. Directs the Administrator to assure that a State's integrated program plan provides Federal or State funding to any local government given responsibility by a State under such plan.  Directs States to consult with local governments and the public in developing such plans. Sets forth administrative provisions relating to maintenance of effort and accountability for expenditures. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress with recommendations on the programs set up under this Act.",2025-09-02T13:55:05Z,
96-hr-8172,96,hr,8172,"A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to provide that coal fired stationary sources may meet emission requirements through the use of coal having low pollution characteristics, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-09-19,1980-09-19,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. McKay, K. Gunn [D-UT-1]",UT,D,M000490,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act to make the same standard of performance of allowable emissions apply to any stationary source (currently fossil fuel fired stationary sources are also required to reduce emissions if such fuels are not treated prior to combustion). Removes the requirement that a system of continuous emission reduction be technological.  Permits coal-fired stationary sources to substitute coal having low-pollution characteristics for coal having high-pollution characteristics as a means of limiting emissions. Includes the use of coal having low-pollution characteristics as the best available control technology for coal-fired stationary sources. Disapproves any State plan, if not amended, which: (1) prohibits the use of such coal to limit emissions; or (2) does not permit the reduction of any air pollutant which is attributable to the substitution of such fuel for fuel having high-pollution characteristics.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-8147,96,hr,8147,Comprehensive Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Liability and Compensation Act,Environmental Protection,1980-09-18,1980-09-18,Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Clausen, Don H. [R-CA-2]",CA,R,C000475,0,"Comprehensive Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Liability and Compensation Act - Title I:  Oil Pollution Liability, Compensation, and Fund - Declares that there is in the Treasury of the United States a fund known as the Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability Trust Fund established in title V of this Act.  Provides that, in addition to the processing and settlement of claims, the fund is immediately available to pay specified removal costs arising out of or directly resulting from an oil pollution incident.  Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations designating the person or persons who may obligate available money in the fund for such purposes. Permits claims for damages for economic loss, incurred 180 days or more after the effective date of this Act, to be asserted for:  (1) removal costs; (2) injury to, or destruction of, real or personal property; (3) injury to, or destruction of, natural resources; and (4) loss of profits or impairment of earning capacity due to injury or destruction of real or personal property or natural resources to the extent the such damages were sustained during the two-year period beginning on the date the claimant first suffered such loss.  Specifies the potential claimants who have standing to assert claims involving each such type of damage. Imposes joint, several, and strict liability on the owners and operators of each pollution source.  Specifies liability limits, except in cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct, for ships and other vessels.  Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish limits on the liability of classes of facilities used for transporting, producing, processing, storing, or transferring oil. Requires owners or operators of vessels over 300 tons (including foreign vessels) and owners or operators of offshore facilities to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility in an amount sufficient to satisfy applicable liability limits.  Permits any owner or operator of more than one vessel or offshore facility to establish financial responsibility only to meet the maximum liability of the largest of such vessels or facilities, as the case may be. Provides for the enforcement of such financial responsibility requirements. Provides that where an offshore facility is owned or operated by more than one person, evidence of financial responsibility may be established by any one of the owners or operators or in consolidated form.  Requires owners or operators of each tank motor vehicle operated on highways and transporting oil in bulk, with a water capacity more than 3,500 gallons, to establish and maintain, in accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary, evidence of financial responsibility in such amounts as the Secretary shall establish, up to $2,000,000. Specifies procedures whereby the Secretary shall designate and advertise pollution sources. Directs the Secretary to advertise claims to be presented initially to the owner or operator, or to such person's guarantor, in instances in which:  (1) the owner and operator of a vessel or facility designated by the Secretary deny such vessel's or facility's involvement; (2) the source of the discharge is a public vessel; or (3) the Secretary is unable to designate the pollution source. Permits claimants to either present a claim to the fund or to bring an action in an appropriate United States court if liability is denied or the claim is not settled within a specified period. Sets forth procedures for the disposition and appeal of claims submitted to the fund. Requires both the plaintiff and the defendant in a court action brought against an owner, operator, or guarantor to forward copies of all pleadings to the fund.  Permits the fund to intervene in such actions. Subrogates any person or government entity, including the fund, paying compensation, to all the claimant's claims and rights under this Act.  Specifies procedures for and the measure of recovery in action brought by the fund against owners, operators, or guarantors of alleged pollution sources. Grants U.S. district courts exclusive original jurisdiction over all controversies arising under this title, without regard to the citizenship of the parties or the amount in controversy. Declares that the rights and remedies under this Act shall be exclusive with respect to economic loss caused by oil pollution (but does not preclude State imposition of taxes or fees to finance the purchase and prepositioning of oil pollution cleanup and removal equipment). Sets penalties for persons failing to comply with specified provisions in this Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1980 and thereafter to carry out the provisions of this title. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to Congress on the administration of this title, with recommendations for legislative changes to improve such administration. Title II:  Effective Dates; Savings Provision; Conforming Amendments - Specifies the effective dates of specified provisions of this Act.  Amends specified laws, including the Deepwater Port Act of 1974, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Act, to conform with the provisions of this Act. Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide that the Secretary of the Army shall take any determination with respect to specified provisions apply to certain navigable waters. Repeals title III (Offshore Oil Spill Pollution Fund) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978 and provides for the transfer of such Fund's assets and liabilities to the Comprehensive Fund established by title V of this Act. Prohibits the obligation or other expenditure of any monies in the Fund for any of the administrative expenses of the Environmental Protection Agency. Title III:  Hazardous Substance Liability, Compensation, and Fund - Amends title III of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to redefine terms to conform with title I of this Act.  Defines ""supplier"" with respect to provisions of such Act relating to the collection of fees from which the hazardous chemicals fund established under this title is constituted. Amends such Act to provide that claims of damages for economic losses, incurred on or after the effective date of this Act, and arising out of or directly resulting from the discharge of oil (other than petroleum, crude oil, or any fraction or residue therefrom), or hazardous substances may be asserted for:  (1) removal costs; (2) injury to, or destruction of, real or personal property; (3) injury to, or destruction of, natural resources; and (4) loss of profits or impairment of earning capacity due to injury or destruction of real or personal property or natural resources (utilized by the claimant for activities from which 25 percent of income is derived), to the extent that such damages were sustained during the two-year period beginning on the date the claimant first suffered such loss. Permits a foreign claimant to assert such claims to the same extent as a U.S. claimant if:  (1) the discharge occurs in the navigable waters, the territorial sea, or the adjacent shoreline of a foreign country of which the claimant is a resident;  (2) the claimant is not otherwise compensated; (3) the substance was discharged from a vessel located adjacent to or within the navigable waters or discharged in connection with activities under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act or the Deepwater Port Act; and (4) the foreign country provides a comparable remedy for U.S. claimants, or recovery is authorized by a treaty or executive  government between the United States and the foreign country involved. Makes jointly, severally, and strictly liabile for all damages for which such claims may be asserted the owner and operator of a vessel, other than a public vessel, or a facility which is the source of a discharge of oil (other than petroleum, crude oil, or any fraction or residue therefrom) or a hazardous substance, or poses a threat of such a discharge in circumstances that justify the incurrence of removal costs.  Limits the amount of such liability to:  (1) $150 per gross ton, for a vessel other than a ship or an inland oil barge; (2) the greater of $150,000 or $150 per gross ton, for an inland oil barge; (3) the greater of $250,000 or $300 per gross ton (up to a maximum of $30,000,000), for a ship; (4) $50,000,000 for a deepwater port subject to the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 (including the liability of the owner or operator of such port for a discharge from a ship moored there); (5) the total of removal costs plus $50,000,000 (reduced to no less than $35,000,000 plus removal costs if the Secretary of Transportation determines that the higher limitation would have a significant adverse effect on small businesses or a significant anticompetitive impact), for an offshore facility operated under the authority of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act; or (6) $50,000,000 or a lesser limit established by the Secretary by regulation, taking into account the size, type, location, storage and landing capacity of a facility, for facilities other than deep water parts or offshore facilities subject to such Acts.  Requires that such limits be comparable to those for ships, but that the limitation for any tank motor vehicle operated on highways transporting such substances, in bulk, with a water capacity of more than 3,500 gallons be not less than $5,000,000 in any case.  Sets forth circumstances in which there is no such liability, or reduced liability. Provides that the Hazardous Substances Pollution Liability Trust Fund established under title V of this Act is liable without limitation for all damages for which a claim may be asserted under such title to the extent that the loss is not otherwise compensated. Sets forth circumstances in which such fund is not liable or is liable only for removal costs. Provides that no indemnification, hold harmless, or similar agreement shall be effective to transfer from the owner or operator of a facility to any other person the liability imposed under this title. Provides that no action, except those provided by this title, may be brought in any Federal, State, or local court for damages for an economic loss described in this title for which a claim may be asserted under this title.  Provides that no person may be required to contribute to any fund, the purpose of which is to compensate for a loss which is compensable under title V of this Act or to establish or maintain evidence of financial responsibility relating to the satisfaction of a claim for such a loss.  Declares that such restrictions shall not:  (1) preclude a State from imposing a tax or fee upon any person or the specified oil or hazardous substances to finance purchase and prepositioning of such specified substances, pollution cleanup and removal equipment; nor (2) prohibit an action by such Fund to recover compensation paid under this title. Directs the Administrator, upon receiving information of a discharge in violation of this title, to designate, where possible, the source of the discharge and notify the owners, operators, and guarantors, who are then required to advertise the designation and the procedures by which claims may be presented to them.  Directs the Administrator to so advertise, if such parties fail to do so, at their expense.  Directs the Administrator to advertise or otherwise notify potential claimants of procedures by which claims may be presented to such Fund in cases where:  (1) owner, operator, and guarantor all deny a designation within five days after notification; (2) the source of the pollution was a public vessel; or (3) the Administrator is unable to designate the source or sources. Permits claimants, if liability is denied or the claim is not settled within 60 days, to elect irrevocably to commence an action in court or to present the claim to such Fund. Allows specified claims for uncompensated damages to be presented to such Fund. Permits claimants when a claim is presented to such Fund and such Fund denies liability or does not settle the claim within 60 days, to elect irrevocably to submit the dispute to the Administrator or to commence a court action. Directs the Administrator to utilize the services of private insurance and claims adjusting organizations or State agencies, where adequate, in processing claims against the fund.  Limits the period for presentation of claims to within three years from the date of discovery of the economic loss or within six years of the date of the discharge, whichever is earlier. Provides that any person or governmental entity, including such Fund, compensating any claimant for an economic loss shall be subrogated to all rights, claims, and cause of action such claimant commence an action on behalf of such Fund for compensation paid by such Fund to any claimant. Prohibits any part of monies in such fund to be obligated or otherwise expended for any of the administrative expenses of the EPA. Declares that nothing in this Act or the amendments made by this Act shall be construed to authorize any Federal officer, employee, department, agency, or instrumentality to prohibit, control, or otherwise regulate the use of any groundwaters. Title IV - Sets forth procedures for Congressional oversight of rules or regulations promulgated or repromulgated under authority of this Act. Title V:  Environmental Revenue Act of 1980 - Environmental Revenue Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for environmental excise taxes on petroleum and certain chemicals. Imposes an excise tax (the ""petroleum tax""), for fiscal years 1981 through 1985, of 1.3 cents a barrel on:  (1) crude oil received at a U.S. refinery, to be paid by the operator; (2) petroleum products entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, to be paid by the person entering such product; and (3) any domestic crude oil used in or exported from the United States which has not been taxed under (1), to be paid by the person using or exporting such crude oil.  Exempts from such tax domestic crude oil used, on the premises where it was produced, for extracting oil or natural gas. Defines ""crude oil"" to include crude oil condensates and natural gasoline. Defines ""petroleum product"" to include crude oil. Defines ""United States"" to include: (1) the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any possession of the United States, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; (2) the Outer Continental Shelf; and (3) foreign trade zones of the United States. Provides that only one such petroleum tax shall be imposed on any petroleum product. Imposes an excise tax on certain chemicals, for fiscal years 1981 through 1985, of $1.18 a ton on specified petrochemical feedstocks and 31 cents a ton on specified inorganic substances, when sold or used by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof.  Provides for a refund or credit if a taxable chemical was used in the manufacture of production of any other taxable chemical. Provides that any substance listed as a ""specified petrochemical feedstock"" for which a principal use is used as a fuel shall be treated as a ""specified petrochemical feedstock"" only if it is used other than as a fuel (and, for purposes of the excise tax on certain chemicals, the person so using it shall be treated as the manufacturer thereof). Establishes the Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability Trust Fund in the Treasury of the United States.  Transfers to such fund amounts determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be equivalent to:  (1) the amounts received in the Treasury under the petroleum excise tax under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended by this title; (2) the amounts recovered or collected on behalf of such fund under title I of this Act; and (3) any penalties imposed under title I of this Act or under oil and hazardous substances liability provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which relate to petroleum oils.  Makes amounts in such fund available only to pay claims for compensable damages recognizable under title I of this Act (including costs incurred by the United States by reason of such claims). Establishes the Hazardous Substance Pollution Liability Trust Fund in the Treasury of the United States.  Transfers to such fund amounts determined by the Secretary to be equivalent to:  (1) the amounts received in the Treasury under the chemical excise tax of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended by this title; (2) the amounts recovered or collected on behalf of such fund under oil and hazardous substances liability provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; and (3) any penalties imposed under such provisions of such Act insofar as these relate to substances other than petroleum oils.  Makes amounts in such fund available only to pay claims for compensable damages recognizable under such provisions of such Act (including costs incurred by the United States by reason of such claims). Defines ""compensable damages"" as damages asserted for:  (1) removal costs; (2) injury to, or destruction of, real or personal property; (3) injury to, or destruction of, natural resources; and (4) loss of profits or impairment of earning capacity due to injury to, or destruction of, real or personal property or natural resources, but only (a) if gross income from activity which utilize such property or natural resource for the taxable year during which such loss first occurs is more than 25 percent of total gross income from all sources for specified periods and (b) to the extent that such damages were sustained during the two-year period beginning on the day when such loss of opportunity was first suffered. Restricts interest payable out of both such trust funds.  Provides for certain interfund loans, under specified conditions, including the maintenance of a minimum balance of $30,000,000 in the lending fund.  Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to consult with the Secretary of Transportation, in the case of the Oil Pollution Trust Fund, and with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in the case of the Hazardous Substance Trust Fund, concerning such interfund loans. Limits payment of claims by such funds by requiring a minimum balance of $30,000,000 in each fund, with claims to be paid in the order in which they were finally determined. Limits U.S. liability for payment of claims under this Act to the amounts in the trust funds established under this title.  Prohibits such trust funds from borrowing any money from the general fund of the Treasury, other than a first year authorization of appropriations to each trust fund, as repayable advances, of necessary sums up to $75,000,000 for each, until September 30, 1981. Sets forth administrative provisions for such trust funds, including method of transfer, management, and investment. Coordinates this title with other provisions in this Act.  Provides that nothing in this Act other than this title shall authorize:  (1) the establishment of any fund; (2) the payment out of any Trust Fund created by this title; (3) the levy or collection of any fee; or (4) the imposition of any requirement with respect to the procedure applicable to rules and regulations prescribed under this title. Provides that, to the extent not inconsistent with this title:  (1) any reference in titles I and II of this Act to a fund shall be deemed to refer to the Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability Trust Fund established by this title; and (2) any reference in title III of this Act to a fund shall be deemed to refer to the Hazardous Substance Pollution Liability Trust Fund established by this title. Provides that, if the balance in any fund is to be transferred to any Trust Fund established by this title, then any claim arising before October 1, 1980, which would have been payable out of the other fund shall be payable out of such Trust Fund. Provides that if the Secretary of the Treasury determines that there is:  (1) a Trans-Alaska Pipeline (TAP) Liability Fund surplus, then the amount of such surplus shall be treated as an advance payment of the petroleum excise tax on crude oil first transported through the TAP after the date of such determination; or (2) a TAP fund deficit, then the petroleum excise tax on such crude oil shall be increased by two cents per barrel until the total amount of such increased tax equals such deficit. Bases such TAP fund surplus or deficit on whether the amount transferred to the Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability Trust Fund from the TAP Liability Fund is greater or lesser than the total amount of claims which the Secretary of the Interior certifies as outstanding against the TAP Liability Fund at the time of such transfer. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to conduct a study: (1) on the feasibility of (a) taxes based on the frequency of hazardous substances pollution and on the resulting degree of harm to the environment and (b) adjustments in the amount of taxes on different modes of transportation to reflect different risks of pollution; (2) on an exemption from the chemical excise taxes for feedstocks when used as a fuel; and (3) on the impact of the petroleum and chemical excise taxes on the U.S. balance of trade.  Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to submit a report on the results of such study, with recommendations, to the Congress by January 1, 1985.",2025-09-02T13:55:06Z,
96-hr-8160,96,hr,8160,A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to permit small communities to comply with certain notice provisions by an appropriate means other than through publication in a newspaper of general circulation.,Environmental Protection,1980-09-18,1980-09-18,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Fisher, Joesph L. [D-VA-10]",VA,D,F000151,0,"Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency to permit small community-operated public water systems to give notice, in lieu of publication in a newspaper of general circulation, in another appropriate manner, if a system does not meet contaminant level requirements.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-8119,96,hr,8119,A bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to undertake a study to determine the effects of certain past ocean dumping of radioactive wastes.,Environmental Protection,1980-09-16,1980-09-16,Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.,House,"Rep. Anderson, Glenn M. [D-CA-32]",CA,D,A000189,3,"Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to require the Secretary of Commerce to conduct and submit to Congress a study on the effects of radioactive waste disposal in ocean waters from 1946 to 1970 on: (1) benthic and other marine life; and (2) human health as a result of radioactive contamination of marine life in the food chain. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out such study, to locate and survey specified radioactive waste disposal sites in ocean waters.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
96-hr-8117,96,hr,8117,"A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-09-15,1980-12-05,Public Law 96-502.,House,"Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-24]",CA,D,W000215,24,"(Measure passed House, amended)  Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to extend by three years the date by which public water systems which have been granted an exemption from contaminant level and treatment technique requirements must meet such requirements.   Provides an alternative procedure by which a State with an underground injection control program relating to oil or natural gas production or recovery may receive approval for obtaining primary enforcement responsibility for protecting its underground water sources.  Authorizes a State to demonstrate that its underground injection control program meets the minimum requirements of State program regulations and will prevent underground injection which endangers drinking water sources, rather than file an application which meets the regulations established by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection AGency.   Authorizes a State which has made such a demonstration to make a similar demonstration with respect to any amended requirement of underground injection rather than file a notice that the State program meets the new requirement.   Prohibits the application of requirements to determine whether a State retains primary enforcement responsibility if the State initially acquired the responsibility because of such a demonstration.  Authorizes the Administrator to determine, after an opportunity for public hearing, that such a demonstration is no longer valid and to remove primary enforcement responsibility from the State.   Permits a State which has primary enforcement responsibility to exempt a public water system from a contaminant level or treatment technique requirement if the system was not in operation at the time the requirement took effect and no reasonable alternative source of drinking water is available.   Prohibits underground water source protection grants to any State which has not assumed primary enforcement responsibility within a specified time.   Directs the Administrator to make grants to a public water system which is required to meet more stringent standards relating to drinking water turbidity than the standards of the Act.  Requires that such grants be used for the development and demonstration of any water filtration system which will demonstrate a new or improved method of meeting such more stringent standards.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-hr-8101,96,hr,8101,Hazardous Waste Containment Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-09-10,1980-09-10,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Stockman, David A. [R-MI-4]",MI,R,S000935,0,"Hazardous Waste Containment Act of 1980 - States that nothing in this Act shall apply to oil, or other, pollution of navigable waters. Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize a State to submit to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency a plan which includes: (1) an investigation of inactive hazardous waste sites (any site or facility at which hazardous waste is, or has been, stored, treated, or disposed of); (2) an evaluation of any threat to public health and safety from such sites; (3) cleanup and containment priorities for such sites; (4) remedial measures for the release of hazardous waste from such sites; (5) the roles of the Federal, State, and local governments and other entities in implementing such plan; and (6) a program for the recovery from the liable parties of costs incurred in the cleanup and containment of such sites. Directs the Administrator to approve such plan, including any subsequent modifications, unless it fails to comply with this Act or it would not be cost-effective.  Makes a State with an approved plan eligible for grants to implement such plan unless the Administrator determines that such State is not implementing such plan in good faith or has misapplied prior grants under this Act.  Directs the Administrator to allocate such grants among eligible States on the basis of population and industrial production. Directs the Administrator to promulgate guidelines for making supplemental grants to eligible States.  Requires that such grants be made only in emergency situations or to States which have a disproportionate number of inactive hazardous waste sites which pose substantial threats to public health or safety. Directs the Administrator to undertake a research program on hazardous waste management and provide training and technical assistance to States engaged in such management. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to State attorneys general to provide up to 50 percent of the costs of training and technical assistance for State employees engaged in recovering the costs of remedial actions taken by the State at inactive hazardous waste sites from the liable parties. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981-1985 to carry out this Act.",2025-09-02T13:55:05Z,
96-hr-8104,96,hr,8104,Toxic Chemical and Hazardous Waste Research and Development Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-09-10,1980-09-10,Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.,House,"Rep. Wydler, John W. [R-NY-5]",NY,R,W000780,0,"Toxic Chemical and Hazardous Waste Research and Development Act of 1980 - Amends the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct and promote the coordination of research relating to dumpsites which contain toxic chemical or hazardous wastes sufficient to present a clear danger to public health. Requires the Administrator's management program which coordinates research, development, and demonstration of new technologies to include toxic chemical and hazardous waste research, development, and demonstrations. Directs the Administrator to establish an Office of Remedial Research to undertake a comprehensive study of and report on dumpsites in the United States which contain significant volumes of toxic chemical and hazardous wastes. Requires the report to include:  (1) a detailed enumeration of all dumpsites which contain toxic chemical or hazardous waste sufficient to present a clear danger to public health and which were closed before October 30, 1976; (2) an assessment of the technology applied to the disposal of such waste; (3) recommendations as to what technology should be used to clean up the enumerated dumpsites; (4) a description of problems at specific dumpsites requiring research and development for their resolution; (5) a plan for research, development, and demonstration respecting the findings of the study; and (6) legislative recommendations resulting from the study. Directs the Administrator to provide to the appropriate Congressional committees a complete statement of the enumerated dumpsites by April 1, 1982, and to complete the research studies and report by October 1, 1982. Creates an independent Toxic Chemical and Hazardous Waste Advisory Board to review the findings and recommendations in the report. Makes February 1, 1983, the deadline for submission to Congress of both the Administrator's report and the Advisory Board's review of such report. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to carry out the work of the Office of Remedial Research and the Advisory Board. Directs the Administrator to include information on toxic chemical hazardous waste management in the program for the rapid dissemination of information on improved solid waste management practices.",2025-09-02T13:55:00Z,
96-s-3062,96,s,3062,Senior Citizens Environmental Monitoring Act,Environmental Protection,1980-08-25,1980-08-25,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Culver, John C. [D-IA]",IA,D,C000979,0,"Senior Citizens Environmental Monitoring Act - Amends the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Public Health Service Act, and the Toxic Substances Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide opportunities for senior citizens and persons eligible for participation under the Older Americans Act to participate to the maximum degree possible in the regulatory or technical assistance programs conducted or assisted under such Acts.",2025-09-02T13:57:01Z,
96-s-3046,96,s,3046,"A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to extend the period for which variances may be provided in the case of contaminant level and treatment technique requirements of national primary drinking water regulations, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-08-20,1980-08-20,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Percy, Charles H. [R-IL]",IL,R,P000222,3,"Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to replace specified references to ""exemptions"" with references to ""interim variances"" and to replace a reference to ""exempt public water systems"" with a reference to ""public water systems granted interim variances."" Permits State-prescribed public water system schedules to require compliance with less stringent contaminant levels or treatment techniques during a period of interim variance.  Mandates that such schedules require final compliance with each contaminant level and treatment technique requirement for which such interim variance was granted by a specified date.  Sets such date at:  (1) the later of January 1, 1988, or seven years after such requirement takes effect; or (2) in cases where the public water system has entered into an enforceable agreement to become part of a regional public water system, the later of January 1, 1992, or nine years after such requirement takes effect. Permits a State with primary enforcement responsibility to determine that the best technology, treatment techniques, or other means need not be constructed and in place before a variance may be granted.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-hconres-393,96,hconres,393,"A concurrent resolution extending to the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, the appreciation of the Congress on the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the Agency.",Environmental Protection,1980-07-28,1980-09-30,Measure passed Senate.,House,"Rep. Foley, Thomas S. [D-WA-5]",WA,D,F000239,8,"Recognizes the year 1980 as the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture.  Extends congressional tributes to that agency.",2025-01-14T16:41:20Z,
96-hr-7852,96,hr,7852,Noise Abatement Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-07-28,1980-07-28,Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.,House,"Rep. Porter, John Edward [R-IL-10]",IL,R,P000444,0,"Noise Abatement Act of 1980 - Repeals specified provisions of the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 1979 concerning exemptions for aircraft from certain aviation noise standards. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to determine and establish for specified aircraft the lowest noise level which could be achieved by retrofitting such aircraft.  Prohibits, on and after January 1, 1983, domestic operation of aircraft that do not comply with such noise standards.  Directs that, on and after January 1, 1982, specified aircraft that are operated in air transportation by an air carrier or a foreign air carrier shall be in compliance with such noise standards. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to aircraft owners for retrofitting such aircraft. Authorizes appropriations from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for fiscal year 1981 and beyond.",2025-09-02T13:54:55Z,
96-hr-7833,96,hr,7833,Used Oil Recycling Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-07-25,1980-07-25,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,F000215,28,"Used Oil Recycling Act of 1980 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require lubricating oil to be labeled with a statement concerning the recycling of used oil.  Requires re-refined oil used as lubricating oil to bear a label stating that such oil is a recycled product. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to States with solid waste plans to encourage the use of recycled oil, prohibit hazardous uses of used oil, and establish a program for the collection and disposal of oil in a safe manner.  Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance to States in removing impediments to the recycling of used oil. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations protecting the public health and environment from the hazards of burning used oil.  Requires the Administrator to determine and report to Congress on whether used oil ought to be treated as a hazardous waste. Directs the Administrator to study the collection and demand in the used oil industry, and energy savings associated with re-refining used oil.",2025-09-02T13:54:54Z,
96-s-2970,96,s,2970,A bill to amend section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to restrict the jurisdiction of the United States over the discharge of dredged or fill material to discharges into waters which are navigable and for other purposes.,Environmental Protection,1980-07-25,1980-07-25,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Tower, John G. [R-TX]",TX,R,T000322,3,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct (formerly authorized) the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to issue permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters at a disposal site or sites specified by the applicant (formerly specified by the Secretary), unless the Secretary determines that such site cannot be specified through the application of certain guidelines or other considerations. Limits the definition of ""navigable waters"" for purposes of such permits to mean all waters which are presently used, or are susceptible to use in their natural condition or by reasonable improvement as a means to transport interstate or foreign commerce shoreward to their ordinary high water mark, including all waters which are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide shoreward to their mean high water mark. Declares that the discharge of dredged or fill material in waters other than navigable waters (as limited by such definition) is not prohibited by or otherwise subject to regulation under any Act of Congress. Repeals provisions relating to State programs of permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material into other types of navigable waters. Eliminates the qualifying phrase ""to the maximum extent practicable"" in the requirement that specified agreements between Federal agencies assure that decisions on permit applications be made within 90 days of published notice.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-s-2980,96,s,2980,National Nuclear Waste Regulation and Control Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-07-25,1980-07-25,Placed on calendar in Senate.,Senate,"Sen. Hart, Gary W. [D-CO]",CO,D,H000287,0,"National Nuclear Waste Regulation and Control Act of 1980 - Amends the Energy Act of 1974 to extend the licensing and related regulatory authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over specified facilities of the Energy Research and Development Administration to include:  (1) facilities used primarily for the receipt and storage or disposal of transuranic waste or low-level radioactive waste (currently only high-level wastes) resulting from activities licensed under such Act;   and (2) retrievable surface facilities and other facilities authorized for the purpose of long-term storage or disposal of transuranic wastes or nondefense low-level radioactive wastes (currently only high-level wastes) generated by the Administration, which are not used for, or part of, research and development activities. Requires that the Commission, prior to the issuance of any such construction authorization, license, or license amendment, determine that:  (1) such issuance would (a) present no unreasonable risk to public health and safety and not be inimical to the common defense and security and (b) be consistent with all applicable environmental standards promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to authority under existing law; and (2) such facility incorporates multiple barrier design. Directs the Secretary of Energy and the Commission to establish a pilot program for auditing selected nuclear waste storage facilities of the Department of Energy, that are not subject to the Commission's licensing and related regulatory authority under such Act, to determine whether there is a need to grant the Commission authority over such facilities.  Directs the Secretary of Energy and the Commission to:  (1) submit to the Congress a memorandum of understanding delineating their respective responsibilities for conducting such program; (2) select the facilities to be included in such program; and (3) submit reports and written assessments to Congress.  Authorizes the President to order the immediate suspension of any activity of the Department or the Commission under such program upon determination that such activity will jeopardize the common defense and security.  Directs the President to transmit such order, with reasons and recommendations, to Congress within 15 days.  Provides that such order remain in effect in the absence of timely adoption of a joint resolution of disapproval by the Congress. Directs the Commission to require submission of: (1) a site characterization plan, including alternative media and sites, in advance of approving the characterization of any individual site for a geologic storage or disposal facility under specified provisions of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974; and (2) at least four site characterization reports for sites at different locations and in at least three different geologic media by the Secretary, in consultation with the U.S. Geological Survey, prior to consideration of an application for authorization to construct such a facility, in order for the Commission to discharge its responsibility under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Directs the EPA Administrator to promulgate standards for offsite releases of radioactivity from facilities for the long-term geologic storage or geologic disposal of high-level radioactive waste and transuranic waste. Directs the Commission to promulgate technical criteria for review of applications for geologic disposal facility:  (1) construction authorizations; (2) licenses to emplace radioactive waste; and (3) license amendments for decommissioning.  Directs the Secretary to submit to the Commission at least four site characterizations (by 1985) and an application (by 1989) for authorization to construct a geologic disposal facility. Directs the Commission to act on such application by 1993.  Directs the Secretary to submit to the Commission, by 1998, an application for a license to emplace radioactive wastes in any such facility for which the Commission has authorized construction.  Directs the Commission to act on such application by the year 2000. Directs the President to submit annual reports to the Congress on the status of the National Nuclear Waste Management Program and on the measures being taken to meet the national schedule outlined above.  Directs any responsible agency or official or the Secretary to immediately notify the President upon determination that specified requirements will not be met by the date specified. Directs the President to promptly submit to the Congress a report:  (1) on why such requirements will not be met;  (2) on whether Congress should prohibit additional nuclear powerplant construction permits and operating licenses in light of such failure to meet requirements;  and (3) on the impact of such failure on meeting subsequent requirements.  Directs specified committees of Congress to submit reports and recommendations within 60 days of receiving the President's report and recommendations.  Prohibits the Commission from issuing a construction permit or an operating license for any nuclear powerplant until after it issues a license for emplacement of radioactive wastes in a geologic disposal facility if, by the year 2000, it has not issued such an emplacement license. Directs the Secretary to:  (1) identify the States in which potentially acceptable sites for a facility for the geologic storage or disposal, including test disposal, of high-level or transuranic wastes; and (2) notify the Governor, the State legislature, and the Tribal Council of any affected Indian tribe in such States.  Grants each such State and affected Indian tribe the right to concur or not concur, based on legitimate public health and safety or environmental concerns, in all stages of facility planning, siting, development, construction, and operation.  Directs the Secretary to enter into negotiations with each such State and affected Indian tribe to establish formal arrangements under which such right may be exercised. Provides for public participation in such negotiations.  Directs the Secretary to submit such arrangements for Presidential and Congressional review and approval.  Prohibits the Secretary from proceeding beyond site exploration before a formal agreement with the State and any affected Indian tribe has been entered into.  Provides for reports on the status of negotiations and of approved arrangements. Requires that any program establishing a federally owned and operated system for the interim storage of spent fuel at away-from-reactor facilities be consistent with the policy of:  (1) minimizing the need for such facilities by encouraging and assisting the storage of spent fuel at nuclear powerplant sites; (2) accepting Federal custody of spent fuel only if there is reasonable expectation of timely and adequate storage capacity at the powerplant site; and (3) assuring full cost recovery by the Federal Government for construction and operation of Federal away-from-reactor storage facilities. Prohibits the Secretary from contracting for such a Federal away-from-reactor storage facility without express provision for the powerplant owner and operator:  (1) retaining title to the spent fuel; and (2) bearing full financial responsibility for such person's share of the cost of Federal storage. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into any obligation to construct or acquire such a storage facility until the President has submitted a proposal to construct or acquire the facility to the Congress and a period of 60 days of continuous session has elapsed without the passage of a concurrent resolution disapproving the President's proposal.  Prohibits the Secretary from entering into any obligation to acquire an existing facility to provide away-from-reactor spent fuel storage, if such acquisition is not limited to actual spent fuel storage facilities needed for an away-from-reactor facility, unless the Secretary specifically determines that the acquisition of such storage facilities only is not practicable.  Prohibits the use of such an acquired facility for any purpose other than away-from-reactor storage of spent fuel unless such use is expressly authorized by law. Requires that a detailed statement, with specified inclusions, accompany any proposal by the President to construct or acquire an away-from-reactor spent fuel storage facility. Prohibits the Secretary from contracting with a person owning or operating a nuclear powerplant to provide interim storage of spent fuel unless such powerplant has been identified by the Secretary, with the concurrence of the Commission, in the President's statement or through an expedited review procedure, as being one for which there is no reasonable expectation of timely and adequate capacity for onsite storage of spent fuel.  Waives such requirement of concurrence if the Commission fails to act within 45 days of receipt of such determination by the Secretary. Conditions the issuance of a license for any nuclear powerplant for which an application for a construction permit has not been filed by June 1, 1980, upon the provision by such powerplant of adequate onsite storage capacity for the spent fuel to be generated over such powerplant's useful life or until such time as the Commission determines that a specified repository for the long-term geologic storage or geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste and transuranic waste will be in operation. Allows persons filing an application for a license to construct and operate an independent spent fuel storage installation at the site of a nuclear powerplant to petition the Commission for authorization to begin construction prior to, or before the completion of, any required hearing.  Requires that such petitions be accompanied by affidavits setting forth facts establishing that:  (1) there is a reasonable expectation that denial will prevent the provision of timely and adequate onsite spent fuel storage; and (2) the capacity of existing onsite spent fuel storage facilities has been expanded to the maximum extent practicable.  Directs the Commission to grant such petitions if the petitioner has established such facts and if there is a reasonable expectation that: (1) the requirements (other than that of a prior hearing) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Commission rules and regulations, and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 will be met; and (2) the design, construction, and operation of such independent fuel storage installation, as described and analyzed in the license application, will present no significant risk to the public health and safety and the environment.  Prohibits the Commissioner from granting such petitions after January 1, 1991. Sets forth congressional review procedures for specified orders and arrangements under this Act.",2025-09-02T13:57:01Z,
96-s-2933,96,s,2933,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide funds for metropolitan areas which require additional funds for sewage treatment programs.,Environmental Protection,1980-07-02,1980-07-02,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Nelson, Gaylord [D-WI]",WI,D,N000033,0,Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to any municipality or intermunicipal or interstate agency for the construction of publicly owned treatment works. Requires 90 percent of the amount appropriated for such grants each fiscal year to be awarded to those eligible municipalities and intermunicipal or interstate agencies which have demonstrated an ability to utilize grants made under such Act in an effective and timely manner and to award ten percent of such funds to those eligible municipalities and intermunicipal or interstate agencies which are under court orders to complete construction of treatment works.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-s-2934,96,s,2934,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide additional funds for metropolitan areas which are under court order to construct treatment works.,Environmental Protection,1980-07-02,1980-07-02,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Nelson, Gaylord [D-WI]",WI,D,N000033,1,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to any municipality or intermunicipal or interstate agency, either directly or through the appropriate State if so requested by the State, for the construction of publicly owned treatment works which:  (1) are required to be constructed under the provisions of a court order; (2) serve an area which constitutes, or is part of, a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area; and (3) are estimated to cost in excess of $250,000,000 in order to meet court-ordered requirements. Requires such grants to be equal to 75 percent of the costs of construction.  Prohibits such grant from being made unless each such State upon whose priority list such project appears has expended or obligated at least 25 percent of its allotment for such fiscal year for such project. Requires the Administrator to establish a timetable for making such grants so as to best provide for compliance with the court-ordered timetable for construction of the required treatment works.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-hr-7717,96,hr,7717,National Ground Water Environmental Research Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-07-01,1980-07-01,Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.,House,"Rep. Ambro, Jerome A. [D-NY-3]",NY,D,A000170,14,"National Ground water Environmental Research Act of 1980 - Title I:  Ground Water Research and Planning - Directs the President to establish a Commission on Ground Water Research to develop guidelines and coordinate research by the States on identification of major freshwater aquifers in the United States and the extent of ground water pollution.  Directs the Commission to make grants to States to conduct the freshwater aquifer research program. Requires the Commission to develop a comprehensive research plan for the prevention of ground water pollution. Authorizes the Commission to provide Federal, State, and local governments with technical advice on the protection of ground water from pollution. Directs the Commission to submit to Congress an annual report with recommendations for legislation on the protection of ground water from pollution. Title II:  Institute for Research on Drinking Water Technology - Establishes an Institute for Research on Drinking Water Technology to conduct research and development on purification of drinking water.  Stipulates that the Institute shall not conduct research on the health effects of drinking water. Sets forth the authorities of the Institute. Establishes an initial board of directors composed of Federal, State, and local officials and private water supply utilities officials appointed by the President. Authorizes the Institute to:  (1) make research and development grants to institutions of higher education;  (2) work with other agencies, institutions, and States in carrying out its functions under this title;  and (3) assess and collect voluntary contributions from participating water supply agencies.  Prohibits the Institute from engaging in lobbying activities. Sets forth the criteria for the operation of the Institute, including:  (1) a location at or near a related laboratory or university;  (2) establishment of a program for visiting researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and other scholars;  and (3) the requirement that the bulk of the Institute's programs be conducted directly by the Institute and not be contract. Directs the Institute to:  (1) develop new drinking water treatment and monitoring technologies;  (2) improve existing drinking water treatment and monitoring technologies; (3) cooperate with research programs conducted under Title I of this Act and by participating water supply agencies;  (4) publish archival and review articles;  and (5) publish an annual progress report. Directs the Institute to establish a technology transfer program with water supply agencies.  Requires the Institute to publish the results of a formal evaluation of such program.",2025-09-02T13:54:54Z,
96-sconres-105,96,sconres,105,"A concurrent resolution recognizing 1980 as the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.",Environmental Protection,1980-06-30,1980-06-30,Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Melcher, John [D-MT]",MT,D,M000635,0,"Recognizes the year 1980 as the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture.  Extends congressional tributes to that agency.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
96-sjres-187,96,sjres,187,"A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to designate the week of July 20, through July 26, 1980, as ""National Environmental Health Week"".",Environmental Protection,1980-06-25,1980-06-25,Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Nunn, Sam [D-GA]",GA,D,N000171,1,"Designates the week beginning July 20 through July 26, 1980, as ""National Environmental Health Week.""",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
96-sjres-188,96,sjres,188,An original joint resolution extending the reporting date of the National Commission on Air Quality.,Environmental Protection,1980-06-25,1980-07-02,Public Law 96-300.,Senate,"Sen. Randolph, Jennings [D-WV]",WV,D,R000046,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act to eliminate provisions relating to certain interim reporting dates for the National Commission on Air Quality. Extends the final reporting date for all Commission studies, investigations, and recommendations until March 1, 1981. Terminates the Commission:  (1) on March 1, 1981, if the report is not submitted on March 1, 1981;  or (2) on such date (but not later than May 1, 1981) as the Commission determines by order, if the report is submitted on March 1, 1981. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Declares that nothing in any other authority of law shall be construed to authorize or permit the extension of the National Commission on Air Quality pursuant to any Executive order or other Executive or agency action.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-s-2872,96,s,2872,A bill to amend  the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for reimbursement of state expenditures under the construction grant program.,Environmental Protection,1980-06-24,1980-06-24,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,1,Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to revise the conditions under which there may be reimbursement of the Federal share of water treatment works construction costs expended by State and local governments without the aid of previously allotted Federal funds.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-hr-7634,96,hr,7634,"A bill to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to noncompliance penalties, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-06-20,1980-06-20,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Benjamin, Adam, Jr. [D-IN-1]",IN,D,B000363,4,Amends the Clean Air Act to revise the formula for determining the amount of any noncompliance penalty. Eliminates a specified minimum amount for such penalties.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-7537,96,hr,7537,"A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide for financial assistance to municipalities for the closing of open dumps under the Solid Waste Disposal Act and for the construction and operation of sanitary landfills in compliance with the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-06-10,1980-06-10,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Mitchell, Donald J. [R-NY-31]",NY,R,M000808,0,Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide assistance to municipalities to be used for the closing of open dumps (in accordance with specified requirements relating to the upgrading of open dumps and to plan provisions for such upgrading) and for the construction of sanitary landfills which meet specified criteria.  Requires applicants for such financial assistance to comply with specified provisions of such Act.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-7508,96,hr,7508,A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to exempt rural communities from the prohibition on open dumping of solid waste.,Environmental Protection,1980-06-05,1980-06-05,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Marlenee, Ron [R-MT-2]",MT,R,M000139,0,"Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to exempt municipalities with a population of 5,000 or less, or counties with a population of 10,000 or less, or less than 20 persons per square mile and not within a metropolitan area, from specified prohibitions against open dumping of solid waste.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-7465,96,hr,7465,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to encourage owners of coal-fired power plants to utilize new technologies for pollution control and to establish an emissions charges and rebate plan.,Environmental Protection,1980-05-29,1980-05-29,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Pease, Donald J. [D-OH-13]",OH,D,P000170,0,"Title I:  New Emission Control Technology - Amends the Clean Air Act to allow persons proposing to own or operate coal-fired powerplants to request from the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency one or more waivers of specified air pollution control requirements for such plant or any portion thereof to encourage the use of an innovative technological system or systems of continuous emission reduction. Authorizes the Administrator with the consent of the Governor of the State in which the plant is to be located, to grant such waivers, if the Administrator determines, after notice and opportunity for public hearing, that: (1) the proposed systems have not been adequately demonstrated, will operate effectively, and are reasonably likely to achieve, in comparison with what is required to be achieved by presently available technology under otherwise applicable standards of performance and best available control technology, either significantly greater continuous emission reduction or significantly lower cost with the same or greater continuous emission reduction; (2) the owner or operator of the proposed plant has demonstrated that plant emissions will not prevent attainment and maintenance of any national ambient air quality standards or violate specified requirements, increments, or ceilings; and (3) the number of waivers necessary to ascertain whether a proposed technological system will achieve specified conditions will not be exceeded by the granting of the waiver in question.  Sets forth considerations to be taken account of by the Administrator making such determinations.  Authorizes the Administrator to conduct tests or to require tests and reports to be made by the owner or operator.  Requires the owner or operator to make prompt reports of the emission of any unregulated pollutant from a system if such pollutant was not emitted, or was emitted in significantly lesser amounts without the use of such system. Sets forth terms and conditions on which, and time periods for which, such waivers shall be granted. Provides for waivers (with a minimum level of continuous emission reduction) to be continued and charges to be assessed in cases where a system has failed to achieve the required level of continuous emission reduction and correction is impracticable.  Sets forth formulas to determine such charges.  Prohibits any charge being imposed which requires the owner or operator to pay, together with costs of operation and construction, higher costs because of use of innovative rather than existing technology. Title II:  Emissions Charges and Rebate Plan - Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and implement, in selected air quality control regions, plans which will assess the effectiveness of using economic incentives to achieve national primary or secondary ambient air quality standards in regions where such standards are not being achieved. Requires that each plan:  (1) be developed under regulations promulgated by the Administrator after notice and opportunity for public hearing within the region covered by the plan; (2) be implemented only if each State involved approves; and (3) supercede inconsistent provisions of State implementation plans. Prohibits the Administrator from approving a plan which is not designed to bring about compliance with the ambient air quality standards in the region for the pollutants which are the subject of the plan and which does not specify an overall emission reduction schedule respecting such pollutants.  Prohibits approval of any plan before January 1, 1981. Requires that each plan:  (1) apply to a particular industry or industries or sources responsible for a particular pollutant; (2) specify an initial fee to be paid by the owner or operator of each source covered by the plan to be assessed per unit of emissions; (3) establish a year-to-year overall emission reduction schedule for all plan participants; (4) provide for automatic annual percentage increases (to be adjusted, if necessary by the Administrator) in fees if actual emissions exceed scheduled emissions; and (5) be annually reviewed by the Administrator to ascertain whether the emission reduction schedule is sufficient to achieve national primary or secondary ambient air quality standards not later  than the date provided under such Act. Requires that regulations for plan development provide for fee imposition and rebate payment annually according to a schedule prescribed by the Administrator to encourage plan compliance as rapidly as practicable.  Requires that the aggregate amount of rebates paid from the revolving fund for any calendar year to plan participants equal the aggregate amount of fees paid into the fund during the calendar year by all plan participants. Sets forth:  (1) a formula for determination of the amount of rebate paid to each participant; and (2) requirements for monitoring and reporting of emissions; and (3) nonpayment penalties of 20 percent of the aggregate amount of fee owed, plus interest. Establishes a revolving fund in the Treasury to which fees shall be paid and from which rebates shall be made. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Authorizes the Administrator to commence civil actions to recover fees, interest, or nonpayment penalties for which any person is liable under this Act.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-7415,96,hr,7415,Victims of Toxic and Hazardous Substances Emergency Relief Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-05-21,1980-05-21,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Holtzman, Elizabeth [D-NY-16]",NY,D,H000752,16,"Victims of Toxic and Hazardous Substances Emergency Relief Act of 1980 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: (1) to determine promptly, but in no event later than 15 days, whether toxic or hazardous wastes pose a serious and immediate threat to the public health or safety, whenever the Administrator receives evidence that such wastes may pose a threat to the public;  and (2) to submit to the President a recommendation that a state of hazardous substances emergency be declared, if the Administrator determines that such wastes pose such threat.  Authorizes the President, in the President's discretion and upon recommendation of the Administrator, to declare a state of hazardous substances emergency with such amendments and deletions to the Administrator's recommendations as the President sees fit. Directs the Administrator:  (1) after such state of emergency has been declared, to forward recommendations for immediate actions to protect the public health and safety to the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency;  and (2) thereafter, to act promptly to (a) determine the extent of the contamination of air, land, and water (including ground water), and (b) screen and test the population likely to have been exposed to such wastes in a manner or degree capable of causing physical injury (including any poisoning, burn, infection, chromosomal damage, or genetic defect); (c) study crops and livestock in the affected area and identify those unfit for human consumption;  and (d) evaluate alternatives to prevent further damage to human life or health. Directs the Administrator to submit initial and supplemental reports and recommendations at specified times to the Director. Requires the Director, on the basis of such reports and recommendations and other relevant information, to undertake promptly, during the first 12 months following the declaration of a state of emergency, actions necessary to protect public health and safety, including:  (1) immediate relocation of the physically injured or those in serious danger;  (2) permanent closing of contaminated structures and property;  (3) purchase, at prior fair market value, of homes closed; (4) medical treatment to reverse, treat, or prevent physical injury or reimbursement for such treatment; (5) compensatory payments for residents whose income is interrupted due to the toxic or hazardous wastes;  and (6) commencement of a screening program for early detection of future physical injury resulting from exposure to such wastes. Subrogates the United States to the rights of any individual compensated under this Act, to the extent that such individual has a cause of action against a person who has disposed of a toxic or hazardous substance and such disposal has resulted in a state of hazardous substances emergency. Requires that the emergency state be terminated 12 months after it is declared or upon the President's declaration of termination. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.",2025-09-02T13:54:45Z,
96-hr-7418,96,hr,7418,"Nuclear Waste Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1980",Environmental Protection,1980-05-21,1980-09-04,"Reported to House from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, H. Rept. 96-1156 (Part IV).",House,"Rep. McCormack, Mike [D-WA-4]",WA,D,M000365,29,"(Reported to House from Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 96-1156 (Part III))  Nuclear Waste, Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Energy, within 60 days of the enactment of this Act, to establish a research, development, and demonstration program for the disposal of high level radioactive waste (spent nuclear fuel and the highly radioactive wastes resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, including liquid wastes and dry solid material derived from such liquid waste).   Requires the Secretary to identify four potential repository sites located in different geologic media, and to the extent practicable, in different regions of the continental United States.  Directs the Secretary to undertake site characterization activities (exploration and study of the geologic conditions of a particular site) to determine the suitability of such sites as demonstration repositories.  Requires the Secretary to conduct at such sites tests to provide the data necessary for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and to report thereon to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).  Directs the Secretary to make the final site selections as soon as possible and set up the demonstration repositories at such sites.  Requires that the first demonstration repository be in operation by the end of fiscal year 1986, the second repository be in operation by the end of fiscal year 1987, and the third and fourth repositories be in operation at a time prescribed by subsequent legislation.  Sets forth design requirements for such repositories.   Prohibits the disposal of high level radioactive waste in a demonstration repository unless: (1) such waste is owned by the Federal Government and is the result of unlicensed activities; (2) such waste is retrievable; and (3) a place has been identified to receive such waste after the termination of the demonstration program.   Prohibits the operation of any demonstration repository beyond the year 2000.   Authorizes the Secretary to place in such repositories solidified high level radioactive waste in canisters contained in engineered barriers.  Directs the Secretary to consult with the NRC on the development of such barriers.   Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the NRC to arrange for review and consultation concerning the demonstration program by the NRC, within one year of the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to submit to the NRC information which the NRC requires to identify any danger to public health and safety from such program.  Prohibits the Secretary from excavating any site for a demonstration repository without NRC approval.  Directs the Secretary to afford the NRC access to the demonstration repositories to assure the public health and safety.   Directs the Secretary to consult and coordinate on a continuing basis with the officials of each State in which the Secretary intends to locate a demonstration repository.  Requires the Secretary to hold public hearings on the demonstration program near all potential repository sites.   Requires that all demonstration facilities authorized by this Act be constructed and operated as research, development, and demonstration facilities pursuant to the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974.   Directs the NRC to issue an order to the Secretary to cease any activity which presents a danger to public health and safety. Requires the NRC to publish such order in the Federal Register and give notice of and hold a public hearing on such order.  Directs the NRC to affirm, revise, or rescind such order upon completion of such hearing.  Prohibits the Secretary from conducting any activity prohibited by the NRC.   Requires the Secretary to take such actions as may be required by an order by the NRC.   Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the NRC, to submit to Congress an annual report on the demonstration program.   Requires the Secretary to conduct a study on techniques for disposal of low level radioactive waste and report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate by June 1, 1981.",2025-09-02T13:54:45Z,
96-s-2725,96,s,2725,An original bill to extend certain authorizations in the Clean Water Act and for other purposes.,Environmental Protection,1980-05-15,1980-10-21,Public Law 96-483.,Senate,"Sen. Randolph, Jennings [D-WV]",WV,D,R000046,0,"(Measure passed House, amended)  Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (also known as the Clean Water Act) to extend through fiscal year 1982 authorizations of appropriations for: (1) various research, investigative, training, and information programs; (2) treatment works pilot training programs; (3) employment needs forecasting; (4) grants for pollution control programs; (5) training grants and contracts; (6) undergraduate scholarships; (7) areawide waste treatment management planning process grants; (8) agricultural cost sharing for rural nonpoint source pollution control; (9) clean lakes grants to States; and (10) carrying out such Act, with the exception of specified provisions.   Repeals specified limitations and conditions on grants under such Act for the construction of treatment works which required that: (1) the applicant make provision for receiving payment from industrial users of the treatment works for that portion of the Federal share of the construction cost of such works allocable to industrial wastes treatment; (2) the grantee retain a specified portion of such revenues; and (3) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency be authorized to exempt certain industrial users from such payments.  Repeals provisions for such payments for treatment works by industrial users to the United States in the case of privately owned treatment works.  Makes other technical and conforming amendments to such Act.   Repeals provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1977 which provided for a moratorium on such payments for treatment works by industrial users.   Prohibits, with specified exceptions, grants made under the Clean Water Act after November 15, 1981, for a publicly owned treatment work, other than for facility planning and the preparation of contruction plans and specifications, from being used to treat, store, or convey the flow of any industrial user into such treatment works in excess of a flow per day equivalent to 50,000 gallons of sanitary waste. Exempts from such prohibition any project proposed by a grantee carrying out an approved project to prepare construction plans and specifications for a wastewater treatment facility which received its grant approval before May 15, 1980.   Directs the Administrator to study and report to Congress on the effect of such prohibition of such grants upon the construction of publicly owned treatment works, treatment of industrial discharges, and the appropriate degree of Federal and non-Federal participation in the funding of publicly owned treatment works.   Revises conditions under which the Administrator is authorized to pay the Federal share of the cost of advanced construction on publicly owned treatment works in cases where a State allotment has been obligated under specified provisions.  Prohibits the Administrator from approving an application for such additional funds unless an authorization is in effect for the first fiscal year in the period for which the application requests payment and such requested payment for that fiscal year does not exceed the State's expected allotment from such authorization.  Declares that the Administrator shall not be required to make such requested payment for any fiscal year: (1) to the extent such payment would exceed the State allotment of the amount appropriated; and (2) unless such payment is for a project eligible, on the basis of a State approved funding priority list, to receive such payment based on the allotment and appropriation. Directs the Administrator to reduce the Federal share for such projects to the extent that sufficient funds are not appropriated.   Increases the construction costs limitations applicable to the combined grant procedure for small projects to $4,000,000 (and to $5,000,000 in States with unusually high construction costs).   Extends by one year (from 24 months to 36 months) the period during which sums allotted to States under such Act may be obligated.  Provides for reallotment after such period.   Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) notify the Congress whenever the unobligated balance of a revolving fund in the Treasury (for the removal of discharged oil or hazardous substances, or of maritime disaster discharges, and the recovery of such removal costs) is less than $12,000,000; and (2) include a recommendation for a supplemental appropriation relating to sums needed to maintain such fund at the currently authorized $35,000,000 level.   Authorizes a State Governor, with the concurrence of the Administrator, to reduce the Federal share for wastewater treatment works construction grants from the standard 75 percent to a lower percentage uniform throughout such State. Directs the Administrator to issue guidelines for concurrence in such modification, providing for the consideration of specified factors.  Permits a similar reduction of the standard 85 percent Federal share of specified grants for wastewater treatment works utilizing innovative or alternative processes and techniques, but limits such reduction to a percentage rate no less than 15 percent greater than the modified uniform percentage rate for such State.   Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to enter into contracts and other agreements with the State of New York to carry out a project to demonstrate methods for selective removal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's) contaminating bottom sediments of the Hudson River, treating such sediments as required, burying such sediments in secure landfills, and installing monitoring systems for such landfills.   Authorizes the Administrator to make grants for 75 percent of the cost of such Hudson River PCB reclamation project.  Requires non-Federal sources to provide the remainder of such costs. Prohibits the Administrator from obligating or expending more than $20,000,000 to carry out such project.   Provides that the two percent of construction grant funds which may be used by the States for program administraion is to be based on the authorized grant amount (rather than the amount actually appropriated).   Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to States to undertake a demonstration program for the cleanup of State-owned abandoned mines which can be used as hazardous waste disposal sites.  Requires that the State pay ten percent of project costs.  Directs the Secretary to undertake such projects, at a minimum, in the States of Ohio, Illinois, and West Virginia. Authorizes appropriations for such program for fiscal years 1982 through 1984.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-s-2726,96,s,2726,"Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1981",Environmental Protection,1980-05-15,1980-12-22,Public Law 96-569.,Senate,"Sen. Culver, John C. [D-IA]",IA,D,C000979,0,"(Senate agreed to House amendment with an amendmeny)  Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1981 - Authorizes appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for environmental research, development, and demonstration activities for fiscal year 1981.  Specifies amounts authorized for programs concerning air quility, water quality, water supply, pesticides, solid waste, toxic substances, radiation, energy, program management and support, and interdisciplinary activities.   Authorizes the Administrator of the EPA to utilize such funds for appropriate scientific and professional review of research and development grant, contract, and cooperative agreement applications, when such use is in the public interest.   Prohibits the transfer of funds, above a specified amount, without prior written approval by the appropriate Congressional committees or the lapse of 30 legislative days after the transmittal to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the President of the Senate of a written report containing a full and complete statement concerning the nature and reason of the transfer.   Directs the Administrator to establish a separately identifiable long-term environmental research and development program to be funded by a percentage of funds appropriated under this Act.   Directs the Science Advisory Board to provide such scientific advice as may be requested by specified committees of the Congress (in addition to the EPA).",2025-09-02T13:56:54Z,
96-s-2687,96,s,2687,"An original bill to amend the National Ocean Pollution Research and Development and Monitoring Planning Act of 1978, as amended, to extend the appropriations authorizations to carry out the provisions of such Act for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-05-09,1980-05-15,Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate (See H. R. 6615 for similar provisions).,Senate,"Sen. Cannon, Howard W. [D-NV]",NV,D,C000120,0,"Amends the National Ocean Pollution Research and Development and Monitoring Planning Act of 1978 to change the title of such Act to the ""National Ocean Pollution Planning Act."" Changes the date on which the biennial five-year plan report is due to April 30 of each odd-numbered year. Authorizes appropriations to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration not to exceed $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1981, $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1982, and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1983.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
96-s-2688,96,s,2688,"An original bill to amend the Marine Protection Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations for title II of such Act for fiscal year 1981.",Environmental Protection,1980-05-09,1980-05-09,Placed on calendar in Senate.,Senate,"Sen. Cannon, Howard W. [D-NV]",NV,D,C000120,0,"Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations for activities related to ocean dumping for fiscal year 1981. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to include in the comprehensive and continuing program of research with respect to possible long-range effects of pollution, as required by such Act, the scientific assessment of damages to the natural resources from spills of petroleum or petroleum products.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
96-hr-7286,96,hr,7286,"A bill to extend deadlines in the Clean Air Act applicable to stationary sources, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-05-07,1980-05-07,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Gaydos, Joseph M. [D-PA-20]",PA,D,G000105,9,"Amends the Clean Air Act and the Clear Air Act Amendments of 1977 to extend specified deadlines applicable to stationary sources (relating to State implementation plans, Federal enforcement, and noncompliance penalties).",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-s-2663,96,s,2663,A bill to amend Title I of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize a demonstration project for the reclamation of the Hudson River.,Environmental Protection,1980-05-06,1980-05-06,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]",NY,D,M001054,2,Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to enter into agreements with the State of New York for a demonstration project for the removal of polychlorinated biphenyls from the Hudson River and the storage of such toxic substances in secure landfills.  Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to the State for 75 percent of the costs of such project.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-hr-7245,96,hr,7245,A bill to amend section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to restrict the jurisdiction of the United States over the discharge of dredged or fill material to discharges into waters which are navigable and for other purposes.,Environmental Protection,1980-05-01,1980-05-01,Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.,House,"Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-22]",TX,R,P000583,10,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct (formerly authorized) the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to issue permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters at a disposal site or sites specified by the applicant (formerly specified by the Secretary), unless the Secretary determines that such site cannot be specified through the application of certain guidelines or other considerations. Limits the definition of ""navigable waters"" for purposes of such permits to mean all waters which are presently used, or are susceptible to use in their natural condition or by reasonable improvement as a means to transport interstate or foreign commerce shoreward to their ordinary high water mark, including all waters which are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide shoreward to their mean high water mark. Declares that the discharge of dredged or fill material in waters other than navigable waters (as limited by such definition) is not prohibited by or otherwise subject to regulation under any Act of Congress. Repeals provisions relating to State programs of permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material into other types of navigable waters. Eliminates the qualifying phrase ""to the maximum extent practicable"" in the requirement that specified agreements between Federal agencies assure that decisions on permit applications be made within 90 days of published notice.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
96-s-2628,96,s,2628,"A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to issue guarantees with respect to the payment of the principal and interest of bonds to be issued by the Suffolk County Sewer Authority, in Suffolk County, New York, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-04-30,1980-04-30,"Referred to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.",Senate,"Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]",NY,D,M001054,0,"Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, beginning in fiscal year 1981, to issue guarantees with respect to the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued by the Suffolk County Sewer Authority, in Suffolk County, New York.  Limits the issuance of guarantees to amounts provided in advance by appropriation Acts.",2025-01-14T18:20:21Z,
96-hr-7188,96,hr,7188,A bill to amend section 206 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to reimbursement for certain publicly owned sewage collection systems.,Environmental Protection,1980-04-29,1980-04-29,Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.,House,"Rep. Kemp, Jack [R-NY-38]",NY,R,K000086,0,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to entitle any competitively bid construction contract for a publicly owned sewage collection system on which construction was initiated after October 18, 1972, but before January, 1976, and which met the requirements for Federal financial assistance under such Act but did not receive such application, to the maximum amount of assistance the system would have received under such Act notwithstanding such State policy.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
96-hr-7189,96,hr,7189,"A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to extend the period for which variances may be provided in the case of contaminant level and treatment technique requirements of national primary drinking water regulations, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-04-29,1980-04-29,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. McClory, Robert [R-IL-13]",IL,R,M000340,9,"Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to replace specified references to ""exemptions"" with references to ""interim variances."" Permits State-prescribed public water system schedules to require compliance with less stringent contaminant levels or treatment techniques during a period of interim variance. Mandates that such schedules require final compliance with each contaminant level and treatment technique requirement for which such interim variance was granted by a specified date.  Sets such date at:  (1) the later of January 1, 1988, or seven years after such requirement takes effect;  or (2) in cases where the public water system has entered into an enforceable agreement to become part of a regional public water system, the later of January 1, 1992, or nine years after such requirement takes effect. Permits a State with primary enforcement responsibility to determine that the best technology, treatment techniques, or other means need not be constructed and in place before a variance may be granted.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-s-2609,96,s,2609,"A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act (P. L. 94-480), as amended.",Environmental Protection,1980-04-24,1980-04-24,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Heinz, John [R-PA]",PA,R,H000456,0,"Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide for criminal penalties against any person who:  (1) knowingly generates, stores, treats, transports, disposes of, or otherwise handles any hazardous waste (whether such activity took place before or takes place after the date of the enactment of this Act) and who disposes, alters, or conceals any record maintained with respect to the generation, storing, treatment, transportation, disposal, or other handling of hazardous waste; or (2) transports, treats, stores, or disposes of any hazardous waste identified or listed under specified provisions of such Act in reckless disregard of the fact of thereby causing or creating a substantial danger or risk to human life or health. Increases the maximum penalty for first convictions of specified violations of such Act to $50,000 per day of each violation and/or two years imprisonment. Defines ""reckless"" for purposes of specified violations of such Act.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-hr-7126,96,hr,7126,Toxic Substances Control Act Amendment of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-04-22,1980-05-15,"Reported to House from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 96-968.",House,"Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-11]",NY,D,S000124,1,"(Reported to House from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 96-968)  Toxic Substances Control Act Amendment of 1980 - Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of such Act for fiscal years 1981 and 1982.   Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study, by contract with the Office of Technology Assessment, to determine the adequacy of compensation and other assistance available to persons to mitigate health problems or economic losses caused by hazardous chemical substances, and to issue and submit to appropriate congressional committees a detailed report on the results of such study.   Prohibits entering into any contract for such study, except to the extent, or in such amounts, as may be provided in appropriation Acts.  Declares that the Office of Technology Assessment is not required to conduct such study unless sufficient funds are made available for such purpose.   Authorizes the appropriation of $2,000,000 for such study.   Directs the Administrator to provide for the monitoring of emissions at facilities used to incinerate polychlorinated biphenyls (""PCBs"") and to hold briefings for the general public to report the results of such monitoring.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-7128,96,hr,7128,Soft Drink Interbrand Competition and Reuse and Recycling Act of 1979,Environmental Protection,1980-04-22,1980-04-22,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-9]",CA,D,S000810,1,"Soft Drink Interbrand Competition and Reuse and Recycling Act of 1979 - Declares that territorial provisions in licenses to manufacture, distribute, and sell trademarked soft drink products are lawful under antitrust laws after the date of enactment of this Act under the following circumstances: (1) such product and the licensee are in effective competition with other products and licensees of the same class within the geographic area; (2) the licensor retains control over such product in accordance with the Trademark Act of 1946; and (3) the licensee sells such product only in refundable beverage containers, the retailer pays consumers for the return of such containers in the amount stated on the container, and the licensee reimburses retailers for the return of such containers. Directs the General Accounting Office, in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to monitor the rate of reuse and recycling of beverage containers and to report to Congress on the impact of provisions of this Act on the industry, environmental effects, and the economy. Directs the Administrator of EPA to provide technical assistance and information to licensees, retailers, consumers, and manufacturers to assist in complying with provisions of this Act concerning refundable beverage containers. Declares that the provisions of this Act shall apply to contracts or agreements already in effect and those entered into subsequent to its enactment.",2025-09-02T13:54:37Z,
96-hr-7099,96,hr,7099,"Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1981",Environmental Protection,1980-04-21,1980-12-01,"Measure laid on table in House, S. 2726 passed in lieu.",House,"Rep. Ambro, Jerome A. [D-NY-3]",NY,D,A000170,3,"(Measure passed House, amended)  Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1981 - Authorizes appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for environmental research, development, and demonstration activities for fiscal year 1981.  Specifies amounts authorized for programs concerning air quality, water quality, water supply, pesticides, solid waste, toxic substances, radiation, energy, program management and support, and interdisciplinary activities.   Authorizes the Administrator of the EPA to utilize such funds for appropriate scientific and professional review of research and development grant, contract, and cooperative agreement applications, when such use is in the public interest.   Prohibits the transfer of funds, above a specified amount, without prior written approval by the appropriate Congressional committees or the lapse of 30 legislative days after the transmittal to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the President of the Senate of a written report containing a full and complete statement concerning the nature and reason of the transfer.   Directs the Administrator to establish a separately identifiable long-term environmental research and development program to be funded by a percentage of funds appropriated under this Act.   Directs the Science Advisory Board to provide such scientific advice to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, or the Committees or Subcommittees of the Congress, upon request (in addition to the EPA).",2025-09-02T13:54:38Z,
96-s-2587,96,s,2587,"A bill to extend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act for two years.",Environmental Protection,1980-04-21,1980-07-24,"Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H. R. 7018 passed in lieu.",Senate,"Sen. Talmadge, Herman E. [D-GA]",GA,D,T000035,0,"(Measure passed Senate, amended)  Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to authorize appropriations in an amount of up to $77,500,000 to carry out the provisions of such Act through fiscal year 1981.   Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to submit to the scientific advisory panel of such agency comment on the impact on health and the environment any suspended registration of any pesticide because of an imminent hazard.   Requires the Administrator to establish procedures for peer review with respect to the design, scientific advisory panel of such agency for comment on the impact on health and the environment any suspended registration fo any pesticide because of an imminent hazard. protocols, and conduct of major scientific studies to be conducted pursuant to such Act and for actions that may be taken relating to the change in classification, suspension, or cancellation of a pesticide.",2025-01-14T16:41:20Z,
96-s-2579,96,s,2579,"A bill to amend section 204 of the Clean Water Act to repeal certain grant conditions, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-04-17,1980-04-17,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,4,"Amends the Clean Water Act to repeal the industrial cost recovery provisions which required that applicants for treatment works construction grants make provision for receiving payment from industrial users for that portion of the Federal share of the construction cost allocable to industrial wastes treatment.  Makes technical and conforming amendments in such Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to remove from any such grants made after March 1, 1973, and prior to the date of enactment of this Act, any condition or requirement no longer applicable as a result of such repeal or to release any grant recipient from such obligations. Amends the Clean Water Act of 1977 to make technical and conforming amendments related to such repeal of industrial cost recovery provisions. Declares that the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on December 27, 1977.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-hr-7050,96,hr,7050,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to revise the standard for the application of title I of the Act to modifications of facilities which emit or may emit any air pollutant.,Environmental Protection,1980-04-15,1980-04-15,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Mollohan, Robert H. [D-WV-1]",WV,D,M000845,16,"Amends the Clean Air Act to revise the definition of ""modification"" of a source or facility, for purposes of the provisions of such Act concerning the prevention of significant deterioration of air quality, to mean any physical change in, or change in the operation of, a stationary source which increases the net amount of any pollutant emitted by such stationary source by either 100 tons per year or more for a major emitting facility, or by 250 tons per year or more for any other stationary source. Revises the definitions of ""modifications"" and ""modified"", for purposes of the provisions of such Act concerning plan requirements for nonattainment areas, to mean any physical change in (including a complete replacement), or a change in the method of operation of, a stationary source which increases the net amount of any air pollutant emitted by such stationary source, or which results in the emission of any air pollutant not previously emitted by such stationary source by 100 tons per year or more.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-7018,96,hr,7018,"An act to extend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, until September 30, 1981, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-04-02,1980-12-17,Public Law 96-539.,House,"Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15]",TX,D,D000203,1,"(Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 96-1480)  Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to permit the subpanels of the scientific advisory panel appointed by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to be composed of scientists other than members of such panel when necessary for the evaluation of scientific studies relied upon by the Administrator in assessing the impact of a proposed action on health and the environment.  Requires the Administrator to submit to such panel for comment on the impact on health and the environment any suspended registration of any pesticide because of an imminent hazard.   Requires the Administrator to establish procedures for peer review with respect to the design, protocols, and conduct of major scientific studies to be conducted pursuant to such Act and for actions that may be taken relating to the change in classification, suspension, or cancellation of a pesticide.   Authorizes appropriations to carry out such Act for fiscal years 1980 and 1981.   Subjects rules and regulations issued pursuant to such Act to Congressional review and approval.  Sets forth judicial review procedures.",2024-02-05T11:45:06Z,
96-hr-7020,96,hr,7020,"An act to provide for liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response for hazardous substances released into the environment and the cleanup of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites.",Environmental Protection,1980-04-02,1980-12-11,Public Law 96-510.,House,"Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,F000215,0,"(Measure passed Senate, amended, in lieu of S. 1480)  Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 - =Title I: Hazardous Substances Releases, Liability, Compensation= - Sets forth definitions for purposes of this title.   Defines ""environment"" to mean: (1) the navigable waters, the waters of the contiguous zone, and the ocean waters of which the natural resources are under the exclusive management authority of the United States under the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976; and (2) any other surface water, groundwater, drinking water supply, land surface or subsurface strata, or ambient air within the United States or under the jurisdiction of the United States.   Excludes any consumer product in consumer use or any vessel from the definition of ""facility"" (but includes ""vessels"" for specific coverage).   Defines ""hazardous substance"" as: (1) any hazardous substance so designated by specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (2) any substance or mixture designated as a hazardous substance by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, pursuant to this Act; (3) any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified under or listed pursuant to specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (but not including any waste the regulation of which under such Act has been suspended by an Act of Congress); (4) any toxic pollutant listed under specified provisions of the Federal Pollution Control Water Act; (5) any hazardous air pollutant listed under specified provisions of the Clean Air Act; and (6) any imminently hazardous chemical substance or mixture as defined by specified provisions of the Toxic Substances Control Act.  Excludes from such term: (1) petroleum, including crude oil and fractions thereof which are not otherwise specifically listed or designated as hazardous substances under the definition of such term in this Act; and (2) natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel (or mixtures of natural gas and such synthetic gas).   Defines the term ""owner or operator"" to include: (1) in the case of any abandoned facility or site, the person who or operated or otherwise controlled activities at such facility or site immediately prior to such abandonment; and (2) in the case of a hazardous substance which has been accepted for transportation by a common or contract carrier, with specified exceptions, such carriers during such transportation (while shippers of such substances shall not be considered to have caused or contributed to any discharge or release during such transportation which resulted solely from circumstances or conditions beyond their control).  Excludes from such term: (1) persons, who without participating in the management of a vessel or facility, holds indicia of ownershup primarily to protect their security interests in the vessel or facility; and (2) in the case of a hazardous substance which has been delivered by a common or contract carrier to a disposal or treatment facility, with specified exceptions, such common or contract carrier (and such carrier shall not be considered to have caused or contributed to any release at such disposal or treatment facility resulting from circumstances beyond its control).   Defines ""release"" to mean any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment, but excludes from such definition: (1) any release which results in exposure to persons solely within a workplace, with respect to a claim which such persons may assert against their employer; (2) emissions from the engine exhaust of a motor vehicle, rolling stock, aircraft, vessel, or pipeline pumping station engine; (3) release of source, byproducts, or special nuclear material (a) from a nuclear accident, if such release is subject to specified financial protection requirements under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, or (b) from any processing site designated under specified provisions of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978; and (4) the normal application of fertilizer.   Includes among other actions in the term ""remove"" or ""removal"": (1) security fencing or other measures to limit access; (2) provision of alternative water supplies; (3) temporary evacuation and housing of threatened individuals not otherwise provided for; (4) specified information-gathering and (5) any emergency assistance which may be provided under the Domestic Relief Assistance Act.   Includes in the definition of the term ""remedial action"" (or ""remedy"") the costs of permanent relocation of residences, businesses, and community facilities where the President determines that, alone or in combination with other measures, such relocation is more cost effective than and environmentally preferable to the transportation, storage, treatment, destruction, or secure disposition offsite of hazardous substances or contaminated materials unless the President determines that such actions: (1) are more cost-effective than other remedial actions; (2) will create new capacity to manage, in compliance with the Solid Waste Dosposal Act, hazardous substances in addition to those at the affected facility or site; or (3) are necessary to protect public health or welfare or the environment from a presence of such hazardous substance.   Declares that ""liable"" or ""liability"" under this title, unless otherwise provided shall be construed to be the standard of liability under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (a ""strict"" liability standard under which due care or the absence of negligence with respect to a release or threatened release of a hazardous substance does not constitute a defense).   Directs the Administration of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate and revise regulations: (1) designating as hazardous substances, in addition to those specifically referred to in this title, substances which, when released into the environment may present substantial danger to the public health or welfare or the environment; and (2) establishing that quantity of any hazardous substance the release of which shall be reported pursuant to this title.  Sets interim reportable quantities for specified hazardous substances.   Requires that any person in charge of a vessel or an offshore facility, as soon as such person has knowledge of any release (other than a federally permitted release) of a hazardous substance from such vessel or facility in quantities greater than those determined pursuant to this title, immediately notify the National Response Center established under the Clean Water Act.  Directs the Center to convey such notification expeditiously to all appropriate Government agencies, including the Governor of any affected State.  Sets forth criminal penalties for any person failing to provide immediate notification.  Provides that information derived therefrom shall not be used against the notifier in any criminal case, except a prosecution for perjury or for giving a false statement.   Requires that any person who owns or operates or who at the time of disposal owned or operated, or who accepted hazardous substances for transport and selected, a facility at which hazardous substances are or have been stored, treated, or disposed of notify the Administrator of the existence of such facility, specifying the amount and type of hazardous substance to be found there, and any known, suspected, or likely releases of such substances from such facility, unless such facility has a permit or interim status under the Solid Waste Disposal Act.  Authorizes the Administrator to prescribe in greater detail the manner, form, and information of such notice.  Directs the Administrator to notify the affected State agency, or any department designated by the Governor, of the existence of such facility.  Sets forth criminal penalties for any person who knowingly fails to provide such notice.   Declares that any person failing to provide such notice shall not be entitled to limitations of liability or defenses to liability under this Act.  Provides that such notification requirement does not apply in the case of any facility which would be reportable solely as a result of a stoppage in transit which is temporary, incidental, or at the ordinary operating convenience of the carrier.  Provides that information derived therefrom shall not be used against the notifier in any criminal case, except a prosecution for perjury or for giving a false statement.   Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate rules and regulations specifying the type of records to be retained by any person required to make such notification concerning a facility.  Sets forth criminal penalties for falsifying or rendering such records unreadable or unavailable, for a period of 50 years (or a greater or lesser period in certain cases, at the discretion of the Administrator).   Exempts the application of a pesticide product registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act from such notification requirements concerning releases and facilities.   Exempts from such notification requirements the release of any hazardous substance which is: (1) required to be reported (or specifically exempted from a reporting requirement) under the Solid Waste Disposal Act or regulations thereunder and has been reported to the National Response Center; or (2) a continuous release, stable in quantity and rate, for which notification has been given concerning (a) the facility from which it  comes or (b) its release for a period sufficient to establish continuity, quantity, and regularity.   Requires that release notification be given annually, or at such time as there is any statistically significant increase in quantity.   Authorizes the President to take any emergency response measure including removal or remedial action necessary to protect the public health or welfare or the environment whenever: (1) a hazardous substance is released or there is a substantial threat of such a release into the environment; or (2) there is a release or substantial threat of release into the environment of any pollutant or contaminant which may present an imminent or substantial danger to the public health or welfare (unless the President determines that such removal and remedial action will be done properly by a responsible party).   Authorizes the President to undertake appropriate studies and investigations.   Requires that specified expenditures from the Hazardous Substance Response Fund established by this Act shall not continue after $1,000,000 has been obligated or six months has elapsed from the date of initial response, unless the President: (1) finds that continued response actions are immediately required, there is an immediate risk, and assistance would not otherwise be provided on a timely basis; or (2) has determined the appropriate remedial actions and the State or States in which the source of release is located have compiled with specified provisions of this Act.   Directs the President to consult with the affected State before determining appropriate remedial action.   Prohibits the President from providing such remedial actions unless the State in which the release occurs first enters into a contract or cooperative agreement with the President that the State will assure (1) all future maintenance of the future expected removal and remedial actions; (2) the availability of a hazardous waste disposal facility acceptable to the President, and in compliance with Solid Waste Disposal Act requirements, for any necessary offsite storage, destruction, treatment, or secure disposition of the hazardous substances; (3) payment of (a) ten per cent of the costs of remedial action, including all future maintenance, or (b) 50 per cent or greater of sums expended in response to a release at a facility owned at the time of any disposal of hazardous substances therein by the State or a political subdivision thereof (taking into account the degree of responsibility of such entities).  Provides for credits, against such share of costs, for certain expenditures by States or political subdivisions.   Directs the President to select appropriate remedial actions: (1) in accordance, to the extent praticable, with the national contingency plan; and (2) balancing between the need for protection of public health and welfare and the environment at the facility under consideration and the availability of amounts from the Fund to respond to other sites, taking into consideration the need for immediate action.   Authorizes the President to enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with a State or political subdivision capable of taking remedial actions, and to provide specified technical and legal assistance to such entities.   Requires that designated Federal or State officers be given necessary access to hazardous substance information, samples, and facilities.  Provides for the confidentiality of specified information.  Requires that all information reported to or otherwise obtained by the President or any representative of the President under this Act be made available to duly authorized committees of Congress.   Requires compliance with specified Federal health and safety and labor and wage standards by contractors and subcontractors engaged in response actions.  Grants the Secretary of Labor specified authority and functions with regard to such labor and wage standards.   Permits the President to authorize the use of emergency procurement powers necessary to effect the purposes of this Act.   Establishes, within the Public Health Service, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, which shall report directly to the Surgeon General. Directs the Administrator of such Agency: (1) with the cooperatioon of specified Federal officials and agencies, to effectuate and implement the health related authorities of this Act; and (2) carry out other specified duties.   Directs the President, within a specified period, to revise and republish the national contingency plan for the removal of oil and hazardous substances to reflect and effectuate the responsibilities and powers created by this Act.  Specifies that such revision include a national hazardous substance response plan, such plan to include: (1) methods for discovering and investigating such facilities; (2) methods for evaluating and remedying any actual or threatheatened discharges or releases from such facilities which pose a substantial danger to the public health or the environment; (3) methods and criteria for determining the appropriate extent of removal, remedy, and other measures authorized by this Act; (4) appropriate roles and responsibilities for various governmental and nongovernmental entities in effectuating the plan; (5) provision for response equipment and supplies; (6) provision for reporting the existence of, and any releases of, hazardous substances from facilities which may be located on federally-owned or controlled properties; (7) means of assuring that remedial action measures are cost-effective over the period of potential exposure to the hazardous substances or contaminated materials; (8) criteria for determining remedial and removal action priorities among releases or threatened releases; and (9) specified roles for private organizations and entities in preparing for response and in responding to releases.   Requires that such plan specify procedures, techniques, materials, equipment, and methods to be employed in identifying, removing, or remedying releases.   Authorizes the President, upon determination that there may be an imminent and substanial endangerment to the public health or welfare or the environment because of an actual or threatened release of a hazardous substance from a facility, to: (1) require the Attorney General to secure such relief from the appropriate U.S. district court as may be necessary to abate such danger or threat; and (2) to take other necessary action to protect public health and welfare and the environment. Provides fines for violations of, or noncompliance with, any order of the President for purposes of such protection.  Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish guidelines for using such imminent hazard, enforcement, and emergency response authorities.   Sets forth the liability under this Act of: (1) the owner or operator of a vessel (otherwise subject to U.S. jurisdiction) or a facility; (2) any person who at the time of disposal of any hazardous substance owned or operated any facility or site at which such hazardous substances are disposed of; (3) any person who arranged (by contact, agreement, or otherwise) for disposal, treatment or transport for disposal or treatment by any other party or entity of hazardous substances owned or possessed by such person, at facilities or sites owned or operated by such other party or entity and containing such hazardous substances; and (4) any person who accepts any haszardous substances for transport to disposal or treatment facilities or sites selected by such person, from which there is a release, or a threatened release which causes the incurrence of response costs. Makes such persons or entities liable for: (1) all costs of removal or remedial action incurred by the U.S. Government or a State not inconsistent with the national contingency plan; (2) any other necessary costs of response incurred by any other persons consistent with the national contingency plan; and (3) damages for injury to, destruction of, or loss of natural resources, including the reasonable costs of assessing such injury; destruction, or loss resulting from such a release.   Permits defenses against such liability, by a person otherwise liable who can establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the release or threat of release of a hazardous substance and the damages resulting therefrom were caused solely by: (1) an act of God; (2) an act of war; (3) an act or omission of a third party other than an employee or agent of the defendant, or than one whose act or omission occurs in connection with a contractual relationship, existing directly or indirectly, with the defendant (except where the sole contractual arrangement arises from a published tariff and acceptance for carriage by a common carrier by rail), if defendants establishes by a preponderance of the evidence their taking of precautions against foreseeable acts or omissions (and the foreseeable consequences therefrom) of any such third party; or (4) any combination of (1), (2), and or (3).   Limits with specified exceptions the amount of liability for each release of a hazardous substance, or incident involving such release, to: (1) the greater of $300 per gross ton or $5,000,000, for any vessel carrying any hazardous substance as cargo or residue; (2) the greater of $300 per gross ton or $500,000, for any other vessel; (3) $50,000,000 or a lesser amount established by the President (but at least $5,000,000, or, for releases into navigable waters, at least $8,000,000), for any motor vehicle, aircraft, pipeline, or rolling stock; or (4) the total of all response costs plus $50,000,000 for damages under this title, for any other facility.   Sets the amount of liability at the full and total costs of responses and damages, if: (1) the release or threat of release of a hazardous substance was the result of willful misconduct or willful negligence within the privity or knowledge of a responsible person; (2) the primary cause of such release was a violation (within the privity or knowledge of such person) of applicable safety, construction, or operating standards or regulations; or (3) such person fails or refuses to provide all reasonable cooperation and assistance requested by a responsible public official in connection with response activities under the national contingency plan.   Imposes punitive damages (in an amount up to three times the amount of removal costs) upon the owner or operator of a facility or site for failure to properly provide removal or remedial action upon request of the President.   Declares that there will be no liability under this Act for specified acts in accordance with the national contingency plan or at the direction of an on-scene coordinator appointed under such plan (except in cases of reckless, willful, wanton, or intentional misconduct).   Prohibits transfer of liability (but does not bar agreements to incure, hold harmless, or indemnify a party for such liability).   Provides that liability to the United States or a State for damages to natural resources shall not be imposed if the party charged has demonstrated that such damages were specifically identified as an irreversible and irretrievable commitment in an environmental impact statement or comparable analysis and the facility or project otherwise complied with the permit or license which authorized such commitment.   Authorizes the President or the authorized representative of a State to act on behalf of the public as trustee of any natural resources damaged or lost as a result of such discharge and to recover for such damages.   Requires that each department, agency, or instrumentality of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the Federal Government shall be subject to and comply with this Act.   Sets forth the liability of owners or operators of vessels.   Prohibits recovery under this Act for removal costs or damages resulting from the field application of a registered pesticide, without affecting other means of recovery under Federal or State law, including common law.   Requires that recovery for removal costs or damages resulting from a Federally permitted release be pursuant to existing law in lieu of this Act.   Sets forth conditions and procedures for the transfer of liability under this Act and any other law from owners or operators of hazardous waste disposal facilities with permits under the Solid Waste Disposal Act to the Post-closure Liability Fund established by this Act.  Authorizes the use of such fund, in addition to assumption of such liability, to pay specified costs of monitoring and care and maintenance of a site. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on the feasibility of establishing or qualifying an optional system of private insurance for postclosure financial responsiblity for such hazardous waste disposal facilities.  Directs the President to: (1) determine whether such system is feasible and publish such determination; and (2) to promulgate standards to be met by such private insurance, if such system is determined feasible. Exempts any person enrolled in, and complying with, such a private insurance plan (if any such plan qualifies) from specified provisions and from requirements to pay any tax or fee to the Post-closure Liability Fund.   Requires that owners and operators of specified vessels establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility in specified amounts. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold or revoked specified clearance from any vessel not having certification furnished by the President that such financial responsibility requirements have been met.  Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in the case of vessels which do not produce such certification, to deny them entry to U.S. ports, places, or navigable waters or to detain them if they are about to depart for any other U.S. port or place.   Directs the President, beginning not earlier than five years after the date of enactment of this Act, to promulgate requirements, in addition to those under existing Federal law, that classes of facilities establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility in an amount consistent with the risks associated with the production, tran, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances.  Provides that such requirements be imposed incrementally and with the advice of the commercial insurance industry.   Sets forth provisions relating to evidence of financial responsibility in cases of: (1) facilities owned or operated by more than one person; (2) motor carriers; and (3) guarantors.   Imposes civil penalties for failure to comply with such requirements.   Prohibits firing or discrimination against employees or their authorized representatives for providing information to a State or to the Federal Government or for bringing, or testifying at, any legal proceeding under this Act.   Directs the Secretary of Labor to investigate and review alleged cases of such discrimination or firing and to either deny the application or require affirmative action to abate the violation, subject to judicial review.   Directs the President to evaluate potential loss or shifts of employment which may result from the administration or enforcement of this Act.  Allows employees threatened with, or experiencing, discharge or layoff, or other discrimination because of alleged results of such administration or enforcement, to request a full investigation.  Directs the President to investigate and to hold public hearings on such matter, and to make a report, with findings of fact and recommendations.   Directs the President to use the money: (1) in the Hazardous Waste Response Fund for specified purposes; and (2) in the Post-closure Liability Fund for similar purposes, in the case of hazardous waste disposal facilities for which liability has been transferred to such Fund.   Prohibits use of such funds for payment of specified claims where: (1) the injury, destruction, or loss of natural resources and the release of a hazardous substance from which such damages resulted have occurred wholly before the enactment of this Act; or (2) specified expenses are associated with injury or loss resulting from long-term exposure to ambient concentrations of air pollution from multiple or diffuse sources.  Allocates specified percentages of money in the Fund to specified purposes. Limits payment of claims to amounts collected, appropriated, or otherwise added to the Fund.   Authorizes the President to delegate duties under this Act to the heads of appropriate Federal agencies, departments, and instrumentalities.   Provides for notification of potential injured parties by responsible persons, and for the assessment of damages for injury to or loss of natural resources resulting from a discharge of hazardous substances.   Requires that, before specified funds may be used for the restoration, rehabilitation, or replacement or acquisition of the equivalent of any natural resources, a plan for such use be developed and adopted by affected Federal agencies and State Governors after consideration of all public comment, except where emergency action is required to avoid irreversible loss of natural resources or to prevent or reduce any continuing danger to natural resources or for similar purposes.   Directs the Inspector General of each department or agency with responsibility to obligate Fund money to provide for auditing of all payments and other uses of the Fund.   Permits a foreign claimant to assert such claims to the same extent as a U.S. claimant if: (1) the discharge occurs in the navigable waters, the territorial sea or the adjacent shoreline of a foreign country of which the claimant is resident; (2) the claimant is not otherwise compensated; (3) the substance was discharged from a vessel located adjacent to or within the navigable waters or discharged in connection with activities under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act or the Deepwater Port Act; and (4) the foreign country provides a comparable remedy for U.S. claimants, or recovery is authorized by a treaty or executive agreement between the United States and the foreign country involved.   Sets forth claims procedures under this title.   Subrogates to the United States Government all rights of a claimant to recover the costs of removal or damages from the person responsible for a hazardous substance discharge, release or disposal prior to payment of any claim by the Fund.  Subrogates any person, including the Fund, who pays compensation pursuant to this Act to any claimant for damages or removal costs, to all rights, claims, and causes of action for such damages and removal costs of such claimant.   Directs the Attorney General, upon request of the President, to commence an action on behalf of the Fund to recover any compensation paid by the Fund to any claimant pursuant to this Act.   Establishes a three year statute of limitation for claims presented or actions commenced under this Act (three years from the discovery of the loss or the date of enactment of this Act, whichever is later).   Declares that, regardless of any State statutory or common law to the contrary, no person who asserts a claim against the Fund pursuant to this title shall be deemed or held to: (1) have waived any other claim not covered or assertable against the Fund under this title arising from the same incident, transaction, or set of circumstances, not to have split a cause of action; or (2) be collaterally stopped from raising a question of fact or law, for which a determination has been made in connection with such claim in connection with such other claim.   Authorizes judicial review of any regulation issued under this Act only in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.   Grants jurisdiction to the United States district courts over all controversies arising under this Act.   Provides that nothing in this Act preempts any State from imposing any additional liability or requirements with respect to the discharge, release, or disposal of hazardous substances within such State.  Precludes any person who receives compensation for removal costs or damages pursuant to this Act from recovering such compensation pursuant to any other State or Federal law, and vice versa.   Prohibits, except as provided in this Act, requiring any person to contribute to any fund the purpose of which is to pay compensation for claims of any costs of response or damages or claims which may be compensated under this title.  Does not preclude any State from using general revenues for such a fund, or from imposing a tax or fee upon any person or upon any substance in order to finance the purchase or prepositioning of hazardous substance equipment or other preparations for the response to a release of hazardous substances which affects such State.   Requires States to accept evidence of compliance with financial responsibility requirements of this title in lieu of any other requirement of financial responsibility imposed by such States in connection with liability for the release of a hazardous substance from a vessel or facility.   =Title II: Hazardous Substance Response Revenue Act of 1980= - Hazardous Substance Response Revenue Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide for environmental excise taxes on petroleum and certain chemicals.   Imposes an excise tax (""the petroleum tax"") of 0.79 cents a barrel on: (1) crude oil received at a U.S. refinery, to be paid by the operator; (2) petroleum products entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing, to be paid by the person entering such product; and (3) any domestic crude oil used in or exported from the United States which has not been taxed under (1), to be paid by the person using or exporting such crude oil.  Exempts from such tax domestic crude oil used on the premises where it was produced for extracting oil or natural gas.  Provides that such taxes shall not apply after fiscal year 1985, except that, if at the end of either fiscal year 1983 or fiscal year 1984 the unobligated balance in the Hazardous Trust Substance Response Fund exceeds $900,000,000, and such unobligated balance will exceed $500,000,000 at the end of the following fiscal year if not tax is imposed during the following calendar year.   Defines 'crude oil' to include crude oil condensates and natural gasoline.  Defines 'petroleum product' to include crude oil.  Defines 'United States' to include: (1) the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any possession of the United States, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; (2) the Outer Continental Shelf; and (3) foreign trade zones of the United States.   Provides that only one such petroleum tax shall be imposed on any petroleum product.   Provides for the disposition of revenues from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.   Imposes an excise tax in specified amounts on certain taxable chemicals.  Exempts from such tax: (1) methane or butane used as a fuel; (2) specified substances used in the production of fertilizer; (3) sulfuric acid produced solely as a byproduct of and on the same site as air pollution control equipment; and (4) any substance to the extent derived from coal.   Provides that manufacturers, producers, or importers of taxable chemicals who use such chemicals shall be liable for such tax in the same manner as if they sold such chemical.   Provides for a refund or credit if a taxable chemical was used in the manufacture or production of any other taxable chemical or if specified chemicals  were used as fertilizer.   Provides for the disposition of revenues from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.   Declares that such ""environmental taxes"" (excise taxes on petroleum and certain chemicals) shall take effect on April 1, 1981.   Establishes the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund in the Treasury of the United States.  Transfers to such Trust Fund amounts determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be equivalent to: (1) the amounts received in the Treasury under the petroleum and chemical excise taxes under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954; (2) the amounts recovered on behalf of the Response Trust Fund under this Act; (3) all moneys recovered or collected under specified provisions of the Clean Water Act; and (4) penalties assessed and punitive damages under specified provisions of this Act.   Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for fiscal years 1981 through 1985 to the Emergency Response Trust Fund.   Transfers to the Response Trust Fund: (1) one-half of the unobligated balance remaining before the date of enactment of this Act in a specified fund under the Clean Water Act; and (2) amounts appropriated under specified provisions of the Clean Water Act during any fiscal year.   Sets forth purposes for which expenditures from the Response Trust Fund shall be made, including: (1) response costs; (2) claims asserted and compensable but unsatisfied under specified provisions of the Clean Water Act; (3) claims for injury to, or destruction or loss of, natural resources, and (4) related costs described in this Act (but not those to be covered by the Post-closure Liability Trust Fund).   Limits the liability of the United States to amounts available in the Response Trust Fund.  Sets forth the order in which unpaid claims are to be paid.   Sets forth administrative provisions for the Response Trust Fund, including method of transfer, management, and authority to borrow.   Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on hazardous wastes.  Imposes a tax on the receipt of hazardous waste at a qualified hazardous waste disposal facility, in an amount equal to $2.13 per dry weight ton of hazardous waste.   Defines 'hazardous waste' as any waste: (1) having characteristics identified under specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act (other than waste the regulation of which under such Act has been suspended by Congress on that date); or (2) subject to the reporting or recordkeeping requirements of specified provisions of such Act, as so in effect.   Defines 'qualified hazardous waste disposal facility' as any facility which has received a permit or is accorded interim status under the Solid Waste Disposal Act.   Imposes such tax on the owner or operator of such facility, but does not apply such tax to any hazardous waste which will not remain at such facility after the facility is closed.   Applies such tax to the receipt of hazardous waste after September 30, 1983, except that if, as of September 30 of any subsequent calendar year, the unobligated balance of the Post-closure Liability Trust Fund exceeds $200,000,000, no tax shall be imposed during the following calendar year.   Establishes the Post-closure Liability Trust Fund in the Treasury of the United States.  Sets forth the purposes for which expenditures shall be made from such Fund.  Applies U.S. liability and administrative provisions to such Fund similar to those for the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund, except that the amount of any repayable advances outstanding at any one time shall not exceed $200,000,000.   =Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions= - Directs the President to submit to Congress a comprehensive on experience with implementation of this Act.   Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury) to submit to Congress a report identifying additional wastes designated by rule as hazardous pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act and recommendations on appropriate tax rates for such wastes for the Post-closure Liability Trust Fund, as well as a report on the adequacy of revenue raised for such Fund.   Directs the President to study, and rport on, whether adequate private insurance, in a sufficiently competitive market, is available at reasonable rates to owners and operators of vessels and facilities subject to liability under this Act.   Directs the President, through designated officials, to study and promulgate regulations for the assessment of damages for injury to, destruction of, or loss of natural resources resulting from a release of oil or a hazardous substance for purposes of this Act and the Federal Eater Pollution Control Act.   Directs the Administrator, in consultation with appropriate agencies, to study, and report to Congress on, the issues, alternatives, and policy considerations involved in the selection of locations for hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities.   Requires that a study be conducted to determine the adequacy of existing common law and statutory remedies in providing legal redress for harm to man and the environment caused by the release of hazardous substances into the environment.  Requires that such study be: (1) conducted with the assistance of specified organizations, and with administrative expenses paid by the Fund; and (2) reported, with recommendations, to Congress.   Directs the President, acting through specified officials, to study and, within two years after the enactment of this Act, modify the national contingency plan to provide for the protection of the health and safety of employees involved in response actions.   Sets forth effective dates for provisions of this Act.   Declares that: (1) nothing in this Act shall affect or modify in any way the obligations or liabilities of any person under other Federal or State law, including common law, with respect to releases of hazardous substances or other pollutants or contaminants; and (2) the provisions of this Act shall not be considered, interpreted, or construed in any way as reflecting a determination, in part or whole, of policy regarding the inapplicability of strict liabiliy, or strict liability doctrines, to activities relating to hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants or other such activities.   Terminates the authority to collect taxes conferred by this Act, unless reauthoized by Congress, on September 30, 1985, or when the sum of the amounts received in the Treasury under the petroleum tax and the certain chemicals tax provisions total $1,380,000,000, whichever occurs first.  Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to estimate when such level will be reached and provide procedures for the termination of such taxes.   Makes conforming amendments to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.   Sets forth provisions for a legislative veto.   Requires that each hazardous substance listed or designated under this Act be listed as a hazardous material under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act. Makes a common or contract carrier liable under other law in lieu of specified provisions of this Act for damages or remedial action resulting from the release of a hazardous substance during the course of transportation which commenced prior to the effective date of listing such substance as a hazardous material under such Act, unless such carriers can demonstrate that they did not have actual knowledge of the identity or nature of the substance released.   Amends the Interstate Commerce Act to impose civil penalties on persons (or their officers, agents, or employees) subject to the Interstate Commerce Commission who are required to comply with certificate, permit, or license requirements under such Act but who do not comply with respect to the transportation of hazardous wastes as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (but not including any waste the regulation of which has been suspended by Congress).   Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to substitute a provision for an Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste (rather than a Deputy Assistant).  Provides that such Assistant Administrator, appointed to head the Office of Solid Waste, shall be: (1) in addition to other specified Assistant Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency; and (2) appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.   Provides for the separability of the provisions of this Act.",2024-02-07T16:32:33Z,
96-hr-6995,96,hr,6995,A bill to extend certain provisions of the Toxic Substances Control Act for three years.,Environmental Protection,1980-04-01,1980-04-01,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Ottinger, Richard L. [D-NY-24]",NY,D,O000134,0,Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to extend the authorization of appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency through fiscal year 1982.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-7003,96,hr,7003,Toxic Substances Control Act Amendments of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-04-01,1980-04-01,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-11]",NY,D,S000124,0,"Toxic Substances Control Act Amendments of 1980 - Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of such Act for fiscal years 1981 and 1982. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate rules within 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act to eliminate the use of polychlorinated biphenyls in concentrations exceeding 50 parts per million, or as otherwise determined under such Act, in dielectric fluids in transformers and large capacitors used at food-related facilities, unless: (1) such concentrations do not present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment;  and (2) the imposition of such requirements would pose significant economic hardships on food facility owners and operators. Directs the Administrator to review any rules promulgated within one year after the date of enactment of this Act:  (1) by the Secretary of Agriculture restricting the use of polychlorinated biphenyls in facilities regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or the Egg Products Inspection Act;  and (2) by the Secretary of Health and Human Services restricting such use under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study, by contract with the National Academy of Sciences, to determine the adequacy of compensation and other assistance available to persons to mitigate health problems or economic losses caused by hazardous chemical substances, and to issue and submit to appropriate congressional committees a detailed report on the results of such study. Authorizes the appropriations for such study. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of:  (1) requiring the elimination of polychlorinated biphenyls in specified concentrations from transformers and large capacitors used in food-related facilities;  and (2) establishing a polychlorinated biphenyl contamination prevention program.  Requires the preparation of a report on the results of such study to be submitted to the appropriate congressional committees. Directs the Administrator to provide for the monitoring of emissions at facilities used to incinerate polychlorinated biphenyls and to hold briefings for the general public to report the results of such monitoring.",2025-09-02T13:54:32Z,
96-hr-6977,96,hr,6977,"A bill to amend the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to establish labeling requirements applicable to substances which cause chronic health side effects, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-03-31,1980-03-31,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Richmond, Frederick W. [D-NY-14]",NY,D,R000232,32,"Amends the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to establish labeling requirements for substances which cause chronic health side effects. Authorizes the Consumer Product Safety Commission to determine which substances or mixture of substances possess chronic toxicity and are capable of being ingested, inhaled, or absorbed into the human body through any customary or reasonably foreseeable handling, use, or misuse.  Sets forth criteria for the determination of toxicity. Sets forth labeling requirements for such substances, including:  (1) a statement which describes the nature of a side effect and an explanation of procedures to be followed to counteract such side effect; and (2) a warning where a substance has been determined to possess chronic toxicity that such substance has been shown to cause cancer in animals or in humans.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-6963,96,hr,6963,"A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to issue guarantees with respect to the payment of the principal and interest of bonds to be issued by the Suffolk County Sewer Authority, in Suffolk County, New York, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-03-28,1980-03-28,"Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs.",House,"Rep. Downey, Thomas J. [D-NY-2]",NY,D,D000471,0,"Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, beginning in fiscal year 1981, to issue guarantees with respect to the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued by the Suffolk County Sewer Authority, in Suffolk County, New York.  Limits the issuance of guarantees to amounts provided in advance by appropriation Acts.",2024-02-06T19:38:08Z,
96-hr-6931,96,hr,6931,Hazardous Waste Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-03-26,1980-03-26,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Eckhardt, Bob [D-TX-8]",TX,D,E000035,0,"Hazardous Waste Act of 1980 - Requires owners or operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal sites to provide specified information to the relevant State and local officials and to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.  Authorizes the Administrator, or the State in which the site is located, to secure such information from such owners or operators, former or subsequent owners or operators of the site, or generators or transporters of hazardous waste, if such owners or operators fail to comply with information requirements or offer inadequate information. Prohibits such information received from any person, and information derived therefrom, from being used against such person in any criminal proceeding except a prosecution for perjury or for knowingly making a false statement or representation. Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require each generator of hazardous waste to submit a report to the Administrator and to the State agencies setting forth the quantities and characteristics of hazardous waste generated by such generator in the year preceding the date of enactment of this Act. Allows regulations requiring each generator of hazardous waste to submit annual reports to the Administrator and to the State agencies setting forth the quantities and characteristics of hazardous waste expected to be generated in the year during which the report is filed.  Subjects such information to specified confidentiality requirements. Requires that each State establish priorities among the inactive hazardous waste sites in that State which present, or may present, a substantial threat to public health or the environment. Requires that such priorities be:  (1) established according to regulations promulgated by the Administrator; and (2) consistent with the National Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Response Plan (""the Plan""). Directs the Administrator to establish and annually revise national priorities, based upon the relative danger to public health and the environment, among the inactive hazardous waste sites throughout the United States which are releasing, or present a substantial threat of releasing, hazardous waste. Refers to the 100 inactive hazardous waste sites designated as representing the greatest danger as top priority sites. Authorizes any State to submit to the Administrator a program under which specified actions may be taken or be required to be taken with respect to inactive waste sites which present or may present a substantial threat to public health or the environment.  Directs the Administrator to approve such State program upon determination that it conforms to the Plan and meets other specified criteria. Authorizes States, under such programs, to require specified current owners or former owners, operators or hazardous waste generators to take necessary cleanup actions with regard to a top priority site. Authorizes the Administrator to provide assistance to States from a specified fund to carry out approved State cleanup programs.  Allows up to 15 percent of such assistance funds to be used for cleanup of sites not designated as top priority, if such sites present or may present a greater hazard than some top priority sites. Limits such assistance to:  (1) 70 percent of program expenses at sites owned by the State or any political subdivision thereof; and (2) 95 percent of such expenses at sites not so owned. Authorizes the Administrator to provide such assistance to any State without regard to whether such State has an approved program in effect, for a period of two years after the enactment of this Act and under specified conditions.  Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical and legal assistance in the administration and enforcement of, and to intervene in any civil action involving, contracts or subcontracts made by State or local governments acting in accordance with State plans. Authorizes the Administrator to take emergency response actions, or require specified persons to take such actions, if neither State, local government, nor any other person takes necessary immediate actions to prevent, minimize, or mitigate any harm to public health or the environment associated with a release or substantial threat of release of hazardous waste. Directs the President to revise and republish the National Contingency Plan for the removal of oil and hazardous substances, with a new section entitled the National Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Response Plan, with specified inclusions, and with procedures for public review, hearings, and further revisions.  Requires that the removal of hazardous wastes and actions to minimize damage from hazardous waste release be in accordance with the plan to the greatest extent possible.  Authorizes the President to issue regulations on the removal of released hazardous wastes and on the development and implementation of State cleanup programs. Authorizes the President to require the Attorney General to seek relief in the U.S. district court in the district in which such a threat occurs, in addition to State or local government actions. Provides for enforcement of this Act, liability for funds expended for cleanup, and civil penalties. Authorizes appropriations, for the five fiscal years beginning after the enactment of this Act, of sums necessary, together with funds collected through liability payments or civil penalties, to establish and maintain a fund of up to $1,000,000,000 for assistance to State programs and for actions by the Administrator. Requires owners of inactive hazardous waste sites to monitor releases and immediately notify the Administrator and State and local authorities of threats to the public health or the environment. Authorizes the Administrator to require sellers or former owners or operators of such sites to carry out such requirements.  Provides for specified immunity with regard to such information. Sets forth provisions regarding the liability of generators for damages, the apportionment of responsibility among generators, the liability of other persons, and statutes of limitations.  Prohibits U.S. district courts from having jurisdiction over such actions for damages pursuant to any grants of Federal question jurisdiction. Requires persons who generate hazardous waste to pay a fee to the Administrator.  Provides for the amount, enforcement, and uses of such fees, which are inapplicable to waste which will be recycled and reused. Provides for payment by the Administrator of the rights of the claimant against the liable person. Grants specified subpoena powers to the Administrator.  Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to States to improve enforcement capabilities relating to hazardous waste programs and laws. Requires that State attorneys general submit plans with specified inclusions to the Administrator in order to receive such grants or other assistance. Provides for equitable allotment of such funds among States and for termination of payments for noncompliance. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such assistance to State attorneys general for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Increases the maximum terms of imprisonment for specified violations of such Act to five years (formerly one year) for first convictions and to ten years (formerly two years) for subsequent convictions. Includes among such violations the knowing transport, treatment, storage, disposal, or other handling of any hazardous waste so as to place any other person in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury. Declares that, whenever a corporation commits any of specified violations, this shall also be deemed a violation by the individual director, officer or agent of such corporation who authorized, ordered, or carried out any of the acts constituting the violation if such individual knew or had reason to know of the act.",2025-09-02T13:54:33Z,
96-hr-6898,96,hr,6898,"A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring motor vehicle inspection and maintenance until such time as each new motor vehicle is required to be separately tested for compliance with emission standards before its sale by the manufacturer, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-03-24,1980-03-24,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Gaydos, Joseph M. [D-PA-20]",PA,D,G000105,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act to repeal the requirement that State implementation plans for meeting the national primary ambient air quality standard provide for periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles, unless the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency establishes separate inspection and testing of each new motor vehicle before the vehicle is sold by the manufacturer.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-6865,96,hr,6865,West Valley Demonstration Project Act,Environmental Protection,1980-03-19,1980-09-15,"Measure laid on table in House, S. 2443 passed in lieu.",House,"Rep. Lundine, Stanley N. [D-NY-39]",NY,D,L000516,0,"(Reported to House from Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 96-1100 (Part II)) West Valley Demonstration Project Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out a high level radioactive waste management demonstration project at the Western New York Service Center (the Center) in West Valley, New York, to demonstrate solidification techniques for preparing high level radioactive waste for disposal.  Directs the Secretary to:  (1) solidify such waste at the Center into a form suitable for transportation and disposal by vitrification or by such other technology as the Secretary may prescribe; (2) develop containers for the permanent disposal of such solidified waste; (3) transport, in accordance with applicable provisions of law, such solidified waste to an appropriate Federal repository for permanent disposal; (4) dispose of low level radioactive waste and transuranic waste produced by the solidification of high level radioactive waste under such project; and (5) decontaminate and decommission facilities, material, and hardware used in connection with such project. Requires that prior to starting such project, the Secretary shall:  (1) hold public hearings to inform residents near the Center of such project and receive their comments; (2) consider the various solidification technologies available; (3) undertake engineering and cost estimates; (4) prepare a plan for the safe removal of high level radioactive waste; (5) conduct safety analyses; and (6) prepare required environmental impact analyses. Directs the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with the State of New York, in accordance with the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977, under which: (1) the State shall make available the facilities and the high level radioactive waste at the Center; (2) the Secretary shall provide technical assistance in securing required license amendments; and (3) the State shall pay ten percent of the costs of such project. Requires the Secretary and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) within one year of the date of enactment of this Act to enter into an agreement to arrange for NRC review and consultation concerning a plan for the solidification and disposal of high level radioactive waste and the decontamination of facilities used in solidifying such waste. Sets forth the provisions of such agreement, including a requirement that the Secretary shall afford the NRC access to the Center to monitor the activities under the project in order to assure the public health and safety. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out the project, to consult with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Transportation, the Director of the Geological Survey, and the commercial operator of the Center.  Prohibits the Secretary from conducting any activity determined by the NRC to be dangerous to the public health and safety. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for such project.  Provides that the total amount obligated for the project shall be 90 percent of the costs of such project. Limits the authority of the Secretary to enter into contracts under this Act in any fiscal year to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance by appropriation Acts. Directs the Secretary to transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate an annual report on the activities conducted in carrying out the project, beginning no later than February 1, 1981. States that, except for the costs and responsibilities established by this Act for the project, nothing in this Act is to be construed as affecting any rights, obligations, or liabilities of the commercial operator of the Center, the State of New York, or any person, arising under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or under any other law, contract, or agreement for the operation, maintenance, or decontamination of any facility at the Center.  Declares that nothing in this Act is to be construed as affecting any licensing requirements of such Act or the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. Provides that this Act does not authorize the Federal Government to acquire title to any high level radioactive waste at the Center or to the Center. Directs the Attorney General, within one year of the enactment of this Act, to determine if any person, other than the United States or the State of New York, is legally responsible for the costs of decontaminating and decommissioning the Center and to publish and make available to Congress the results of such study.  Requires the Attorney General to take action to require payment by any such person of such costs.",2025-09-02T13:54:33Z,
96-hr-6866,96,hr,6866,A bill to amend the Federal Clean Air Act with respect to requirements which adversely affect employment.,Environmental Protection,1980-03-19,1980-03-19,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. McKay, K. Gunn [D-UT-1]",UT,D,M000490,7,"Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, States, and local governments to modify or withdraw imposed or proposed requirements under such Act which have adverse effects on employment. Directs the Administrator to approve a State implementation plan revision which establishes less stringent emission limitations applicable to an existing source in an attainment or nonattainment area and which, in the case of a nonattainment area, demonstrate reasonable further progress toward attainment and maintenance of ambient air quality standards, if the Governor of such State proposes such revision because the requirements of such Act threaten shutdown of such source.  Declares that such revision will be deemed approved if the Administrator has not acted on the proposed revision within 90 days of receipt.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-6867,96,hr,6867,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to requirements which adversely affect employment.,Environmental Protection,1980-03-19,1980-03-19,Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.,House,"Rep. McKay, K. Gunn [D-UT-1]",UT,D,M000490,7,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to implement his or her recommendations, upon finding an adverse effect on employment, by modifying a limitation or order issued under such Act. Directs the Administrator to modify or withdraw any effluent limitation or order, if the Governor of any State advises the Administrator that such limitation or order threatens closing of a plant or facility. Declares that such requested modification or withdrawal shall be deemed approved if the Administrator has not acted upon it within 90 days of receipt.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
96-s-2443,96,s,2443,West Valley Demonstration Project Act,Environmental Protection,1980-03-19,1980-10-01,Public Law 96-368.,Senate,"Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]",NY,D,M001054,1,"(Senate agreed to House amendments with an amendment)  West Valley Demonstration Project Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out a high level radioactive waste management demonstration project at the Western New York Service Center (the Center) in West Valley, New York, to demonstrate solidification techniques for preparing high level radioactive waste for disposal.  Directs the Secretary to:  (1) solidify such waste into a suitable form for transportation and disposal at the center by vitrification or such other technology which the Secretary determines to be most effective for solidification; (2) develop containers for the permanent disposal of such solidified waste; (3) transport, in accordance with applicable provisions of law, such solidified waste to an appropriate Federal repository for permanent disposal; (4) dispose of low level radioactive waste and transuranic waste produced by the solidification of high level radioactive waste under such project; and (5) decontaminate and decommission facilities, materials, and hardware used in connection with such project.   Requires that prior to starting such project, the Secretary shall:  (1) hold public hearings to inform residents near the Center of such project and receive their comments; (2) consider the various solidification techniques available; (3) undertake engineering and cost estimates; (4) prepare a plan for the safe removal of high level radioactive waste; (5) conduct safety analyses; and (6) prepare required environmental impact analyses.   Directs the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with the State of New York under which:  (1) the State shall make available the facilities and the high level radioactive waste at the Center; (2) the Secretary shall provide technical assistance in securing required license amendments; (3) the State shall pay ten percent of the costs of such project; and (4) the State and the Department of Energy shall submit jointly a licensing amendment to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) allowing for such project.   Requires the Secretary and the NRC, within one year of the date of enactment of this Act, to enter into an agreement to arrange for NRC review and consultation concerning a plan for the solidification and disposal of high level radioactive waste and the decontamination of facilities used in solidifying such waste.  Specifies that such review and consultation shall be conducted informally by the NRC and shall not include or require formal procedures pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, or any other law.  Sets forth the provisions of such agreement, including a requirement that the Secretary shall afford the NRC access to the Center to monitor the activities under the project in order to assure the public health and safety.  Directs the Secretary, in carrying out the project, to consult with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Transportation, the Director of the Geological Survey, and the commercial operator of the Center.   Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for the project.  Provides that the total amount obligated for such project shall be 90 percent of the costs of the project.  Limits the authority of the Secretary to enter into contracts under this Act in any fiscal year to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance by appropriation Acts.   Directs the Secretary to transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate an annual report on the activities conducted in carrying out the project, beginning no later than February, 1981.   States that, except for the costs and responsibilities established by this Act for the project, nothing in this Act is to be construed as affecting any rights, obligations, or liabilities of the commercial operator of the Center, the State of New York, or any person arising under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 or under any other law, contract or agreement for the operation, maintenance, or decontamination of any facility at the Center. Declares that nothing in this Act is to be construed as affecting any licensing requirements of such Act or the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974.  Prohibits the application of this Act to any facility or property at the Center which is not used in conducting such project.  States that this Act may not be construed to expand or diminish the rights of the Federal Government.   Declares that this Act does not authorize the Federal Government to acquire title to any high level radioactive waste at the Center or to the Center.",2025-09-02T13:56:44Z,
96-s-2452,96,s,2452,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to requirements which adversely affect employment.,Environmental Protection,1980-03-19,1980-03-19,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Garn, E. J. (Jake) [R-UT]",UT,R,G000072,1,"Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, States, or local governments to implement recommendations of the Administrator, made in the case of any finding of an adverse effect on employment, by modifying or withdrawing any requirement imposed or proposed under such Act. Directs the Administrator to approve a State implementation plan revision which establishes less stringent emission limitations applicable to an existing source in an attainment or nonattainment area and which, in the case of a nonattainment area, demonstrates reasonable further progress toward attainment and maintenance of ambient air quality standards, if the Governor of such State proposes such revision because the requirements of such Act threaten shutdown of such source. Declares that such revision will be deemed approved if the Administrator has not acted on the proposed revision within 90 days of receipt.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-s-2453,96,s,2453,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to requirements which adversely affect employment.,Environmental Protection,1980-03-19,1980-03-19,Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Garn, E. J. (Jake) [R-UT]",UT,R,G000072,1,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to implement his or her recommendations, in the case of finding an adverse effect on employment, by modifying or withdrawing any effluent limitation or order issued under such Act. Directs the Administrator to modify or withdraw any effluent limitation or order, if the Governor of any State advises the Administrator that such limitation or order threatens closing of a plant or facility.  Declares that such requested modification or withdrawal shall be deemed approved if the Administrator has not acted upon it within 90 days of receipt.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-hr-6840,96,hr,6840,Asbestos Control Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-03-18,1980-03-18,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Beard, Edward [D-RI-2]",RI,D,B000279,0,"Asbestos Control Act of 1980 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate rules to:  (1) prohibit the release into the environment of asbestos fibers and fibers from asbestos substitutes, such as fibrous glass, which the Administrator determines would present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or to the environment;  (2) require asbestos, asbestos substitutes and materials containing asbestos or asbestos substitutes to be marked with clear and adequate warnings and instructions with respect to their manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, use, or disposal, or any combination thereof;  and (3) require asbestos substitutes to be employed in place of asbestos in all applications and processes where feasible and practicable, provided that such substitutes present no new hazard.",2025-09-02T13:54:27Z,
96-hr-6832,96,hr,6832,A bill to amend the Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require that environmental impact statements be prepared with respect to interstate pipelines before Federal rights-of-way or permits may be issued.,Environmental Protection,1980-03-17,1980-03-17,Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.,House,"Rep. Tauke, Thomas Joseph [R-IA-2]",IA,R,T000053,0,Amends the Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require that environmental impact statements be prepared with respect to interstate pipelines before Federal rights-of-way or permits may be issued.,2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
96-s-2412,96,s,2412,An act to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to further encourage the use of recycled oil.,Environmental Protection,1980-03-12,1980-10-15,Public Law 96-463.,Senate,"Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]",NM,R,D000407,6,"(Measure passed House, amended)  Used Oil Recycling Act of 1980 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to define the terms used oil, recycled oil, lubricating oil, and re-refined oil.   Requires lubricating oil to be labeled with a statement concerning the recycling of used oil. Establishes a temporary rule (effective until labeling standards are promulgated pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act) prohibiting the Federal Trade Commission from requiring recycled oil products to bear a label indicating they are derived from recycled oil.   Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make a grant to a State with an approved or proposed solid waste plan which:  (1) encourages the use of recycled oil; (2) discourages uses hazardous to the protection of the public health and environment; (3) calls for informing the public of the uses of recycled oil; and (4) establishes a program for the collection and disposal of oil in a safe manner.   Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance to States in removing impediments to the recycling of used oil.   Directs the Administrator to:  (1) promulgate regulations establishing performance standards and other requirements necessary to protect the public health and environment from hazards associated with recycled oil; (2) determine the applicability to used oil of the requirements of the Solid Waste Disposal Act concerning the listing and identification of hazardous waste and to report the determination to Congress; and (3) study disposal problems and the collection cycle of used oil, supply and demand in the used oil industry, and energy savings associated with re-refining used oil.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,
96-hjres-508,96,hjres,508,"A joint resolution designating the week beginning July 20, 1980, as ""National Environmental Health Week"".",Environmental Protection,1980-03-11,1980-03-11,Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,House,"Rep. Brinkley, Jack [D-GA-3]",GA,D,B000839,31,"Designates the week beginning July 20, 1980, as ""National Environmental Health Week.""",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
96-hjres-509,96,hjres,509,"A joint resolution designating the week beginning June 1, 1980, as ""National Garden Week"".",Environmental Protection,1980-03-11,1980-03-11,Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,House,"Rep. Staggers, Harley O. [D-WV-2]",WV,D,S000778,0,"Designates the week beginning June 1, 1980, as ""National Garden Week.""",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
96-hr-6759,96,hr,6759,"A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to strengthen the authority to ban the importation of agricultural commodities bearing or containing unsafe pesticide chemicals and the importation of foods derived from such commodities, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-03-10,1980-03-10,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Hance, Kent R. [D-TX-19]",TX,D,H000144,23,"Amends the Federal, Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem as misbranded and adulterated specified imported agricultural commodities grown with unacceptable pesticides. Requires that personnel of the Department of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare) examine samples of commodities to be imported.  Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish laboratories on the border between the United States and Mexico to determine if raw agricultural commodities imported from Mexico bear or contain such pesticides.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-6675,96,hr,6675,Cigarette Safety Act,Environmental Protection,1980-03-03,1980-03-03,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Moakley, John Joseph [D-MA-9]",MA,D,M000834,30,"Cigarette Safety Act - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate, within 24 months, final performance standards for cigarettes and little cigars ensuring a minimum capacity for igniting smoldering upholstered furniture and mattress fires. Authorizes the Commission to prohibit manufacturers from stockpiling such products to which such standard applies. Provides for judicial review of such standard in an appropriate U.S. court of appeals. Declares such cigarette safety standards to be subject to all remedial and penalty provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Act. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act for the first three fiscal years beginning after its enactment.",2025-09-02T13:54:21Z,
96-hr-6665,96,hr,6665,Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships,Environmental Protection,1980-02-28,1980-10-21,Public Law 96-478.,House,"Rep. Murphy, John M. [D-NY-17]",NY,D,M001098,5,"(House agreed to certain Senate amendment with amendment)  Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships - Implements the Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (MARPOL Protocol).   Applies this Act to ships of United States registry or nationality or of a country party to the MARPOL Protocol and ships registered in or of the nationality of a country not a party to the MARPOL Protocol traveling in all waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.  Exempts:  (1) warships, naval auxiliaries, or other ships owned by the United States while engaged in noncommercial service, subject to standards prescribed by the appropriate Federal departments and agencies; and (2) other ships specifically excluded by the MARPOL Protocol.   Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to administer, enforce, and prescribe regulations to carry out the provisions of the MARPOL Protocol and this Act, utilizing other Federal departments and agencies as necessary.   Authorizes the Secretary to designate persons to issue certificates required by the MARPOL Protocol. Directs that:  (1) certificates shall not be issued to ships of countries not a party to the MARPOL Protocol; and (2) certificates issued by a participating country of the MARPOL Protocol shall be honored.  Subjects to inspection any ship required to carry a valid certificate.  Directs the Secretary to detain any ship required to have a certificate which either does not have one on board or has a condition in disagreement with the certificate until such ship can proceed to sea without presenting an unreasonable threat of harm to the marine environment.  Allows any person whose ship is detained to petition the Secretary.  Permits compensation for any loss or damage suffered by a ship unreasonably detained or delayed.   Directs the Secretary, after consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to establish regulations for determining the adequacy of reception facilities of a port or terminal, and to issue certificates indicating that facilities for receiving residues and mixtures containing oil or noxious liquid substances from seagoing ships are adequate.  States conditions under which such certificates can be inspected, suspended, or revoked.  Requires the listing of such certified ports and terminals in the Federal Register.   Allows the Secretary to deny entry to any ship retaining residues and mixtures containing oil or noxious liquids into a port or terminal required to have but not holding a valid certificate.   Requires immediate reporting of any incident covered by the Protocol to the Secretary.  Directs the Secretary to investigate any such report of violation and take appropriate action, acting through the Secretary of State in cases involving a ship not of United States registry or nationality.   Imposes a fine of not more than $50,000 for each violation or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both, and a civil penalty of not more than $25,000, or $5,000 in cases of false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations.  Deems a ship liable in rem for any pecuniary fine or penalty incurred.  Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to refuse or revoke clearance required by Federal law (R.S. 4197) to any ship liable for such a penalty.   Sets forth procedures to be taken in accepting a proposed amendment to the MARPOL Protocol received by the United States from the Secretary-General of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization.   Permits any person having an interest adversely affected by:  (1) any person who is alleged to be in violation of these provisions; or (2) a Secretary who is alleged to be in neglect in performing duties under this Act, to bring suit against such party, subject to specified procedures and jurisdictions.  Authorizes the court to award costs of litigation.  Allows the Attorney General to intervene in any action not involving the United States.   Repeals the Oil Pollution Act, 1961, and the Oil Pollution Act Amendments of 1973.   Authorizes the Secretary to inspect vessels subject to this Act, except public vessels engaged in noncommercial service entering navigable waters of and documented under the laws of the United States.   Directs the Secretary and the heads of Federal departments to issue regulations, standards, and certificates upon enactment of this Act.   Directs that nothing in this Act shall be construed as limiting, diminishing, or otherwise restricting the authority of the Secretary under the Port and Tanker Safety Act of 1978.   Amends the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to extend, through September 30, 1982, the fisheries loan fund.",2025-09-02T13:54:28Z,
96-hr-6667,96,hr,6667,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to authorization extensions and industrial cost recovery.,Environmental Protection,1980-02-28,1980-05-15,"Reported to House from the Committee on Public Works and Transportation with amendment, H. Rept. 96-983.",House,"Rep. Roberts, Ray [D-TX-4]",TX,D,R000312,2,"(Reported to House from the Committee on Public Works and Transportation with amendment, H. Rept. 96-983)  Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to extend through fiscal years 1981 and 1982 authorizations for: (1) pilot programs of manpower development, training, and retraining for the operation and maintenance of treatment works and related activities; (2) a system for forecasting and publishing the supply of and demand for professions and other occupations for regional, State, or area pollution prevention, reduction, and elimination; (3) grants for pollution control programs; (4) training grants and contracts and scholarships; (5) grants for developing and operating a continuing areawide waste treatment management planning process; (6) a program, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, to install and maintain measures incorporating best management practices to control nonpoint source pollution in specified areas; (7) grants to States for Clean Lakes programs; and (8) a general authorization for specified programs under such Act.   Repeals specified limitations and conditions on grants under such Act for the construction of treatment works which required that:  (1) the applicant make provision for receiving payment from industrial users of the treatment works for that portion of the Federal share of the construction cost of such works allocable to industrial wastes treatment; (2) the grantee retain a specified portion of such revenues; and (3) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency be authorized to exempt certain industrial users from such payments.   Repeals provisions of the Clean Water Act of 1977 which provided for a moratorium on such payments for treatment works by industrial users.   Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to repeal provisions for such payments for treatment works by industrial users to the United States in the case of privately owned treatment works.  Makes other technical and conforming amendments to such Act.   Extends from July 1, 1983 to July 1, 1985 the final deadline for municipal compliance with specified requirements for construction of publicly owned treatment works.  Removes certain time-limitations for filing requests for specified extensions of the time of such compliance.   Repeals specified limitations on approval of applications for Federal reimbursement for advanced construction of municipal treatment works projects.   Raises the construction cost limits applicable to a combined grant procedure for the Federal share of the cost of preparing construction plans and specifications and the building and erection of treatment works.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
96-hr-6615,96,hr,6615,"An act to amend the National Ocean Pollution Research and Development and Monitoring Planning Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations to carry out the provisions of such Act for fiscal years 1981 and 1982, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-02-26,1980-05-30,Public Law 96-255.,House,"Rep. Murphy, John M. [D-NY-17]",NY,D,M001098,10,"(Measure passed House, amended)  Amends the National Ocean Pollution Research and Development and Monitoring Planning Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration not to exceed $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1981, and $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1982.   Changes the title of such Act to the ""National Ocean Pollution Planning Act"".   Changes the date on which the biennial five-year plan report is due to September 15 of each odd-numbered year.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
96-hr-6616,96,hr,6616,"A bill to amend the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations to carry out the provisions of such Act for fiscal year 1981, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-02-26,1980-05-13,"Measure laid on table in House, S. 1148, S. 1123, and S. 1140 passed in lieu.",House,"Rep. Murphy, John M. [D-NY-17]",NY,D,M001098,13,"(Measure passed House, amended, roll call #229 (372-24))  Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1981 to carry out the provisions of such Act.   Amends such Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to:  (1) conduct research, training, and demonstrations for the purpose of determining means of minimizing or ending ocean dumping and developing disposal methods as alternatives to such dumping; and (2) provide for the coordination of such research among appropriate Federal, State, local, or interstate public authorities, agencies, and institutions and provide financial and other assistance to such entities.   Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 through 1982 for research programs authorized under such Act.   Redefines ""State"", for specified purposes of such Act, to include any of the several States or any territory or possession of the United States which has a popularly elected Governor.   Renders the designation of a marine sanctuary, or any terms included therein, by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to such Act ineffective upon:  (1) certification to the Secretary by the Governor of any State in which such designation is made that such designation or any of its terms are unacceptable to such State; or (2) adoption of a concurrent resolution by both Houses of Congress disapproving such designation or any of its terms.   Sets forth terms to be included in such designations and authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to implement such terms and control the activities permitted under such designation.   Directs the Secretary to conduct research to carry out the purposes of such Act.   Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to conduct enforcement activities to carry out the purposes of such Act.   Requires the Secretary to transmit to the Congress a marine sanctuary designation at the time of its publication.   Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 for making such designations, and for research and enforcement.   Adds ""industrial waste"" to the provision of such Act requiring the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to end the dumping of sewage sludge into ocean waters, but provides that after December 31, 1981, the Administrator may issue permits for the ocean dumping of industrial waste upon determination that such proposed dumping:  (1) is necessary for research purposes; (2) will have minimal adverse impact upon human health and welfare and the marine environment; or (3) will provide potential benefits outweighing any such adverse impact.  States that such permits shall be effective for no more than six months.  Authorizes the Administrator to impose such conditions and restrictions on permits as are necessary to minimize possible adverse impacts of such dumping.   Authorizes the Administrator to issue emergency permits for the dumping of industrial wastes into ocean waters, or other specified waters, after December 31, 1981.  Requires, for such issuance, that the Administrator determine that there has been demonstrated to exist an emergency requiring the dumping of such waste which poses an unacceptable risk relating to human health and admits of no other feasible solution.   Defines ""sewage sludge"", for specified purposes of such Act, as any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated by a municipal wastewater treatment plant the ocean dumping of which may unreasonably degrade or endanger human health, welfare, or amenities, or the marine environment, ecological systems, or economic potentialities.   Defines ""industrial waste"" as any solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated by a manufacturer or processing plant which, if dumped in the ocean, may degrade or endanger human health or welfare or the marine environment.   Makes the provisions of such Act concerning foreign-state ocean-dumping permits applicable to transportation of material by an agency or instrumentality of the United States, with a proviso that the Administrator must concur in the filing of an application for such permit.   Requires that dumping of dredged materials in the Long Island Sound comply with specified provisions of such Act, in addition to other applicable Federal and State requirements.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
96-hr-6570,96,hr,6570,Low Level Radioactive Waste Burial Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-02-21,1980-02-21,Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.,House,"Rep. Wydler, John W. [R-NY-5]",NY,R,W000780,0,"Low-Level Radioactive Waste Burial Act of 1980 - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to provide Federal assistance for the establishment of low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities to be operated by the individual States. Directs the Secretary of Energy to permit Federal low-level radioactive waste burial facilities to be used for burial of civilian low-level wastes from specified geographical areas for an 18-month period beginning on the date of the Secretary's approval of a State Governor's signed statement declaring the State's intention to develop and operate within its borders a low-level waste facility for burial of future waste from such areas. Permits such use of Federal facilities only upon the Secretary's determination that the State has been unable to acquire a commitment for disposal of such wastes at existing commercial or State-operated facilities in the same geographical areas as the source of such wastes.  Sets forth criteria for granting extensions of the period during which States may use Federal facilities. States that Congress consents to any interstate compacts or agreements entered into between States in any region for the burial of such wastes at a facility located in that region. Authorizes the Secretary:  (1) to conduct research and development designed to assist States in selecting sites for such facilities and performing related engineering and testing activities; (2) to provide on-site assistance to States in site evaluation, site development, and related demonstrations; (3) to conduct research on such wastes and provide each State with information derived therefrom; and (4) to take any other actions as necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary to accelerate research and development and related activities concerning the compacting and immobilization of such wastes to aid States in planning and related activities under this Act. States that the planning activities related to the selection of a low-level waste facility site shall not be considered as a major Federal action for the purposes of the environmental impact statement requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and eliminates the requirement that alternative means of disposing such wastes be included in any such statement. Directs the Secretary to keep the appropriate congressional committees informed as to all activities conducted under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act for fiscal year 1980.",2025-09-02T13:54:22Z,
96-hr-6532,96,hr,6532,Acid Rain and National Atmospheric Fallout Act of 1980,Environmental Protection,1980-02-19,1980-02-19,Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.,House,"Rep. Jeffords, James M. [R-VT-At Large]",VT,R,J000072,0,"Acid Rain and National Atmospheric Fallout Act of 1980 - Title I:  Objectives - States findings concerning atmospheric fallout and acid rain caused by industrial processes, fossil fuel plants, electrical generating plants, home heating, motorized vehicles, municipal waste disposal, and certain intensive agriculture and forestry operations. Declares it to be the policy of the United States that programs of national research, emission source identification, monitoring, and other specified activities, studies, and plans be established to study and solve the problems of atmospheric fallout from the operations described above. Title II:  Interagency Committee - Establishes the Interagency Committee on Atmospheric Fallout to perform specified duties to minimize or eliminate the harmful effects of atmospheric fallout. Sets forth membership requirements for such Committee and other requirements relating to staffing. Directs the Committee to review plans and reports on atmospheric fallout made by other bodies, including the Council on Environmental Quality, and to develop a plan to provide for the amelioration of the harmful effects of atmospheric fallout.  Sets forth the elements of such plan and requires that it provide for a coordinated monitoring, management, and research program. Requires the submission of such plan to Congress and to the President no later than twelve months after the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the Committee to submit annual reports to Congress and to the President on publicly and privately supported atmospheric fallout activities, and on progress in implementing the Committee's plan for atmospheric fallout control.  Requires that such reports be submitted annually for ten years. Title III:  National Advisory Council - Establishes the National Advisory Council on Atmospheric Fallout to review the decisions and actions of the Committee and to increase cooperation and coordination among Federal and State public and private organizations and agencies involved in controlling atmospheric fallout. Sets forth membership and staffing requirements for such Council. Title IV:  General Provisions - Authorizes the Committee and the Council to obtain directly from any Federal agency or department any information necessary to enable them to carry out their functions and specifies support services at their disposal. Terminates the authority of the Committee and the Council.",2025-09-02T13:54:22Z,
96-hr-6472,96,hr,6472,"A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring motor vehicle inspection and maintenance until such time as each new motor vehicle is required to be separately tested for compliance with emission standards before its sale by the manufacturer, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-02-11,1980-02-11,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Atkinson, Eugene V. [D-PA-25]",PA,D,A000329,13,"Amends the Clean Air Act to repeal the requirement that State implementation plans for meeting the national primary ambient air quality standard provide for periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles, unless the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency establishes separate inspection and testing of each new motor vehicle before the vehicle is sold by the manufacturer.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-6456,96,hr,6456,A bill to amend section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to permits for dredged or fill material.,Environmental Protection,1980-02-07,1980-02-07,Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation.,House,"Rep. Badham, Robert E. [R-CA-40]",CA,R,B000024,0,Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to permit the discharge of dredged or fill materials into navigable waters in connection with the construction of improvements to currently serviceable structures and flood control projects.,2024-02-07T16:02:17Z,
96-hr-6466,96,hr,6466,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to repeal the requirement that State Implementation Plans provide for periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles.,Environmental Protection,1980-02-07,1980-02-07,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Satterfield, David E., III [D-VA-3]",VA,D,S000070,69,Amends the Clean Air Act to repeal the requirement that State implementation plans for meeting the national primary ambient air quality standard provide for periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-6361,96,hr,6361,"A bill to amend the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 in order to suspend temporarily the use of bioaccumulation and biomagnification testing in the evaluation of applications relating to ocean dumping of dredged material, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-01-30,1980-01-30,Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.,House,"Rep. Peyser, Peter A. [D-NY-23]",NY,D,P000280,3,"Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to suspend bioaccumulation and biomagnification testing until December 31, 1982 in evaluating permit applications for ocean dumping of dredged material.  Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of the Army, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and other appropriate Federal officers, to conduct a study on the validity of such testing.  Requires the findings and conclusions of such study to be reported to the Congress by January 1, 1982.",2021-06-14T19:39:37Z,
96-s-2215,96,s,2215,Cigarette Safety Act,Environmental Protection,1980-01-24,1980-01-24,"Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.",Senate,"Sen. Cranston, Alan [D-CA]",CA,D,C000877,1,"Cigarette Safety Act - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate, within 18 months, final performance standards for cigarettes and little cigars ensuring a minimum capacity for igniting smoldering fabric fires. Authorizes the Commission to prohibit manufacturers from stockpiling such products to which such standard applies. Provides for judicial review of such standard in an appropriate U.S. court of appeals. Declares such cigarette safety standards to be subject to all remedial and penalty provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Act. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act for the first three fiscal years beginning after its enactment.",2025-09-02T13:56:36Z,
96-hconres-252,96,hconres,252,"A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that April 22, 1980, should be celebrated as ""Earth Day, 1980"".",Environmental Protection,1980-01-23,1980-04-02,Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary.,House,"Rep. Fisher, Joesph L. [D-VA-10]",VA,D,F000151,223,"Expresses the sense of the Congress that April 22, 1980, should be observed and celebrated as ""Earth Day, 1980.""",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
96-sconres-65,96,sconres,65,"A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that April 22, 1980, should be celebrated as Earth Day, 1980.",Environmental Protection,1980-01-23,1980-01-23,Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,19,"Expresses the sense of the Congress that April 22, 1980, should be observed and celebrated as ""Earth Day, 1980.""",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
96-hr-6240,96,hr,6240,A bill to amend title XIV of the Public Health Service Act relating to safe drinking water to extend the date by which certain exempt public water systems will be required to meet contaminant level and treatment technique requirements.,Environmental Protection,1980-01-22,1980-01-22,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Bedell, Berkley W. [D-IA-6]",IA,D,B000298,5,Amends title XIV of the Public Health Service Act (Safety of Public Water Systems) to extend the date by which public water systems which have been granted an exemption from contaminant level and treatment technique requirements must meet such requirements.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-s-2189,96,s,2189,"An act to set forth a Federal policy for the disposal of low-level radioactive wastes, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1980-01-03,1980-12-22,Public Law 96-573.,Senate,"Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA]",LA,D,J000189,4,"(Senate agreed to House amendment with an amendment)  Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act - Declares it to be the policy of the Federal Government that each State is responsible for providing for the availability of capacity either within or outside the State for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders.  Authorizes States to enter into compacts providing for the establishment and operation of regional low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities.  Directs that a compact shall not be effective until Congress consents to same.   Directs the Secretary of Energy, in order to assist the States in the above policy, to prepare and submit to Congress and to each State a report which: (1) defines the needed low-level present and future waste capacity; (2) defines the status of all commercial low-level radioactive waste disposal sites; (3) evaluates the transportation requirements for the shipment of wastes; and (4) evaluates disposal facilities owned and operated by the Department of Energy.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,
96-hjres-471,96,hjres,471,"A joint resolution designating the week beginning June 1, 1980, as ""National Garden Week"".",Environmental Protection,1979-12-20,1979-12-20,Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,House,"Rep. Luken, Thomas A. [D-OH-2]",OH,D,L000508,97,"Designates the week beginning June 1, 1980, as ""National Garden Week.""",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
96-hr-6200,96,hr,6200,A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act.,Environmental Protection,1979-12-20,1979-12-20,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Devine, Samuel L. [R-OH-12]",OH,R,D000279,3,Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt the underground injection of natural gas for storage purposes from being regulated under such Act.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-6212,96,hr,6212,"A bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require each State to provide for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within that State, to authorize States to enter into agreements or compacts with other States for the establishment of regional disposal sites for low-level radioactive waste, and to provide financial assistance to the States in which such sites are located, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1979-12-20,1979-12-20,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Lujan, Manuel, Jr. [R-NM-1]",NM,R,L000506,8,"States that no license or permit issued under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 for any facility or activity which generates low-level radioactive waste may remain in effect, and no new licenses or permits for such activities may be issued or renewed unless the State in which the licensee or permittee is located has provided for the safe storage and disposal of all low-level radioactive waste generated in such State. Authorizes States to enter into agreements and compacts with other States for the establishment of facilities for the disposal of such wastes. Authorizes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to provide financial assistance to each State having such a facility to reimburse such State for costs incurred in the preconstruction activities involved in establishing such a facility.  Requires that such facilities collect a fee for the receipt of such wastes set at a level necessary to amortize the full costs of construction and operation of the facility over its useful life.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
96-hr-6196,96,hr,6196,"A bill to implement the recommendations for Federal action by the Interagency Task Force on Mono Lake, California.",Environmental Protection,1979-12-19,1979-12-19,Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.,House,"Rep. Shumway, Norman D. [R-CA-14]",CA,R,S000393,3,"Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management, and with the California Department of Fish and Game, to conduct a research program on the environmental effects on the Mono Basin, California and Nevada, of activities recommended by the Interagency Task Force on Mono Lake. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay one-third of the costs of Los Angeles, until September 30, 1985, for purchasing water to replace water formerly obtained from Mono Lake.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
96-hr-6125,96,hr,6125,A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act.,Environmental Protection,1979-12-13,1979-12-13,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Devine, Samuel L. [R-OH-12]",OH,R,D000279,0,Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt the underground injection of natural gas for storage purposes from being regulated under such Act.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-6139,96,hr,6139,A bill to amend title XIV of the Public Health Service Act to authorize States with primary enforcement responsibility for drinking water standards to grant variances from turbidity requirements for certain public water systems.,Environmental Protection,1979-12-13,1979-12-13,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Traxler, Bob [D-MI-8]",MI,D,T000356,0,"Amends the drinking water provisions of the Public Health Service Act to authorize a State with primary enforcement responsibility for drinking water standards to grant variances from turbidity requirements to public water systems within their jurisdictions upon a finding that due to compelling factors, including economic factors, the public system is unable to comply with such requirements with respect to not more than one percent of the users of such system and the granting of such variance will not result in an unreasonable risk to health.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-s-2129,96,s,2129,A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act with respect to regulations relating to underground injections necessary for oil and natural gas recovery.,Environmental Protection,1979-12-13,1979-12-14,Rereferred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]",NM,R,D000407,0,Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to set forth regulations relating to joint studies and review by State and Federal authorities of State control programs to protect underground sources of drinking water from contamination resulting from the underground injection of substances for the purposes of waste storage or oil and natural gas recovery. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to implement regulations if the Administrator determines State programs to protect underground water sources to be ineffective. Prohibits the Administrator from implementing such regulations unless a negative determination of the effectiveness of State programs is made by the Administrator based upon the joint Federal-State studies. Provides for judicial review of all determinations of the Administrator as to the effectiveness and adequacy of State underground water protection programs. Sets forth requirements for receipt by the States of Federal grants for public water system supervision programs.,2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
96-hr-6116,96,hr,6116,"A bill to amend section 202 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to provide for the licensing of facilities for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel, transuranic wastes, and high-level radioactive wastes.",Environmental Protection,1979-12-12,1979-12-12,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Udall, Morris K. [D-AZ-2]",AZ,D,U000001,0,"Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to provide for the licensing of storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel, transuranic wastes, and high-level radioactive wastes.",2024-02-07T13:32:55Z,
96-hr-6090,96,hr,6090,"A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1979-12-11,1979-12-11,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Gramm, Phil [D-TX-6]",TX,D,G000365,0,"Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt from applicable Federal regulations any State having in effect a law, rule, or regulation applicable to underground injection control related to the production or recovery of oil or natural gas unless the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency finds that such law, rule, or regulation fails to protect underground sources of drinking water.  Provides that any State for which such finding is made may amend its law, rule, or regulation in order to benefit from such exemption where approved by the Administrator. Exempts from the Federal underground injection well permit requirements any State having in effect such law, rule, or regulation approved by the Administrator. Amends the definition of ""underground injection"" to exclude the underground injection of natural gas for purposes of storage. Exempts from the administrative procedure and judicial review requirements of the United States Code any action relating to national interim primary drinking water regulations, revised national primary drinking water regulations, and regulations for State underground injection control programs, except as expressly provided by this Act.  Directs the Administrator to establish a docket for such actions, and sets forth notice and public and agency commenting requirements for any proposed rulemaking.  Sets forth procedures and other requirements for promulgating rules concerning drinking water regulations, and establishes procedures for judicial review of such actions. Amends the definition of ""primary drinking water regulation"" to revise the standard for the promulgation of such regulations, and makes conforming amendments as necessary. Amends such definition to delete the provision calling for the specification of treatment techniques for those contaminants for which it is not feasible to establish maximum levels, and deletes subsequent references to treatment technique requirements. Requires any State having primary enforcement responsibility to submit notice to the Administrator that its public water system supervision program conforms to any revision or amendment to any national primary drinking water regulation made by the Administrator.  States that failure to submit such notice shall be grounds for withdrawal of State primary enforcement responsibility. Amends such Act to authorize a State having such enforcement responsibility to exempt from maximum contaminant level requirements any public water system not having any reasonable alternative source of drinking water available. Revises the dates for compliance by public water systems with contaminant level requirements. Extends the effective date for State underground injection control regulations approved by the Administrator. Authorizes the waiver of the prohibition against State grants being made for any period beginning more than one year after the date of a State's first grant having been made for a period of 18 months after the effective date of any amendment or revision of the national primary drinking water regulations if the State has assumed primary enforcement responsibility and is making diligent efforts to comply with such amendment or revision. Prohibits the Administrator from making grants to any State unless the State has assumed primary enforcement responsibility within two years after the Administrator promulgates State underground injection control program regulations. Amends the emergency powers provisions of such Act to limit the Administrator's authority to issue orders necessary to protect the health of persons to those situations where the commencement of a civil action alone would not be practicable and limits the duration of such orders to 24 hours unless such civil action is commenced. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to:  (1) conduct a study of any health effects which result from exposure to barium, barium ion, radium, or any combination thereof, in concentrations greater than the maximum level specified in the interim regulations; and (2) conduct an epidemiological study of the occurrence of fluorosis in areas served by public water systems subject to the Safe Drinking Water Act in which fluoride from natural resources occurs in concentrations greater than the maximum contaminant level specified in such regulations.  Requires that a report on the results of such studies be submitted to Congress as promptly as possible. Exempts from the application of national interim primary drinking water regulations any drinking water system which serves an area in which barium, barium ion, radium, or fluoride from natural resources exceeds the maximum contaminant level specified in such regulations.  Exempts, until one year after the submission of the report required above, from the application of revised natural primary drinking water regulations any such area containing such substances.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-hr-6094,96,hr,6094,A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide that the underground injection of natural gas for purposes of storage will not be regulated by the Act.,Environmental Protection,1979-12-11,1979-12-11,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Luken, Thomas A. [D-OH-2]",OH,D,L000508,53,Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt the underground injection of natural gas for storage purposes from regulation under such Act.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,
96-s-2118,96,s,2118,Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships,Environmental Protection,1979-12-11,1979-12-11,"Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.",Senate,"Sen. Cannon, Howard W. [D-NV]",NV,D,C000120,1,"Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships - Implements the Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (MARPOL Protocol). Applies this Act to ships of United States registry or nationality or of a country party to the MARPOL Protocol and ships registered in or of the nationality of a country not a party to the MARPOL Protocol travelling in all waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.  Exempts:  (1) warships, naval auxiliaries or other ships owned by the United States while engaged in noncommercial service, subject to standards prescribed by the appropriate Federal department and agencies, and (2) other ships specifically excluded by the MARPOL Protocol. Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to administer, enforce, and prescribe regulations to carry out the provisions of the MARPOL Protocol and this Act, utilizing other Federal departments and agencies as necessary. Authorizes such Secretary to designate persons to issue certificates required by the MARPOL Protocol. Stipulates that (1) certificates shall not be issued to ships of countries not a party to the MARPOL Protocol, and (2) certificates issued by a participating country of the MARPOL Protocol shall be honored.  Subjects to inspection any ship required to carry a valid certificate.  Directs the Secretary to detain any ship required to have a certificate which either does not have one on board or has a condition in disagreement with the certificate until such ship can proceed to sea without presenting an unreasonable threat of harm to the marine environment.  Allows any person whose ship is detained to petition the Secretary.  Permits compensation for any loss or damage suffered by a ship unreasonably detained or delayed. Directs the Secretary, after consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency, to establish regulations for determining the adequacy of reception facilities of a port or terminal, and to issue certificates indicating that facilities for receiving residues and mixtures containing oil or noxious liquid substances from seagoing ships are adequate.  States conditions under which such certificate can be inspected, suspended, or revoked.  Requires the listing of such certified ports and terminals in the Federal Register. Allows the Secretary to deny entry to any ship retaining residues and mixtures containing oil or noxious liquids to a port or terminal required to have but not holding a valid certificate. Requires immediate reporting of any incident covered by the Protocol to the Secretary.  Directs the Secretary to investigate any such report of violation and take appropriate action, acting through the Secretary of State in cases involving a ship not of United States registry or nationality. Imposes a fine of not more than $50,000 for each violation or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both, and a civil penalty of not more than $10,000, or $1,000 in cases of false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations.  Deems a ship liable in rem for any pecuniary fine or penalty incurred.  Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to refuse or revoke clearance required by R.S. 4197 to any ship liable for such a penalty. Sets forth procedure of action to be taken in accepting a proposed amendment to the MARPOL Protocol received by the United States from the Secretary-General of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization. Permits any person having an interest adversely affected by (1) any person who is alleged to be in violation of these provisions or (2) a Secretary who is alleged to be in neglect in performing duties under this Act to bring a suit against such party, subject to specified procedures and jurisdictions.  Authorizes the court to award costs of litigation.  Allows the Attorney General to intervene in any action not involving the United States. Repeals the Oil Pollution Act, 1961, and the Oil Pollution Act Amendments of 1973. Authorizes the Secretary to inspect vessels subject to this Act, except public vessels engaged in noncommercial service entering navigable waters of and documented under the laws of the United States. Directs the Secretary and the heads of Federal departments to issue regulations, standards, and certificates upon enactment of this Act.",2025-09-02T13:56:36Z,
96-hjres-459,96,hjres,459,"A joint resolution proposing that a Presidential commission be established to study full implications of compliance with the Clean Air Act, as amended, and adjusting the criteria that is used in monitoring air quality.",Environmental Protection,1979-12-06,1979-12-06,Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.,House,"Rep. Applegate, Douglas [D-OH-18]",OH,D,A000214,1,"Directs the President to appoint an ad hoc commission to conduct a study of the effects that full compliance with the Clean Air Act by every State would have on: (1) employment; (2) the economic situation of our communities; (3) the health and safety of the United States population; and (4) energy supplies and demands. Prohibits, during the study and for six months thereafter, the monitoring of stationary source stack emissions by the Environmental Protection Agency on any time schedule less than an average of the previous 30 days.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z,