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 98-s-3075,98,s,3075,Toxic Substances Control Act Amendments of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-10-05,1984-10-05,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,1,"Toxic Substances Control Act Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to revise the statements of findings and policy. Refers to the need for more information about toxicity and human and environmental exposure in order to identify and control unreasonable risks presented by chemical substances. Declares that chemical manufacturers and processors have a duty to be informed about toxic effects of such substances and mixtures and to take appropriate actions to prevent exposures that might be harmful to human health or the environment. Revises definitions to include the designee of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under references to ""the Administrator."" Includes any microorganism or other biological substance under the definition of ""chemical substance"" for purposes of regulation. Provides that an exclusion for pesticides from TSCA jurisdiction shall not be taken to so exclude exposures to chemical substances which occur during the manufacture of a pesticide. Includes under the term ""standards for the development of test data"" a prescription of environmental or human monitoring or other exposure studies for test data for a chemical substance or mixture to be developed and analyzed. Revises provisions for testing of chemical substances and mixtures to provide that standards also may be prescribed for environmental or human monitoring or other exposure studies. Requires the EPA to periodically establish test methodology guidelines which may be used for development of data prescribed in rules under testing requirements and in testing agreements under provisions (as added by this Act) for testing of large volume chemicals. Directs the Administrator to review, not less than once each five years, the adequacy of the test methodology guidelines and make appropriate revisions. Deletes a requirement for an annual review of the adequacy of the standards for development of test data. Deletes the maximum limit on the total number of chemical substances and mixtures which may be on a priority list for consideration of testing requirements. Requires that interagency testing committee meetings relating to the priority list be open to the public and that announcements of such meetings be published at least two weeks in advance. Allows closed meetings to be conducted for administrative and personnel matters. Requires the committee, in making a priority list recommendation, to identify the chemical properties or effects for which testing is recommended. Sets forth a presumption that testing for the effects recommended is needed with respect to chemical substances and mixtures added to the priority list by the committee. Requires manufacturers of the listed substances to either individually or collectively submit study plans for the conduct of such testing no later than 180 days from the date of submission of the committee's report to the Administrator. Requires that manufacturers and processors of the listed substances be afforded an opportunity to provide evidence which demonstrates to the Administrator's satisfaction that such testing is not appropriate, in whole or in part. Sets forth relevant factors to be considered by the Administrator. Directs the Administrator to establish certain procedures for such decisions concerning the continued need for such testing. Specifies that the Administrator is not precluded by priority list provisions from making the required findings leading to an EPA rule requiring testing of a substance based upon an independent analysis of the issues involved. Makes specified provisions for exemptions applicable to testing conducted pursuant to priority list provisions. Adds to the membership of the interagency testing committee one member from the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Consumer Products Safety Commission. Establishes requirements for the testing of large volume chemicals. Makes subject to a test rule each chemical substance which is manufactured, processed, sold in, or imported into, the United States in aggregate quantities of 100,000,000 or more pounds per year. Requires each manufacturer of such substance to test it in accordance with specified requirements. Allows designation of other manufacturers or qualified third parties to conduct such tests and submit test data. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) the effects for which such testing is required; (2) test procedures and guidelines; (3) alternative or innovative test methods and procedures; (4) a listing procedure; (5) generally applicable reporting rules and health and safety study submission rules; (6) test scheduling; (7) exemption and modifications; (8) certification of test results; and (9) inspection and audit. Adds to prohibited acts: (1) failing or refusing to comply with any requirement for the testing of large volume chemicals; or (2) providing a false or misleading certification under such requirements. Provides that each day after such a false or misleading certification is made shall constitute a separate violation until the day such certification is withdrawn and a complete and accurate substitute certification is filed in its place. Disqualifies any corporation which knows or should have known that its certification is false or misleading from making further certifications under requirements for the testing of large volume chemicals for a five-year period (or a longer period determined by the Administrator after notice and opportunity for a hearing on the record). Provides that the term ""person,"" when used in provisions for prohibited acts and penalties to ensure compliance with such certification requirements, shall include corporate officers and officers of other entities, in their personal as well as official capacities. Sets forth provisions for negotiated testing agreements. Authorizes the Administrator to negotiate agreements by which chemical manufacturers or processors will test the substance or mixture, upon EPA determination that adequate test data can be developed more promptly under such an agreement than under a test rule. Requires such agreements to include specified elements described under testing requirement rules. Requires publication of the text of a proposed agreement, and at least a 60-day period for public comment. Prohibits any such agreement from being based in whole or part on any information or data which has not been placed in a record which is public subject to specified confidentiality provisions. Requires that a reasonable basis for the agreement be provided by that portion of the record which is not confidential. Authorizes modifications of agreements upon petition of any person or the Administrator's own motion. Provides that such provisions for negotiated agreements do not affect the Administrator's authority to subsequently promulgate an EPA test rule requirement for any chemical substance or mixture which is subject to such an agreement. Directs the Administrator to promptly promulgate an EPA test rule to require that testing be performed if a person or group fails to conduct the testing agreed upon. Provides that specified findings requirements shall not apply to such promulgation. Adds provisions for EPA authority for expedited information gathering to support the current expedited review process when the Administrator: (1) has made the requisite finding that there may be a reasonable basis to conclude that a chemical substance or mixture presents or will present a significant risk of serious or widespread harm to human beings from cancer, gene mutations, or birth defects; and (2) finds that the EPA's ability to initiate appropriate action under specified provisions to prevent or reduce to a sufficient extent such risk or to make a finding that such risk is not unreasonable is limited due to the lack of relevant data. Authorizes the Administrator, under such circumstances, to perform or contract for additional testing and exposure studies which are reasonable and necessary to initiate appropriate action, provided that such activities are initiated within the 180-day expedited review period and the Administrator's action are published within such period. Authorizes the Administrator to seek reimbursement for the costs of such testing and exposure studies from the manufacturers and processors of the substances. Revises requirements for manufacturing and processing notices for new chemicals and those for which there is a significant new use (the pre-manufacturing notice program or PMN). Replaces references to ""a significant new use"" of a chemical substance with references to manufacture or processing of a chemical substance in a manner or for ""a use which may lead to significant new exposure to human beings or significant new release to the environment."" Authorizes the Administrator to allow a new chemical (or one involving significant new exposure or release) to be manufactured or processed when the PMN program notice review is completed and there has been a determination that specified actions concerning such notice will not be taken by the EPA. Revises PMN program requirements for submission of test data. Makes it the manufacturer's or processor's duty to submit data which makes a specified demonstration to the satisfaction of the Administrator. (Current law requires the submission of data which the manufacturer or processor believes makes such a showing.) Revises the required content of PMN program notices to include: (1) specific information and data concerning the substance's physical and chemical properties, associated physical hazards and toxicological properties, and the manner, duration, magnitude, and extent of human exposure or environmental release; and (2) a reasoned evaluation, based on such data and information, of the potential acute and chronic human health effects and adverse environmental effects of the substance under its anticipated conditions of manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, use and disposal. Requires that such data include certain test data recommended by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, with exceptions under specified conditions. Revises PMN program provisions for EPA orders prohibiting or limiting manufacture of a chemical substance for which a PMN program notice has been received pending development of information. Directs the Administrator to notify the manufacturer or processor who submitted the notice of the determinations which underlie such a proposed order. Allows specific objections to the proposed order to be filed, within 30 days after such manufacturer or processor receives such notification, by such manufacturer or processor or by any person who is likely to obtain the chemical substance directly or indirectly from them. Sets forth procedures for consideration of and determinations concerning such objections. Provides that such orders shall apply to the manufacturer or processor who submitted the notice. Authorizes the Administrator to make such order apply to any other person, whether or not the person was a party to the issuance of the order, who: (1) manufactures the substance for the manufacturer or processor; or (2) processes, distributes in commerce, uses, or disposes of the chemical substance after obtaining it, directly or indirectly, as a chemical substance or as part of a mixture, from such manufacturer or processor. Provides that such order shall not apply to any person who has received a direct notice of the order either from the Administrator or under the following provision. Provides that an order may require any person subject to the order who distributes in commerce the chemical substance, either as a chemical substance or as part of a mixture, to provide a copy of the order to persons to whom the substance is distributed. Provides that any person subject to such an order who complies with its provisions shall be considered in compliance with TSCA with respect to those activities subject to the order. Makes the exclusive remedy for judicial review of the Administrator's decision to issue such an order after consideration of an objection the commencement by the person who filed the objection of a civil action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia or the U.S. district court for the district of such person's residence or principal place of business. Requires such action to be filed within 60 days after the order becomes effective. Specifies that PMN program requirements apply to the release in the environment of any genetically engineered microorganism in any quantity for scientific experimentation, analysis, research, or development, whether or not these activities are noncommercial or commercial. Directs the Administrator, within one year after enactment, to promulgate a list of categories of chemical substances pursuant to PMN program provisions which authorize the EPA listing of chemical substances whose manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, use, or disposal, or any combination of such activities, presents or may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. Requires that such list contain at a minimum certain categories of chemical substances. Sets forth a table describing such categories. Authorizes the Administrator to delete from or refine, by rule, the list of categories set forth in such table, on the basis that the chemical substances thus removed from the list do not meet the requirement of actually or potentially presenting an unreasonable risk through such activities. Revises provisions for EPA regulation of hazardous chemical substances and mixtures. Deletes a provision that requires the Administrator to use the least burdensome of specified requirements. Expands the scope of such regulation by adding EPA authority to: (1) prohibit the use or disposal of a hazardous chemical substance or mixture; (2) limit the amount of such a substance or mixture which may be used or disposed of; (3) limit the manufacturing, processing, distribution in commerce, use, or disposal of such a substance or mixture, where such activities give rise to release to the environment or human exposure in excess of levels specified by the Administrator in a rule imposing the requirement; (4) require that such substance or mixture or its containers be marked with or accompanied by warning and instructions with respect to its manufacture or processing (in addition to other specified activities); or (5) prohibit or otherwise regulate any manner or method of manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, use, or disposal of such substance or mixture. Deletes certain limitations on the Administrator's authority to promulgate rules for such EPA regulation of hazardous chemical substances or mixtures under TSCA. Directs the Administrator, in promulgating such a rule, to make a reasonable attempt to impose the least burdensome requirements consistent with the primary goal of abating unreasonable risk to human health or the environment in a timely manner. Provides that the Administrator's judgment in this regard is discretionary and shall not be overruled in response to a challenge to such requirement except to the extent that it is arbitrary and capricious. Makes requirements for reporting and retention of information applicable to distributors, users, or disposers of chemical substances (while continuing the current distinction between large and small quantity activities). Authorizes the Administrator, as an alternative to a specified rule for reporting and retention of information, to require, by written request, any manufacturer, processor, commercial distributor, user, or disposer of a chemical substance to submit information to carry out TSCA. Requires the person involved to provide, within a reasonable time, the requested information insofar as it is known or reasonably ascertainable at the time of the request. Adds information requirements relating to: (1) amounts of chemical substances or mixtures used or disposed of; (2) impurities resulting from the manufacture, processing, use, or disposal of chemical substances or mixtures; (3) the extent of human exposure; (4) the delivery movement, or holding of chemicals, including the quantity, the date of shipment, and receipt, and the consignor and consignee; and (5) such data as may be reasonably necessary to evaluate the economic consequences of activities undertaken. Revises reporting and retention of information requirements relating to small quantity activities to add coverage of chemical substances or mixtures: (1) which are subject to a negotiated testing agreement; or (2) where the Administrator has reason to believe that the activities of the small manufacturer, processor, distributor, user or disposer may present an unreasonable risk of injury to human health and the environment and where additional information is needed to ascertain the nature and extent of such risk. Directs the Administrator to publish a current inventory of chemical substances at least every five years. Repeals specified provisions for the relationship of TSCA to other Federal laws (including certain provisions involving to filing of reports and waiting periods). Retains provisions for coordination with other Federal laws and provisions specifying TSCA's relationship to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Repeals the general prohibition against TSCA's applicability to chemical substances or mixtures intented solely for export. Includes under export notice requirements chemical substances or mixtures which are subject to a negotiated testing agreement. Revises provisions for disclosure of data. Grants State authorities the same access to such information as that currently afforded to Federal authorities. Requires that designations of confidentiality for information be: (1) accompanied by statements of justification by the entity submitting the data; and (2) signed by an officer of such entity, with an affirmation that such officer believes such designation is valid. Provides that such confidentiality designations shall remain in effect until the chemical is manufactured. Allows redesignation, at the time manufacturing commences, of data which is believed to be still entitled to confidential treatment. Provides that, except for such provisions relating to the time of manufacture, such confidentiality designations shall remain in effect for three years from the date of such designation, subject to specified provisions. Allows renewals for additional three-year periods. Subjects any person who solicits disclosure or obtains confidential material knowing that its release was unlawful to the same criminal penalties as a person who wrongfully discloses such data. Directs the Administrator, within one year of enactment of this Act, to submit to the Congress: (1) a report on how TSCA information-gathering authorities have been and could be used to support other chemical regulatory programs; and (2) a report on the relationship between the authorities and requirements under TSCA and the activities of small businesses.",2025-08-29T17:40:16Z, 98-hr-6398,98,hr,6398,Hazardous Air Pollutants Amendments Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-10-04,1984-10-10,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-16]",MI,D,D000355,0,"Hazardous Air Pollutants Amendments Act of 1984 - Amends the Clean Air Act (the Act) to revise provisions relating to hazardous air pollutants. Revises provisions for listing of certain unregulated pollutants to provide for expedited listing of hazardous air pollutants. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within 90 days after the enactment of the Clean Air Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1984 (the Amendments), to identify by publication at least 20 of those substances for which a decision must be made before December 31, 1986, under provisions for the listing of hazardous air pollutants. Provides that such substances shall be chosen from among the 37 candidate substances identified by the EPA as being in the assessment phase of the agency's process for review under provisions for national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) and for which a decision has not been made under the hazardous air pollutant listing provisions within 90 days after the enactment of the Amendments. Directs the Administrator, if all of such 37 substances are not identified by the date so specified, to specify within the ninety-day period, a date by which a decision under hazardous air pollutant listing provisions will be made for each of the 37 substances which are not so identified. Provides that such date may not be later than December 31, 1987. Authorizes the Administrator to substitute for any of the 37 candidate substances another substance which, in the Administrator's judgment, is deemed to be a higher priority substance for consideration as a hazardous air pollutant within the meaning of specified NESHAP provisions. Provides that, if the Administrator fails to identify all 37 (or substitute) substances within such deadlines, all of the 37 substances shall be deemed to be subject to the December 31, 1986, deadline for a decision under hazardous air pollutant listing provisions. Directs the Administrator to establish a docket for the identified substance simultaneously with its identification. Sets forth requirements relating to the contents of such docket. Makes it the duty of the Science Advisory Board to make its comments on any health assessment available to the Administrator for inclusion in such docket within a specified period. Provides that, if the Administrator has not made a decision concerning any substance identified by the deadines specified under this Act, the making of that decision shall be treated as a nondiscretionary duty of the Administrator for purposes of citizen suit provisions and the notice requirement under such provisions shall be waived. Requires a presumption in any such proceeding that: (1) the docket for that substance has adequate and sufficient scientific and other information and analysis for making that decision; and (2) the Administrator has been dilatory in making the decision. Directs the court to expedite its consideration of such action and to require the making of that decision by the Administrator within a period of not more than six months. Prohibits the court in any such proceeding from considering the lack of funds or personnel for such decisions. Directs the court to retain jurisdiction over the proceeding and to issue such enforcement orders as it deems appropriate. Directs the Administrator, simultaneously with the listing of any hazardous air pollutant and of the categories of stationary sources which emit such pollutant, to promulgate a proposed schedule for establishing national emission standards for such pollutant from such categories of sources. Requires that such schedule: (1) take into consideration specified rulemaking requirements; (2) provide for establishment of such standards for each of such categories within 36 months after the date of listing of that category; and (3) include an opportunity for public hearings after a notice period of at least 60 days. Provides that a period of not more than 30 days following the promulgation of such a proposed schedule shall be available for written comment. Directs the Administrator to publish a final schedule within 45 days after the close of such period. Directs the Administrator to: (1) begin immediately after the listing of any such pollutant and sources to develop proposed national emission standards; and (2) publish proposed and final national emission standards under NESHAP provisions in accordance with the promulgated schedule. Declares that the paramount purpose of the requirements for expedited listing and standard-making of this Act, and of the requirements of NESHAPs provisions, is the protection of public health. Directs the Administrator, within one year after the enactment of the Amendments, and after consultation with the National Toxicology Program and other agencies, to publish a process for periodically selecting substances which shall be candidates for listing decisions under NESHAPs provisions. Requires that such process provide a procedure for the consideration of substances which have been found to be hazardous or a known carcinogen under other Federal programs and which are emitted into the air in significant amounts. Revises judicial review provisions to include listing any hazardous air pollutant and promulgating any NESHAP standard applicable to a stationary source among those actions of the Administrator for which a petition of review may be filed only in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Revises NESHAP provisions to direct the Administrator to publish, and from time to time revise, a list which includes each air pollutant which has been determined to be a hazardous air pollutant within the meaning of specified NESHAP provisions. Requires that such list also include the pollutants listed in accordance with the timetables established under this Act. Directs the Administrator, simultaneously with such listing of a hazardous air pollutant, to publish a list which identifies the various industrial and commercial stationary source categories of such hazardous air pollutant and contains estimates of the contribution of each such category to ambient concentrations. Directs the Administrator to establish emission standards for the emission of each such hazardous air pollutant listed from each category: (1) the emissions from which, in the Administrator's judgment, pose a reasonable possibility of endangering or otherwise having a significant adverse effect on public health; and (2) which the Administrator proposes to regulate under NESHAP provisions. Authorizes the Administrator to distinguish among classes, types, and sizes within categories of sources in establishing emission standards. Directs the Administrator, simultaneously with the listing of categories of stationary sources of a hazardous air pollutant or at any subsequent time before proposal of a standard for any such category, to publish a list of those categories of stationary sources of such pollutant which the Administrator judges may pose any actual or reasonable possibility of endangering or otherwise having a significant adverse effect on public health and is determined to be: (1) better controlled (within the time specified for issuing NESHAPs) under other provisions of the Clean Air Act or under another authority of law administered by EPA; or (2) a category (or portion thereof) of such stationary sources (such as residential wood stoves) which are too widespread and numerous to be reasonably susceptible to effective and enforceable control under NESHAPs provisions. Requires such list to include a statement of the basis of any judgment not to regulate a category under NESHAPs provisions. Requires that each NESHAP be established at a level which the Administrator judges to: (1) be designed to protect public health, taking into consideration both the extent of health risks to the exposed population and the magnitude of the risk to persons exposed to the highest concentrations of such hazardous air pollutant; and (2) include an ample margin of safety sufficient to ensure protection of public health without reducing emissions to zero unless the Administrator determines that a zero level is required to protect public health. Provides that nothing under these or other NESHAP provisions is intended to establish standards or technology requirements that will, in the Administrator's judgment, cause or directly contribute to the closing of any source temporarily (except to the extent required to construct or install needed technology) or permanently. Establishes NESHAP permit requirements. Requires, after the proposal of a NESHAP standard, that a NESHAP permit be obained for: (1) construction of any new stationary source in any category listed as emitting such hazardous air pollutant; or (2) modification of any existing stationary source in any such category if such modification will increase the emission of such pollutant. Requires that each such permit issued to any hazardous air pollutant stationary source: (1) after the date of promulgation a NESHAP standard for such pollutant require compliance by the source with an emission limitation which is at or as close as feasible to the level established by the applicable standard; and (2) after the proposal but on or before the date of promulgation of a NESHAP standard require compliance by the source with an emission limitation at or as close as feasible to the level established by the applicable proposed standard. Defines ""feasible,"" for such purposes, as an emission limitation which requires the use of the best technology for the reduction of emissions of the hazardous air pollutant concerned which, in the judgment of the Administrator (or the delegated State), achieves the highest level of control achieved in practice by any source in the category concerned (or in a category of sources having similar air pollution control characteristics), taking into consideration cost and the health benefits to be achieved and the purpose of NESHAP provisions. Directs the Administrator, within one year after enactment of this Act, to prescribe the information required in each NESHAP permit application. Directs the Administrator to issue or decline to issue any such permit as soon as possible after an application is filed in the required form, but not later than one year thereafter. Authorizes the Administrator to set the appropriate permit term and conditions, including those for renewal and lead time for meeting applicable technology requirements. Requires the Administrator to review such permits at least every ten years, and to make revisions which the Administrator judges necessary to achieve the required emission level. Requires the Administrator to state the reasons for declining to issue a permit. Allows, in such caes, the owner or operator to submit a new application for a permit. Requires a NESHAP permit be applied for within one year after the date of promulgation of a NESHAP standard and obtained within two years (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal holidays) after such promulgation, in the case of any stationary source which: (1) is in any category of stationary sources for which such standard has been promulgated for the emissions of any hazardous air pollutant; and (2) commenced construction or modification on or before the date on which such standard was proposed. Provides that, in the case of any NESHAP standard promulgated before the enactment of the Amendments, the one-year deadline for permit application shall be deemed to be the date one year after such enactment. Provides that each NESHAP permit for a stationary source in any category shall require compliance by the source with an emissions limitation for each hazardous air pollutant which is at or close as feasible to the level established by the applicable NESHAP standard for sources in that category. Defines ""feasible,"" for such purposes, as the greatest degree of emission reduction achievable through the application of the best system of continuous emission reduction which the Administrator (or State) determines has been: (1) adequately demonstrated on a commercial scale; or (2) shown to be reasonably certain to be ready for commercial application for the category of sources concerned. Directs the Administrator to take specified factors into account in making such determination. Authorizes the Administrator (or State) to prescribe a compliance schedule for each stationary source for which a NESHAP permit is issued. Provides that any such schedule prescribed by the Administrator shall be prescribed only after consultation with the State in which the source is located and may include interim measures. Prohibits, during the ten-year period following the issuance of a NESHAP permit, any more stringent emission limitation, compliance schedule, or other conditions with respect to the emissions of the hazardous air pollutant from any source under any other Clean Air Act provision or applicable implementation plan. Waives such prohibition if the owner or operator consents or if the source is modified after permit issuance. Revises NESHAP provisions for design, equipment, work practice, and operational standards to provide that such standards be consistent with the safety standard set forth in this Act. Revises the NESHAP definition of ""hazardous air pollutant"" to delete the condition that such air pollutant be one to which no ambient air quality standard is applicable. Authorizes the Administrator (or the delegated State) to: (1) suspend or revoke any NESHAP permit if the source owner or operator fails or refuses to comply with permit requirements; (2) reinstate a suspended or revoked permit upon determination of compliance; and (3) require as a permit condition that the owner or operator conduct monitoring necessary for determination of compliance and of the public health effects and extent of emissions. Revises provisions for Federal enforcement procedures to make conforming references to NESHAP permits. Revises judicial review provisions to provide that petitions for such review of EPA actions may be filed only in: (1) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in the case of a listing of any hazardous air pollutant together with a listing of category of stationary sources under NESHAP provisions (as well as in the case of promulgating any natural emission standard for a category of stationary soruces under NESHAP provisions); and (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the appropriate circuit,in the case of issuing or revoking a NESHAP permit. Prohibits the determination of the Administrator to list any substance under NESHAP provisions from being reviewed in any judicial review proceeding under NESHAP provisions establishing a standard or other requirement applicable to emissions of such substance. Provides that judicial review of the listing of any substance under NESHAP provisions shall not affect the Administrator's obligations, under provisions for the listing of certain unregulated pollutants or under NESHAP provisions, to list under NESHAP provisions any category of sources which emit such substance or to propose or promulgate any NESHAP standard applicable to such sources. Provides that nothing in any amendment made by this Act shall affect the listing of any air pollutant, the proposal, promulgation, or revision of any standard, or any other action taken by the Administrator under NESHAP provisions before the enactment of this Act. Requires that, after such enactment, any revision of any such list, and any proposal, promulgation, or revision of any such standard comply with such amendments.",2025-08-29T17:38:05Z, 98-s-3014,98,s,3014,Hazardous Substance Response Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-09-21,1984-09-26,"Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department, Interior Department, Environmental Protection Agency.",Senate,"Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]",NY,D,M001054,1,"Hazardous Substance Response Act of 1984 - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) (CERCLA) and the Internal Revenue Code to add provisions for the imposition of an environmental excise tax on the disposal or long-term storage of hazardous waste. Imposes such tax on: (1) the receipt of hazardous waste for disposal at a qualified hazardous waste disposal facility; or (2) long-term storage of a hazardous waste in a qualified waste storage facility. Sets the amount of such tax at: (1) $45 for each ton of hazardous waste which is disposed of by landfill, in waste piles, or by surface impoundment; (2) $25 for each ton of hazardous waste which is disposed of by ocean dumping or land treatment; (3) $5 for each ton of hazardous waste which is disposed of by underground injection; and (4) $45 for each ton of hazardous waste which is placed in long-term storage. Provides for an alternative computation of such tax. Allows the owner or operator of a qualified hazardous waste disposal or long-term storage facility to elect to pay a tax of $50 per ton on the amount of waste deposited for disposal or storage, reduced by the weight of water which the owner or operator can establish is in such waste, in lieu of the taxes which would otherwise be paid under this Act. Provides for an exclusion from such tax for certain wastes. Provides such exclusion for wastes which are, as of the enactment date of this Act, exempt from regulation as hazardous waste under specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in the event that any such waste is determined to pose a potential danger to human health and the environment and disposal regulations are promulgated, to transmit to Congress recommendations for imposing such tax, if any, on such waste. Provides that such tax shall be imposed on such waste only when authorized by Act of Congress. Provides such exclusion for wastes which are not, as of the enactment date of this Act, identified or listed under specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Provides that such tax shall be imposed on such waste only when authorized by an Act of Congress. Provides such exclusion for wastes in a surface impoundment which: (1) contains treated waste water during the secondary or tertiary phase of a biological treatment facility subject to a permit issued under specified provisions of the Clean Water Act (or which holds such treated waste after treatment and prior to discharge); and (2) is in compliance with generally applicable water monitoring requirements for facilities with permits under hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Provides such exclusion for any waste: (1) the disposal or long-term storage of which is carried out by any person in the course of carrying out any removal or remedial action under CERCLA if such disposal is carried out in accordance with a plan approved by the Administrator or the State; (2) removed from any facility listed on the National Priorities List; or (3) removed from a facility for which notification has been provided to the Administrator pursuant to specified CERCLA provisions. Sets forth provisions for liability for such tax. Imposes such tax on: (1) the owner or operator of the qualified hazardous waste disposal or storage facility at which the hazardous waste is disposed of or stored; or (2) the person disposing of the hazardous waste, in the case of hazardous waste disposed of or stored for a long term at other than a qualified hazardous waste disposal or storage facility but required by regulation to be disposed of or stored at a qualified facility. Provides for a credit for prior tax. Requires that a credit be allowed in the computation of any tax due under this Act on the disposal of a hazardous waste for any tax previously paid under this Act by the disposer on the long-term storage of such hazardous waste. Provides that, in the event that a person who has paid a tax under this Act on the long-term storage of a hazardous waste causes such hazardous waste to be delivered to and received by another person who is the owner or operator of a qualified hazardous waste disposal facility, then the person who paid the tax on the long-term storage shall be allowed a credit for such tax in the computation of any tax subsequently due on the long-term storage or disposal of such waste. Establishes a presumption that the last of fungible waste placed in a qualified hazardous waste storage facility shall be the first to be removed from such facility, for purposes of determining any such credit allowances for such fungible waste. Provides for fractional taxing of a fraction of a ton. Provides that such tax shall not apply to the hazardous waste which is received for disposal or placed into long-term storage prior to the effective date of this Act. Terminates such tax after September 30, 1990. Sets forth definitions for purposes of this Act. Sets forth requirements for recordkeeping, statements, and tax returns under this Act. Requires every person who disposes of or stores hazardous wastes for one year or more subject to taxation under this Act to keep records, render such statements, make such returns, and comply with rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe to ensure the proper assessment, payment, and collection of the taxes imposed by this Act. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Administrator to ensure that such records, statements, and return shall be consistent, to the extent possible, with the reports required to be submitted to the Administrator under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes the Secretary to require any person who generates, transports, disposes of, or stores hazardous wastes for one year or more and who is required to maintain records under the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, or the Safe Drinking Water Act, to submit copies of such reports or make such reports available to the Secretary as required. Provides that the amendments made by this Act, unless otherwise provided, shall take effect January 1, 1986. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator, to report to Congress by January 1, 1987, on the amount of revenues being collected in accordance with this Act. Requires such report to include the Secretary's recommendations, if any, for changes in such tax in order to: (1) raise an amount of revenue equivalent to the anticipated amount of revenue from the tax originally imposed under this Act; (2) ensure that the tax is discouraging the disposal of waste in an environmentally unsound manner; and (3) ensure that the tax is being collected with maximum administrative feasibility. Revises CERCLA provisions for transfers to the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund (Superfund) to include amounts received in the Treasury under Internal Revenue Code provisions, as added by this Act, for the tax on disposal or long-term storage of hazardous waste.",2025-08-29T17:37:56Z, 98-hr-6151,98,hr,6151,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to permit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to change a State's priority list of wastewater construcion projects if the Administrator determines that Federal funds for such projects have not been equitably distributed within such State.,Environmental Protection,1984-08-10,1984-08-30,"Executive Comment Requested from EPA, OMB.",House,"Rep. Coyne, William J. [D-PA-14]",PA,D,C000846,0,Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to modify a State's priority list of water treatment works construction projects upon the Administrator's determination that Federal funds for such projects have not been equitably distributed within such State. Sets forth factors to be considered and procedures to be followed in making such a determination.,2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-s-2959,98,s,2959,Superfund Expansion and Protection Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-08-10,1984-08-23,"Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department, Environmental Protection Agency.",Senate,"Sen. Bradley, Bill [D-NJ]",NJ,D,B001225,2,"Superfund Expansion and Protection Act of 1984 - Title I: Provisions Relating Primarily to Response and Liability - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) (CERCLA) (the Act) to revise the definition of ""hazardous substance"" to include petroleum (including crude oil or any fraction thereof) which: (1) is released from an underground storage tank (as defined in title IV of this Act); or (2) may present a significant risk to human health. Transfers the definition of ""pollutant or contaminant"" from under provisions for response authorities under the Act to among the definitions for purposes of the entire Act. Provides that such term shall include petroleum (including crude oil or any fraction thereof) only in the case of a release from an underground storage tank as defined in title IV of this Act. Adds references to ""pollutants or contaminants"" under specified provisions of the Act. Includes under the definition of ""release"" the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles containing hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants. Revises conditions under which the terms ""remedy"" or ""remedial action"" may include offsite transfer, storage, treatment, destruction, or secure disposition. Requires that such offsite actions must be determined to be at least as cost-effective as other remedial actions. Requires the President, in making such a determination, to take into account: (1) the long-term uncertainties associated with land disposal; (2) the goals, objectives, and requirements of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (3) the persistence, toxicity, mobility, and propensity to bioaccumulate of such hazardous substances; and (4) the long-term maintenance costs of alternative remedial actions. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (the Administrator) to promulgate regulations establishing reportable quantities for: (1) all hazardous substances other than carcinogens, within six months after enactment of this Act; and (2) the remaining hazardous substances, by October 1, 1986. Increases the amount of criminal fines and the duration of criminal sentences for specified violations under the Act. Adds civil penalties for specified violations under the Act. Revises response authorities provisions. Requires that any removal action undertaken by the Administrator or any other person with respect to any release or threat of release shall contribute to the efficient performance of any long-term remedial action with respect to such release or threatened release. Authorizes the Administrator to undertake any such response action unless the Administrator determines that such action will be done properly by the owner or operator of the facility from which the release or threatened release emanates, or by any other responsible party. Directs the Administrator, in undertaking any information gathering or planning under such response authority provisions, to assess the potential effects on human health associated with the release or threatened release. Revises response authorities provisions relating to agreements with States. Requires States to make specified agreements with the Administrator, rather than with the President. Eliminates the requirement that a State assure all future maintenance of the removal and remedial actions provided for the expected life of such actions. Requires the State to pay ten percent of the costs of remedial action and ten percent of all future operation and maintenance costs of any onsite remedial action. Requires a 50 percent or greater State share of response costs only in the case of facilities operated, as well as owned, by the State or local government at the time of hazardous waste disposal. Requires the State to also pay all future operation and maintenance costs of any onsite remedial action at such State or locally owned and operated facilities. Provides for credits to any State which has paid more than a ten percent share of remedial costs at a facility owned, but not operated, by such State or local government. Provides that reasonable administrative expenses may be credited against a State's ten percent share. Provides for credits to a State under prescribed circumstances in which State or local funds are expended. Sets forth mandatory cleanup standards. Directs the Administrator, rather than the President, to select appropriate cost-effective remedial actions determined to be necessary. Requires that such actions be in accordance with: (1) the National Contingency Plan to the extent practicable; and (2) a required protection level. Directs the Administrator, in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of a remedial action, to select (to the maximum extent practicable and consistent with the public health and welfare and the environment) permanent solutions and alternative treatment technologies or resource recovery technologies that will result in a permanent and significant decrease in the toxicity, mobility, or volume of the hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant, taking specified factors into account. Requires that the remedial action provide for a level or standard of control necessary to protect human health and the environment. Requires that such level or standard be as stringent as the most stringent applicable standard under the Toxic Substances Control Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act, or Clean Water Act (or water quality criteria under the Clean Water Act). Requires that any remedial action which provides for containment at the facility comply with standards applicable to facilities required to obtain hazardous waste management permits under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes the Administrator to waive the requirement of the most stringent applicable standard, or of the specified containment standard, and to select an alternative remedial action upon a finding that: (1) such alternative remedial action will provide substantially equivalent protection; or (2) compliance with such requirements at that facility will consume such a disproportionate share of the resources of the Hazardous Substances Trust Fund (the Fund) as to have the effect of deferring or preventing remedial action at other facilities which pose a significantly greater threat to human health and the environment. Prohibits permit requirements for any removal or remedial action undertaken pursuant to the Act at the location of the release or threatened release. Authorizes the Administrator to establish the exclusive administrative procedures for making any determination under provisions for required protection level. Revises provisions for information gathering and access authorities to refer to the Administrator, rather than the President. Applies specified information requirements to generators of hazardous wastes, even if such information is available at the facility where such waste is located. Provides for access to such facilities by duly designated Federal and State officers, whenever necessary to carry out any provision of the Act, at reasonable times and for a reasonable duration. Prohibits anyone from impeding or interfering with such entry. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to prepare toxicological profiles including specified information, sufficient to establish the likely effect on human health of at least 100 hazardous substances which are most frequently found or which pose the most significant threat to human health at facilities listed on the National Priorities List prepared under the National Contingency Plan. Requires that the 100 profiles be completed 48 months after enactment of this Act (at 12-month intervals for four groups of 25 substances). Adds new provisions for public participation in remedial action planning. Sets forth requirements and procedures for public notice and opportunity to comment on such plans. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants available to any group of individuals who may be affected by a release or threatened release at any facility which is listed on the National Priority List under the National Contingency Plan. Provides that such grants shall be for enabling the group to obtain expert advice and technical assistance to review and assess data and information prepared and required to be published by the Administrator with respect to such facility. Limits such grants to not more than four-fifths of the total costs of such advice and assistance. Requires each grant recipient to contribute at least one-fifth of the total of such costs. Prohibits more than one such grant from being made with respect to a single facility. Sets forth mandatory remedial action schedules. Directs the Administrator (of EPA) to commence remedial investigations for all facilities which are listed, as of the enactment date of this Act, on the National Priorities List (NPL) in accordance with the following schedule: (1) one-third of such facilities within eight months after such enactment date; (2) two-thirds within 16 months after such date; and (3) all within 24 months after such date. Directs the Administrator to list not fewer than 1,600 facilities on the NPL by January 1, 1988. Directs the Administrator to insure commencement of remedial actions and feasibility studies for each facility added to the NPL after the enactment date of this Act, beginning 24 momths after such enactment date, according to a schedule which provides for such commencement at: (1) 200 facilities during the first 12 months after such 24-month period; (2) 275 facilities during the next 12 months; and (3) 375 facilities during the third 12 months. Directs the Administrator to ensure that substantial and continuous physical on-site remedial action commences at facilities on the NPL at a rate of not fewer than 150 facilities per year beginning on October 1, 1986. Directs the Administrator to complete by January 1, 1987, preliminary assessments of all sites listed, as of the enactment date of this Act, on the Emergency and Remedial Response Information System. Directs the Administrator to ensure that remedial action is completed, to the maximum extent feasible, for all facilities listed as of the date of enactment of this Act on the NPL within five years after such enactment date. Directs the Administrator to publish an explanation of why any such remedial action could not be completed within such period. Sets forth provisions for citizen petitions for health effects studies and for emergency relief. Allows any individual or group of individuals to submit a petition to the Administrator providing evidence which: (1) demonstrates that such individual or individuals are being exposed to any hazardous substance; and (2) provides an empirical analysis of the level of exposure. Directs the Administrator to initiate a health effects study upon determination that: (1) there is a reasonable likelihood that such substance is from a facility where such substance is or was treated, stored, recycled, or disposed of, on a regular basis, or where removal action is being or was taken under any provision of the Act; and (2) the exposure may present a significant risk to human health. Directs the Administrator (or the ATSDR Administrator if so designated by the Administrator), within 45 days after receipt of such petition, to: (1) initiate a health effects study; or (2) publish a written explanation of the determination which prevented initiation of the study. Requires that each such health effects study be completed within six months after the date the petition is filed and include specified information. Requires that steps be taken to eliminate any significant risk to human health which such study finds the exposure concerned presents. Provides that such steps may include provision of alternative drinking water supplies and relocation of individuals. Requires that the National Contingency Plan (NCP) be revised within 18 months after the enactment of this Act to reflect the amendments made by this Act. Requires that the portion of the NCP known as ""the National Hazardous Substance Response Plan"" be revised to provide procedures and standards for remedial actions consistent with protection level requirements under this Act. Sets forth provisions for citizen petitions for site ranking. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after receipt of a citizen petition, to complete a preliminary assessment of the hazards to public health and environment associated with any actual or threatened release of a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant. Directs the Administrator, if such assessment indicates a significant threat, to make a prompt evaluation in accordance with the hazard ranking system referred to under specified provisions of the Act to determine the national priority of such release or threatened release. Requires that plan criteria for determining priorities among releases or threatened releases throughout the United States for purposes of taking remedial action shall also take into account: (1) the release-associated damage to natural resources which may affect the human food chain; and (2) the release-associated contamination or potential contamination of the ambient air. Sets forth provisions for abatement actions. Directs the Administrator, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, and after consultation with the Attorney General, to revise and republish specified guidelines for using imminent hazard, enforcement, and emergency response authorities to effectuate the responsibilities and powers created by this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to establish administrative procedures regarding the opportunity for a person to object to an abatement order under this Act. Provides that no court shall have jurisdiction to review any such abatement order in any action other than an action to: (1) enforce such order; (2) recover a penalty for a violation; or (3) recover punitive damages. Revises liability provisions to provide for liability for Federal or State costs of removal or remedial action with respect to a release or threatened release (whether or not such action is consistent with the NCP). Adds liability for Federal or State costs of information gathering with respect to a release or threatened release. Adds liability for the costs of any action taken by the Administrator, under specified citizens petition and emergency relief provisions of this Act, to eliminate a significant risk to human health presented by exposure to a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant and the costs of any health effects study carried out under such provisions with respect to such exposure. Provides that liability under the Act (CERCLA) shall be strict, joint, and several as construed and applied under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and under these CERCLA liability provisions. Provides that amounts recoverable shall include interest at a specified rate. Prohibits the Attorney General from representing any Federal agency (other than the EPA) in any civil action under title I (Hazardous Substances Releases, Liability, Compensation) of the Act (CERCLA). Authorizes the head of any such Federal agency to appoint agency attorneys or contract with non-Federal attorneys to represent the agency in any such action. Provides that, in any action under liability provisions of the Act, the results of laboratory tests conducted by the Administrator (or by a State) to determine what substances are present at the facility where a release or threatened release occurs may be introduced into evidence and shall be presumed to be accurate. Provides that such presumption shall be overcome if the defendant establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that such test results lack a reasonable basis. Provides that nothing under such liability provisions shall be construed to affect the equitable powers of apportionment of any court following adjudication of liability. Provides that a defendant who establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that the specified harm is divisible shall be liable only for the appropriate portion. Allows any defendant held liable for response costs or damages in actions under liability provisions of the Act to bring a separate action in the appropriate U.S. district court to require any other person who was, or could have been, a defendant in the prior enforcement or cost recovery action to contribute to payment of such costs or damages. Sets forth similar liability provisions, including such ""right of contribution,"" under provisions for abatement orders. Adds to authorized uses of the Fund the payment of any costs incurred under provisions of this Act: (1) relating to emergency relief and health effects studies; (2) by the ATSDR in preparing specified toxicological profiles; and (3) by the Administrator in evaluating facilities pursuant to petitions for preliminary assessments of hazards to public health. Eliminates a requirement that 85 percent of specified money credited to the Fund be available only for specified purposes. Limits to six percent of such money the amount available for payment of specified claims. Revises audit provisions to direct the Inspector General of the EPA, in each fiscal year, to: (1) conduct an annual audit of the Fund; (2) report on the status of all remedial and enforcement actions taken during the prior fiscal year; and (3) estimate the amount of resources, including the number of work years or personnel, which would be necessary for the Administrator to complete the implementation of all duties vested in the Administrator under this Act. Requires that such audit and such status report: (1) include specified information; and (2) be reported annually by the Inspector General to the Congress. Prohibits any potentially liable person from seeking judicial review of any determination to incur any governmental response costs pursuant to response authorities provisions or to utilize the Fund for payment of such costs except in an action to recover such costs under liability provisions. Revises statute of limitations provisions under the Act. Prohibits, with specified exceptions for minors or incompetent persons, presentation of any claim or commencement of any action for damages, as defined under the Act, beyond three years after the later of: (1) the date of the discovery of the loss; (2) the date on which regulations are promulgated under specified provisions for the assessment of damages for injury to, destruction of, or loss of natural resources resulting from a release of oil or hazardous substance for purposes of the Act and of specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; or (3) the date on which regulations are promulgated establishing procedures for the filing of such claims. Sets a statute of limitations of six years after the date of the completion of the response action for presentation of claims or commencement of actions for recovery of response costs in cases involving the responsible person's willful misconduct or willful negligence, violation of safety, construction, or operating standards or regulations, or failures or refusals to provide reasonable cooperation and assistance requested by public officials. Extends the deadline for promulgation of 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 the Act and of specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Sets forth provisions concerning the relationship of this Act to other law. Authorizes States to require any person to contribute to any fund to pay compensation for claims for any response costs or damages or claims which may be compensated under the Act. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes citizen lawsuits under the Act (CERCLA). Sets forth provisions relating to such citizen lawsuits. Directs the Administrator to commence, within six months after the enactment of this Act, the study required under specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act concerning drilling fluids and other wastes associated with oil exploration. Title III: Regulation of Underground Storage Tanks - Establishes a program for identification and regulation of underground storage tanks containing hazardous substances (including petroleum products) and for cleanup of leaks from such tanks. Defines ""hazardous substance"" for purposes of this title as: (1) any substance designated pursuant to specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (2) any element, compound, mixture, solution, or substance designated pursuant to the CERCLA definition of ""pollutant or contaminant,"" as added by this Act; (3) any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified under or listed pursuant to hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (but not including any waste the regulation of which under such Act has been suspended by Act of Congress); (4) any toxic pollutant listed under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (5) any hazardous air pollutant listed under specified provisions of the Clean Air Act; (6) any imminently hazardous chemical substance or mixture with respect to which the Administrator has taken action pursuant to specified provisions of the Toxic Substances Control Act; and (7) any petroleum product or fraction thereof. Excludes from such term natural gas, natural gas liquids, propane, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel (or mixtures of natural gas and such synthetic gas). Defines ""underground storage tank"" to include underground pipes connected to such a tank, and lists the following exclusions from this term: (1) farm or residential underground storage tanks of 1,100 gallons or less capacity used for storing motor fuel for noncommercial purposes; (2) underground storage tanks used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises where stored; (3) residential septic tanks; (4) pipelines regulated under the Natural Gas Pipeline Act of 1968; or (5) surface impoundments, pits, ponds, lagoons, or basins. Sets forth notification requirements applicable to any person who, during the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which this title was enacted, has supplied any hazardous substance to 100 or more sites where there is an underground storage tank which is or has been used for the storage of any hazardous substance. Requires such persons to notify a designated State or local agency of the existence of any such tank located at such a site. Directs the Administrator, within eight months after the enactment date of this Act, to promulgate regulations (taking into account the effect on small business) regarding the providing of notice to obtain information concerning any such tanks which are not located at such sites. Requires that the notice required of such persons supplying hazardous substances to 100 or more sites where such tanks are located be provided within 12 months after the enactment of this Act. Requires that the notice required with respect to all other sites where such tanks are located be provided within 12 months after the promulgation of such regulations. Requires that specified information be contained in those notices required of the suppliers to 100 or more sites and in those notices required of owners or operators which install or bring into use an underground storage tank after the enactment of this Act. Sets forth other information requirements for notices required of the suppliers to 100 or more sites, and for notices required pursuant to regulations for tanks at other sites, in the case of any such tank used for such storage prior to the enactment of this Act but taken out of operation before such enactment date (but after January 1, 1974). Provides that notice shall not be required under this title in the case of any tank for which notice was given pursuant to specified provisions of CERCLA. Requires any owner or operator which installs or brings into use an underground storage tank after the enactment of this Act to notify the designated State or local agency within a specified period. Directs the Governor of each State, within 90 days of such enactment date, to designate the appropriate State or local agencies to receive such notifications. Directs the Administrator, within 180 days of such enactment date and in consultation with designated State and local officials, to prescribe in greater detail the form and content of such notifications. Provides that, if a Governor chooses not to designate a State or local agency for such purpose, such notifications shall be submitted to the Administrator. Requires the State, if such notifications are submitted to a designated State or local agency, to compile the submitted information into a comprehensive inventory and furnish such inventory to the Administrator within 18 months of such enactment date. Sets forth provisions for release detection, prevention, and correction regulations applicable to all owners and operators of underground storage tanks used for storing hazardous substances. Directs the Administrator, within nine months after the enactment of this Act, to complete a survey of underground storage tanks used for the storage of hazardous substances, including an assessment of specified factors relating to the likelihood of releases from such tanks. Directs the Administrator to promulgate such regulations after opportunity for public comment and within 27 months after enactment of this Act. Requires that such regulations include requirements respecting specified areas, including: (1) leak detection or inventory systems and tank testing; (2) records of such testing, inventory, or detection; (3) reporting releases and corrective actions; (4) standards of performance for new underground tanks, including specified requirements; (5) corrective actions (including appropriate testing of potentially contaminated drinking water); (6) closure to prevent future release; and (7) evidence of financial responsibility for taking corrective action and for bodily injury and property damage to third parties. Directs the Administrator to take specified factors into consideration in issuing such regulations. Prohibits, until the effective date of such regulations and after 180 days from the enactment of this Act, any person from installing or beginning to use an underground storage tank to store hazardous substances unless such tank is cathodically protected against corrosion, constructed of a noncorrosive material, or contained in a manner designed to prevent the release into the environment of any stored hazardous substances. Sets forth provisions for the Administrator's review and approval of State programs for underground storage tank release detection, prevention, and correction. Requires the State to demonstrate that the State program is equivalent to the Federal program under this title and that it provides for adequate enforcement of compliance with program requirements. Requires that a State's new tank standards be no less stringent than the performance standards promulgated by the Administrator pursuant to this title. Provides for notice and opportunity for public comment before determinations concerning approval of State programs are made. Gives States with approved programs primary enforcement responsibility for requirements related to control of underground storage tanks used to store hazardous substances. Provides for withdrawal of approval upon the Administrator's determination, after public hearing, that a State is not administering and enforcing the program in accordance with specified requirements. Sets forth provisions relating to inspections, monitoring, and testing. Sets forth provisions for confidentiality of information, and criminal penalties for violations of such confidentiality. Requires that all information reported to, or otherwise obtained by, the EPA under this Act be made available, upon written request, to any duly authorized committee of the Congress. Sets forth provisions for Federal enforcement of requirements under this Act. Sets forth civil penalties for specified violations. Makes requirements under this Act applicable to Federal facilities. Authorizes the President to grant exemptions from such requirements upon determination that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to do so. Requires the President to report annually to Congress on such exemptions and the reasons for granting them. Provides that nothing in this Act shall preclude or deny any State or local authority to regulate more stringently underground storage tanks used to store hazardous substances. Directs the Administrator, within 36 months after the enactment of this title, to study the following underground storage tanks exempted under the definition of ""underground storage tanks"": (1) farm or residential tanks of 1,100 gallons or less capacity used for storing motor fuel for noncommercial purposes; and (2) tanks used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises where stored. Requires that such study include estimates of the number and location of such tanks and an analysis of the extent to which there may be releases or threatened releases from such tanks into the environment. Directs the Administrator to report to the President and the Congress on the results of the study, with recommendations as to whether or not such tanks should be subject to regulation under this title. Title IV: Amendments of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the environmental tax on petroleum from 0.79 cent to 4.5 cents a barrel, effective October 1, 1985. Extends the period before such tax is terminated until September 30, 1990. Repeals specified CERCLA sunset provisions relating to expiration of the authority conferred by CERCLA to collect environmental taxes. Repeals specified provisions of the Hazardous Substance Response Revenue Act of 1980 relating to the Post-Closure Tax and Trust Fund, and the amendments made by such provisions. Repeals specified CERCLA provisions relating to the Post-Closure Liability Fund. Requires that all sums credited to the Post-Closure Liability Trust Fund established under the Hazardous Substance Response Revenue Act of 1980 which have not been obligated prior to the date of enactment of this title shall be refunded to the persons who paid taxes under specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Requires that such funds be made on a ratable basis in proportion to the total amount of such taxes which were paid by each such person. Adds provisions for a waste end tax, effective January 1, 1987, to Internal Revenue Code provisions for environmental taxes. Imposes such waste end tax on the disposal of any hazardous substance, if such disposal is required to be carried out in compliance with hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Sets the amount of such waste end tax in the case of: (1) any hazardous substance for which there is in effect under specified CERCLA regulations a reportable quantity of one pound or less, at $15 for each metric ton disposed of by underground injection and $30 for each metric ton not disposed of by such method; (2) all hazardous substances for which there is in effect under specified CERCLA regulations a reportable quantity of more than one pound, at $5 for each metric ton disposed of by underground injection and $10 for each metric ton not disposed of by such method. Provides that, in the cases of mixtures of hazardous substances with reportable quantities of one pound or less and those with reportable quantities more than one pound, the entire mixture shall be deemed to have a reportable quantity of one pound or less. Requires the owner or operator of the facility to pay such waste end tax with respect to the disposal of any hazardous substance at a facility for which a permit is in effect under the hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Requires the person disposing of the hazardous substance to pay such waste end tax with respect to any other disposal of any hazardous substance. Provides that such waste end tax shall not apply after September 30, 1990. Sets forth exemptions from such waste end tax. Provides that such tax shall not apply to the disposal of: (1) any substance by incineration in accordance with the standards applicable to incineration facilities under hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (2) any substance by any person in the course of carrying out any removal and remedial action under CERCLA; or (3) any solid waste which is required to be studied under specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act unless, after the completion of the studies, a law is enacted subjecting such waste to the waste end tax. Sets forth definitions and special rules relating to such waste end tax, including rules treating waste as disposed of not later than one year after generation and as generated not earlier than the date such waste is identified as hazardous, and a rule imposing a fraction of the tax for a fraction of a metric ton of waste. Amends the Hazardous Substance Response Revenue Act of 1980 to provide that revenues from such waste end tax shall be deposited in the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund. Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the environmental tax on certain chemicals (and metals). Increases the rate of such tax on most chemicals on the list (but decreases such tax rate for methane). Adds other chemicals (and metals) to such tax list. Eliminates the listings of zinc chloride and zinc sulfate, but adds zinc to the list for purposes of such tax. Revises the exemption for substances derived from coal from such tax on chemicals to provide that the following substances shall not be exempt from such tax: benzene, tolvene, xylene, naphthalene, tars, and light oils. Expands the exemption for substances used in the production of fertilizer from such tax on chemicals to include as qualified substances specified substances which are sold for resale by any purchaser for use or for resale for ultimate use in a qualified use. Makes such amendments relating to the tax on certain chemicals effective on October 1, 1985. Amends the Hazardous Substance Response Revenue Act of 1980 to revise provisions relating to the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund (the Fund). Authorizes appropriations to the Fund for FY 1986 through 1990. Expands the scope of authorized expenditures from the Fund by authorizing expenditures for other (currently related) costs described under specified CERCLA provisions. Increases from 85 percent to 94 percent the Fund amounts reserved for expenditures for specified purposes. Revises provisions relating to the Fund's authority to borrow repayable advances. Extends through March 31, 1988, the period during which advances may be made for payment of response costs. Extends through September 30, 1990: (1) the period during which other advances may be made to the Fund; and (2) the deadline for final repayment of all advances to the Fund.",2025-08-29T17:41:45Z, 98-s-2892,98,s,2892,Superfund Amendments of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-07-31,1984-10-01,"Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department.",Senate,"Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT]",VT,R,S000776,1,"(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Environment and Public Works with amendment, S. Rept. 98-631) Superfund Amendments of 1984 - Title I - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) (""Superfund"") to add provisions relating to Indian tribes. Provides that specified requirements regarding future maintenance and cost-sharing shall not apply in the case of remedial action to be taken on land or water held by an Indian tribe, held by the United States in trust for Indians, held by a member of an Indian tribe (if such land or water is subject to a trust restriction on alienation), or otherwise within the borders of an Indian reservation. Directs the President, in such case, to provide the required assurance regarding the availability of a hazardous waste disposal facility. Adds references to Indian tribes under various CERCLA provisions, including those involving natural resources damages. Provides that the governing body of an Indian tribe shall be afforded substantially the same treatment as a State with respect to specified CERCLA provisions regarding notification of releases, consultation on remedial actions, access to information, cooperation in establishing and maintaining national registries, and roles and responsibilities under the national contingency plan and submittal of priorities for remedial action (but not including the provision regarding the inclusion of at least one facility per State on the national priority list). Defines ""alternative water supplies,"" under CERCLA, as including, but not being limited to, drinking water and household water supplies. Revises provisions relating to credits to States for specified State or local government response action costs. Revises provisions for selection of remedial action to direct the President, in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of proposed alternative remedial actions, to take into account the total short- and long-term costs of such actions, including the costs of operation and maintenance for the entire period during which such activities will be required. Requires that preference be given to remedial actions which have as a principal element treatment which significantly reduces the volume, toxicity, or mobility of the hazardous substances. Declares that, where practicable treatment technologies are available, the offsite transport and disposal of hazardous substances or contaminated materials without such treatment should be the least favored alternative remedial action. Requires that remedial actions selected or otherwise required or agreed to by the President under CERCLA attain, at a minimum, a degree of cleanup of hazardous substances, pollutants, and contaminants from the environment and of control of further release which assures protection of human health and the environment. Requires that, to the extent practicable, such remedial actions completely remove released hazardous substances, pollutants, and contaminants from the environment. Provides that no permit shall be required under hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act for the portion of any removal or remedial action conducted under CERCLA entirely onsite. Requires that any onsite treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants comply with the requirements of specified standards for remedial action added to CERCLA by this Act. Directs the President, subject to such specified requirements, to select the appropriate remedial action which provides a balance 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 Superfund to respond to other sites which present or may present a threat to public health or welfare or the environment, taking into consideration the relative immediacy of such threats. Revises response authority provisions relating to State and Federal contributions to operation and maintenance in case of ground or surface water contamination. Provides that, in such cases, completed remedial action includes the completion of treatment or other measures, whether taken onsite or offsite, necessary to restore ground and surface water quality to a level that assures protection of human health and the environment. Provides that the operation of such measures for a period up to five years after the construction or installation and commencement of operation shall be considered remedial action. Provides that activities required to maintain the effectiveness of such measures following such period or the completion of remedial action, whichever is earlier, shall be considered operation or maintenance. Provides that the Federal share of the payment of costs for such operation or maintenance shall be from funds recovered by the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund (Superfund) under CERCLA during any period after the availability of funds received by the Trust Fund from the environmental taxes on petroleum and certain chemicals or from specified appropriations. Prohibits the President, effective four years after the enactment of this Act, from providing any remedial actions pursuant to CERCLA response authority provisions unless the State in which the release occurs first enters into a contract or cooperative agreement with the President regarding the availability of hazardous waste treatment or disposal facilities. Requires that such contract or cooperative agreement provide assurances deemed adequate by the President that the State will assure the availability of facilities acceptable to the President and in compliance with hazardous waste management requirements under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Requires that such facilities have adequate capacity for the destruction, treatment, or secure disposition of all hazardous wastes that are reasonably expected to be generated within the State during the 20- year period following the date of such contract or cooperative agreement and to be disposed of, treated, or destroyed. Revises response authority provisions relating to cooperative agreements with State or local governments to authorize the President to combine any existing cooperative agreements. Provides for reimbursement to State or local governments under such cooperative agreements not only for reasonable response cost but also for related activities associated with the overall implementation, coordination, enforcement, training, community relations, site inventory and assessment efforts, and administration of remedial activities authorized by CERCLA. Revises health-related response authority provisions under CERCLA. Requires the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to provide consultations upon request on health issues relating to exposure to hazardous or toxic substances, on the basis of available information, to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State officials, and local officials. Allows such consultations to individuals to be provided by States under cooperative agreements. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to perform a health assessment for each release, threatened release, or facility on the National Priority List. Requires that such health assessment be completed: (1) within two years after the enactment date of this Act for each release, threatened release, or facility proposed for inclusion on such list prior to such enactment date; or (2) within one year after the proposal for inclusion on such list for each release, threatened release, or facility proposed for inclusion on such list after such enactment date. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to also perform a health assessment: (1) for each facility for which one is required under specified hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; and (2) upon request of the EPA Administrator, for each facility subject to CERCLA or hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, where there is sufficient data as to what hazardous substances are present in such facility. Authorizes the ATSDR Administrator to perform health assessments for releases or facilities where individual persons or licensed physicians provide information that individuals have been exposed to a hazardous substance, for which the probable source of such exposure is a release. Allows such individual persons or licensed physicians (in addition to other formal or informal methods of providing such information) to submit a petition to the ATSDR Administrator providing such information and requesting a health assessment. Requires the ATSDR, after such a petition is submitted, to either initiate a health assessment or provide a written explanation of why a health assessment is not appropriate. Directs the ATSDR Administrator, in determining sites at which to conduct such health assessments, to give priority to those facilities or sites at which there is documented evidence of release of hazardous constituents, at which the potential risk of human health appears highest, and for which, in the judgment of the ATSDR Administrator, existing health assessment data is inadequate to assess the potential risk to human health. Requires any State or local government carrying out a health assessment to: (1) report the results of the assessment to the ATSDR Administrator; and (2) include recommendations with respect to further activities which need to be carried out. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to: (1) include the same recommendations in a report on the results of any assessment carried out directly the ATSDR; and (2) issue periodic reports which include the results of all such assessments carried out. Sets forth requirements relating to such health assessments. Requires the ATSDR Administrator, at the completion of each health assessment, to provide the EPA Administrator and each affected State with the results of such assessment, together with any recommendations for further action under CERCLA. Provides that, in any case in which such a health assessment (including one required under the Solid Waste Disposal Act) discloses the exposure of a population to the release of a hazardous substance, the costs of such health assessment may be recovered as a cost of response under CERCLA liability provisions from persons causing or contributing to such release of such hazardous substance or, in the case of multiple releases contributing to such exposure, to all such releases. Directs the ATSDR Administrator: (1) whenever appropriate on the basis of the results of a health assessment, to conduct a pilot study of health effects for selected groups of exposed individuals, in order to determine the desirability of conducting full-scale epidemiological or other health studies of the entire exposed population; and (2) whenever appropriate on the basis of such pilot study results, to conduct such full- scale studies. Directs the ATSDR Administrator, in any case in which the results of a health assessment indicate a potentially significant risk to human health, to consider whether the establishment of a registry of exposed persons would contribute to accomplishing the purposes of the health-related response authority provisions, taking into account circumstances bearing on the usefulness of such a registry, including the seriousness or unique character of identified diseases or the likelihood of population migration from the affected area. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to conduct a study and report to Congress within two years after the enactment of this Act on the usefulness, costs, and potential implications of medical surveillance programs as a part of health studies authorized under response authority provisions. Requires such study to include programs which: (1) identify diseases for which an exposed population at excess risk; (2) provide periodic medical testing to screen for such diseases in subgroups of the exposed population at highest risk; and (3) provide for a mechanism to refer for treatment individuals who are diagnosed as having such diseases. Directs the President to take necessary steps to reduce the exposure and eliminate or substantially mitigate the significant risk to human health, if a health assessment or other study carried out under health-related response authority provisions contains a finding that the exposure concerned presents a significant risk to human health. Provides that such steps may include provision of alternative household water supplies and permanent or temporary relocation of individuals. Provides that, in any case which is the subject of a petition, a health assessment or study, or a research program under health-related response authority provisions, nothing in such provisions shall be construed to delay or otherwise affect or impair the authority of the EPA Administrator to exercise any authority vested in the EPA Administrator under any other provision of law (including but not limited to the imminent hazard authority under specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act) or the response and abatement authorities under CERCLA. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to: (1) within six months after the enactment of this Act, prepare a list of at least 100 hazardous substances which, in the sole discretion of the ATSDR Administrator, are determined to be those posing the most significant potential threat to human health due to their common presence at the location of responses under response authority provisions or at facilities on the National Priority List or in releases to which a response under response authority provisions is under consideration; (2) within 24 months after such enactment, prepare a list of an additional 100 or more such hazardous substances; and (3) at least annually thereafter, add to such list other substances which are frequently found or otherwise pose a potentially significant threat to human health by reason of their physical, chemical, or biological nature. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to: (1) assess whether adequate information is available on the health effects of each such substance listed; and (2) assure the initiation of a research program for any such substance for which adequate information is not available (or under development). Requires that such research program: (1) be designed to determine the health effects of such substance and techniques for developing methods to determine such health effects; (2) include specified types of studies and information; and (3) where feasible, seek to develop methods to determine the health effects of such substance in combination with other substances with which it is commonly found. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to consider specified factors in assessing the need to perform laboratory and other studies under such research program. Directs the ATSDR Administrator and the EPA Administrator to coordinate such research program with programs of toxicological testing established under the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act in order to avoid duplication of effort and assure that the hazardous substances listed are tested thoroughly at the earliest practicable date. Allows such a research program to be carried out using such programs of toxicological testing, where appropriate and consistent with such purpose. Expresses the sense of Congress that the costs of such research programs be borne by the manufacturers of the hazardous substance in question, as required in programs of toxicological testing under the Toxic Substances Control Act, or where that is not practical, by parties responsible for the release of the hazardous substance in question. Provides that, to carry out such intention, the costs of conducting such research program shall be deemed a cost of response for the purposes of recovery (under CERCLA liability provisions) of such costs from a party responsible for a release of such hazardous substance. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to prepare, based on all available information, including the data developed and collected on the health effects of such hazardous substances, toxicological profiles sufficient to establish the likely effect on human health of each of the substances so listed. Requires that such profiles be revised and republished as necessary, but no less often than once every five years. Requires that such profiles be provided to the States and made available to other interested parties. Sets forth requirements for peer review of all such studies and research results (other than health assessments). Requires that such peer review be conducted by panels of disinterested scientific experts selected on the basis of their reputation for scientific objectivity and their lack of institutional ties with any person involved in the conduct of the study or research under review. Requires the ATSDR to supply support services for such panels. Authorizes the ATSDR Administrator, in the implementation of these and other health-related authorities under CERLCA, to: (1) establish a program for the education of physicians and other health professionals on methods of diagnosis and treatment of injury or disease related to exposure to toxic substances; and (2) report to the Congress on the implementation of such education program within one year after the enactment of this Act. Directs the President, for the purpose of implementing these and other health-related authorities under CERCLA, to provide adequate personnel (no fewer than 100 full-time equivalent employees) to the ATSDR. Requires the ATSDR to carry out specified activities under specified CERCLA provisions cooperative agreements with State or local governments which the ATSDR Administrator deems capable of carrying out such activities. Provides that such activities shall include the provision of consultations on health information and the conduct of health assessments (including those required under specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act), health studies, and registries. Includes the cost of laboratory studies and health assessments under authorized uses of the Superfund. Requires, for FY 1985, that a specified minimum amount be directly available to ATSDR and used for carrying out epidemiologic studies, long-term health effects study registries of persons exposed to hazardous substances, diagnostic services, and health-related response authorities under CERCLA, including any such activities related to hazardous waste stored, treated, or disposed of at a facility having a permit under specified hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Amends hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to add provisions relating to exposure information and health assessments. Requires, beginning nine months after the enactment of the Solid Waste Disposal Act Amendments of 1984, that each completed application for a permit for a landfill or a surface impoundment be accompanied by information reasonably ascertainable by the owner or operator on the potential for the public to be exposed to hazardous wastes or hazardous constituents through releases related to the unit. Sets forth requirements relating to such information. Requires that such information with respect to landfills or surface impoundments for which a completed permit application has been submitted prior to such enactment date be submitted within nine months after such enactment date. Directs the EPA Administrator (or the authorized State program) to make such information, together with other relevant information, available to the ATSDR. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to conduct a health assessment and take other appropriate action with respect to risks pursuant to specified CERCLA provisions added by this Act whenever a landfill or surface impoundment poses a substantial risk to human health. Provides that such risk may be due to the existence of releases of hazardous constituents, the magnitude of contamination as resulting from such a release, or the magnitude of the exposed to such release or contamination. Provides that a judgment that there is such a risk may be made by the ATSDR Administrator, the EPA Administrator, or the authorized State program. Allows any member of the public to submit evidence of releases of or exposure to hazardous constituents from a facility, or as to the risks or health effects associated with such releases or exposure, to the EPA Administrator, the ATSDR Administrator, or the authorized State program. Revises health-related response authority provisions of CERCLA to provide that the ATSDR shall report directly to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (rather than to the Surgeon General). Specifies that all references to ""the Administrator"" under such health-related response authority provisions shall refer to the ATSDR Administrator. Replaces a reference to ""chromosomal testing"" with a reference to ""appropriate testing."" Revises CERCLA response authority provisions to add provisions for public participation. Requires that notice of the proposed action and opportunity for meeting in the affected area, as well as a reasonable opportunity to comment, be afforded to the public prior to the United States' or a State's final selection of remedial action or entry into a covenant to settle or dispose of a claim arising under CERCLA. Requires that such notice be accompanied by a discussion and analysis sufficient to provide a reasonable explanation of the proposal and alternative proposals considered. Provides for acquisition of all properties in the Love Canal area of New York State. Directs the EPA Administrator, in determining priorities among releases and threatened releases under the National Contingency Plan and in carrying out remedial action under CERCLA response authority provisions, to establish a high priority for the acquisition of all properties (including nonowner occupied residential, commercial, public, religious, and vacant properties) in the area which, before May 22, 1980, the President determined an emergency to exist because of the release of hazardous substances and in which owner-occupied residences have been acquired pursuant to such determination. Directs the President, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, to revise the National Contingency Plan to reflect the requirements of the amendments to CERCLA made by this Act. Requires that the portion of such Plan known as the National Hazardous Substance Response Plan pursuant to CERCLA which are consistent with amendments made by this Act relating to the selection of remedial action. Directs the the President, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate amendments to the hazard ranking system in effect on September 1, 1984 (under CERCLA provisions for the National Contingency Plan). Requires publication of notice and opportunity for submission of comments in accordance with specified Federal law before such promulgation of amendments. Requires that such amendments assure, to the maximum extent feasible, that the hazard ranking system accurately assess the relative degree of risk to human health and the environment posed by sites and facilities subject to review. Directs the President to establish an effective date for the amended hazard ranking system which is not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act. Requires that such amended hazard ranking system be applied to any site or facility to be newly listed on the National Priority List after the effective date established by the President. Requires that the hazard ranking system in effect on September 1, 1984, continue in full force and effect until such effective date of regulations. Provides that no State or local government shall be liable under CERCLA for damages as a result of nonnegligent actions taken in response to an emergency created by the release of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant generated by or from a facility owned by another person. Authorizes the EPA Administrator, in arranging for response actions under CERCLA, to agree to indemnify a contracting party against specified claims arising out of performance of a cleanup agreement to the extent that such claim does not arise out of the negligence of the contracting party. Sets forth provisions for a victim assistance demonstration program under CERCLA. Includes among authorized uses of the Superfund the costs of grants (of up to a specified maximum annual total amount) to each of five States selected by the EPA Administrator to establish and operate a program of assistance to individuals suffering injury resulting from exposure to the relase of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants. Directs the EPA Administrator, upon application pursuant to EPA-established procedures, to select by July 1, 1985, five States to each establish and operate such a program for at least a five-year period. Sets minimum and maximum limits on the amount of each such grant for each fiscal year in FY 1986 through 1990. Requires that States be selected in the sole discretion of the EPA Administrator on the basis of specified criteria. Sets forth requirements for such programs, including provision of group policies of insurance, medical benefits, and disability insurance under specified conditions. Revises CERCLA response authority provisions to require that Superfund money be available for the provision of alternative water supplies (including the reimbursement of costs incurred by a municipality) in any case involving groundwater contamination outside the boundaries of a federally owned facility in which the federally owned facility is not the only potentially responsible party. Revises statute of limitations provisions for specified claims against the Superfund under CERCLA. Sets forth a three-year statute of limitations: (1) after the date of the response action, for claims for the costs of response; (2) after the date on which final regulations are promulgated for the assessment of natural resources damages, for specified claims for such damages; or (3) after the date of the discovery of the loss and its connection with the release in question or the date of enactment of this Act, whichever is later, for claims for any other damages. Sets forth exceptions for minors or incompetent persons. Revises provisions for judicial review of any regulation promulgated under CERCLA. Grants jurisdiction over such matters to any U.S. Court of Appeals for a circuit in which the applicant resides or transacts business which is directly affected by such regulation (in addition to the jurisdiction currently granted to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia). Extends the period for application for such judicial review from 90 days to 120 days from the date of promulgation of such regulation and permits applications beyond such extended deadline where the application is based solely on grounds which arose after such 120-day period. Sets forth procedures to be followed under specified circumstances when applications for review of the same agency action have been filed in two or more U.S. Courts of Appeals. Allows any court in which such an application has been filed to transfer such application to any other U.S. Court of Appeals for the convenience of the parties or otherwise in the interest of justice. Adds to specified provisions concerning CERCLA's relationship to State laws. Provides that nothing in specified CERCLA preemption language shall preclude any State from requiring any person to contribute to a fund to pay: (1) the costs of the non-Federal share or other State responsibilities under specified CERCLA response authority provisions; (2) the direct and indirect costs of response actions at facilities or locations where the President has not responded under CERCLA or in addition to response actions taken under CERCLA; or (3) any other management, enforcement, or administration activities related to response actions or other cleanup of hazardous substances or hazardous wastes. Sets forth provisions relating to Federal facilities. Revises provisions for the President's authority to delegate duties or powers under CERCLA to require the concurrence of the EPA Administrator (or the responsible State official) in the selection of appropriate remedial action with respect to a Federal facility or activity for which such duties or powers are delegated to an officer, employee, or representative of the Federal agency which owns or operates such facility or conducts such activity. Delegates abatement action authority to the EPA Administrator in such cases. Declares that the Congress finds that: (1) a specified Recommendation of the Administrative Conference of the United States is generally consistent with the goals and purposes of CERCLA; and (2) the EPA Administrator should consider such Recommendation and implement it to the extent that the EPA Administrator determines that such implementation will expedite the cleanup of hazardous substances which have been released into the environment. Title II - Extends the termination date for the authority to collect taxes conferred by CERCLA. Provides that, unless reauthorized by the Congress, such authority (other than that relating to the Post-closure Liability Trust Fund and the environmental excise tax on hazardous wastes) shall terminate on September 30, 1990, or when the sum of the amounts received in the Treasury under the environmental excise taxes on petroleum and certain chemicals total $6,470,000,000, whichever occurs first. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for the Emergency Response Trust Fund (Superfund). Makes the amount of such authorization $206,000,000 for each fiscal year of FY 1986 through 1990 (as compared with the $44,000,000 authorization for each fiscal year of FY 1981 through 1985). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the rates of the environmental excise taxes on petroleum and certain chemicals. Extends the termination date of the Environmental excise tax on petroleum to September 30, 1990. Revises provisions relating to definitions and special rules with respect to the environmental excise tax on certain chemicals to add a tax exemption for substances used in the production of animal feed.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-hr-6041,98,hr,6041,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the sale of leaded gasoline.,Environmental Protection,1984-07-30,1984-08-06,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Beilenson, Anthony C. [D-CA-23]",CA,D,B000318,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the sale of leaded gasoline at a lower price than unleaded gasoline. Makes such prohibition effective 90 days after enactment of this Act. Makes such prohibition applicable to: (1) gasoline retailers offering unleaded and leaded gasoline for sale at the same time at the same retail outlet; and (2) refiners, distributors, or resellers offering unleaded and leaded gasoline at the same time under the same conditions of sale. Prohibits, effective January 1, 1986, any person from selling, offering to sell, or introducing into commerce, for use as a fuel for any motor vehicle any gasoline which contains more than 0.1 grams per gallon of lead or lead additives. Makes violators of such prohibitions subject to specified civil penalties under Clean Air Act provisions for regulation of fuels.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z, 98-s-2875,98,s,2875,National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-07-26,1984-08-08,Committee on Commerce. Failed to approve for reporting.,Senate,"Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]",SC,D,H000725,19,"National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere Act of 1984 - Establishes the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere (the Committee). Requires the 13 members of the Committee (the currently established committee has 18 members) to: (1) not be full-time U.S. employees; (2) be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and (3) relfect diverse backgrounds relating to oceanic and atmospheric policy. Requires the Committee to: (1) continually review ocean policy, coastal zone management, and the U.S. marine and atmospheric science and service programs; and (2) advise the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary) with respect to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration programs; (3) submit an annual report to the Secretary, President, and Congress. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) the membership and Chairmanship of the Committee; (2) the terms, compensation and travel expenses of the committee members; and (3) interagency cooperation and assistance. Repeals Federal law establishing qualifications for individuals appointed to the current National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere and authorizing appropriations for such committee. Transfers the personnel and functions of such committee to the Committee established under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985.",2025-08-29T17:41:02Z, 98-hres-555,98,hres,555,A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that it disapproves the appointment of Anne M. Burford as Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere and that the President should withdraw her appointment to that position.,Environmental Protection,1984-07-25,1984-07-31,Resolution Agreed to in House by Yea-Nay Vote: 363 - 51 (Record Vote No: 331).,House,"Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-8]",NY,D,S000124,105,"States that the House of Representatives disapproves the appointment of Anne M. Burford as Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere, and urges the President to withdraw her appointment.",2021-06-29T22:27:03Z, 98-hr-6015,98,hr,6015,A bill to abolish the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere.,Environmental Protection,1984-07-24,1984-07-27,Referred to Subcommittee on Oceanography.,House,"Rep. Ottinger, Richard L. [D-NY-20]",NY,D,O000134,0,Abolishes the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. Repeals the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere Act of 1977.,2021-06-29T21:22:12Z, 98-hr-5958,98,hr,5958,Environmental Monitoring Improvement Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-06-28,1984-07-20,Referred to Subcommittee on Oceanography.,House,"Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-8]",NY,D,S000124,5,"Environmental Monitoring Improvement Act of 1984 - Excludes from the term ""environmental monitoring,"" for purposes of this Act, any monitoring conducted for enforcement purposes under any other Federal law. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to submit to the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality and to the Congress an Environmental Monitoring Report on February 1, 1986, and annually thereafter. Sets forth requirements for the design, preparation, and contents of the Environmental Monitoring Report, including inventories and evaluations of national and international programs. Establishes a National Commission on Environmental Monitoring. Directs the Commission to: (1) investigate and study the Nation's environmental monitoring programs and those international monitoring programs in which the United States participates (directly or by providing support) and recommend to the Congress and the President a plan to improve environmental monitoring; and (2) advise and assist in the preparation of the first Environmental Monitoring Report, in cooperation with the Administrator. Sets forth requirements for Commission membership. Directs the Commission, within three years after the enactment of this Act, to submit a report to the Congress and the President on the results of its investigation and study, together with recommendations for improvements in national environmental monitoring and U.S. participation in international and global monitoring programs. Terminates the Commission upon its submission of such report or upon expiration of such three-year period, whichever is sooner. Requires executive and legislative agencies of the Government to make necessary information available to the Commission. Sets forth provisions for Commission powers, membership compensation, staff, temporary and intermittent services, detailing of personnel from other Federal agencies, hearings, and administrative support services. Sets forth requirements for the contents of the Commission's report, including an implementation plan for creating improvements in environmental monitoring. Sets forth requirements relating to the preparation of such plan. Authorizes appropriations for use by the Commission in carrying out this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency for preparing the Environmental Monitoring Report and for carrying out specified recommendations in the Commission's report.",2025-08-29T17:40:46Z, 98-hr-5970,98,hr,5970,National Acid Deposition Control Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-06-28,1984-06-28,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Vento, Bruce F. [D-MN-4]",MN,D,V000087,3,"National Acid Deposition Control Act of 1984 - Title I: Acid Deposition Control and Assistance Program - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish new requirements for acid deposition control. Sets forth direct federally mandated emission reductions and retrofit technology for the 50 fossil fuel fired electric utility generating plants which had the largest total emissions of sulfur dioxide during the calendar year 1980. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) identify each such plant which emitted sulfur dioxide during calendar year 1980 at an annual average rate equal to or exceeding three pounds per million Btu; (2) within two months after enactment of this Act, publish a list of the 50 plants which have the largest total emissions; (3) notify the owner or operator of each of the 50 plants listed; and (4) within four months after such enactment, and after notice and opportunity for comment, publish a final list of the 50 plants with the largest total emissions. Requires the owner or operator of each plant on the final list to submit to the Administrator, by January 1, 1985, a compliance schedule, including increments of progress. Directs the Administrator to approve or disapprove such schedule, within one year after submission, and after notice and opportunity for hearing. Directs the Administrator, if such schedule is not submitted by the deadline or is not approved, to promulgate a compliance schedule for such plant on January 1, 1986. Provides for modification and publication of such schedules. Requires that each compliance schedule provide that: (1) a technological system of continuous emission reduction be used for each steam generating unit in the fossil fuel fired electric utility generating plant concerned; and (2) sulfur dioxide emissions from such plant for the calendar year 1990 and each calendar year thereafter shall not exceed 1.2 pounds per million Btu heat input and ten percent of the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions during calendar year 1980 (90 percent reduction) or 0.6 pounds per million Btu and 30 percent of the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions during the calendar year 1980 (70 percent reduction). Sets forth procedures for determining plant compliance with such emission limitation. Requires that: (1) contracts be entered into for the purchase and installation of the technological systems of continuous emission reduction by January 1, 1988; (2) such systems be installed and in operation by January 1, 1990; and (3) the emission limitation be achieved for each calendar year after 1989. Directs the Administrator, from the Acid Deposition Control Fund established under this Act, to pay for 90 percent of the costs of construction and installation of the technological system of continuous emission reduction necessary for each such plant to comply with the emission limitation. Directs the Administrator, after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, to promulgate regulations under which such payments: (1) may be made to utilities only if they will be used entirely to reduce those electric rate increases which would otherwise result from such construction and installation; and (2) shall be made at such times as will minimize rate increases. Sets forth requirements for State plans for additional emission reductions of sulfur dioxide. Directs the Administrator, within four months after the enactment of this Act, to compute a State share, for each of the 48 contiguous States, of a 10,000,000 ton reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide by 1993 below that of 1980. Sets forth a formula for computation of State shares. Permits the Governors of two or more States to reallot State shares among agreeing States, if there is an equal or greater total reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide through such reallotment. Sets deadlines and procedures for submission and approval of State plans for such State shares. Directs the Administrator to promulgate a State plan on January 1, 1988, if no State plan has been: (1) submitted by June 1, 1985; or (2) approved by January 1, 1988. Requires State plans for State shares to provide for emission limitations applicable to any stationary sources in the State for which the actual annual sulfur dioxide emission rates have been calculated by the Administrator for the calendar year 1980, other than a source which is one of the listed 50 electric utility plants subject to direct federally mandated emission reductions. Requires that the emission limitations for each stationary source subject to the State plan establish an allowable average annual sulfur dioxide rate at a level such that the total reduction would equal the State share, with specified credits for States in which any of the 50 listed plants are located. Permits State plans for State shares to provide for compliance with emission limitations through use of technological systems of continuous emission reduction or any other appropriate requirements. Directs the Administrator, from the Acid Deposition Control Fund (established within this Act), to pay for 90 percent of the costs of the construction and installation at an electric utility generating plant of any technological system of continuous emission reduction necessary to comply with requirements under a State plan for a State share of sulfur dioxide emission reductions. Subjects such payments to regulations relating to reduction of increases in utility rates. Establishes the Acid Deposition Control Fund in the Treasury consisting of amounts generated by fees imposed under this Act. Make the following portions of the total amount of fees deposited in the Fund available only for the following purposes: (1) 70 percent for facilities covered by direct federally mandated emission reduction requirements under this Act; and (2) 30 percent for facilities covered by State share plan requirements under this Act. Sets forth provisions for allocating such amounts among grant recipients and States. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to be the trustee of the Fund and to report to the Congress for each fiscal year ending on or after September 30, 1984, on its financial condition and the results of its operation during such fiscal year and on its expected condition and operations during the next five fiscal years. Sets forth Fund investment duties of the Secretary. Imposes, under regulations promulgated by the Administrator, a fee of one mill for each kilowatt hour of electric energy: (1) generated in the contiguous 48 States by an electric utility; and (2) imported into the contiguous 48 States. Exempts from such fee electric energy: (1) used at the electric generating facility concerned; or (2) generated by a nuclear generating facility. Requires that a credit against such fee be allowed for each electric utility which at any time installs, or has installed, on any steam generating unit a technological means of continuous emission reduction for the control of emissions of sulfur dioxide. Limits the amount of such credit to not more than 50 percent of the fee payment which would otherwise be required. Limits the total amount of all such credits allowed to a utility to not more than 50 percent of an amount equal to the total costs incurred by the utility for the construction and installation of technological means of continuous emission reduction for the control of sulfur dioxide emissions, minus the total of reimbursements for such costs received by such utility under this Act. Makes such fee effective with respect to electric energy generated, or imported, after December 31, 1984. Makes the fee cease to apply on the date on which all payments authorized under this Act have been made. Authorizes the Administrator to terminate the fee at an earlier date upon estimation that sufficient funds have been collected to fund all such authorized payments. Directs the Administrator to promulgate within six months after enactment of this Act regulations setting forth the time and manner required for payment of such fee and related reporting requirements. Establishes civil penalties for: (1) electric utilities (or importers of electric energy) which fail or refuse to pay such fees or to file required reports; and (2) any person who makes false or misleading statements in such required documents. Directs the Administrator to bring civil actions in such cases. Establishes additional criminal penalties for electric utilities (or importers of electric energy) which knowingly commit such violations. Makes conforming amendments. Title II: Control of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions - Directs the Administrator to revise standards of performance for new stationary sources for emissions of nitrogen oxides from electric utility steam generating units which burn bituminous or subbituminous coal and which commence construction after the enactment of this Act. Prohibits the emission of nitrogen oxides from such units at a rate which exceeds: (1) 0.30 pounds per million Btu, in the case of subbituminous coal; and (2) 0.40 pounds per million Btu, in the case of bituminous coal. Adds to provisions relating to emissions from mobile sources to set the following nitrogen oxide emission standards for model year 1986 and after truck and truck engines: (1) gross vehicle weight of 6,000 pounds or less - 1.2 grams per vehicle mile; (2) 6,000 to 8,500 pounds - 1.7 grams per vehicle mile; and (3) more than 8,500 pounds - 4.0 grams per brake horsepower-hour.",2025-08-29T17:41:08Z, 98-hr-5908,98,hr,5908,Competitive Warranty Act,Environmental Protection,1984-06-21,1984-06-26,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Bates, Jim [D-CA-44]",CA,D,B000236,3,"Competitive Warranty Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to revise provisions which require manufacturers to warrant automobile emission control devices or systems. Requires manufacturers to offer such warranties to the ultimate purchaser as an option. Requires each manufacturer to affix, and each dealer to maintain, on each motor vehicle manufactured after the model year 1984, a label indicating the full cost of applying to such new motor vehicle: (1) the warranty of the vehicle's and engine's compliance with applicable pollution control regulations; and (2) the optional warranty required to be offered for the emission control device or system. Authorizes the Administrator to permit a manufacturer to comply with such labeling requirement by disclosing such information on the label required under the Automobile Information Disclosure Act. Treats violations of the labeling requirement under this Act as violations of the Automobile Information Disclosure Act. Directs the Administrator to utilize the authorities of specified recordkeeping and reporting provisions of the Clean Air Act to verify the costs disclosed by each manufacturer. Makes it a violation of the Clean Air Act for any person to place any false or misleading information on the label required under this Act. Makes conforming amendments.",2025-08-29T17:42:04Z, 98-hr-5903,98,hr,5903,Water Quality Renewal Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-06-20,1984-07-02,Referred to Subcommittee on Water Resources.,House,"Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]",MN,D,O000006,31,"Water Quality Renewal Act of 1984 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (the Act) (also known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1988 for: (1) specified research, investigation, and training programs in water pollution control; (2) State and interstate pollution control programs; (3) undergraduate programs in water quality control; (4) grants for developing waste treatment management plans for areas with substantial water quality control problems; (5) water pollution control programs in agricultural areas; (6) agreements among Government agencies providing for maximum use of existing programs for water quality control; (7) grants to States for lake pollution control; and (8) carrying out the Act generally. Increases the authorization for grants for construction of waste treatment works for FY 1984 and 1985. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1986 through 1988. Revises the timetable for compliance of all pollutants with effluent limitations. Extends the compliance date for all toxic pollutants referred to in a specified table of a congressional committee print (the priority toxic pollutants). Requires such compliance as expeditiously as possible, but in no case later than three years and six months after the date effluent limitations are established. Extends the compliance date for all other toxic pollutants which may be listed under specified provisions of the Act. Requires such compliance as expeditiously as possible, but in no case later than three years and six months after the date effluent limitations are established. Extends the compliance date for application of best conventional technology (for specified conventional pollutants) from July 1, 1984, to July 1, 1987. Extends the compliance date for application of best available technology for all other pollutants. Requires such compliance as expeditiously as possible, but no later than three years and six months after effluent limitations are established. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate final regulations establishing effluent limitations for direct dischargers and limitations requiring pretreatment for all the priority toxic pollutants which are discharged from certain categories of point sources in accordance with a specified schedule. Requires the Administrator to publish in the Federal Register a list of all navigable waters in each State the water quality of which is being impaired by the discharge from specific sources of toxic pollutants. Directs the Administrator to establish an individual control strategy for each listed segment of navigable waters which shall reduce the discharge of toxic pollutants from such sources so as to allow the achievement of water quality which provides for the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and provides for recreation in and on the water. Increases the civil penalties for violations of requirements with respect to water quality standards under the Act, but provides that States are not required by the Act to have civil penalties in the same monetary amount for such violations. Requires the Administrator to monitor, study, and report to Congress on the effects of the impoundment and discharge of waters by dams upon the quality of navigable waters. Sets forth provisions for nonpoint source control implementation programs. Provides for State nonpoint source control reports and plans and grants to States for implementation of such plans. Directs the Governor of each State to prepare and submit for the approval of the Administrator a report on: (1) those portions of the navigable waters within a State that, as a result of pollution from nonpoint sources in whole or in part, are not meeting applicable water quality standards or the goals and requirements of the Act; (2) those categories and subcategories of nonpoint sources which add significant pollutant loadings to each portion of such waters in amounts which contribute to nonattainment of such water quality standards for such goals and requirements; (3) State and local programs for controlling pollutant loadings added from nonpoint sources to such waters, including but not limited to programs receiving Federal assistance under this Act; and (4) the process, including intergovernmental coordination and public participation for identifying best management practices and measures to control such categories and subcategories of nonpoint sources and to reduce, to the maximum extent practicable, the level of pollution resulting from such categories and subcategories. Requires that such reports and updates be based on available information. Permits such reports or updates to include all or part of an approved existing water quality management program. Directs the Governor of each State to prepare and submit for the approval of the Administrator: (1) a plan which the State proposes to implement in the four-fiscal-year period beginning after the date of submission of the report for controlling pollution added from nonpoint sources to navigable waters within the State and for improving the quality of such waters; and (2) a report identifying each Federal department, agency, or instrumentality which is likely to be engaging in, supporting, or providing financial assistance for any activity or program within the State during such four-fiscal-year period and which would be inconsistent with plan implementation, and recommending appropriate administrative modification of such program or activity. Requires that such plans specify the following State practices and measures during the four-fiscal-year period: (1) each portion of navigable waters and land area contributing to nonpoint source pollution which significantly affects portions of such waters; (2) the order of, and schedule for, such implementation; (3) the categories and subcategories of nonpoint sources of pollution; (4) the best management practices and measures; (5) the methods by which the State will encourage, assist, or require such implementation (by category and subcategory of pollution source); and (6) sources of Federal and other assistance other than that provided under this Act which will be available for support of such implementation and the purposes for which such assistance will be used. Requires that such plan be accompanied by a certification by the State attorney general or the head attorney of the State water pollution control agency that State laws provide adequate authority to carry out such programs or a list of any additional authority needed. Requires that such schedule: (1) establish for each category and subcategory of sources an expeditious time period for implementation of best management practices and measures; and (2) indicate estimated dates for such implementation. Requires States to utilize local public and private agencies and organizations with expertise in nonpoint source pollution control, to the maximum extent practicable, in developing and implementing such plan. Requires States, to the maximum extent possible, to develop and implement such plan on a watershed-by-watershed basis. Requires that any State reports or plans required under these nonpoint source control implementation program provisions be submitted to the Administrator within 270 days after enactment of this Act, but provides for a 270-day extension upon request of the Governor. Directs the Administrator to prepare a report which makes specified identifications for a State if the Governor does not submit such report within the required period. Directs the Administrator to consolidate and submit recommendations for modifications of Federal activities and programs submitted by the States to the appropriate Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities. Directs such entities to carry out their activities and programs in a manner consistent with the approved State plan and helpful to its implementation. Sets forth procedures and deadlines for approval, disapproval, or revision of reports, plans, and updates. Directs the Administrator to provide technical assistance to local agencies or organizations in developing plans, whenever a State fails to submit or the Administrator does not approve a plan. Makes such local agencies or organizations eligible to receive implementation assistance after development of such plan. Authorizes the Administrator, upon State request, to provide technical assistance to a State in developing a plan. Sets forth requirements for State petitions, interstate management conferences and agreements, and State plans for reduction of interstate water pollution from nonpoint sources. Directs the Administrator, upon State application, to make grants to each State for which a report and a plan is approved. Provides that such grants shall be made to assist States in implementing such plans. Limits the Federal share of the cost of each plan implemented with Federal assistance in any fiscal year to 50 percent of the cost to the State in implementing such plan, but requires that the Federal share be at least 50 percent and not more than 60 percent of those costs of a plan which are attributable to a watershed area with respect to which the Administrator determines that a significant number of non-Federal, non-State interests of such area are willing and able to enter into agreements to participate in such year in nonsource pollution control measures under such plan. Limits administrative costs (except costs of implementing enforcement and regulatory activities, education, training, technical assistance, demonstration projects or technology transfer programs) to ten percent of the grant amount. Sets forth maintenance of effort requirements for such grants. Limits to 15 percent of the amount appropriated for such grants the amount which may be used to make grants to any one State, including any grants to any local agency or organization with authority to control pollution from nonpoint sources in any area in such State. Authorizes the Administrator to give priority in making grants for each fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1986, to any State which has included effective regulatory mechanisms in its plan and has implemented such mechanisms in the preceding fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to give consideration to a State's inclusion and implementation of effective regulatory mechanisms in determining the Federal share of any such grant. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1985 through 1988. Directs the Administrator, upon application of a State with an approved report and plan, to make grants to assist such State in carrying out groundwater water quality protection activities which will advance the State toward implementation of a comprehensive nonpoint source pollution control program. Requires that such activities include research, planning, groundwater assessments, demonstration programs, enforcement, technical assistance, education, and training to protect groundwater quality and prevent groundwater contamination from nonpoint pollution sources. Makes the Federal share of the cost of assisting a State in such groundwater protection activities in any fiscal year 50 percent of the costs incurred by the State in carrying out such activities, but sets a maximum amount for such Federal assistance to a State in any fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1985 through 1988. Directs the Administrator, by January 1, 1985, and each January 1 thereafter, to report to specified congressional committees on the activities carried out under this Act for the preceding fiscal year and the progress made in reducing nonpoint source pollution in the navigable waters. Directs the Administrator, by January 1, 1988, to transmit a final report to Congress on the activities carried out under this Act, with specified analyses and recommendations. Requires that at least five percent of appropriations for such grants in any fiscal year be available to the Administrator to maintain personnel levels at the Environmental Protection Agency which are adequate to carry out this Act. Includes plans approved under this Act under provisions of the Act for agreements with the Secretaries of Agriculture, Army, and the Interior to provide maximum utilization of programs to achieve and maintain water quality. Declares that it is the national policy that plans for the control of nonpoint sources of pollution be developed and implemented in an expeditious manner so as to enable the goals of the Act to be met through the control of both point and nonpoint sources of pollution. Directs the Administrator, within one year after the enactment of this Act, to submit to specified congressional committees a lake restoration guidance manual establishing procedures to guide future State and local efforts to improve water quality in lakes. Adds to the authorized uses of grants for construction of treatment works projects to address water quality problems due to impacts of discharges from combined storm water and sanitary sewer overflows. Increases for FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years the amount of additional funds which the Administrator shall have available for addressing water quality problems of marine bays and estuaries subject to lower levels of water quality due to the impact of discharges from combined storm water and sanitary sewer overflows. Increases to 65 percent the Federal share of construction costs under the treatment works construction grants program for FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years. (Current law provides that the 75 percent Federal share shall be decreased to 55 percent for FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years.) Provides that the activated bio-filter feature of the project for treatment works of the city of Little Falls, Minnesota, shall be deemed to be an innovative wastewater process and technique for purposes of specified provisions of the Act. Provides that the amount of any grant under the Act for such feature shall be 85 percent of the cost thereof. Authorizes the Administrator, in addition to any grant for innovative technology in treatment works, to make a grant to fund all of the costs of the modification or replacement of biodisc equipment (rotating biological contactors) in any publicly owned treatment works if the Administrator finds that such equipment has not met design performance specifications, unless such failure is attributable to negligence on the part of any person, and if such failure has significantly increased capital or operating and maintenance expeditures. Directs the Administrator, before taking final action on plans, specifications, and estimates for treatment works construction, to enter into a written agreement with the grant applicant which establishes and specifies which items of the proposed project are eligible for Federal payment under specified provisions of the Act. Prohibits the Administrator from later modifying such eligibility determinations unless they are found to have been made in violation of applicable Federal statutes and regulations. Provides that such eligibility determinations shall not preclude the Administrator from auditing a project pursuant to specified provisions of the Act, or other authority, or from withholding or recovering Federal funds for costs which are found to be unallowable or which are incurred on a project which fails to meet design specifications or effluent limitations contained in the grant agreement and permit. Provides for grantee certification of the treatment process. Provides that the approval of construction plans by the Administrator shall not include a determination or approval of the treatment work's unit processes, which constitute the treatment technology. Prohibits the Administrator from approving plans, specifications, and estimates for a project unless the applicant certifies that the proposed unit processes and treatment technology are capable of meeting the effluent limitations for which such process and technology are designed. Revises local treatment works grant conditions to require, within two years after enactment of this Act that: (1) any required areawide waste treatment management plan is being implemented or is being developed with reasonable progress toward implementation; (2) the State is implementing or developing any required State plan and is in compliance with water quality reporting requirements. Provides that a system of user charges which imposes a lower charge for low-income residential users (as defined by the Administrator) shall be deemed to be a user charge system meeting specified requirements for treatment works grants if the Administrator determines that such system was adopted after public notice and hearing. Requires that State allotments for the treatment works construction grants programs for FY 1986 through 1988 be allotted, in accordance with a specified table, for each such year by the Administrator not later than the tenth day which begins after the enactment of this Act. Extends through FY 1988 the authorization of appropriations for minimum allotments to States and specified U.S. territories and possessions. Increases, from thirty-three one-hundredths of one percent to two-thirds of one percent, the portion of the total allotment which shall be allotted to specified U.S. territories and possessions. Extends through FY 1988 specified provisions relating to the reservation of certain amounts from State allotments in order to make grants to States for administration of such allotments. Directs the Administrator to reserve specified amounts from the allotments to the States of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut in order to make grants in FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years to the Interstate Sanitation Commission established by such States by interstate compact to carry out the functions of such Commission under the Act. Extends through FY 1988 specified provisions relating to minimum expenditures for increasing the Federal share of grants for construction of treatment works utilizing innovative processes and techniques. Requires a State to allocate at least 50 percent of its water quality management planning grant in any fiscal year to regional and interstate public comprehensive organizations in such State, except when the Administrator and the Governor determine that such allocation will not substantially assist in achieving the goals of the Act. Directs the Administrator to reserve one-quarter of one percent of appropriations for the treatment works construction grants program for FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years for carrying out investigations and audits of such construction projects. Provides that such sums shall be in addition to any sums otherwise appropriated for or allocated to the Office of the Inspector General. Directs the Administrator to make grants for specified purposes from the appropriate State allotments for treatment works construction to: (1) the city of Avalon, California; (2) the owners of the Rocky River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Rocky River, Ohio; (3) Walker and Smithfield Townships, Pennsylvania; (4) the Elk Pinch Public Service District, Kanawha County, West Virginia; (5) the city of Taylor Mill, Kentucky; and (6) the city of Watsonville, California. Establishes a program of grants to States for establishment of State water pollution control revolving funds for providing assistance to municipalities and intermunicipal and interstate agencies for construction of publicly owned treatment works. Requires a State to first deposit an amount equal to 20 percent of such grant allotted to the State for a fiscal year before such grant can be made. Sets forth certification, reporting, and other requirements relating to such grants and the types of assistance which such revolving funds may offer. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1985 through 1988. Revises innovative technology compliance deadlines for direct dischargers. Requires such compliance within two years after the date for compliance with an effluent limitation which is otherwise applicable. Directs the Administrator, in carrying out specified provisions of the Act, to conduct research, in conjunction with other Federal, State, and interstate agencies, on the harmful effects on the health and welfare of persons caused by pollutants in water. Requires that such research: (1) place special emphasis on the effect that bioaccumulation of pollutants in aquatic species has in reducing the value of aquatic commercial and sport industries; and (2) study methods to reduce and remove pollutants from aquatic species so as to restore and enhance these resources. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1988 for such research. Directs the Administrator, in developing, publishing, and revising water quality criteria, to consider the effects of specified factors on the ecosystem. Requires that new or revised water quality criteria should be established so as to provide an ample margin of safety to protect human health and fish and wildlife resources, and, if there is a well-founded and significant difference of opinion as to the latest scientific and research knowledge in such matters with respect to a pollutant, directs the Administrator to publish a description of such difference of opinion along with the publication of such criteria. Directs the Administrator to promulgate guidelines establishing test procedures for the analysis of pollutants within 90 days from the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to establish a single compliance date for pretreatment standards, upon the request of any source (indirect discharger) subject to two or more pretreatment standards which are promulgated before the enactment of this Act and for which more than one compliance date is prescribed. Requires that such single compliance date not be later than one year after the first of such compliance dates or not later than the last of such compliance dates, whichever occurs first. Requires that the applicant demonstrate that: (1) establishment of a single compliance date will result in earlier compliance by the applicant with all such standards; and (2) the technology which is the basis for one of the applicable pretreatment standards is inconsistent with the technology which is the basis for another of the applicable pretreatment standards, or the pretreatment standard with the later compliance date requires sufficient additional technology to justify such single compliance date. Requires that any such application by a source for a single compliance date be made within 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to: (1) provide public notice of such application within two weeks after its receipt; and (2) approve or deny such application within 60 days after the last day of such two-week period. Extends the deadline for compliance with electroplating pretreatment standards to December 31, 1984. Directs the Administrator to increase the number of employees of the Environmental Protection Agency if necessary to effectively implement pretreatment requirements under specified provisions of the Act. Authorizes the owner or operator of a publicly owned treatment works which receives the treated effluent to grant up to a two-year extension for compliance with a categorical pretreatment standard to any new or existing facility (indirect discharger) which proposes to comply with such standard by using an innovative treatment system meeting specified standards, if: (1) the Administrator determines that the innovative system has the potential for industry-wide application and the action will not cause the publicly owned treatment works to be in violation of its permit; and (2) the Administrator (or a State with an approved pretreatment program) concurs with the proposed action of the owner or operator of such treatment works. Revises provisions for criminal penalties for specified violations under the Act. Adds provisions for civil penalties to be assessed by the Administrator or the Secretary of the Army for specified violations under the Act. Revises provisions for the Clean Lakes Program (a grant assistance program to improve the water quality of lakes). Makes such program applicable to saline, as well as fresh water, lakes. Adds provisions for grants to States for priority projects for control of nonpoint sources of pollution which are contributing to the degradation of water quality in lakes. Directs the Administrator to distribute such grants equitably among the States. Limits the amount of such a grant to not more than 70 percent of the project cost. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 for such grants. Adds provisions for grants to States to carry out approved methods and procedures which may be applied to lakes and other waters to restore water quality, insofar as such quality has deteriorated as a result of high acidity which may be due to acid deposition. Allows any State to submit for approval to the Administrator: (1) a survey of such water quality deterioration; and (2) methods and procedures which may be applied. Specifies some of the methods which may be approved for such purpose. Limits the amount so granted to any State in any fiscal year to more than 80 percent of the funds expended by such State in such year for carrying out such approved methods and procedures. Directs the Administrator to the distribute such grant funds equitably on the basis of the relative need of each applicant State for the restoration of water quality as a result of such deterioration. Provides that such assistance shall be in addition to any other Federal financial assistance. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1985 through 1989. Directs the Administrator to report annually to specified congressional committees on the status and trend of water quality in lakes in the United States, including the nature and extent of pollution loading from point and nonpoint sources and the extent to which the use of lakes is impaired as a result of pollution, particularly with respect to toxic pollution. Directs the Administrator, in cooperation with the State of Texas, to study water quality problems in Lake Houston, Houston, Texas, and undertake control measures to improve water quality. Requires such study to include specified evaluations. Directs the Administrator to report, with recommendations, to specified congressional committees on such study and control measures. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years for such purposes. Directs the Administrator, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Army and in consultation with appropriate State and local agencies, to: (1) conduct a one-year comprehensive study of the Beaver Lake, Arkansas; (2) undertake a demonstration project for measures identified in such study for preserving and enhancing the reservoir's water quality; and (3) report, with recommendations, on such study and project to specified congressional committees. Makes specified funds available for such purposes. Directs the Administrator to undertake demonstration projects for specified cleanup operations for the following New Jersey bodies of water: (1) Greenwood Lake and Belcher Creek; (2) Deal Lake; and (3) Alcyon Lake. Directs the Administrator to report, with recommendations, on such projects to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations for such projects. Revises provisions for permits under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). Provides that such permits are for fixed terms not exceeding ten years (currently five years), but not exceeding five years in any case: (1) where the permit modifies specified requirements of the Act; or (2) where the State determines that the applicant has not consistently complied with any NPDES permit held by such applicant. Requires that such permits be modified promptly to insure compliance with any new or revised effluent limitation for toxic pollutants or any new or revised requirement pursuant to water quality standards established under specified provisions of the Act which is more stringent than the existing effluent limitation or requirement in the permit or which controls a pollutant not controlled in the permit. Prohibits the Administrator from requiring an NPDES permit, or from directly or indirectly requiring any State to require such a permit for discharges of stormwater runoff from mining operations or oil or gas exploration, production, processing, or treatment operations composed entirely of flows which are: (1) from conveyances or conveyance systems used for collecting and conveying precipitation runoff; and (2) not contaminated with process wastes, overburden, raw materials, toxic pollutants above natural background levels, spilled product, hazardous substances, or oil, or grease. Requires any person discharging such stormwater runoff to: (1) monitor the quality of water in such flows; and (2) report at least annually to the Administrator on the results of such monitoring. Prohibits the Administrator to the extent that inadequate design or operation of a publicly owned treatment works causes such works to fail to meet NPDES permit requirements, from requiring (in issuing an NPDES permit) pretreatment by a discharger of identified conventional pollutants which are introduced into such treatment works other than pretreatment to assure compliance with specified pretreatment standards. Provides that such prohibition shall not affect specified authorities of the Administrator and of State and local governments under the Act. Authorizes a State Governor to submit an NPDES permit program for a portion of the discharges into the navigable waters in such State. Requires that such a partial permit program cover at a minimum administration of a major category of the discharges into the navigable waters of the State or a major component of the State's NPDES permit program. Authorizes the Administrator, if specified conditions are met, to approve: (1) a partial permit program covering administration of a major category of discharges; or (2) a partial and phased permit program covering administration of a major component (including discharge categories) of a State permit program. Provides that a State may return, or the Administrator may withdraw approval of, delegated NPDES permit program responsibilities. Directs the Administrator, for up to ten years after the enactment of this Act, to administer the terms of permits for two specified pulp mills in Alaska, and prohibits the Administrator from setting discharge standards under such permits which are less than those in effect on May 10, 1984. Provides that the term ""point source"" does not include agricultural stormwater discharges. Authorizes the Administrator to make a grant to the city of New York to install additional facilities and make modifications necessary for the Newtown Creek sewage treatment plant to provide secondary treatment. Makes the Federal share 75 percent of the cost of such project. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years. Provides that such funds shall be in addition to any other amounts authorized under the construction grants program provisions of the Act. Directs the Administrator to make grants to the city of San Diego, California, for construction of a project consisting of: (1) a publicly owned treatment works in such city to provide primary or advanced treatment of not less than 60,000,000 gallons of municipal sewage and industrial waste per day for the city of Tijuana, Mexico; and (2) a publicly owned treatment works in such city to provide primary or more advanced treatment of such amount of municipal sewage and industrial waste per day for such city of San Diego as may be necessary to meet the objectives of the Act. Sets forth requirements relating to such grants and projects. Permits, through 1993, the discharge of pollutants for any ocean outfall constructed with such Federal assistance if such pollutants have received primary or more advanced treatment. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for such grants for FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years. Directs the Administrator to make grants to the city of Naco, Arizona, for construction of a project consisting of a publicly owned treatment works in such city to provide primary or more advanced treatment of not less than 150,000 gallons of untreated sewage emanating from the city of Naco, Sonora, Mexico. Sets forth requirements relating to such grants and project. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator to make such grants for FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years. Prohibits the city of New York, after March 15, 1986, from discharging raw sewage into navigable waters in an amount which is greater for any 30-day period than an amount equal to 30 times the average daily discharge by the city during the 12-month period preceding such date. Authorizes the Administrator to waive such limitation to the extent and for such limited period of time as may be reasonably necessary for the city to resume operation of a wastewater treatment plant operated by the city, in the event of any significant interruption in such operation. Directs the Administrator to undertake measures, including modifications of compliance schedules, to reduce and eliminate at the earliest practicable date the discharge of raw sewage by the city of New York, taking into account any increase in the authorization for grants for the construction of treatment works made by this Act and standards and practices necessary for attaining a specified level of water quality. Provides that the Okolona Sewer Construction District, Jefferson County, Kentucky, shall be permitted to operate the Okolona Sewage Construction District Treatment Works and shall not be required to use any other facility for wastewater treatment until the West County Wastewater Treatment Plant, Jefferson County, Kentucky, is completed. Directs the Administrator to issue a permit under the Act for such purpose. Directs the Administrator to make grants to the Metropolitan District Commission, Massachusetts, for a project to undertake emergency improvements at the Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant in Boston, Massachusetts. Limits the Federal share to 75 percent of the cost of such improvements. Authorizes appropriations for each of FY 1985 through 1987 for such grants. Directs the Administrator, notwithstanding any provision of the Act, to pay, to the extent provided in appropriation Acts, in the same proportion as the Federal share of other project costs, all expenses for the relocation of facilities for the distribution of natural gas with respect to the entire wastewater treatment works known as Oakwood Beach and Red Hook projects, New York. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years for such purpose. Directs the Administrator to undertake necessary measures, including removal of accumulated raw sewage, to restore the quality of the waters adversely affected by the raw sewage discharge into Brady's run, Pennsylvania, which resulted from the destruction of the Chippewa Township, Pennsylvania, sewage treatment facility. Directs the Administrator to study the feasibility and desirability of eliminating the regulation of discharges of pollutants into navigable waters in amounts which, in terms of volume, concentration, and type of pollutant, are not significant (de minimis discharges). Directs the Administrator to report, with recommendations, in such study to specified congressional committees within one year after enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to study the effectiveness of specified innovative and alternative wastewater treatment processes and techniques which have been used in treatment works constructed under the Act. Sets forth requirements relating to such study. Directs the Administrator to report, with recommendations to specified congressional committees within two years after enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to study the water quality improvements which have been achieved by application of best available technology economically achievable pursuant to specified provisions of the Act. Sets forth requirements relating to such study. Directs the Administrator to report, with recommendations, on such study to specified congressional committees within two years after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to study the testing procedures for analysis of pollutants established under specified provisions of the Act. Sets forth requirements relating to such study. Directs the Administrator to report, with recommendations, on such study to specified congressional committees within one year after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator, biennially after the date of submission of such report, to conduct a state-of-the-art review of such test procedures to determine their adequacy and effectiveness. Directs the Administrator to submit to such congressional committees recommendations, based on such review for modifying such test procedures to improve their effectiveness. Directs the Administrator to study the pretreatment of toxic pollutants, including a study of: (1) the adequacy of data on environmental impacts of toxic industrial pollutants discharged through publicly owned treatment works; (2) the extent to which secondary treatment at publicly owned treatment works removes toxic pollutants; (3) the capability of publicly owned treatment works to revise pretreatment requirements under specified provisions of the Act; (4) possible alternative regulatory strategies for protecting the operations of publicly owned treatment works from industrial discharges, including evaluation of each such strategy's potential to achieve the goals of the Act; and (5) the adequacy of Federal, State, and local resources to establish, implement, and enforce multiple pretreatment limits for toxic pollutants for each alternative strategy identified. Directs the Administrator to report, with recommendations, on such study to specified congressional committees within two years after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to study the problem of the corrosive effects of sulfides in collection and treatment systems, the extent to which the uniform imposition of categorical pretreatment standards will exacerbate this problem, and the range of available options to deal with the effects. Requires that such study be conducted in consultation with the Los Angeles City and County sanitation agencies which have observed examples of corrosion probably caused by sulfides. Directs the Administrator to report, with recommendations, on such study to specified congressional committees within one year after the enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years for such study and report. Requires as new conditions for the modification of treatment requirements with respect to the discharge of pollutants from a publicly owned treatment works that an applicant for such modification demonstrate that: (1) in the case of a treatment works serving a population of 50,000 or more, there is in effect a specified pretreatment program for toxic pollutants introduced into such works for which there is no pretreatment requirement in effect; and (2) the effluent which is discharged from such works is receiving primary treatment and meets the criteria for water quality established by the Administrator. Revises the meaning of the phrase ""discharge of any pollutant into marine water."" Sets forth provisions relating to maintenance of water quality in estuaries. Directs the Administrator to convene a management conference upon determination that the attainment or maintenance of water quality in an estuary requires the control of sources of pollution in more than one State. Sets forth requirements for conference membership. Requires that an interstate agency be the lead agency for carrying out such provisions in any case in which such agency has jurisdiction over all or a significant part of the estuary. Directs the Administrator to give priority consideration under such provisions to: (1) Long Island Sound; (2) Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts; and (3) Delaware Bay, Delaware and New Jersey. Prohibits convening such a conference before a final adjudication has been made in any pending State boundary dispute involving the estuary. Provides that such a management conference shall establish and provide for the implementation of a master plan which addresses the pollution problems of the estuary involved. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to States participating in such a management conference which are equal to 50 percent of a State's cost of implementing a master plan for a fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for such grants. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for FY 1984 through 1988 for: (1) administrative expenses with respect to such management conferences; (2) grants for the development of master plans for estuaries; and (3) monitoring the implementation of such master plans. Adds provisions relating to Chesapeake and Narragansett Bays. Directs the Administrator to continue the Chesapeake Bay program and to establish and maintain in the EPA an office, division, or branch of Chesapeake Bay Programs to: (1) collect and disseminate research and other information on the environmental quality of the Bay; (2) coordinate Federal and State efforts to improve the quality of research projects pertaining to the Bay; (3) conduct research on sediment deposition in the Bay; and (4) conduct research on how natural and man-induced environmental changes impact on the living resources of the Bay, with particular emphasis on the impact of pollutant loadings of nutrients, chlorine, acid precipitation, dissolved oxygen, and toxic pollutants, (including organic chemicals and heavy metals), and with special attention to the impact on the striped bass. Directs the Administrator, at the request of the Governor of a State affected by the interstate management plan developed under the Chesapeake Bay program, to make a grant to implement management mechanisms in the plan if the State has, within one year after the date of enactment of this Act, approved and committed to implement all or substantially all aspects of the plan. Requires a State or combination of States in order to qualify for such grants, to submit a plan for proposed abatement actions and estimated costs for the approval of the Administrator. Limits such grants to 50 percent of the plan implementation costs in any year and requires non-Federal sources to provide the remainder of such costs during such fiscal year. Limits administrative costs to ten percent of the annual Federal grant to a State. Requires States to submit progress reports to the Administrator within 18 months after the receipt of such grants, and biennally thereafter. Directs the Administrator to transmit such reports, with comments, to Congress. Directs the Administrator, at the request of the Governor of an affected State and after consultation with appropriate Federal and State agencies and other interested persons, to make a grant for purposes of assessing the principal factors having an adverse effect on the environmental quality of the Narragansett Bay, as perceived by both scientists and users, in conjunction with developing and implementing a management program to improve such Bay's water quality. Limits such grants to 50 percent of the program implementation costs and requires non-Federal sources to provide the remainder. Requires States to submit descriptions of the proposed programs for the approval of the Administrator. Directs the Administrator to approve each such program within three months of receipt if the applicant State demonstrates that it will: (1) establish a committee to provide advice on design and implementation of a management program and to coordinate communication on issues affecting such Bay's water quality; (2) review and coordinate federal and State water pollution abatement programs to address adverse water quality factors; (3) establish methods for improving sampling data collection and a system for collecting, analyzing, storing, and disseminating such data; and (4) develop and implement within three years after enactment of this Act, water quality management practices and measures (including land use requirements) to reduce to the greatest extent feasible pollutant loadings in such Bay and to improve its water quality. Requires States to submit progress reports to the Administrator, within two years after issuance of such grants and annually thereafter. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1988 for such Chesapeake and Narragansett Bays programs. Sets forth provisions relating to the New York and New Jersey Harbor area (the Harbor). Directs the Administrator to: (1) collect and make available information on the environmental quality of the Harbor; (2) coordinate Federal and State efforts to improve the Harbor's water quality; and (3) determine the impact of natural and man-induced environmental changes on the living resources of the Harbor and on adjacent coastal areas and the relationships among such changes, with particular emphasis on the impact of pollutant loadings of sewage, dissolved oxygen, and toxic pollutants, including organic chemicals and heavy metals. Directs the Administrator, at the request of the Governor of a State affected by any interstate management plan relating to the Harbor and developed pursuant to specified provisions of this Act for maintenance of water quality in estuaries, to make a grant to implement the management mechanisms contained in such plan. Allows an affected State or combination of States to submit, to the Administrator a plan including the estimated cost of the abatement actions proposed to be taken during the next fiscal year. Directs the Administrator, if the plan is consistent with specified national policies and goals under the Act, to approve such plan and to finance up to 50 percent of the costs of implementing such plan in any fiscal year, on condition that non-Federal sources provide the remainder of such costs. Limits administrative costs to ten percent of such annual Federal grant to a State. Requires such States to submit progress reports on the implementation of such plans, within 18 months after the date of receipt of such grant and biennially thereafter. Directs the Administrator to transmit such reports, with comments, to Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1988 for purposes of such provisions for the Harbor. Authorizes the Administrator to undertake a study on consumptive uses of Great Lakes water. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct such study in cooperation with other interested Federal agencies and the eight Great Lake States and their local governments. Requires such study to focus on all possible control measures which can be implemented to reduce the quantity of Great Lakes water consumed without adversely affecting the projected growth of the Great Lakes region. Requires that such study include an analysis of both existing and new technology which appears to be feasible in the foreseeable future. Requires that such study include at a minimum: (1) a review of methodologies used to forecast Great Lakes consumptive uses; (2) an analysis of the effect that enforcement of provisions of the Act relating to thermal discharges has had on consumption of Great Lakes water; (3) an analysis of the effect of laws, regulations, and national policy objectives on consumptive uses of Great Lakes water used in manufacturing; (4) an analysis of the economic effects on a consuming industry and other Great Lakes interests associated with a particular consumptive use control strategy; (5) an analysis of associated environmental impacts, both singularly and in combination with other consumptive use control strategies; and (6) a summary discussion with recommendations for methods of controlling consumptive use so as to maximize benefits to the Great Lakes ecosystem and also provide for continued full economic growth for consuming industries as well as other industries which depend on the use of Great Lakes water. Authorizes appropriations for such study for FY 1985 and subsequent fiscal years. Grants an exception to a time limitation relating to an application for a permit modification for less than secondary treatment involving an ocean discharge. Provides that a publicly owned treatment works which, before December 1, 1982, had a contractual arrangement to use a portion of the capacity of another publicly owned treatment works which has applied for or receives such a modification, may apply for such a modification for itself within 30 days after enactment of this Act. Designates the Great Lakes National Program Office of the Environmental Protection Agency as the Great Lakes International Coordination Office. Directs the head of the Office to serve as the principal liaison person on Great Lakes matters to the International Joint Commission, United States and Canada. Requires the Office to: (1) develop and implement specific action plans to carry out U.S. responsibility under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978; (2) coordinate Agency actions aimed at improving Great Lakes water quality; (3) coordinate Agency actions with other Federal, State, and local authorities; (4) establish a Great Lakes system-wide surveillance network to monitor the water quality of the Great Lakes, with emphasis on monitoring toxic pollutants; and (5) serve as liaison with, and provide information to, the Canadian members of the Commission and the Canadian counterpart of the Agency. Directs the Administrator to: (1) ensure that the Office enters into specified agreements with Agency organizational elements involved in Great Lakes activities in the appropriate State agencies; and (2) include a funding request for the office as a separate budget line item in the Agency's annual budget submission to Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for the Office. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 to carry out water quality studies of the Great Lakes under the Act. Directs the Administrator, within 120 days after enactment of this Act and at the beginning of each fiscal year thereafter, to submit to Congress a comprehensive assessment of the planned efforts to be pursued in the succeeding fiscal year for implementing the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978. Requires such assessment to include specified information. Directs the Administrator, within 150 days after the end of each fiscal year, to submit to Congress a comprehensive report which describes specified achievements, progress, and long-term prospects for improving Great Lakes water quality. Authorizes the Administrator (or an approved State program) to issue a permit which modifies specified requirements with respect to the pH level of any discharge, and with respect to discharges of iron and manganese, from the remined area of any coal remining operation. Requires that such modified requirements apply the best available technology economically achievable on a case-by-case basis, using best professional judgment. Prohibits such a permit from allowing the pH level of any discharge, or the discharges of iron and manganese, to exceed the levels being discharged from the remined area before the coal remining operation begins. Provides that no payment may be made under this Act except to the extent provided in advance in appropriation Acts.",2025-08-29T17:38:49Z, 98-s-2741,98,s,2741,A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to clarify liability for criminal acts with respect to hazardous waste.,Environmental Protection,1984-06-07,1984-06-07,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]",NJ,D,L000123,1,Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to revise provisions relating to liability for criminal acts with respect to hazardous waste.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-hr-5794,98,hr,5794,National Acid Deposition Control and Cost Sharing Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-06-06,1984-06-11,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Eckart, Dennis E. [D-OH-11]",OH,D,E000031,3,"National Acid Deposition Control and Cost Sharing Act of 1984 - Title I: - Amends the Clean Air Act (the Act) to establish a national acid deposition control and cost sharing program. Establishes new requirements for acid deposition control. Defines an ""acid deposition impact region"" as the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia. Defines ""existing major emitting electric powerplant"" as any fossil fuel-fired steam electric power plant consisting of one or more steam generating units which: (1) is a major emitting facility; and (2) had been in commercial operation on or before December 31, 1980. Provides that steam generating units not in commercial operation on or before December 31, 1980, shall not be considered part of an existing major emitting electric powerplant. Defines ""innovative emission limitation system"" as a technological system of continuous emission reduction which has not been adequately demonstrated on a commercial scale and which, compared with any system which has been adequately demonstrated, has a substantial likelihood of achieving: (1) either greater continuous emission reduction of sulfur dioxide or greater simultaneous reduction of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions; and (2) reduction of sulfur dioxide emissions at a lower cost in terms of energy, economic, or nonair quality environmental impact. (Gives limestone injection multistage burners (""LIMB"") as an example of an innovative emission limitation system.) Sets forth requirements for emission reduction from major existing electric powerplants. Requires that, by January 1, 1996, the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions from existing major emitting powerplants in the acid deposition impact region shall not exceed a level 10,000,000 tons less than the actual level of such emissions from such powerplants in 1980. Prohibits any existing major emitting electric powerplant in the acid deposition impact region from increasing its annual emissions of sulfur dioxide (measured in tons per year) above the actual annual rate of emissions experienced by the plant during 1978, 1979, or 1980, unless: (1) there has been identified for such plant an enforceable, contemporaneous, and equivalent reduction in actual emissions not otherwise required under the Act at one or more points within the same State or (with the permission of the Governors of such States) within other States within the region; (2) the increase is authorized in an approved plan under this Act; or (3) the increase is due to a conversion completed pursuant to the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974, the Fuel Use Act of 1978, or the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, to the extent that such conversion does not result in emissions exceeding one and two-tenths pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btus of heat input on an annual average. Makes violations of such prohibition violations of applicable implementation plans and emission limitations under specified provisions of the Act. Provides that no expenditure of funds on an existing major emitting electric powerplant in order to satisfy an emission limitation under this Act shall be deemed a reconstruction of that plant (or any part thereof) for any purpose under the Act. Sets forth requirements for State sulfur dioxide reduction plans. Requires each State in the acid deposition impact region to achieve its share of the reduction in annual sulfur dioxide emissions required for the entire region. Bases such share on the actual 1980 sulfur dioxide emissions which are in excess of one and two-tenths pounds per million Btus from existing major emitting electric powerplants within such State. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, after consultation with the Governors of the States in the region, to publish within six months after enactment of this Act, a list identifying such powerplants and 1980 emissions and specifying the sulfur dioxide emissions reductions which each State must achieve. Requires that, in the determination of the emission reductions which each State must achieve, a credit be provided to any State in which emission reductions are required for any of 50 power plants (or substitute units) subject to specified federally mandated emission reductions under this Act. Authorizes the Governors of any two or more States in the region to reallot among agreeing States such required reductions, provided that the total reductions equal the required total. Prohibits court review of any such list or agreement. Requires each State in the region, within three years after enactment of this Act, to submit a plan to achieve its required share of the reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions. Directs the Administrator to approve, within 12 months after its submission, any such plan or plan modification if, taking into consideration the comments of Governors of other States in the region, the Administrator finds that the plan or plan modification: (1) contains compliance schedules and authorized emission reduction methods or programs; (2) contains adequate monitoring requirements; and (3) is adequate to achieve the required total reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions for such State as expeditiously as practicable, but no later than January 1, 1996. Makes each emission limitation, compliance schedule, or other measure approved under this Act, a requirement of an applicable implementation plan and an emission limitation for purposes of specified provisions of the Act. Sets forth alternative sulfur dioxide reduction requirements. Provides that, if a State plan which fully satisfies the requirements of this Act has not been approved by January 1, 1989, an annual average emission limitation of one and two-tenths pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btus shall apply to each existing major emitting electric powerplant within such State in the region. Requires the owner or operator of each such powerplant within such State to submit to the Administrator, by July 1, 1989, a plan for achieving such emission limitation. Directs the Administrator to approve such plan or plan modification within 12 months if it meets the same criteria and deadline as required for a State plan. Makes any measure approved under such plan (and of those specified requirements for an owner or operator) a requirement of an applicable implementation plan and an emission limitation for purposes of specified provisions of the Act. Sets forth provisions for authorized emission reduction programs. Authorizes, for purposes of State plans under this Act, the use of any emission reduction method or program, if: (1) emission limitations under such method or program are enforceable; and (2) such emissions reductions occur within the State or within other agreeing States in the region. Provides that such authorized methods or programs may include: (1) any technological system of continuous emission reduction; (2) least emission dispatch to meet electric generating demand at existing generating capacity; (3) retirement of existing major emitting electric powerplants or portions thereof at an earlier date than provided in schedules on file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, or State utility regulatory agencies; (4) investments in energy conservation with which quantifiable reductions in emissions can be identified; (5) trading of emissions reduction requirements imposed under this Act, and actual reductions not otherwise required under the Act; and (6) fuel substitution (unless otherwise prohibited by the State). Allows a State plan or plan modification to require emission reductions at sources other than existing major emitting electric powerplants, if such reductions are actual emission reductions not otherwise required under the Act. Requires, for purposes of powerplant owner or operator plans which are submitted when State plans have not been approved on time, that authorized reduction methods or programs: (1) meet all the requirements for those under State plans; (2) reduce emissions at sources owned or operated by the person submitting the plan (with specified exceptions); and (3) be limited to technological systems of continuous emission reduction, least emission dispatch to meet electric generating demand at existing generating capacity, early retirement of powerplants, and trading of emission reduction requirements and actual reductions (whether or not such requirements or reductions occur at sources owned or operated by the person submitting the plan). Directs States and the Administrator to establish emission reduction banks or brokerage institutions to facilities trading in emissions reduction requirements imposed under this Act, and actual reductions not otherwise required under the Act. Sets forth direct federally mandated emission reductions. Directs the Administrator to: (1) identify each existing major emitting electric powerplant which emitted sulfur dioxide during calendar year 1980 at an annual average rate equal to or exceeding three pounds per million Btus; (2) within two months after enactment of this Act, publish a list of the 50 plants which have the largest total emissions and notify the owner or operator of each of the 50 plants listed; and (3) within four months after such enactment, and after notice and opportunity for comment, publish a final list of the 50 plants with the largest total emissions. Sets forth procedures for excluding units from, and placing substitute units on, such list. Requires the owner or operator of each plant on the final list and of each approved substitute unit to submit to the Administrator, within 12 months after enactment of this Act, a compliance schedule, including increments of progress. Directs the Administrator to approve or disapprove such schedule, within one year after submission, and after notice and opportunity for hearing. Directs the Administrator, if such schedule is not submitted by the deadline or is not approved within two years after enactment of this Act, to promulgate a compliance schedule for such plant on January 1, 1989. Provides for modification and publication of such schedules. Requires that each compliance schedule provide that: (1) a technological system of continuous emission reduction be used for each steam generating unit in the powerplant concerned; and (2) through compliance with specified requirements relating to precombustion fuel cleaning, sulfur dioxide emissions from such plant for the calendar year 1993 and each calendar year thereafter shall not exceed 1.2 pounds per million Btus heat input. Sets forth procedures for determining listed plant and substitute unit compliances with such emission limitation. Requires that: (1) contracts be entered into for the purchase and installation of the technological systems of continuous emission reduction by January 1, 1988; (2) such systems be installed and in operation by January 1, 1993; and (3) the emission limitation be achieved for each calendar year after 1992. Prohibits any such emission limitation (under these provisions for federally mandated sulfur dioxide emission reductions at the 50 listed plants or substitute units) from being complied with, in whole or in part, through the use by an existing major emitting electric powerplant of coal which has a signficantly lower sulfur content prior to precombustion cleaning than the average sulfur content prior to precombustion cleaning of coal used by that powerplant during any six-month period selected by the owner or operator of the powerplant in the five-year period ending December 31, 1983. Provides that such emission limitations, compliance schedules, and other requirements under these provisions shall be treated as emission limitations and requirements in effect under applicable implementation plans for purposes of specified provisions of the Act. Sets forth provisions relating to precombustion cleaning. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, and after notice and opportunity for public comment, to promulgate regulations requiring the precombustion cleaning of coal used as fuel by major emitting facilities. Provides that such regulations shall require that, not later than two years after the enactment of this Act, no coal may be used as fuel by any major emitting facility unless: (1) its sulfur content has been reduced, through the use of precombustion cleaning, to the maximum level achievable through the use of technology which is generally available on the date of enactment of this Act; or (2) the Administrator determines that, due to the low sulfur content of the coal used as fuel by such facility, such precombustion cleaning is not economically feasible. Provides that such regulations shall not apply to coal produced from any mine which was in operation during calendar year 1983 and produced less than 100,000 short tons during such year. Provides that any such requirements shall be treated as emission limitations and requirements of an applicable implementation plan for purposes of specified provisions of the Act. Directs the Administrator, before October 1, 1989, to contract with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to study and report on: (1) the significant adverse effects on public health and welfare which may reasonably be associated with atmospheric deposition of acidic compounds; (2) areas of the country which are, or are exposed to a significant risk of, experiencing such effects; (3) whether and to what extent particular sources in particular areas can reasonably be associated with the atmospheric acidic compounds associated with such risks and effects; and (4) the availability of controls for such sources and the social and economic costs of controlling them so as to eliminate or significantly mitigate such risks and effects. Requires that the NAS report be submitted to the President and Congress before December 31, 1996. Directs the Administrator to submit to Congress, before June 1, 1997, draft legislation to require, if necessary, further emission control strategies that are consistent with the NAS report. Sets forth provisions relating to innovative control orders. Allows the owner or operator of any existing major electric powerplant (or any substitute unit) which is subject to federally mandated emission reductions under this Act to apply for such an order on or before January 1, 1987. Allows the owner or operator of any existing major electric powerplant which is subject to emission limitations under a State plan under this Act or alternative emission limitations under this Act to apply at any time for such an order. Authorizes the Administrator to issue an innovative control order to an existing major emitting electric powerplant (or substitute unit), after consultation with the Governor of the State where the plant is located, upon determining that: (1) the plant owner or operator will expeditiously use an innovative emission limitation system which is reasonably likely to be adequately demonstrated, upon expiration of the order; (2) such system is not likely to be used at the plant unless such order is granted; (3) the owner or operator has demonstrated that the proposed system will not cause or contribute to an unreasonable risk to public health, welfare or safety in its operation, function, or malfunction; and (4) the granting of such order will not make the total number of such orders with respect to such system exceed that which the Administrator finds appropriate to ascertain whether or not such system has been adequately demonstrated or will achieve an equivalent continuous reduction at lower cost in terms of energy, economic, or nonair quality environmental impact. Prohibts the issuance of any such innovative control order after January 1, 1988, in the case of a major existing electric powerplant (or substitute unit) which is subject to federally mandated emission reductions under this Act. Requires that such innovative control orders: (1) specify a final date of compliance with emission limitations under this Act, which shall not be later than January 1, 1996, with specified exceptions; and (2) set forth compliance schedules containing increments of progress which require such compliance as expeditiously as practicable. Requires a source, during the period covered by an innovative control order, to comply with interim requirements which the Administrator: (1) determines are reasonable and practicable; and (2) specifies in the order. Prohibits any enforcement action from being pursued based upon noncompliance with any emission limitation under this Act which is covered by the innovative control order during the period for which such order is in effect. Makes any compliance schedule or interim requirement imposed in an innovative control order a requirement of an applicable implementation plan and an emission limitation for purposes of specified provisions of the Act. Authorizes the Administrator to revoke, extend, or modify an innovative control order upon specified determinations. Establishes in the Treasury an Acid Deposition Control Trust Fund (the Fund). Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (the Secretary) to establish the Fund within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides that the Fund shall continue in existence until all distributions have been made in accordance with this Act. Provides that any amount remaining in the Fund on January 1, 2006, shall be used to make additional payments which may be required on account of past underpayments; or to make payments for specified research, development, demonstration, and services. Provides that, after such additional payments have been made, and all repayments into the Fund required on account of past overpayments have been collected, any remaining amount in the Fund shall be distributed to the owners and operators of existing major emitting electric powerplants in proportion to the amount of fees they paid during the Fund's lifetime, but only if they pass on such refunded payment to their current customers in the form of a rebate or rate reduction. Directs the Secretary to: (1) be the Fund's trustee; (2) manage the Fund by investing in a specified manner any portion of the Fund not required to meet current obligations; (3) report annually to Congress on the financial condition of the Fund; and (4) make a final report, and accounting, to Congress at the termination of the Fund. Imposes, under regulations promulgated by the Administrator, a fee of one and three-tenths mill for each kilowatt hour of electric energy: (1) generated in the contiguous 48 States by an electric utility; and (2) imported into the 48 contiguous States. Exempts from such fee electric energy: (1) used at the electric generating facility concerned; or (2) generated by a nuclear generating facility. Makes such fee effective with respect to electric energy generated, or imported, after December 31, 1984. Makes the fee cease to apply on December 31, 1999. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations setting forth the time and manner required for payment of such fee and related reporting requirements. Directs the Administrator, within six months after enactment of this Act, and after consulting with the Secretary, to issue regulations governing the conditions under which payments will be made from the Fund. Directs the Administrator to make annual payments over specified periods from the Fund to owners or operators of stationary sources subject to requirements under this Act. Requires that such payments cover: (1) 90 percent of all annual capital costs (and, in the case of a major emitting electric powerplant, a specified portion of all annual operating and maintenance costs) of control technology which the Administrator determines to be necessary to comply with specified requirements of this Act; or (2) 90 percent of all such capital costs and 90 percent of all such annual operating costs as the Administrator determines to be necessary to comply with the requirements of an innovative control order under this Act. Prohibits any such payment for the capital costs or operating and maintenance costs of any technology used to comply with the precombustion cleaning requirement under this Act. Sets forth provisions for determining such annual capital costs. Sets forth tables for determining the percent of annual operating and maintenance costs to be paid in specified years. Authorizes the Administrator to delegate to a State, at its request and if it has an approved State plan, the authority to approve such payments, subject to the Administrator's approval. Prohibits any annual operating cost payment during any period in which the major existing electric powerplant is not in compliance with any applicable requirement under this Act. Provides that any operating costs incurred during any such period shall not be considered in determining whether overpayments or underpayments have been made. Prohibits any annual capital cost payment during any period in which the powerplant is not in compliance with any compliance schedule under this Act, unless such plant is making a good faith effort. Directs the Administrator, within 24 months after the enactment of this Act, and after consultation with the Secretary, to promulgate regulations governing the making of payments from the Fund and the collection of overpayments. Sets forth requirements relating to such regulations. Sets forth civil and criminal fines for specified failures to pay fees or repayments under this Act. Allows up to $50,000,000 per year from the Fund to be used for the development and demonstration of sulfur dioxide emission control technologies and for specified research authorized under the Energy Security Act of 1980. Provides that no payments from the Fund shall be considered as ""income"" for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code, or as ""rate relief"" for purposes of any State regulatory system. Provides that no capital or operating expenses which are compensated under this Act shall be used to reduce any tax obligation under the Internal Revenue Code. Directs the Administrator to make payments of up to $40,000,000 from the Fund to the NAS for services performed pursuant to the contracts for the study and report under this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to delegate to a State, at its request and if it has an approved State plan, the authority to approve payments required under provisions of this Act relating to the Fund. Title II: Control of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions - Directs the Administrator to revise standards of performance for new stationary sources for emissions of nitrogen oxides from electric utility steam generating units which burn bituminous or subbituminous coal and which commence construction after the enactment of this Act. Prohibits the emission of nitrogen oxides from such units at a rate which exceeds: (1) 0.30 pounds per million Btus, in the case of subbituminous coal; and (2) 0.40 pounds per million Btus, in the case of bituminous coal. Adds to provisions relating to emissions from mobile sources to set the following nitrogen oxide emission standards for model year 1986 and after truck and truck engines: (1) gross vehicle weight of 6,000 pounds or less - 1.2 grams per vehicle mile; (2) 6,000 to 8,500 pounds - 1.7 grams per vehicle mile; and (3) more than 8,500 pounds - 4.0 grams per brake horsepower-hour.",2025-08-29T17:40:04Z, 98-s-2706,98,s,2706,Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Amendments of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-05-23,1984-10-30,Became Public Law No: 98-559.,Senate,"Sen. Packwood, Bob [R-OR]",OR,R,P000009,0,"(Measure passed House, amended) Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 and 1986 to carry out its provisions. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to contract with a private entity for a supplemental reporting system and data center on the transportation of hazardous substances. Requires the Secretary and the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to evaluate and report to Congress on training programs for planning and responding to incidents involving such transportation.",2025-08-29T17:39:47Z, 98-s-2702,98,s,2702,"An original bill to authorize appropriations for environmental research, development, and demonstrations for the fiscal year 1985.",Environmental Protection,1984-05-22,1984-05-22,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 910.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,0,"Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 to the Environmental Protection Agency for environmental research, development, and demonstration activities relating to the following: (1) air quality under the Clean Air Act; (2) water quality under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (3) water supply under the Safe Drinking Water Act; (4) solid and hazardous waste under the Solid Waste Disposal Act and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act; (5) pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; (6) radiation under the Public Health Service Act; (7) interdisciplinary activities; (8) toxic substances under the Toxic Substances Control Act; (9) energy activities; and (10) program management and support.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-s-2703,98,s,2703,"An original bill to amend the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1985, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1984-05-22,1984-06-21,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,0,Amends the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 for the Office of Environmental Quality and the Council on Environmental Quality. Establishes an Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund to receive advance payments from other agencies or accounts that may be used solely to finance: (1) study contracts that are jointly sponsored by the Office and one or more other Federal agencies; and (2) Federal interagency environmental projects (including task forces) in which the Office participates. Provides that any contract or project that is to be so financed may be initiated only with the approval of the Director of the Office. Requires the Director to promulgate regulations setting forth policies and procedures for operation of the Fund.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-s-2704,98,s,2704,An original bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1985.,Environmental Protection,1984-05-22,1984-05-22,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 912.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,0,Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 for: (1) grants to State programs; and (2) carrying out other specified provisions of such Act.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-hr-5640,98,hr,5640,Superfund Expansion and Protection Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-05-10,1984-09-19,Committee on Finance. Hearings held.,House,"Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,F000215,115,"(Measure passed House, amended, roll call #373 (323-33)) Superfund Expansion and Protection Act of 1984 - Includes among specified objectives of this Act the creation of a waste end tax on the land disposal of hazardous substances which will discourage the environmentally unsound disposal of hazardous substances and provide additional revenues for the Hazardous Substance Superfund. Title I: Provisions Relating Primarily to Response and Liability - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) (CERCLA) (the Act) to revise the definition of ""hazardous substance"" to include petroleum (including crude oil or any fraction thereof) which: (1) is released from an underground storage tank (as defined in title IV of this title); or (2) may present a significant risk to human health through contamination of groundwater which supplies or may reasonably be expected to supply any drinking water source. Authorizes community relocation and business and employee protection in cases of toxic substance contamination. Includes under the term ""remove"" or ""removal"" the costs of permanent relocation of residents where it is determined that such permanent relocation is cost-effective or may be necessary to protect health or welfare. Provides that such term may also include, in the case of a business located in an area of evacuation or relocation, the payment of those installments of principal and interest on business debt which accrue between the date of evacuation or temporary relocation and 30 days following the date that permanent relocation is actually accomplished or, if permanent relocation is formally rejected as the appropriate response, the date on which evacuation or temporary relocation ceases. Provides that such term may also include, in the case of an individual unemployed as a result of such evacuation or relocation, specified types of assistance authorized under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974. Transfers the definition of ""pollutant or contaminant"" from under provisions for response authorities under the Act to among the definitions for purposes of the entire Act. Provides that such term shall include petroleum (including crude oil or any fraction thereof) only in the case of a release from an underground storage tank as defined in title IV of this title. Adds references to ""pollutants or contaminants"" under specified provisions of the Act. Includes under the definition of ""release"" the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers, and other closed receptacles containing hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants. Revises conditions under whicht eh terms ""remedy"" or ""remedial action"" may include offsite transfer, storage, treatment, destruction, or secure disposition. Requires that such offsite actions must be dtermined to be at least as cost-effective as other remedial actions. Requires the President, in making such a determination, to take into account: (1) the long-term uncertainties associated with land disposal; (2) the goals, objectives, and requirements of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (3) the persistence, toxicity, mobility, and propensity to bioaccumulate such hazardous substances; and (4) the long-term maintenance costs of alternative remedial actions. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (the Administrator) to promulgate regulations establishing reportable quantities for: (1) all hazardous substances other than carcinogens, within six months after enactment of this Act; and (2) the remaining hazardous substances, by October 1, 1986. Increases the amount of criminal fines and the duration of criminal sentences for specified violations under the Act. Adds civil penalties for specified violations under the Act. Revises response authorities provisions. Requires that any removal action undertaken by the Administrator or any other person with respect to any release or threat of release shall contribute to the efficient performance of any long-term remedial action with respect to such release or threatened release. Authorizes the Administrator to undertake any such response action unless the Administrator determines that such action will be done properly by the owner or operator of the facility from which the release or threatened release emanates, or by any other responsible party. Directs the Administrator, in undertaking any information gathering or planning under such response authority provisions, to assess the potential effects on human health associated with the release or threatened release. Sets forth provisions that limit the liability of response action contractors. Directs the Administrator, in taking specified abatement actions or in listing facilities on the National Priorities List, to give high priority to facilities where the release of hazardous substances has resulted in the closing of drinking water wells or has contaminated a sole or principal drinking water source. Authorizes the Administrator to enter into agreements with one or more responsible persons for the purpose of providing remedial action. Sets forth requirements relating to such agreements. Revises response authorities provisions relating to agreements with States. Requires States to make specified agreements with the Administrator, rather than with the President. Eliminates the requirement that a State assure all future maintenance of the removal and remedial actions provided for the expected life of such actions. Requires the State to pay ten percent of the costs of remedial action and ten percent of all future operation and maintenance costs of any onsite remedial action. Requires a 50 percent or greater State share of response costs only in the case of facilities operated, as well as owned, by the State or local government at the time of hazardous waste disposal. Requires the State to also pay all future operation and maintenance costs of any onsite remedial action at such State or locally owned and operated facilities. Provides for credits to any State which has paid more than a ten percent share of remedial costs at a facility owned, but not operated, by such State or local government. Provides that reasonable administrative expenses may be credited against a State's ten percent share. Provides for credits to a State under prescribed circumstances in which State or local funds are expended. Allows a State to credit amounts spent on a site either prior to or after such site's being listed on the National Priority List toward the State's ten percent share of cleanup costs. Allows an Indian tribe of the Secretary of the Interior to make or agree to make payment of required State ten percent share in connection with specified remedial actions on Indian lands. Sets forth mandatory cleanup standards. Directs the Administrator, rather than the President, to select appropriate cost-effective remedial actions determined to be necessary. Requires that such actions be in accordance with: (1) the National Contingency Plan, to the extent practicable; and (2) a required protection level. Directs the Administrator, in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of a remedial action, to select (to the maximum extent practicable and consistent with the public health and welfare and the environment) permanent solutions and alternative treatment technologies or resource recovery technologies that will result in a permanent and significant decrease in the toxicity, mobility, or volume of the hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant, taking specified factors into account. Requires that the remedial action provide for a level or standard of control necessary to protect human health and the environment. Requires that such level or standard be as stringent as the most stringent applicable standard under the Toxic Substances Control Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act, or Clean Water Act (or water quality criteria under the Clean Water Act), if that standard is relevant and appropriate under the circumstances presented by the release or threatened release of such substance, pollutant, or contaminant. Requires that any remedial action which provides for containment at the facility comply with standards applicable to facilities required to obtain hazardous waste management permits under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes the Administrator to waive the requirement of the most stringent applicable standard, or of the specified containment standard, and to select an alternative remedial action upon a finding that: (1) such alternative remedial action will provide substantially equivalent protection; or (2) compliance with such requirements at that facility will consume such a disproportionate share of the resources of the Hazardous Substances Trust Fund (the Fund) as to have the effect of deferring or preventing remedial action at other facilities which pose a significantly greater threat to human health and the environment. Prohibits permit requirements for any removal or remedial action undertaken pursuant to the Act at the location of the release or threatened release. Revises provisions for information gathering and access authorities to refer to the Administrator, rather than the President. Applies specified information requirements to generators of hazardous wastes, even if such information is available at the facility where such waste is located. Provides for access to such facilities by duly designated Federal and State officers, whenever necessary to carry out any provision of the Act, at reasonable times and for a reasonable duration. Prohibits anyone from impeding or interfering with such entry. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to prepare toxicological profiles including specified information, sufficient to establish the likely effect on human health of at least 100 hazardous substances which are most frequently found or which pose the most significant threat to human health at facilities listed on the National Priorities List prepared under the National Contingency Plan. Requires that the 100 profiles be completed 48 months after enactment of this Act (at 12-month intervals for four groups of 25 substances). Earmarks a specified amount, from amounts appropriated to the Superfund for FY 1986 and subsequent fiscal years, for the ATSDR to carry out such toxicological profiles. Authorizes additional amounts to be made available from such source to ATSDR, as necessary, to carry out its other responsibilities under CERCLA. Directs the President to provide for the employment of an adequate number of ATSDR officers and employees, based on such additional amounts made available for each fiscal year and taking into account the recommendations of ATSDR. Adds new provisions for public participation in remedial action planning. Sets forth requirements and procedures for public notice and opportunity to comment on such plans. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants available to any group of individuals who may be affected by a release or threatened release at any facility which is listed on the National Priority List under the National Contingency Plan. Provides that such grants shall be for enabling the group to obtain expert advice and technical assistance to review and assess data and information prepared and required to be published by the Administrator with respect to such facility. Limits such grants to not more than four-fifths of the total costs of such advice and assistance. Requires each grant recipient to contribute at least one-fifth of the total of such costs. Prohibits more than one such grant from being made with respect to a single facility. Sets forth mandatory remedial action schedules. Directs the Administrator (of EPA) to commence remedial investigations for all facilities which are listed, as of the enactment date of this Act, on the National Priorities List (NPL) in accordance with the following schedule: (1) one-third of such facilities within eight months after such enactment date; (2) two-thirds within 16 months after such date; and (3) all within 24 months after such date. Directs the Administrator to list not fewer than 1,600 facilities on the NPL by January 1, 1988. Directs the Administrator to insure commencement remedial actions and feasibility studies for each facility added to the NPL after the enactment date of this Act, beginning 24 momths after such enactment date, according to a schedule which provides for such commencement at: (1) 200 facilities during the fifst 12 months after such 24-month period; (2) 275 facilities during the next 12 months; and (3) 375 facilities during the third 12 months. Directs the Administrator to ensure that substantial and continuous physical on-site remedial action commences at facilities on the NPL at a rate of not fewer than 150 facilities per year beginning on October 1, 1986. Directs the Administrator to complete by January 1, 1987, preliminary assessments of all sites listed, as of the enactment date of this Act, on the Emergency and Remedial Response Information System. Directs the Administrator to ensure that remedial action is completed, to the maximum extent feasible, for all facilities listed as of the date of enactment of this Act on the NPL within five years after such enactment date. Directs the Administrator to publish an explanation of why any such remedial action could not be completed within such period. Directs the Administrator, in determining priorities among releases and threatened releases under the National Contingency Plan and in carrying out remedial action under such mandatory schedule provisions, to establish a high priority for the acquisition of all properties (including non-owner occupied residential, commercial, public, religious and vacant properties in the area in which, before May 22, 1980, the President determined an emergency to exist because of the release of hazardous substances and in which owner occupied residences have been acquired pursuant to such determination. (This relates to the Love Canal area in Niagara Falls, New York.) Sets forth provisions for citizen petitions for health effects studies and for emergency relief and health surveillance. Allows any individual or group of individuals to submit a petition to the Administrator providing evidence which: (1) demonstrates that such individual or individuals are being exposed to any hazardous substance; and (2) provides an empirical analysis of the level of exposure. Directs the Administrator to initiate a health effects study upon determination that: (1) there is a reasonable likelihood that such substance is from a facility where such substance is or was treated, stored, recycled, or disposed of, on a regular basis, or where removal action is being or was taken under any provision of the Act; and (2) the exposure may present a significant risk to human health. Directs the Administrator (or the ATSDR Administrator if so designated by the Administrator), within 45 days after receipt of such petition, to: (1) initiate a hazardous substance exposure evaluation; or (2) publish a written explanation of a determination that there is not a reasonable likelihood that the substance is from the facility or a determination that exposure does not present a significant risk to human health. Requires that each such hazardous substance exposure evaluation be completed within six months after the date the petition is filed and include specified information. Requires that steps be taken to eliminate any significant risk to human health which such evaluation finds the exposure concerned presents. Provides that such steps may include provision of alternative drinking water supplies and relocation of individuals. Requires that the National Contingency Plan (NCP) be revised within 18 months after the enactment of this Act to reflect the amendments made by this Act. Requires that the portion of the NCP known as ""the National Hazardous Substance Response Plan"" be revised to provide procedures and standards for remedial actions consistent with protection level requirements under this title. Sets forth provisions for citizen petitions for site ranking. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after receipt of a citizen petition, to complete a preliminary assessment of the hazards to public health and environment associated with any actual or threatened release of a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant. Directs the Administrator, if such assessment indicates a significant threat, to make a prompt evaluation in accordance with the hazard ranking system referred to under specified provisions of the Act to determine the national priority of such release or threatened release. Requires that plan criteria for determining priorities among releases or threatened releases throughout the United States for purposes of taking remedial action shall also take into account: (1) the release-associated damage to natural resources which may affect the human food chain; and (2) the release-associated contamination or potential contamination of the ambient air. Sets forth provisions for abatement actions. Directs the Administrator, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, and after consultation with the Attorney General, to revise and republish specified guidelines for using imminent hazard, enforcement, and emergency response authorities to effectuate the responsibilities and powers created by this Act. Provides that no court shall have jurisdiction to review any such abatement order in any action other than an action to: (1) enforce such order; (2) recover a penalty for a violation; or (3) recover punitive damages. Requires the Administrator, under specified circumstances, to insure that no hazardous wastes are treated, stored, or disposed of at a facility against which any abatement action has been taken. Revises liability provisions to provide for liability for Federal or State costs of removal or remedial action with respect to a release or threatened release (whether or not such action is consistent with the NCP). Adds liability for Federal or State costs of information gathering with respect to a release or threatened release. Adds liability for the costs of any action taken by the Administrator, under specified citizens petition and emergency relief provisions of this Act, to eliminate a significant risk to human health presented by exposure to a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant and the costs of any health effects study carried out under such provisions with respect to such exposure. Provides that liability under the Act (CERCLA) shall be strict, joint, and several as construed and applied under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and under these CERCLA liability provisions. Provides that amounts recoverable shall include interest at a specified rate. Provides that no State or local government shall be liable under title I of CERCLA for costs or damages resulting from actions taken by the State or local government in response to an emergency created by the release or threatened release of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant from a facility or site owned by another person (but this provisions shall not affect the liability of any State or local government for negligence.) Prohibits the Attorney General from representing any Federal agency (other than the EPA) in any civil action under title I (Hazardous Substances Releases, Liability, Compensation) of the Act (CERCLA). Authorizes the head of any such Federal agency to appoint agency attorneys or contract with non-Federal attorneys to represent the agency in any such action. Provides that nothing under such liability provisions shall be construed to affect the equitable powers of apportionment of any court following adjudication of liability. Sets forth some factors which a court may consider in exercising its equitable powers of apportionment of damages among parties held liable under such liability provisions. Provides that a defendant who establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that the specified harm is divisible shall be liable only for the appropriate portion. Allows any defendant held liable for response costs or damages in actions under liability provisions of the Act to bring a separate action in the appropriate U.S. district court to require any other person who was, or could have been, a defendant in the prior enforcement or cost recovery action to contribute to payment of such costs or damages. Sets forth similar liability provisions, including such ""right of contribution,"" under provisions for abatement orders. Adds to authorized uses of the Fund the payment of any costs incurred under provisions of this Act: (1) relating to emergency relief and health effects studies; (2) by the ATSDR in preparing specified toxicological profiles; (3) by the Administrator in evaluating facilities pursuant to petitions for preliminary assessments of hazards to public health; and (4) in appropriate Federal and State oversight of remedial activities at National Priority List sites resulting from consent orders or settlement agreements, where inadequate oversight assistance has been provided by those who have been determined to be the responsible parties. Eliminates a requirement that 85 percent of specified money credited to the Fund be available only for specified purposes. Limits to six percent of such money the amount available for payment of specified claims. Revises audit provisions to direct the Inspector General of the EPA, in each fiscal year, to: (1) conduct an annual audit of the Trust Fund; (2) report on the status of all remedial and enforcement actions taken during the prior fiscal year; and (3) estimate the amount of resources, including the number of work years or personnel, which would be necessary for the Administrator to complete the implementation of all duties vested in the Administrator under this title. Requires that such audit and such status report: (1) include specified information; and (2) be reported annually by the Inspector General to the Congress. Prohibits any potentially liable person from seeking judicial review of any determination to incur any governmental response costs pursuant to response authorities provisions or to utilize the Fund for payment of such costs except in an action to recover such costs under liability provisions. Revises statute of limitations provisions under the Act. Prohibits, with specified exceptions for minors or incompetent persons, presentation of any claim or commencement of any action for damages, as defined under the Act, beyond three years after the later of: (1) the date of the discovery of the loss; (2) the date on which regulations are promulgated under specified provisions for the assessment of damages for injury to, destruction of, or loss of natural resources resulting from a release of oil or hazardous substance for purposes of the Act and of specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; or (3) the date on which regulations are promulgated establishing procedures for the filing of such claims. Sets a statute of limitations of six years after the date of the completion of the response action for presentation of claims or commencement of actions for recovery of response costs in cases involving the responsible person's willful misconduct or willful negligence, violation of safety, construction, or operating standards or regulations, or failures or refusals to provide reasonable cooperation and assistance requested by public officials. Extends the deadline for promulgation of 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 the Act and of specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Sets forth provisions concerning the relationship of this Act to other law. Authorizes States to require any person to contribute to any fund to pay compensation for claims for any response costs or damages or claims which may be compensated under the Act. Establishes certain CERCLA requirements with respect to hazardous substances released from Federal facilities. Sets forth procedures for interagency agreements and emergency actions applicable to Federal agencies under CERCLA. Directs the Administrator to establish a special Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket. Allows any State to require owners or operators of facilities which receive solid waste generated outside such State's boundaries to charge for such storage or disposal an amount that is different from, or in excess of, the amount charged for storage or disposal of solid waste generated within such State. (NOTE: There is no title II in this House passed version of the bill. An amendment deleted the earlier versions' title II provisions for a Federal cause of action, but did not renumber the remaining titles.) Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes citizen lawsuits under the Act (CERCLA). Sets forth provisions relating to such citizen lawsuits. Provides that, for certain types of suits under such citizen lawsuit provisions, only a person who has an interest which is or may be adversely affected may bring the action. Directs the Administrator to commence, within six months after the enactment of this Act, the study required under specified provisions of the Solid waste Disposal Act concerning drilling fluids and other wastes associated with oil exploration. Revises specified provisions relating to the transportation of hazardous substances. Requires Federal agencies to provide notice in contracts to buyers of property from the Federal Government if regulated hazardous waste was disposed on such property. Title IV: Regulation of Underground Storage Tanks - Establishes a program for identification and regulation of underground storage tanks containing hazardous substances (including petroleum products) and for cleanup of leaks from such tanks. Defines ""hazardous substance"" for purposes of this title as: (1) any substance designated pursuant to specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (2) any element, compound, mixture, solution, or substance designated pursuant to the CERCLA definition of ""pollutant or contaminant,"" as added by this Act; (3) any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified under or listed pursuant to hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (but not including any waste the regulation of which under such Act has been suspended by Act of Congress); (4) any toxic pollutant listed under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (5) any hazardous air pollutant listed under specified provisions of the Clean Air Act; (6) any imminently hazardous chemical substance or mixture with respect to which the Administrator has taken action pursuant to specified provisions of the Toxic Substances Control Act; and (7) any petroleum product or fraction thereof. Excludes from such term natural gas, natural gas liquids, propane, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel (or mixtures of natural gas and such synthetic gas). Defines ""underground storage tank"" to mean any one or combination of tanks, including underground pipes connected thereto, which is used to contain an accumulation of hazardous substances if any portion of the tank volume is partially or totally beneath the surface of the ground and any underground pipes connected to any one or combination of tanks which is used to contain an accumulation of hazardous substances and which is above the surface of the ground. Lists the following exclusions from such term: (1) farm or residential underground storage tanks of 1,100 gallons or less capacity used for storing motor fuel for noncommercial purposes; (2) underground storage tanks used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises where stored; (3) residential septic tanks; (4) pipelines regulated under the Natural Gas Pipeline Act of 1968 or the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979; or (5) surface impoundments, pits, ponds, lagoons, or basins, or any underground pipes connected to any such tank, pipeline, impoundment, pit, pond, lagoon, or basin. Sets forth notification requirements applicable to any person who, during the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which this title was enacted, has supplied any hazardous substance to 100 or more sites where there is an underground storage tank which is or has been used for the storage of any hazardous substance. Requires such persons to notify a designated State or local agency of the existence of any such tank located at such a site. Directs the Administrator, within eight months after the enactment date of this Act, to promulgate regulations (taking into account the effect on small business) regarding the providing of notice to obtain information concerning any such tanks which are not located at such sites. Requires that the notice required of such persons supplying hazardous substances to 100 or more sites where such tanks are located be provided within 12 months after the enactment of this title. Requires that the notice required with respect to all other sites where such tanks are located be provided within 12 months after the promulgation of such regulations. Requires that specified information be contained in those notices required of the suppliers to 100 or more sites and in those notices required of owners or operators which install or bring into use an underground storage tank after the enactment of this Act. Sets forth other information requirements for notices required of the suppliers to 100 or more sites, and for notices required pursuant to regulations for tanks at other sites, in the case of any such tank used for such storage prior to the enactment of this Act but taken out of operation before such enactment date (but after January 1, 1974). Provides that notice shall not be required under this title in the case of any tank for which notice was given pursuant to specified provisions of CERCLA. Requires any owner or operator which installs or brings into use an underground storage tank after the enactment of this Act to notify the designated State or local agency within a specified period. Directs the Governor of each State, within 90 days of such enactment date, to designate the appropriate State or local agencies to receive such notifications. Directs the Administrator, within 180 days of such enactment date and in consultation with designated State and local officials, to prescribe in greater detail the form and content of such notifications. Provides that, if a Governor chooses not to designate a State or local agency for such purpose, such notifications shall be submitted to the Administrator. Requires the State, if such notifications are submitted to a designated State or local agency, to compile the submitted information into a comprehensive inventory and furnish such inventory to the Administrator within 18 months of such enactment date. Sets forth provisions for release detection, prevention, and correction regulations applicable to all owners and operators of underground storage tanks used for storing hazardous substances. Directs the Administrator, within nine months after the enactment of this Act, to complete a survey of underground storage tanks used for the storage of hazardous substances, including an assessment of specified factors relating to the likelihood of releases from such tanks. Directs the Administrator to promulgate such regulations after opportunity for public comment and within 27 months after enactment of this title. Requires that such regulations include requirements respecting specified areas, including: (1) leak detection or inventory systems and tank testing; (2) records of such testing, inventory, or detection; (3) reporting releases and corrective actions; (4) standards of performance for new underground tanks, including a requirement that any tank holding a regulated hazardous substance (other than petroleum) have an inner and outer shell, or other methods of containment, and other specified requirements; (5) corrective actions (including appropriate testing of potentially contaminated drinking water); (6) closure to prevent future release; and (7) evidence of financial responsibility for taking corrective action and for bodily injury and property damage to third parties. Directs the Administrator to take specified factors into consideration in issuing such regulations. Prohibits, until the effective date of such regulations and after 180 days from the enactment of this Act, any person from installing or beginning to use an underground storage tank to store hazardous substances unless such tank is cathodically protected against corrosion, constructed of a noncorrosive material, or contained in a manner designed to prevent the release into the environment of any stored hazardous substances. Sets forth provisions for the Administrator's review and approval of State programs for underground storage tank release detection, prevention, and correction. Requires the State to demonstrate that the State program is no less stringent than the Federal program under this title and that it provides for adequate enforcement of compliance with program requirements. Provides for notice and opportunity for public comment before determinations concerning approval of State programs are made. Gives States with approved programs primary enforcement responsibility for requirements related to control of underground storage tanks used to store hazardous substances. Provides for withdrawal of approval upon the Administrator's determination, after public hearing, that a State is not administering and enforcing the program in accordance with specified requirements. Sets forth provisions relating to inspections, monitoring, and testing. Sets forth provisions for confidentiality of information, and criminal penalties for violations of such confidentiality. Requires that all information reported to, or otherwise obtained by, the EPA under this title be made available, upon written request, to any duly authorized committee of the Congress. Sets forth provisions for Federal enforcement of requirements under this title. Sets forth civil penalties for specified violations. Makes requirements under this title applicable to Federal facilities. Authorizes the President to grant exemptions from such requirements upon determination that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to do so. Requires the President to report annually to Congress on such exemptions and the reasons for granting them. Provides that nothing in this Act shall preclude or deny any State or local authority to regulate more stringently underground storage tanks used to store hazardous substances. Directs the Administrator, within 36 months after the enactment of this title, to study the following underground storage tanks exempted under the definition of ""underground storage tanks"": (1) farm or residential tanks of 1,100 gallons or less capacity used for storing motor fuel for noncommercial purposes; and (2) tanks used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises where stored. Requires that such study include estimates of the number and location of such tanks and an analysis of the extent to which there may be releases or threatened releases from such tanks into the environment. Directs the Administrator to report to the President and the Congress on the results of the study, with recommendations as to whether or not such tanks should be subject to regulation under this title. Title V: Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation - Subtitle A: Short Title and Definitions - Provides that subtitles A through D may be cited as the ""Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act."" Sets forth definitions for purposes of this title. Makes this title effective only until both the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage and the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage are in force with respect to the United States. Permits claims for damages for economic loss, arising from oil pollution, to be asserted for: (1) removal costs; (2) injury to or destruction of natural resources; (3) injury to or destruction of real or personal property; (4) loss of subsistence use of natural resources; (5) loss of profits or impairment of earning capacity due to such injury or destruction; and (6) loss of tax revenue for a period of one year due to injury to real or personal property. Specifies the potential claimants who have standing to assert claims involving each such type of damage. Imposes joint, several, and strict liability on the party responsible for the source of pollution. Specifies liability limits, except in cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct, for vessels, inland oil barges, ships, deepwater ports, and other facilities located on the Outer Continental Shelf. Makes the Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability Trust Fund (the Trust Fund, established under subtitle B of this title) liable for damages for claims asserted under this title, except as provided in subtitle B of this title, to the extent that the loss is not otherwise compensated. Requires the responsible party for vessels over 300 tons (including foreign vessels) and the party responsible for offshore facilities to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility in an amount sufficient to satisfy applicable liability limits. Limits the liability of a guarantor to the aggregate amount of financial responsibility that the guarantor provided. Specifies procedures whereby the Secretary of Transportation shall designate and advertise pollution sources. Directs the Secretary to advertise claims to be presented initially to the responsible party or to such person's guarantor, in instances in which: (1) the responsible party and guarantor both deny involvement; (2) the source of the discharge is a public vessel; or (3) the Secretary is unable to designate the pollution source. Permits claimants either to present a claim to the Trust Fund or to bring an action in an appropriate U.S. 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 Trust Fund. Requires both the plaintiff and the defendant in a court action brought against a responsible party or guarantor to forward copies of all pleadings to the Trust Fund. Permits the Trust Fund to intervene in such actions. Requires a claim to be presented within three years of discovery of an economic loss, or within six years of the date of the incident, whichever is earlier. Subrogates any person, including the Trust Fund, to all the claimant's claims and rights under this title. Sets forth the measure of recovery for actions brought by the Trust Fund against any responsible party or guarantor. Grants U.S. district courts exclusive original jurisdiction over all controversies arising under subtitles A, B, and C of this Act, without regard to the citizenship of the parties or the amount in controversy. Makes the rights and remedies under this title 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 title. Authorizes appropriations for this title. Subtitle B: Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability Trust Fund - Establishes the Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability Trust Fund which shall consist of: (1) the 1.3 cent a barrel fee imposed by this subtitle; (2) amounts recovered or collected on behalf of the Trust Fund under subtitle A; and (3) any amounts transferred to the Trust Fund under subtitle C from the Deepwater Port Liability Fund and the Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund. Provides for the establishment of a Board of Directors for the Fund. Exempts the Trust Fund and its income and property from all taxation except that any real property owned in fee by the Trust Fund shall be subject to State, territorial, county, municipal, or other local taxation to the same extent as other similar real property. Requires an annual independent audit of the Trust Fund. Requires a fee of 1.3 cents a barrel to be paid into the Trust Fund by the owner of: (1) oil received at a U.S. refinery; (2) oil entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing; and (3) oil produced from a well located in the United States which is used in or exported from the United States. Provides that such fee shall be in effect only when the amount in the Trust Fund is less than $200,000,000. Prohibits the imposition of the fee with respect to any oil if the person who would be liable for the fee establishes that a prior fee has been imposed with respect to that oil. Establishes a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for any person who fails to collect or pay the fee. Makes the Trust Fund available for: (1) immediate payment of removal costs; (2) payment of claims under subtitle A for damage which is not otherwise compensated; (3) the costs of administration of this title; and (4) the payment of initial and annual contributions to the International Fund established under subtitle D of this title. Requires the prudent investment of sums not needed for the above, but requires rebates to those who paid the 1.3 cent fee whenever the amount in the Trust Fund exceeds $300,000,000. Prohibits payment of any claim from the Trust Fund if payment would reduce the amount in the Trust Fund to an amount less than $30,000,000. Authorizes the Trust Fund to borrow from any commercial credit source. Limits the liability of the Trust Fund with respect to one incident to a maximum of $100,000,000. Requires the Comptroller General to review the required audit of the Trust Fund. Provides that if the balance of any fund is to be transferred to the Trust Fund, any claim arising before October 1, 1984, shall be paid from the Trust Fund. Provides that if the Secretary determines that there is a Trans-Alaska Pipeline (TAP) fund deficit, then the 1.3 cent fee shall be increased by two cents per barrel until the total amount of such increased fees equals such deficit. Defines a TAP fund deficit. Provides that for purposes of this subtitle, the term ""United States"" includes the Outer Continental Shelf and any foreign trade zone of the United States. Subtitle C: Regulations, Effective Dates, and Savings Provisions - Specifies the effective dates of specified provisions of this title. Eliminates the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Liability Fund and provides that all unused assets of such Fund shall be rebated directly to the operator of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline for pro-rata payments to those owners who had paid into such Fund. Amends specified laws, including the Deepwater Port Act of 1974, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Intervention on the High Seas Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978 and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act, to conform with the provisions of this title. Transfers to the Trust Fund amounts remaining on the Deepwater Port Liability Fund and the Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (both having been eliminated by the above repeals). States that if any provision of this title is held invalid, the remainder of the title shall not be affected. Subtitle D: Implementation of Conventions - Recognizes the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (International Fund) as a legal person under the laws of the United States. Requires, in any action brought in the United States against the owner of a ship or his guarantor under the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, that the International Fund and the Trust Fund be served a copy of the complaint and any subsequent pleading. Entitles the International Fund to intervene as a party in any such action. Exempts the International Fund from all direct taxation in the United States. Requires any initial or annual contribution to the International Fund to be paid by the Trust Fund. Sets forth the jurisdiction of the U.S. district courts for controversies arising under the Civil Liability Convention or the International Fund Convention. Requires U.S. courts to recognize final judgments of courts of nations which are a party to the Civil Liability Convention or the International Fund Convention. Requires the owner of each U.S. documented ship, or any ship, wherever registered, which enters or leaves a U.S. port or terminal carrying more than 2,000 tons of oil in bulk as cargo to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility in amounts sufficent to cover the maximum liability arising from one incident under the Civil Liability Convention. Imposes a civil penalty for noncompliance with provisions of the above sentence. States that the United States waives all defenses based on its status as a sovereign State with respect to any controversy arising under the Civil Liability Convention or the International Fund Convention relating to any ship owned by the United States an used for commercial purposes. States that one franc shall be deemed to equal one-fifteenth of a special drawing right, as defined by the International Monetary Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to issue such rules and regulations as are necessary to implement the Civil Liability Convention and the International Fund Convention. Title VI: Amendments of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Superfund Revenue Act of 1984 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the environmental tax on petroleum from 0.79 cent to 7.86 cents a barrel, effective January 1, 1985. Extends the period before such tax is terminated until September 30, 1990. Repeals specified CERCLA sunset provisions relating to the expiration of the authority conferred by CERCLA to collect environmental taxes when aggregate taxes collected exceed a specified level. Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the environmental tax on certain chemicals (and metals). Increases the rate of such tax on both organic and inorganic substances according to a table of incremental increases for 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988 and thereafter until the termination date (but only increases the rate of the tax on methane in 1988 and thereafter). Provides for an inflation adjustment of such rates according to separate provisions for organic and inorganic substances. Adds to the list of those substances subject to such tax: coal-derived light oils, coal tars, aluminum sulfate, aluminum phosphide, asbestos, copper, lead, lithium carbonate, manganese, phosphoric acid, selenium, uranium oxide, vanadium, zinc, and zinc oxide. Adds an exemption for exports (or resale for exports) of such taxable chemicals. Provides for a credit or a refund where such tax is paid, under specified conditions. Repeals the exemption from such tax for chemicals derived from coal. Provides for an exemption from such tax for phosphoric acid used in producing fertilizer (to conform to the addition of phosphoric acid to the taxable list). Makes the exemption for certain substances having transitory presence during the extracting process applicable to barium sulfide or any other taxable chemical which is a metal or metallic compound, or any solution or mixture containing such a chemical. (Current law applies such exemption only to specified nonferrous metallic compounds.) Sets forth a special rule, under such chemical tax provisions, for xylene. Provides that the term ""xylene"" does not include any separated isomer of xylene, except in the case of imports or exports of xylene. Repeals such tax on xylene for periods before 1985. Provides for credits or refunds (with interest) of any such tax previously imposed. Provides for a waiver of a statute of limitations relating to such credits or refunds for which a claim is filed within a specified period. Provides, for purposes of such repeal and refunds, that the term ""xylene"" shall include any isomer of xylene whether or not separated. Sets forth a special rule, under such chemical tax provisions, for certain employee-owned chemical plants. Provides that the current tax rates for organic substances will continue to apply through 1987 for any qualified employee-owned chemical plant which is owned by a qualified employee-owned corporation and which was operated by such corporation on August 1, 1984. Defines ""qualified employee-owned corporation"" as any corporation headquartered in Odessa, Texas, if: (1) during December 1983, there was an employee buy-out of substantially all of the common stock of such corporation; and (2) as of August 1, 1984, at least 100 employees were stockholders in such corporation and substantially all of the common stock of such corporation was owned by employees, officers, or directors of such corporation (or their spouses). Includes under such term any wholly owned subsidiary of a corporation on August 1, 1984, which meets such requirements. Redesignates the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund as the Hazardous Substance Superfund (Superfund) under the Internal Revenue Code. Transfers certain provisions for creation and administration of the Superfund to trust fund provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Revises the expenditure purposes of the Superfund to conform to the expanded lists of costs which may be incurred under specified provisions of CERCLA, as amended by this Act, including costs incurred in: (1) connection with emergency relief and health effects studies; (2) preparation of toxicological profiles of certain hazardous substances; and (3) evaluation of potential hazards posed by facilities pursuant to petitions posed by any person. Prohibits Superfund expenditures for payment of any damage claims for injury to, or destruction or loss of, natural resources owned or controlled by the Federal or State governments as a result of a release or threat of release of a hazardous substance. (Current law permits expenditures for such purpose.) Establishes in the Superfund a separate account to be known as the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Account, consisting of specified amounts appropriated, transferred, or credited to the Account. Provides that amounts in the Account will be available for cleanup actions in connection with leaking underground storage tanks that store petroleum or petroleum products, and will also be available for expenditures incurred in connection with releases of petroleum which may present a significant risk to human health (as provided under specified provisions of this Act). Limits the aggregate amount of expenditures which may be made from the Account during FY 1986 through 1990. Sets forth provisions for repayable advances to the Account. Continues provisions relating to the limitation of U.S. liability to the amount in Superfund, and applies to the Account similar rules for such liability and the order in which unpaid claims are to be paid. Authorizes appropriations to the Superfund for FY 1986 through 1990. Limits the aggregate amount of such appropriations which may be appropriated to the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Account. Makes conforming amendments which: (1) repeal subtitle B of the Hazardous Substance Response Revenue Act of 1980 (relating to establishment of the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund); and (2) revise the CERCLA definition of ""Fund"" or ""Trust Fund"" to mean the Hazardous Substance Superfund established under specified provisions added to the Internal Revenue Code by this Act. Provides that the Hazardous Substance Superfund shall be treated for all purposes of law as a continuation of the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund. Repeals the Post-Closure Tax and Trust Fund by repealing Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the environmental tax on hazardous wastes and repealing provisions for the Post-Closure Liability Trust Fund under the Hazardous Substance Response Revenue Act of 1980. Makes technical amendments repealing related CERCLA provisions. Makes such repeal effective on October 1, 1983. Provides for increases in the rates of environmental taxes on petroleum and on certain chemicals, to take effect on January 1, 1987, but only if a waste-end tax is not enacted before July 1, 1986. Provides for a study of a waste-end tax. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency and the International Trade Commission) to conduct a study of various proposals for a Federal waste-end tax (and their probable trade and other economic effects) in order to develop a proposal for such a tax which is designed to discourage the disposal of hazardous wastes in environmentally unsound manners and to accomplish this result with maximum administrative feasibility. Directs the Secretary to submit a report on such study, together with a proposal in legislative form for a Federal waste-end tax, by April 1, 1985, to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate. Defines ""Federal waste-end tax"" as any Federal excise tax imposed with respect to the disposal of hazardous substances. Provides for a study on the economic impact of the environmental tax on certain chemicals. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury (in consultation with the International Trade Commission) to conduct a study on: (1) the trade and other economic effects of the environmental tax on certain chemicals imposed under specified excise tax provisions of the Internal Revenue Code; and (2) the feasibility and desirability of imposing a tax on imported derivatives of substances subject to such tax. Requires that such study develop the methodology for selecting the list of substances which would be subject to a tax on such imported derivatives and the means of making such a tax compatible with international trade agreements. Directs the Secretary to submit a report on such study, by April 1, 1985, to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate.",2025-01-03T20:54:05Z, 98-hr-5642,98,hr,5642,A bill to authorize appropriations for carrying out the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act.,Environmental Protection,1984-05-10,1984-10-11,See S.2706.,House,"Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,F000215,1,Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1985. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to contract with a private entity for a supplemental reporting system and data center on the transportation of hazardous substances. Changes from May 1 to June 15 of each year the date for submission of the Secretary's annual report on the transportation of hazardous materials.,2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-s-2665,98,s,2665,Environmental Crimes and Penalties Amendments of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-05-10,1984-05-10,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Roth Jr., William V. [R-DE]",DE,R,R000460,5,"Environmental Crimes and Penalties Amendments of 1984 - Increases penalties (civil fines, criminal fines, and criminal sentences) for specified violations of the following Acts: (1) the Toxic Substances Control Act; (2) the Clean Air Act; (3) the Solid Waste Disposal Act (hazardous waste management provisions); and (4) the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund).",2025-08-29T17:39:52Z, 98-s-2648,98,s,2648,Ocean Revitalization Act,Environmental Protection,1984-05-08,1984-05-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]",NJ,D,L000123,1,"Ocean Revitalization Act - Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act to declare that the New York Bight Apex is not suitable for the ocean dumping of municipal sludge. Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from issuing or renewing any permit for such dumping after the Administrator has determined that such sludge can reasonably be dumped at another sight designated under the provisions of such Act. Requires the Administrator to submit a New York Bight Apex Restoration Plan to Congress within three years of enactment of this Act. Requires the Plan to contain certain items. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for FY 1985-1987 for preparing the Plan.",2025-08-29T17:40:59Z, 98-hr-5590,98,hr,5590,National Acid Deposition Control Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-05-03,1984-05-10,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Green, S. William [R-NY-15]",NY,R,G000417,0,"National Acid Deposition Control Act of 1984 - Title I: Acid Deposition Control and Assistance Program - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish new requirements for acid deposition control. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within four months after the enactment of this Act, to compute a State share, for each of the 48 contiguous States, of a 10,000,000 ton reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide by 1993 below that of 1980. Sets forth a formula for computation of State shares. Permits the Governors of two or more States to reallot State shares among agreeing States, if there is an equal or greater total reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide through such reallotment. Sets deadlines and procedures for submission and approval of State plans for such State shares. Directs the Administrator to promulgate a State plan on January 1, 1988, if no State plan has been: (1) submitted by June 1, 1985; or (2) approved by January 1, 1988. Requires State plans for State shares to provide for emission limitations applicable to any existing stationary sources in the State for which the actual annual sulfur dioxide emission rates have been calculated by the Administrator for the calendar year 1980. Requires that the emission limitations for each stationary source subject to the State plan establish an allowable average annual sulfur dioxide rate at a level such that the total reduction would equal the State share. Permits State plans for State shares to provide for compliance with emission limitations through use of fuel having a lower sulfur content than the fuel used in 1980, precombustion removal of sulfur (such as ""coal washing""), technological systems of continuous emission reduction, or any other means which the State deems appropriate. Makes conforming amendments relating to Federal enforcement, criminal and civil violations, and judicial review of administrative acts. Authorizes the Administrator to commence a civil action for permanent or temporary injunction or to assess and recover a civil penalty of up to $25,000 per day of violation, or both, whenever any person violates any requirement in effect under this Act. Eliminates a percentage reduction requirement with respect to sulfur dioxide emissions from any fossil fuel fired stationary source which: (1) commences construction after the date of enactment of this Act; and (2) complies with a standard of performance which prohibits sulfur dioxide emissions in excess of 1.2 pounds per million Btu. Provides that, in the case of any such source, the terms ""technological process"" and ""technological system"" shall not be construed to require compliance with a percentage reduction requirement, or any other emission limitation, for sulfur dioxide which is more stringent than 1.2 pounds per million Btu. Provides that specified EPA regulations shall cease to apply to the extent they are inconsistent with these amendments. Directs the Administrator to amend such regulations to reflect these amendments. Title II: Control of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions - Directs the Administrator to revise standards of performance for new stationary sources for emissions of nitrogen oxides from electric utility steam generating units which burn bituminous or subbituminous coal and which commence construction after the enactment of this Act. Prohibits the emission of nitrogen oxides from such units at a rate which exceeds: (1) 0.30 pounds per million Btu, in the case of subbituminous coal; and (2) 0.40 pounds per million Btu, in the case of bituminous coal. Adds to provisions relating to emissions from mobile sources to set the following nitrogen oxide emission standards for model year 1986 and after truck and truck engines: (1) gross vehicle weight of 6,000 pounds or less - 1.2 grams per vehicle mile; (2) 6,000 to 8,500 pounds - 1.7 grams per vehicle mile; and (3) more than 8,500 pounds - 4.0 grams per brake horsepower-hour.",2025-08-29T17:42:09Z, 98-hr-5591,98,hr,5591,Urban Radioactive Materials Protection Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-05-03,1984-05-17,Referred to Subcommittee on Surface Transportation.,House,"Rep. Green, S. William [R-NY-15]",NY,R,G000417,10,"Urban Radioactive Materials Protection Act of 1984 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to issue new regulations pertaining to shipments of hazardous materials after preparing, filing, and considering an environmental impact statement and making an environmental and safety assessment of alternative routes for transportation of such materials. Declares ineffective as of 90 days after enactment of this Act all routing regulations issued in the Department of Transportation regulatory docket HM164.",2025-08-29T17:41:37Z, 98-s-2609,98,s,2609,Airborne Lead Reduction Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-04-30,1984-06-22,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 98-978.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,2,"Airborne Lead Reduction Act of 1984 - Amends the Clean Air Act to make it unlawful, effective January 1, 1988, for any person to sell, offer for sale, or introduce into commerce leaded gasoline for general use as a fuel for any highway vehicle. Provides that leaded gasoline may be offered for limited sales under regulations promulgated by the Environmental Protection Agency.",2025-08-29T17:38:25Z, 98-hr-5530,98,hr,5530,A bill to amend the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1985 and for other purposes.,Environmental Protection,1984-04-26,1984-10-11,See S. 2706.,House,"Rep. Howard, James J. [D-NJ-3]",NJ,D,H000840,1,"(Reported to House from the Committee on Public Works and Transportation with amendment, H. Rept. 98-774 (Part I)) Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to contract with a private entity for a supplemental reporting system and data center on the transportation of hazardous substances. Changes from May 1 to June 15 of each year the date for submission of the Secretary's annual report on the transportation of hazardous materials. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the feasibility, cost, desirability of and problems in implementing a prenotification system which would make available to State and local governments information concerning the timing, nature, and routing of shipments of hazardous materials. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985. Requires the Secretary and the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to evaluate programs for: (1) planning for emergency response to incidents involving the transportation of hazardous materials; (2) training for such response; and (3) compliance with and enforcement of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act.",2025-04-07T14:20:37Z, 98-hr-5512,98,hr,5512,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reinstate and reinforce the biological integrity of our Nation's waters.,Environmental Protection,1984-04-25,1984-05-16,"Executive Comment Requested from EPA, OMB.",House,"Rep. Molinari, Guy [R-NY-14]",NY,R,M000842,0,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (also known as the Clean Water Act) to revise provisions relating to research on harmful effects on the health and welfare of persons caused by pollutants in water. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct such research in conjunction with other Federal, State, and interstate agencies carrying on such research. Requires that such research include, and place special emphasis on, the effect that bioaccumulation of these pollutants has upon reducing the value of aquatic commercial and sport industries. Requires that such research further study methods to reduce and remove these pollutants from the relevant affected aquatic species so as to restore and enhance valuable resources. Authorizes additional appropriations for such research for FY 1985 through 1988. Revises provisions relating to limitations and conditions on grants for the construction of publicly owned water treatment works. Directs the Administrator, before approving grants for proposed treatment works, to determine that: (1) an approved areawide waste treatment management plan is being fully implemented for such area and the proposed treatment works are included in such plan; and (2) the State in which the project is to be located is fully implementing an approved plan under specified provisions for water quality standards, the proposed treatment works are in conformity with such plan, and such State is in compliance with specified provisions for State reports on water quality. Revises provisions for permits under the national pollutant discharge elimination system. Increases from five years to ten years the maximum period such permits may cover, but requires review of each permit after five years to determine whether: (1) the receiving waters of discharges to which such permit applies are in compliance with applicable water quality standards and with any applicable effluent limitation controlling the thermal component of discharges; and (2) the permit is in conformity with applicable plans for areawide waste treatment management and for State implementation of water quality standards. Requires revision of such permit as necessary to: (1) ensure reasonable progress, not inconsistent with a timetable for achievement of water quality objectives, toward compliance of such waters with such standards and of such permit with such plans; and (2) achieve compliance with such limitation within a reasonable period of time by modifying requirements applicable to the thermal component of discharges from the point source in a manner proportionate to the contribution of the point source to the receiving waters (as determined by the Administrator, or if appropriate the State, based upon the findings under specified provisions for identification of areas with insufficient controls and estimation of total maximum daily thermal load). Revises the definition of ""point source"" to include any leachate collection system. Defines the terms ""balanced, indigenous community,"" ""balanced, indigenous population,"" and ""balanced population"" to mean an ecological community which: (1) is typically characterized by diversity; (2) retains the capacity to sustain itself through cyclic seasonal changes; (3) contains the presence of necessary food chain species; (4) is not dominated by pollution-tolerant species; (5) exhibits characteristics similar to those of nearby, healthy communities existing under comparable but unpolluted environmental conditions; and (6) may reasonably be expected to become reestablished in the polluted water body segment from adjacent waters if sources of pollution are removed. Provides that such definition shall not affect any permit in effect on the date of enactment of this Act or the issuance of any permit for which an application was received by the Administrator before January 1, 1984.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-s-2587,98,s,2587,"A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to the City of San Diego, California, for construction of publicly owned treatment works in the City of San Diego which will provide primary treatment of municipal sewage and industrial wastes for the City of Tijuana, Mexico.",Environmental Protection,1984-04-24,1984-04-24,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Cranston, Alan [D-CA]",CA,D,C000877,1,"Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to the city of San Diego, California, for the construction of publicly-owned treatment works in such city to be used to treat municipal sewage and industrial waste for the city of Tijuana, Mexico. Requires the project design for such treatment works to be approved by the Administrator and to meet applicable provisions of Federal law. Directs the Department of State to enter into negotiations with the Government of Mexico to seek contributions toward the costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of such works, and directs such Department to pay necessary costs not provided by the Government of Mexico. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-hr-5495,98,hr,5495,"A bill to amend section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize emergency action with respect to pesticide chemicals which present an imminent hazard to the public health, to revise the procedures under such section for changes in tolerances and exemptions for pesticide chemicals, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1984-04-12,1984-05-24,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-24]",CA,D,W000215,5,"Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to issue an order to revoke an exemption from the tolerance requirements for a pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity and establish a tolerance for such chemical, if it is determined that such action is necessary to prevent an imminent hazard to the public health. Makes such an order effective upon its issuance and requires its publication in the Federal Register. Sets forth provisions for a public hearing on such order. States that the effective date of any such order shall not be delayed during administrative or judicial review. Prohibits judicial review until completion of a hearing. Directs the Administrator to revoke exemptions in effect for residues of ethylene dibromide and establish a tolerance for such chemical under which only residues of the chemical which are safe will be permitted to remain in or on the raw agricultural commodity. Declares that Federal rule making procedures shall apply to rules to amend regulations establishing tolerances or exempting tolerances, except that the Administrator may allow informal hearings on such rules. Sets forth revocation procedures, if it is determined that residues of a pesticide chemical permitted by a tolerance established under such regulations may not be safe. Includes among the factors to be considered in promulgating regulations establishing tolerances: (1) the potential acute and chronic health hazards which may result from exposure to residues of a pesticide chemical; and (2) the synergistic effect upon health of combining certain pesticide residues in or on raw agricultural commodities. Requires the Administrator to establish tolerances at zero level for pesticides determined not to leave any residues in or on raw agricultural commodities. Prohibits the Administrator from exempting a pesticide chemical from the necessity for a tolerance on the ground that there is no practical method of detecting its residues or that the pesticide does not leave residues on agricultural commodities. Revises provisions with respect to persons who may petition for the registration of a pesticide to conform to provisions of this Act. Sets forth provisions for the Administrator to revoke a regulation if it is found that false, misleading, or inaccurate information was submitted in connection with its promulgation. Provides that tolerances or exemptions established as a result of postponements shall not remain in effect for more than 180 days. Requires the Administrator, during the four years after enactment of this Act, to conduct a survey of the information available on the aforementioned additional factors for establishing pesticide tolerances to determine: (1) if such information was submitted in connection with a proceeding to establish a tolerance; and (2) if such information was derived from well-conducted studies and is consistent with sound scientific principles. Sets forth revocation procedures for tolerances resulting in unfavorable determinations. Requires the Administrator within 180 days of enactment of this Act, to review the pesticide exemptions in effect to determine: (1) if there is any practical method of detecting such pesticide residues in or on raw agricultural commodities; (2) if such pesticide leaves any residue in or on such commodities; or (3) if such residues are safe. Sets forth revocation procedures. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct random samplings of raw agricultural commodities imported into the United States to determine if the amounts of pesticide residues on such commodities meet Federal standards. Sets forth procedures for the Administrator if the use of a pesticide chemical is cancelled, suspended, or voluntarily withdrawn under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Transfers the functions of the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to pesticide tolerances to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z, 98-sjres-273,98,sjres,273,"A joint resolution to designate the week of October 7, 1984, through October 13, 1984, as ""Smokey Bear Week"".",Environmental Protection,1984-04-12,1984-10-11,Became Public Law No: 98-467.,Senate,"Sen. Heflin, Howell [D-AL]",AL,D,H000445,45,"(Measure passed House, amended) Designates the week of October 7 through October 13, 1984, as Smokey Bear Week.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z, 98-s-2536,98,s,2536,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Environmental Protection Agency to undertake a study on consumptive uses of Great Lakes water.,Environmental Protection,1984-04-05,1984-04-05,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Percy, Charles H. [R-IL]",IL,R,P000222,0,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (also known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to undertake a study on consumptive uses of Great Lakes water. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct such study, in cooperation with other interested Federal agencies and the eight Great Lake States and their local governments, of all possible control measures which can be implemented to reduce the quantity of Great Lakes water consumed without adversely affecting the projected growth of the Great Lakes region. Requires that such study include an analysis of both existing and new technology which appears to be feasible in the foreseeable future. Requires that such study include at a minimum: (1) a review of methodologies used to forecast Great Lakes consumptive uses; (2) a discussion of environmental and economic impacts associated with various types of cooling systems for thermal electric generating plants; (3) an analysis of the effect of laws, regulations, and national policy objectives on consumptive uses of Great Lakes water used in manufacturing; (4) an analysis of the economic effects on a consuming industry and other Great Lakes interests associated with a particular consumptive use control strategy; (5) an analysis of associated environmental impacts, both singularly and in combination with other consumptive use control strategies; and (6) a summary discussion of recommendations of methods of controlling consumptive uses so as to maximize benefits to the Great Lakes ecosystem and also provide for continued full economic growth for consuming industries as well as other industries which depend on the use of Great Lakes water. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-hr-5370,98,hr,5370,Acid Deposition Control Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-04-04,1984-04-11,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Udall, Morris K. [D-AZ-2]",AZ,D,U000001,30,"Acid Deposition Control Act of 1984 - Title I: Acid Deposition Control Program - Amends the Clean Air Act (""the Act"") to establish an acid deposition control program. Defines an ""acid deposition impact region"" as the 31 States east of or bordering on the Mississippi River and the District of Columbia. Requires that by January 1, 1996, the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions in the acid deposition impact region not exceed a level 11,000,000 tons less than the actual level of such emissions in 1980. Requires that one-half of such reduction be completed within six years after the enactment of this Act, or January 1, 1991, whichever is earlier. Provides that sulfur dioxide emissions from major stationary sources which did not begin operation before January 1, 1981, or which have increased emissions since such date (to the extent such emissions do not exceed one and two-tenths pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu of heat input on a 30-day basis), calculated on an annual basis, shall not be added to the amount of sulfur dioxide which the State in which such sources are located is required to reduce by January 1, 1996, under provisions for regional reduction allocation and State reduction requirements. Provides that no emissions from such sources shall be added in any State which during 1980 had no major stationary source which was a utility boiler which had an actual annual average emission rate greater than one and two-tenths pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu of heat input. Provides that increases in sulfur dioxide emissions from utility boilers which are coal capable as defined under the Fuel Use Act and which convert to the use of coal as a primary fuel shall be so added only to the extent such emissions from a particular source exceed one and one-half pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu of heat input on an annual average. Prohibits any major stationary source of sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides from commencing operation after January 1, 1996, in such region unless there has been identified for such source a simultaneous net reduction in emissions of sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides, or both, at one or more points in such region: (1) in excess of the emissions which potentially would result from the proposed new source; and (2) not otherwise required by a State implementation plan. Exempts from such prohibition any major stationary source which: (1) adopts the best available control technology, as defined under specified provisions of the Act as appropriate for the location of the proposed new source; and (2) attains at least the most stringent emission limitation shown by an adequate operating history to have been achieved in practice by a major stationary source of the same size, type, and class within the region. Directs the Governors of all 31 States within the region to enter into negotiations to establish sulfur dioxide emission reduction requirements for each such State sufficient to achieve the total reduction required for the region. Makes such an agreement binding and enforceable on each such State, but only upon notification to the Administrator by the Governors of 75 percent of the States in the region, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, that such agreement has been reached. Requires each such State, if the Governors fail to reach agreement within such 18 months, to achieve its share of the reduction in annual sulfur dioxide emissions required for the region. Bases such share on the actual utility emissions which are in excess of one and two-tenths pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu of heat input averaged over 1980. Authorizes the Governors of any two or more States in the region to reallot among agreeing States such required reductions, provided that the total reductions equal the required total. Requires each such State, within 30 months after the enactment of this Act, to adopt enforceable measures to achieve the required reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions, including emissions limitations and schedules for compliance for sources within such State and other means of emissions reduction in accordance with specified provisions. Directs the Governor of such State to submit such measures to the Administrator for review and to the Governors of all other States in the region for comment. Provides for such review and approval according to specified procedures. Directs the Administrator to approve such measures if, taking into consideration the comments of the other State Governors, the Administrator finds that such measures: (1) contain enforceable requirements for continuous emission reduction; (2) contain requirements for monitoring by the source and enforcement agencies to assure that the emission limitations are being met; and (3) are adequate to meet the required reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions for such State by the deadline under this Act. Makes each emission limitation, compliance schedule, or other measure approved under this Act a requirement of an applicable implementation plan and an emission limitation for purposes of specified provisions of the Act. Provides that, in the case of any major stationary source which is in any State in the region and which is not by December 31, 1986, in full compliance with the applicable implementation plan in effect on January 1, 1981, the owner or operator shall be subject to: (1) the emission limitation established under specified provisions of this Act for all facilities in such State owned or operated by such owner or operator; and (2) a noncompliance penalty for each such source or facility, including each electric generating facility, for the period from the original date for compliance under the applicable implementation plan until actual compliance with such emission limitation. Requires that such enforceable measures adopted by States in the region include compliance schedules which specify actions to be performed leading toward final compliance and increments of progress to be achieved by dates in advance of dates by which the State requires each particular source to comply with the emission limitation necessary to attain the reduction for such State. Requires the State in adopting (and the Administrator in reviewing) such measures to stage or phase such compliance dates so that to the maximum extent practicable one-half of the total emission reduction under this Act is achieved within six years of enactment, or prior to January 1, 1991, whichever is earlier. Requires each major stationary source which proposes to comply with an emission limitation established under this Act by any means other than an innovative system of continuous emission reduction technology or the replacement of existing facilities with new facilities of substantially lower emissions to comply with such emission limitation by January 1, 1994. Sets forth major stationary source sulfur dioxide reduction requirements to apply in any State in the region which has not: (1) adopted, within 30 months after enactment of this Act, measures to achieve the required reduction; or (2) had such measures approved by the Administrator within six months after their submission. Requires, in such States, the owner or operator of each fossil-fuel-burning electric generating facility which is a major stationary source which is not subject to specified performance standards for new stationary sources to comply with an emission limitation or limitations for all such facilities owned or operated by the same entity in such region equivalent to an average among such facilities of one and two-tenths pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu of heat input on a 30-day average. Requires the owner or operator of each such facility to submit to the Administrator a plan or schedule of compliance for achieving such emission limitation or equivalent emission reduction in accordance with provisions for enforceable mission reduction programs, within three years after the enactment of this Act or six months after the date on which such owner or operator becomes subject to such emission limitation, whichever is later. Directs the Administrator to approve such plan and compliance schedule if it: (1) contains enforceable requirements for continuous emission reduction; (2) contains requirements for monitoring by the source and enforcement agencies to assure that the emission limitations are being met; and (3) will achieve the required emission reduction in a manner consistent with a specified schedule established under provisions for State enforceable measures, or otherwise at the earliest practicable date, but no later than January 1, 1994. Makes specified violations of such requirements violations of emissions limitations for purposes of certain provisions of the Act. Sets forth provisions for enforceable emission reduction programs. Permits alternative methods or programs for net emission reduction to be used to maintain emission limitations or attain emission reductions required under specified provisions of this Act. Permits a State or the owner or operator of a source to use such alternative methods or programs, in addition to enforceable continuous emission reduction measures, if emissions limitations under such methods or programs are enforceable by the Federal Government, States other than those in which the emissions occur, and citizens under specified provisions of the Act. Includes among such alternative methods or programs: (1) least emissions dispatch to meet electric generating demand and existing generating capacity; (2) retirement of major stationary sources at an earlier date than provided in schedules on file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, or State utility regulatory agencies; (3) investments in energy conservation where reductions in emissions can be identified with such investments; (4) trading of emission reduction requirements and actual reductions on a State or regional basis, for which States and the Administrator are authorized to establish emission reduction banks or brokerage institutions to facilitate such trading; (5) precombustion cleaning of fuels; and (6) fuel substitution. Permits a State or the owner or operator of a source required to achieve emission reductions under specified provisions of this Act to substitute reductions in nitrogen oxides emissions, at a rate of two units by weight of nitrogen oxides for each unit of sulfur dioxide. Directs the Administrator to: (1) conduct a study of air pollution problems associated with the long-range transport of pollutants in the portions of the continental United States not included in the acid deposition impact region; and (2) report the results of such study to the Congress within two years after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Acid Precipitation Task Force established under the Energy Security Act to submit to specified congressional committees two comprehensive reports, one by December 31, 1986, and one by December 31, 1988. Requires that such reports present specified research findings and recommendations, based on existing scientific knowledge, for reducing acid deposition and its effects. Directs the Task Force to provide for appropriate scientific peer review of such research and of its reports. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 in addition to any other funds authorized to be appropriated to the Task Force to carry out specified research activities under such Act. Directs the Administrator, promptly after the date established under provisions for major stationary source sulfur dioxide reduction requirements, to report to specified congressional committees on emission limitation and other enforceable measures adopted by the States and approved by the Administrator or in effect under such provisions, for all States in the region. Directs the Administrator to develop an inventory of sources of nitrogen oxides in the region and in each State in the region. Directs the Administrator, within four years after enactment of this Act, to report to specified congressional committees on: (1) such inventory; (2) control technology and methods for new and existing sources of nitrogen oxides; and (3) any recommendations for requirements to reduce existing emissions or control new emissions of nitrogen oxides to reduce acid deposition, including but not limited to the question of whether levels of such emissions should be strictly limited or reduced. Establishes a National Commission on Air Quality Employment Impacts to study and report to Congress on the direct and indirect impacts on employment in domestic coal mining that would result from the reduction of emissions required by this Act. Authorizes the Commission, if it deems it appropriate, to study and report on other direct employment impacts of this Act on industries related to coal mining. Requires that the Commission's report be filed with specified congressional committees by December 31, 1987. Permits such report to include: (1) legislative recommendations to correct any substantially adverse impact on employment dislocations in coal mining regions caused by this Act; and (2) recommendations to States, counties, cities, or private industrial entities to aid in the correction of said employment dislocation. Provides for Commission membership, including representatives of specified congressional committees, a representative of the United Mine Workers, and representatives of the coal industry. Provides for cooperation, information, and technical assistance from Federal agencies for the Commission. Terminates the Commission upon completion of its report. Authorizes the Commission, in the conduct of the study, to contract with nongovernmental entities competent to perform research or investigations in areas within the Commission's mandate, and to hold public hearings, forums, and workshops to enable full public participation. Authorizes the Commission to contract with nonprofit technical and scientific organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences, to develop necessary technical information for a specified authorized study. Authorizes the Commission to expend up to $3,000,000 to carry out its required functions.",2025-08-29T17:38:19Z, 98-hr-5321,98,hr,5321,Comprehensive Hazardous Substances Cleanup and Emergency Relief Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-04-03,1984-06-20,For Further Action See H.R.5640.,House,"Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,F000215,2,"Comprehensive Hazardous Substances Cleanup and Emergency Relief Act of 1984 - Provides that nothing in this Act or in any amendment made by this Act shall apply to oil or other pollution of navigable waters or authorize any response authority with respect to a federally permitted release as defined in specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (as added by this Act). Sets forth the finding that in order to adequately protect human health and the environment from hazardous waste it is necessary to: (1) establish a program for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites; (2) establish standards for the cleanup of such sites which will insure the same degree of protection for human health and the environment as are applicable in the case of facilities regulated under hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act and other applicable Federal and State law; (3) establish enforcement standards which require parties responsible for the release or threatened release of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants to assume financial responsibility for injuries of those exposed and for either conducting cleanup or reimbursing government costs of cleanup; (4) establish a full and cooperative Federal-State partnership in the cleanup program; and (5) afford citizens emergency assistance, reimbursement of medical and reimbursement expenses, and an opportunity to participate in the cleanup process. Title I: Cleanup of Hazardous Substances, Pollutants, and Contaminants - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act (the Act) (also known as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976) to add provisions for cleanup of, and liability for, certain hazardous substances, pollutants and contaminants. Defines ""hazardous substance"" as: (1) any substance designated under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (2) any element, compound, mixture, solution, or substance designated under specified provisions for additional designations under this Act; (3) any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified or listed under specified hazardous waste management provisions of the Act (but not including any other waste the regulation of which under specified hazardous waste management provisions has been suspended by Act of Congress); (4) any toxic pollutant listed under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (5) any hazardous air pollutant listed under the Clean Air Act; and (6) any imminently hazardous chemical substance or mixture with respect to which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (the Administrator) has taken action under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Excludes from the term ""hazardous substance"" natural gas, natural gas liquids, propane, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel (or mixtures of natural gas and such synthetic gas). Provides, for purposes of such cleanup, liability, and funding provisions, that the term ""pollutant or contaminant"" shall include, but not be limited to, any element, substance, compound, or mixture, including disease-causing agents, which after release into the environment and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation into any organism either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will or may reasonably be anticipated to cause death, disease, behavorial abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutation, physiological malfunctions (including malfunctions in reproduction) or physical deformations in such organisms or their offspring. Excludes from the term ""pollutant or contaminant"" natural gas, natural gas liquids, propane, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas of pipeline quality (or mixtures of natural gas and such synthetic gas). Provides for designation of additional hazardous substances and reportable quantities under this Act. Directs the Administrator to promulgate and revise: (1) regulations designating as hazardous substances, in addition to those referred to in the definition under this Act, such elements, compounds, mixtures, solutions, and substances which, when released into the environment, may present substantial danger to the public health or welfare or the environment; and (2) regulations establishing that quantity of any hazardous substance the release of which shall be reported under this Act. Allows the Administrator to determine that one single quantity shall be the reportable quantity for any hazardous substance, regardless of the medium into which it is released. Provides that, unless and until superceded by such regulations, the substances designated as additional hazardous substances and the reportable quantities of such substances established under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) (CERCLA) shall be deemed designated and established under this Act. Sets forth a notice requirement relating to releases of hazardous substances from any facility. Defines ""facility"" as: (1) any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container; or (2) any site or area where a hazardous substance, or pollutant or contaminant, has been deposited, stored, disposed of, or placed, or otherwise located (but does not include any consumer product in consumer use or any vessel or any motor vehicle, rolling stock, or aircraft). Requires any person in charge of a facility, as soon as such person has knowledge of any release (other than a federally permitted release) of a hazardous substance from such facility in quantities equal to or greater than those determined as reportable under this Act to immediately notify the National Response Center. Directs the Center to convey the notification expeditiously to all appropriate Government agencies, including the Governor of any affected State. Provides that such notification, or information obtained by exploitation of it, shall not be used against any such person in any criminal case, except a prosecution for perjury or for giving a false statement. Provides that such notice requirement shall not apply to the normal application of a pesticide product under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act or to the handling and storage of such a pesticide product by an agricultural producer. Exempts from such notice requirement any hazardous substance release which: (1) is required to be reported (or specifically exempted from a reporting requirement) under specified hazardous waste management provisions and regulations under the Act and has been reported to the Center; or (2) is a continuous release, stable in quantity and rate, and either is from a facility for which notification has been given under specified provisions of CERCLA or is a release for which notification has been given under the notice requirement of this Act for a period sufficient to establish the continuity, quantity, and regularity of the release. Requires, in the case of such exemptions, that notification be given for releases annually or at such time as there is any statistically significant increase in the quantity of any hazardous substance or constituent thereof released, above that previously reported or occurring. Sets forth response authorities. Authorizes the Administrator, whenever there is a release or substantial threat of release into the environment of any hazardous substance or of any pollutant or contaminant which may present an imminent or substantial danger to human health or the environment, to: (1) remove or arrange for the removal of, and provide for remedial action relating to such hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant at any time (including its removal from any contaminated natural resource); or (2) take any other response measure necessary to protect human health and the environment. Requires that removal actions be consistent with the National Contingency Plan and long-term remedial actions. Allows the Administrator to authorize facility owners or operators or other responsible parties to undertake such response actions. Sets forth investigation and planning authorities. Authorizes the Administrator to undertake investigations, monitoring, surveys testing, and other information gathering to identify the existence or extent of a release or threat thereof, the source and nature of the hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants involved and the extent of danger to human health and the environment, whenever the Administrator: (1) is authorized to act under response authorities for imminent and substantial danger; or (2) has reason to believe that a release has occurred or is about to occur, or that illness, disease, or complaints thereof may be attributable to exposure to a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant and that a release may have occurred or be occurring. Authorizes the Administrator, in addition, to undertake planning, legal, fiscal, economic, engineering, architectural, and other studies or investigations to plan and direct response actions, recover costs, and enforce cleanup, liability, and funding provisions of this Act. Directs the Administrator, in such information gathering or planning, to assess the risk to human health associated with the release or threatened release. Provides for a six-month limitation on response actions. Discontinues obligations, other than those authorized for investigation and planning, from the Hazardous Substances Trust Fund (the Fund) established under this Act after $1,000,000 has been obligated for response actions or six months after the initial response to a release or threatened release of hazardous substances, unless the Administrator: (1) finds that continued response actions are immediately required to prevent, limit, or mitigate an emergency, there is an immediate risk to human health or the environment, and such assistance will not otherwise be provided on a timely basis; or (2) has determined the appropriate remedial actions and the States in which the source of release is located have complied with provisions for State payment of certain costs. Sets forth provisions for State payment of certain costs. Prohibits the Administrator from providing any remedial actions under response provisions of this Act unless the State in which the release or threatened release occurs first provides certain assurances. Requires the State to assure the availability of a hazardous waste disposal facility for any necessary offsite storage, destruction, treatment, or secure disposition of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants. Requires the State to pay or assure payment of: (1) ten percent of the costs of remedial action and ten percent of all future operation and maintenance costs of any onsite remedial action; or (2) at least 50 percent (or such greater amount as the Administrator may determine appropriate, taking into account the degree of responsibility of the State or local government) of costs of remedial action and future operation and maintenance of onsite remedial action at facilities owned or operated by the State or local government at the time of any disposal of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants therein. Directs the Administrator to grant the State a credit for amounts expended or obligated by the State or local government after January 1, 1978, and before December 11, 1980, for any response action costs which are covered by provisions for the Fund and which were incurred at a release listed under National Contingency Plan provisions. Provides for reimbursement to the State of any amount paid by the State, pursuant to a specified contract or agreement at any time after December 11, 1980, in excess of ten percent of remedial action costs at a facility owned, but not operated, by the State or local government. Requires that any amount expended by a State for administrative expenses in carrying out cleanup, liability, and funding provisions of this Act be credited against the required ten percent share. Sets forth provisions for selection of remedial action. Directs the Administrator to select appropriate cost-effective remedial actions in accordance with the National Contingency Plan and with a required protection level. Directs the Administrator to consider permanent solutions and alternative treatment technologies in evaluating the cost-effectiveness. Directs the Administrator to: (1) consult with the affected States before determining the appropriate remedial action; and (2) approve a more protective action if the State or local government assures payment of 90 percent of that portion in excess of the costs of the action chosen by the Administrator. Provides that the selected remedial action shall require a level or standard of control: (1) necessary to protect human health and the environment; (2) as stringent as the most stringent applicable Federal law; and (3) as stringent as the most stringent applicable State law. Authorizes the Administrator to waive the requirements of a protection level as stringent as the most stringent Federal and State laws and to select an alternative remedial action upon a finding that: (1) such an alternative remedial action will provide substantially equivalent protection; or (2) compliance with the requirements of a level of protection necessary to protect human life and the environment at a site or facility will consume such a disproportionate share of Fund resources as to defer or prevent remedial action at other sites or facilities which pose a significantly greater threat. Prohibits permit requirements for any removal or remedial action undertaken pursuant to this Act at the location of the release or threatened release. Authorizes the Administrator to establish the exclusive administrative procedures for making any determination under provisions for required protection level. Authorizes the Administrator to enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with State and local governments to take remedial actions and to be reimbursed for reasonable response costs from the Fund. Provides for enforcement of such contracts and agreements, and of cost-sharing agreements, in Federal district courts. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical and legal assistance to State or local governments in administering and enforcing contracts and subcontracts in connection with response actions and to intervene in civil actions involving such enforcement. Authorizes the Administrator to treat two or more noncontiguous facilities as one if they are reasonably related on the basis of geography or of threat or potential threat to human health or the environment. Sets forth information gathering and access authorities for purposes of assisting in determining the need for response to a release or enforcing cleanup, liability, and funding provisions of this Act. Requires that access to records and information, including samples of hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants or substances which may have been hazardous, and samples of containers and labels, be provided to authorized Federal and State officers by any person: (1) who generates, stores, treats, recycles or disposes of such substances; or (2) who generates, stores, transports, or otherwise handles or has handled such substances (where necessary to ascertain facts not available at the facility where such substances are located). Provides for access to the site or facility at which any hazardous substance or pollutant, or contaminant is located, whenever necessary to carry out cleanup, liability, and funding provisions of this Act. Provides for public availability of records, reports, or information obtained, with specified exceptions for data entitled to confidentiality. Requires that all information reported or obtained be made available to any duly authorized congressional committee. Directs the Administrator or the State to require compliance with Federal health and safety standards established in the National Contingency Plan in awarding contracts for response actions. Requires that the prevailing wage rates of the Davis-Bacon Act be paid to all laborers and mechanics for construction, repair, or alteration work funded in whole or part under response action provisions of this Act. Authorizes the President to authorize the use of emergency procurement powers necessary to effect the purpose of the Act. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), in cooperation with other Federal officials and States, to implement the health related authorities of the Act. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to establish and maintain: (1) national registries of serious diseases and of persons exposed to toxic substances; (2) inventories of research on the health effects of toxic substances; and (3) a complete listing of areas closed to the public or otherwise restricted in use because of toxic substance contamination. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to: (1) provide medical care and testing, or other appropriate assistance to exposed individuals in public health emergencies; and (2) conduct periodic survey and screening programs to determine relationships between exposure to toxic substances and illness. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to prepare toxicological profiles sufficient to establish the likely effect on human health of the 100 hazardous substances which are most frequently found or which pose the most significant threat to human health at facilities listed on the National Priorities List prepared under the National Contingency Plan. Requires that the 100 profiles be completed 48 months after enactment of this Act (at 12-month intervals for four groups of 25 substances). Sets forth provisions for public participation in remedial action planning. Sets forth remedial action schedules. Directs the Administrator to complete remedial investigations and feasibility studies for all releases and threatened releases at sites listed or proposed to be listed on the National Priority List prepared under the National Contingency Plan: (1) within 18 months after the enactment of this Act, at sites listed or proposed to be listed as of such enactment date; and (2) within 12 months after the date of listing, at sites listed or proposed to be listed after such enactment date. Directs the Administrator or the State to complete, within five years after such enactment date, remedial actions for all releases or threatened releases at sites listed or proposed to be listed as of such enactment date. Directs the Administrator to complete by January 1, 1987, a preliminary assessment of all sites listed, as of such enactment date, on the Emergency and Remedial Response Information System. Requires that the National Contingency Plan be revised within 12 months after the enactment of this Act to reflect and effectuate the powers and responsibilities created by this Act, in addition to those matters specified in CERCLA and other applicable law. Requires that the portion of such plan known as ""the National Hazardous Substance Response Plan"" be revised to provide procedures and standards for response actions consistent with protection level requirements under this Act. Requires that, on or before January 1, 1988, at least 1,000 of the highest priority facilities be designated individually on the National Priorities List as ""top priority among known response targets."" Requires that plan criteria for determining priorities among releases or threatened releases throughout the United States for purposes of taking remedial action shall take into account (in addition to factors required under CERCLA): (1) the release-associated damage to natural resources which may affect the human food chain; and (2) the release-associated contamination or potential contamination of the ambient air. Sets forth provisions for citizen petitions for site ranking. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after receipt of a citizen petition, to complete a preliminary assessment of the hazards to public health and environment associated with any actual or threatened release of a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant. Directs the Administrator, if such assessment indicates a significant threat, to make a prompt evaluation in accordance with the hazard ranking system referred to under specified provisions of CERCLA to determine the national priority of such release or threatened release. Sets forth provisions for abatement actions. Directs the Administrator, upon determining that there may be imminent and substantial danger to human health or the environment because of an actual or threatened release of a hazardous substance or any pollutant or contaminant from a facility, to request the Attorney General, in addition to any other State or local action, to secure relief necessary to abate such danger or threat. Gives the U.S. district court in the district in which the threat occurs jurisdiction to grant such relief as the public interest and the equities of the case may require. Authorizes the Administrator, after notice to the affected State, to take other abatement action including issuing orders necessary to protect human health and the environment. Directs the Administrator, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, and after consultation with the Attorney General, to revise and republish guidelines published under CERCLA for using the imminent hazard, enforcement, and emergency response authorities of this Act and other existing statutes administered by the Administrator to effectuate the responsibilities and powers created by this Act. Requires that such guidelines: (1) be consistent with the National Contingency Plan; and (2) include the assignment of responsibility for coordinating response actions with the issuance of administrative orders, enforcement of standards and permits, information gathering, and other imminent hazard and emergency powers authorized by other provisions of law. Authorizes the Administrator to establish administrative procedures regarding the opportunity for a person to object to an abatement order under this Act. Provides that no court shall have jurisdiction to review any such abatement order in any action other than an action to: (1) enforce such order; (2) recover a penalty for a violation; or (3) recover punitive damages. Sets forth provisions for liability for releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants which cause incurrence of response costs. Makes strictly liable for specified costs and damages: (1) owners or operators of facilities at which hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants were stored, treated, disposed of, or recycled; (2) persons who owned or operated such facilities at the time of such storage, treatment, disposal, or recycling; (3) persons who owned or possessed such substances and who arranged for such storage, treatment, disposal, or recycling by, or for transport for such purposes, by any other party or entity; and (4) persons who accept or accepted any such substances for transport to storage, disposal, treatment, or recycling facilities or sites selected by such persons. Provides that such costs and damages shall be: (1) all Federal and State costs of removal or remedial action and investigation and planning; (2) any other necessary response costs incurred by any other person consistent with the National Contingency Plan; (3) damages for injury to, destruction of, or loss of natural resources, including assessment costs; and (4) costs of specified emergency relief actions and health effects studies. Provides that such liability shall be: (1) joint and several; and (2) according to the standard which obtains under specified provisions of CERCLA and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Provides for recovery of interest on amounts recoverable as costs and damages. Sets forth defenses to such strict liability. Sets forth a limitation on the amount of such liability (the total of all response costs plus $50,000,000 for any damages) but makes the responsible person liable for full and total costs of response and damages in cases involving willful misconduct, willful negligence, or violations of Federal standards (within the privity or knowledge or such person), or failure or refusal to cooperate with requests in connection with response activities with respect to regulated carriers. Provides for punitive damages in an amount three times the amount of any costs incurred by the Fund as a result of a responsible person's failure without sufficient cause to properly provide removal or remedial action upon order of the Administrator. Provides that no person shall be liable under this Act for costs and damages incurred as a result of actions taken or omitted in the course of rendering care, assistance, or advice at the direction of an on scene coordinator, except in cases of gross negligence or intentional misconduct. Sets forth provisions relating to indemnification agreements. Sets forth provisions relating to liability for damages to natural resources. Makes all requirements, including liability, of this Act applicable to all Federal agencies. Prohibits recovery under such liability provisions of this Act for response costs or damages resulting from the application of a pesticide product registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Provides that recovery for response costs or damages resulting from a federally permitted release shall be pursuant to existing law in lieu of such liability provisions of this Act. Provides that, for purposes of abatement actions, the presumption that EPA (or State) laboratory tests are accurate may be overcome if the defendant establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that such test results lack a reasonable basis. Sets forth provisions for financial responsibility. Directs the Administrator to promulgate requirements (for facilities in addition to those under hazardous waste management provisions of the Act) that classes of facilities establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility consistent with the degree and duration of risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances. Requires that priority in the development of such requirements be accorded to those classes of facilities, owners, and operators which the Administrator determines present the highest level of risk of injury. Directs the Administrator to publish notice of the identification of those classes for which requirements will be first developed. Requires that the level of financial responsibility be established and adjusted to protect against the level of risk which the Administrator believes is appropriate based on the payment experience of the Fund, commercial insurers, court settlements and judgments, and voluntary claims satisfaction. Directs the Administrator to cooperate with and seek the advice of the commercial insurance industry in developing such financial responsibility requirements. Requires that such financial responsibility requirements be incrementally imposed over a period of between three to six years after promulgation. Provides that, where possible, the financial responsibility level appropriate as a final requirement be achieved through incremental, annual increases in the requirements. Sets forth provisions for consolidated forms of evidence of financial responsibility under specified circumstances. Sets forth provisions relating to claims against guarantors and the limitation of guarantor liability. Sets forth provisions for penalties for specified violations under this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to employee protection. Prohibits firing or discriminating against any employee or authorized employee representative because he or she has provided information to a State or the Federal Government, or has caused the filing or institution of, or testified, or is about to testify in, any proceeding resulting from the administration or enforcement of this Act. Sets forth procedures for review by the Secretary of Labor of employee allegations of such a firing or discrmination, and for judicial review of the Secretary's orders. Provides for abatement orders, including rehiring or reinstatement with compensation and reimbursement of legal costs and expenses to the employee by the violator. Makes such employee protection provisions inapplicable to any employee who, acting without discretion from the employer (or the employer's agent), deliberately violates any requirement of this Act. Directs the President to conduct continuing evaluations of potential loss or shifts of employment which may result from the administration or enforcement of this Act, including, where appropriate, investigating threatened plant closures or reductions in employment allegedly resulting from such administration or enforcement. Permits employees and their representatives to request investigations. Provides for a public hearing at the request of any party. Directs the President to make investigation reports, findings of fact, and recommendations available to the public. Sets forth provisions for citizen petitions for emergency relief and health effects studies. Directs the Administrator, upon receiving a petition providing reason to believe that the petitioners were exposed to any hazardous substance in a manner which may present a significant risk to human health, to: (1) immediately terminate such risk by provision of alternative drinking supplies, decontamination of soil, or relocation of residents; and (2) perform a health effects study to ascertain the nature, magnitude, scope, and duration of the exposure, including a determination of the source of any groundwater contamination and a toxicological evaluation of the substances involved. Directs the Administrator to also perform a health effects study upon receiving a petition providing reason to believe that one or more persons have been exposed to any hazardous substance and such exposure has abated but previously presented a significant risk to human health. Requires that each health effects study be completed within six months after the date on which the petition is filed, and that the results of such study be made public within ten days after completion. Provides for judicial review of the Administrator's denial of such petitions in the U.S. district court for the district in which the exposure occurred. Sets forth claims procedures. Requires that all claims which may be asserted against the Fund be presented first to the owner, operator, or guarantor of the facility from which a hazardous substance has been released, if known to the claimant, and to any other person known to the claimant who may be liable under this Act. Allows the claimant, in any case where the claim has not been satisfied within 60 days of such presentation, to elect to: (1) commence an action in court against such owner, operator, guarantor, or other person; or (2) present the claim to the Fund for payment. Directs the Administrator to prescribe appropriate forms and procedures for claims filed against the Fund. Directs the Administrator, upon receipt of any claim, to: (1) inform any known affected parties of the claim; and (2) attempt to promote and arrange a settlement between the claimant and any person who may be liable. Provides that, if the claimant and alleged liable party agree upon a settlement, it shall be final and binding upon the parties thereto, who will be deemed to have waived all recourse against the Fund. Provides that where a responsible party is unknown or cannot be determined, the claimant and the Administrator shall attempt to arrange settlement of any claim against the Fund. Authorizes the Administrator to award and make payment of such settlement, subject to proof and procedures promulgated by regulation. Directs the Administrator (except in extraordinary circumstances where inadequate services of private organizations or State agencies make the use of Federal personnel necessary) to use the facilities and services of private insurance and claims adjusting organizations or State agencies in implementing such claims settlement requirements. Sets forth provisions relating to contracts for such facilities and services. Authorizes the Administrator, if no settlement is reached within 45 days after filing of a claim and if the information developed during the claim processing warrants it, to make and pay an award of the claim. Provides for the appeal of such an award in the U.S. district court for the district in which the arbitral hearing took place. Requires that, if the Administrator declines to make an award, the claim be submitted to a member of the Board of Arbitrators established under CERCLA. Sets forth subrogation provisions. Sets forth statute of limitations provisions. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the presentation of a claim or the commencement of an action for damages under this Act unless that claim is presented or action commenced within three years from the date of the discovery of the loss, whichever is later. Provides that such time limitations shall not begin to run against minors or incompetent persons until a legal representative is duly appointed for them or until the minor reaches 18 years of age or the incompetency ends. Prohibits presentation of claims or commencement of actions for recovery of specified response costs until the date six years after the completion of the response action. Provides that no person who asserts a claim against the Fund pursuant to this Act shall be deemed or held to: (1) have waived any other claim not covered or assertable against the Fund under this Act arising from the same incident, transaction, or set of circumstances; (2) have split a cause of action; or (3) as a result of any determination of a question of fact or law in connection with such claim, be collaterally estopped from raising such question in connection with any other claim not covered or assertable against the Fund. Provides that judicial review of any regulation promulgated under this Act may be had upon application, within 90 days from the date of promulgation, by any interested person only in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States for the District of Columbia. Grants the U.S. district courts exclusive original jurisdiction over all other controversies arising under this Act. Sets forth provisions for venue in such cases. Provides that no provision of this Act shall be deemed or held to meet any prior litigation concerning any release of any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant or any associated damages. Sets forth provisions concerning the relationship of this Act to other law. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed or interpreted as preempting any State from imposing any additional liability or requirements with respect to the release of hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants within such State. Bars any person from receiving double compensation for the same removal costs or damages or claims pursuant to this Act and any other Federal or State law. Authorizes States to require any person to contribute to any fund to pay compensation for claims for any response costs or damages or claims which may be compensated under this Act. Prohibits State or local governments from requiring any other evidence of financial responsibility in connection with liability for the release of a hazardous substance from a facility, if the owner or operator establishes and maintains evidence of financial responsibility in accordance with this Act. Authorizes the President and the Administrator to delegate any powers or duties and to promulgate regulations to carry out cleanup, liability, and funding provisions of this Act. Adds provisions for medical and relocation expenses and other recovery to the Act. Sets forth definitions applicable to such provisions. Title II: Establishment and Uses of Hazardous Substance Trust Fund - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act (the Act) to establish the Hazardous Substance Trust Fund (the Fund) in the Treasury. Transfers to the Fund amounts determined by the Secretary of the Treasury (the Secretary) to be equivalent to: (1) the fees imposed under title III of this Act; (2) amounts recovered on behalf of the Fund under specified provisions of this Act; (3) civil penalties assessed under specified provisions of this Act; and (4) punitive damages under specified provisions of this Act. Authorizes appropriations in a specified amount for the Fund for FY 1986 through 1988. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year thereafter in an amount equal to not more than 12.5 percent of the amount deposited in the Fund during the second preceding fiscal year which is derived from the fees imposed under title III of this Act. Limits the liability of the U.S. Government to the amount in the Fund. Sets forth provisions for the Secretary's administration of the Fund relating to method of transfer, management (including an annual report to Congress and investment requirements), and authority to borrow (including limitations on advances and repayment requirements). Sets forth the uses of the Fund. Directs the Administrator to use the money in the Fund for payment of: (1) governmental response costs incurred pursuant to response provisions of this Act; (2) any claim for necessary response costs incurred by any other person as a result of carrying out the revised National Contingency Plan, if such costs are approved in advance of expenditure under that plan and certified by the responsible Federal official; (3) any claim authorized by provisions relating to natural resources damages and finally decided under settlement provisions, including interest, administrative and adjudicative costs, and attorney's fees; (4) medical and relocation expenses; and (5) other specified costs. Directs the Administrator to cooperate with State and local governments in their undertaking of response actions under this Act. Requires that any administrative costs or expenses paid out of the Fund be reasonably necessary and incidental to the implementation of this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to claims for damages to natural resources. Allows claims resulting from a release or threat of release of a hazardous substance from a facility to be asserted against the Fund for injury to, or destruction or loss of, natural resources. Provides that such claims may be asserted only by: (1) the President, as trustee, for natural resources over which the United States has sovereign rights or within U.S. territory to the extent they are managed and protected by the United States; or (2) any State for natural resources within its boundaries belonging to, managed by, controlled by, or appertaining to such State. Provides that the Fund may be used for other specified ""included costs"" of: (1) natural resources damages assessment; (2) Federal or State efforts to restore, rehabilitate, replace, or acquire the equivalent of the natural resources damaged; (3) a program to identify, investigate, and take enforcement and abatement action against releases of hazardous substances (subject to amounts provided in appropriation Acts); (4) epidemiologic studies, a registry of and long-term health effect studies on persons exposed to hazardous substances, and otherwise unavailable diagnostic services to determine whether persons in populations exposed to hazardous substances in connection with a release or suspected release are suffering from long-latency diseases; (5) providing supplementary equipment and similar overhead and damage assessment capability for any Federal agency involved in strike forces, emergency task forces, or other response teams under the National Contingency Plan (subject to amounts provided in appropriations Acts); (6) a program to protect the health and safety of employees involved in response to hazardous substances releases (subject to amounts provided in appropriations Acts); (7) preparation of toxic profiles by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; (8) evaluation of sites by the Administrator pursuant to citizen petitions; and (9) emergency relief and health effects studies carried out by the Administrator. Provides that the health and safety program for employees involved in response actions shall: (1) be developed jointly by the EPA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; and (2) include measures for identifying and assessing hazards to which persons engaged in the removal or remedy of, or other response to hazardous substances may be exposed, methods to protect workers from such hazards, and necessary regulatory and enforcement measures to assure adequate protection of such employees. Prohibits the use of money in the Fund for: (1) assessment or restoration costs or claim payments where the damage to natural resources and the release occurred wholly before the enactment of this Act; or (2) claim payments for natural resources damages where such expenses are associated with injury or loss resulting from long-term exposure to ambient concentrations of air pollutants from multiple or diffuse sources. Provides that claims against or presented to the Fund shall: (1) not be valid or paid in excess of the total money in the fund at any one time; and (2) become valid only when additional money is collected, appropriated, or otherwise added to the Fund. Directs the Administrator, should the total claims outstanding at any time exceed the current balance of the Fund, to pay such claims, to the extent authorized, in full in the order in which they were finally determined. Limits the portion of money credited to the Fund that shall be available in any fiscal year: (1) to six percent for payment of any claims and related costs for natural resources damages; and (2) to 12 percent for payment of medical and relocation expenses. Provides that no money in the Fund shall be available for remedial actions, other than actions specified under provisions for ""included costs"" under uses of the Fund, with respect to federally owned facilities. Provides that the following uses of the Fund shall, in the aggregate, be subject to such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts: (1) payment of governmental response costs; and (2) payment of the specified ""included costs."" Authorizes the Administrator to delegate authority to obligate money in the Fund or to settle claims to officials of a State operating under a specified contract or cooperative agreement. Directs the Administrator to promulgate appropriate regulations for the notice to be provided to potential injured parties by an owner or operator of any facility from which a hazardous substance has been released. Requires such owners and operators to: (1) provide notice in accordance with such regulations; and (2) until such regulations are promulgated, provide reasonable notice to potential injured parties by publication in local newspapers serving the affected area. Requires that natural resources damages be assessed for purposes of this Act by Federal officials designated by the President under the National Contingency Plan and acting for the President as trustee. Provides that any such determination or assessment of natural resources damages shall have the force and effect of a rebuttable presumption on behalf of any claimant in any judicial or adjudicatory administrative proceeding under this Act. Requires that a plan for the use of funds under this Act for natural resources restoration be developed and adopted by affected Federal agencies and Governors of States sustaining damages to natural resources belonging to, managed by, or appertaining to such States, after adequate public notice and opportunity for a hearing and consideration of all public comment. Requires that such plan be developed and adopted before such funds may be used for such purposes, except in a situation requiring action to avoid an irreversible loss of natural resources or to prevent or reduce any continuing danger to natural resources or to meet a similar need for emergency action. Sets forth provisions for audits by the Inspector General of the EPA. Sets forth provisions relating to foreign claimants. Prohibits any potentially liable claimant from seeking judicial review of any determination to incur any government response costs under response provisions of this Act or to utilize the Fund for payment of any such costs, except in an action to recover such costs under liability provisions of this Act. Directs the President, acting through Federal officials designated by the revised National Contingency Plan, to promulgate regulations for assessment of natural resources damages within six months after enactment of this Act. Sets forth required contents of such regulations. Requires review, and appropriate revision, of such regulations every two years. Provides that, effective on the date of enactment of this Act, specified CERCLA provisions shall be superseded by this Act. Adds provisions regarding medical and relocation expenses to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (the Act). Allows individuals who allege that they sustained injury for which relief is payable under this Act to file an application for such relief with the Administrator. Directs the Administrator, within 45 days after the enactment of this Act, to issue a rule or order for the manner of filing such applications. Directs the Administrator to pay relief under this Act if individuals establish by a preponderance of the evidence that they have suffered physical injuries or illnesses caused by exposure to a hazardous substance: (1) from a facility or site at or from which such substance was stored, treated, recycled, disposed of, or migrated; or (2) during transportation to such a facility or site. Directs the Administrator to pay relief under this Act to dependents of any deceased individual who establish to the satisfaction of the Administrator that the death was caused by any such exposure. Provides that such relief to any individual who has suffered such physical injury or illness shall consist of: (1) payment or reimbursement for all medical costs incurred in connection with the physical injury, illness, or death; (2) a monthly payment (not to exceed $2,000 per month) in an amount equal to the injured, ill, or deceased individual's monthly earnings which are lost by reason of such injury, illness, or death during the five-year period following such injury, illness, or death; and (3) reimbursement for expenses incurred in obtaining alternative water supplies or relocating a residence where the individual's exposure (or potential exposure) to hazardous substances caused or significantly contributed to such expenses. Provides that relief to dependents of any such individual shall be equal to all such medical costs incurred, plus the reasonable expenses of burial. Directs the Administrator to promulgate rules for equitable allocation of such relief where there are two or more dependents. Directs the Administrator to compute the amount of relief and determine the method, terms, and time of payment. Requires that payments made pursuant to such provisions for medical and relocation expenses be charged against the Fund. Provides that such claims against the Fund which are in excess of the total money in the Fund shall become valid and be paid in the same manner as provided for other claims against the Fund. Limits to 12 percent that portion of the Fund which may be used for purposes of such payments for medical and relocation expenses. Sets forth the procedure for determination of such claims for medical and relocation expenses. Directs the Administrator, except as otherwise provided, to use the procedures used by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in determining entitlement to disability insurance benefit payments under the Social Security Act. Directs the Administrator and the Secretary of HHS to arrange to use Social Security Administration personnel and offices for administration and determination of claims filed for medical and relocation expenses under this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to delegate to the Secretary of HHS, or to any HHS employee, any function vested in the Administrator under provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act. Provides that the injury, illness, or death shall be presumed to have been caused by the exposure if the applicant provides information sufficient to enable the Administrator to find that: (1) the individual suffered any physical injury, illness, or death; (2) the individual was exposed in any manner to a hazardous substance from a facility or site at or from which such substance was treated, recycled, stored, disposed, or migrated, or during transportation to such site;(3) exposure in such manner to such hazardous substance has a reasonable likelihood of causing or significantly contributing to death or to a personal injury or illness of the type suffered by the individual. Provides that such presumption shall be overcome if the Administrator determines, on the basis of any available information, that it is reasonably certain that such exposure did not cause, or significantly contribute to, the individual's injury, illness, or death. Provides that any information which tends to establish that exposure to the hazardous substance in question causes or contributes to death or to personal injury or illness of the type or class allegedly suffered by an individual, shall be considered relevant to the issues of causation for purposes of determination of such claims for medical and relocation expenses under this Act. Includes among such relevant information: (1) an increase in the incident of injury, illness, or death in the exposed population above that which is otherwise probable; (2) epidemiological studies (without regard to the size of the sample); (3) animal studies; (4) tissue culture studies; (5) micro-organism culture studies; (6) laboratory and toxilogic studies; (7) immunological studies; (8) toxicology profiles prepared under this Act; and (9) health effects studies prepared under this Act. Directs the Administrator to require medical tests or examinations of the applicant to confirm the diagnosis or determination of physical injury or illness. Authorizes the Administrator to investigate and gather other appropriate information in making such claim determinations. Directs the Administrator, upon request by the claimant, to conduct a hearing with respect to any claim which has been denied, in whole or in part. Requires that the involved owner or operator be given notice of any proceeding under provisions for claims for medical or relocation expenses, but declares that such persons have no right to participate in such proceedings. Provides for the award of legal costs for such hearings to claimants who prevail. Sets forth subrogation provisions. Provides for deposit in the Fund of any amount so recovered. Sets forth provisions for the judicial review of such claim determinations in U.S. district courts. Provides that a determination of the Administrator shall constitute a final administrative determination for the purpose of such judicial review. Sets forth provisions for additional recovery. Provides that individuals who have recovered any amount under such provisions for medical or relocation expenses shall not be prohibited from recovering an additional amount under this Act at a subsequent time if such individuals establish that an additional physical injury or illness: (1) was caused by such exposure; and (2) was not known to the individual at the time of the prior application. Title III: Funding - Part 1: Fee on Petroleum - Imposes a fee of four and one-half cents a barrel on: (1) crude oil received at a U.S. refinery (to be paid by the operator of the U.S. refinery); and (2) petroleum products entering the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing (to be paid by the person entering the product for such purposes). Imposes such fee (to be paid by the user or exporter) on any domestic crude oil if: (1) it is used in or exported from the United States; and (2) such fee was not imposed before such use or exemption. Provides that such fee shall not apply to any use of domestic crude oil for extracting oil or natural gas on the premises where such crude oil was produced. Sets forth definitions and special rules. Provides that only one fee may be imposed under this part with respect to any petroleum product. Makes such fee effective on October 1, 1985. Part 2: Fee on Certain Chemicals and Metals - Imposes a fee on any assessed chemicals sold (or used) by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof. Sets forth a table of assessed chemicals, with a specified fee per ton for each. Sets forth definitions, exceptions, and other special rules. Provides for a refund or credit for certain uses. Makes such fee effective on October 1,1985. Part 3: Waste End Fee - Imposes a fee on the disposal of hazardous substances. Provides that such fee shall apply only to a disposal which is: (1) required to be carried out in compliance with hazardous waste management provisions of the Act; and (2) not specifically exempt under this part. Exempts from such fee the disposal of any substance: (1) by incineration in accordance with the standards applicable to incineration facilities permitted under hazardous waste management provisions of the Act; or (2) by any person in the course of carrying out any removal or remedial actions under this Act. Sets the amount of such fee in the case of: (1) any hazardous substance for which there is in effect under this Act a reportable quantity of one pound or less, at $15 for each metric ton disposed of by underground injection and $30 for each metric ton not disposed of by such method; and (2) all hazardous substances for which there is in effect under this Act a reportable quantity of more than one pound, at $5 for each metric ton disposed of by underground injection and $10 for each metric ton not disposed of by such method. Provides that, in the cases of mixtures of hazardous substances with reportable quantities of one pound or less and those with reportable quantities more than one pound, the entire mixture shall be deemed to have a reportable quantity of one pound or less. Provides for imposing a fraction of the fee in the case of a fraction of a metric ton. Requires the owner or operator of the facility to pay such fee with respect to the disposal of any hazardous substance at a facility for which a permit is in effect under the hazardous waste management provisions of the Act. Requires the person disposing of the hazardous substance to pay such fee with respect to any other disposal of any hazardous substance. Requires, in the case of a fee imposed with respect to the long-term storage of any hazardous substance, that such fee be paid by the owner or operator of the site or facility at which the substance is located on the date one year after the date of generation of such substance. Sets forth provisions concerning the time of fee payment and regulations to carry out this part. Sets forth provisions concerning such fee for mining waste generated in the mining of copper. Provides that such waste shall become subject to such fee whenever such waste is listed or identified under hazardous waste management provisions of the Act, after the Administrator makes a finding under specified provisions or makes a determination that no such finding can be made. Directs the Administrator to make such finding or determination within six months after the date of such listing or identification. Directs the Administrator to waive such fee in the case of any such copper mining waste upon determination that such waste does not (as of the date of such finding) significantly contribute to the costs which must be incurred in remedial actions carried out pursuant to specified response authorities under this Act. Requires that such fee be imposed on any such copper mining waste if the Administrator finds that: (1) such mining waste is as hazardous as other hazardous wastes which are listed or identified under such provisions; and (2) an economically feasible process exists which is an alternative to the generation or disposal of such waste and which would reduce or eliminate such wastes or the hazard they pose to human health and the environment. Provides that the fee on any such copper mining waste shall be imposed at the rate applicable, under specified provisions, to disposal of hazardous wastes by underground injection, notwithstanding the method of disposal, unless such rate for the copper mining waste fee is reduced in a specified manner. Provides that such rate shall be reduced to such lower level as the Administrator deems appropriate in any case where the determination is made, within the required six-month period, that the finding cannot be made. Directs the Administrator, in establishing such lower level to take account of: (1) the degree of hazard of such copper mining waste as compared with other wastes subject to such fee; and (2) the incentive such fee will provide to reduce or eliminate the amounts of such waste which are disposed of and the hazard they pose to human health and the environment. Provides that the waste end fee imposed under this part shall apply only with respect to the disposal of hazardous substances after January 1, 1987, and that no period of storage before such date shall be taken into account for purposes of imposition of such fee with respect to long-term storage of hazardous wastes. Provides that, after such date, the fee with respect to long-term storage of a hazardous waste shall: (1) cease to apply on the effective date of a removal of such waste from the list under hazardous waste management provisions of the Act; or (2) take effect after the effective date of a listing or identification of such waste under such provisions. Part 4: Administration and Enforcement; Suspension - Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations for the collection of fees under this title, including reporting and information-gathering regulations. Authorizes the Administrator to use authorities relating to the inspection of records and access under hazardous waste management provisions of the Act for purposes of carrying out this title. Sets forth criminal and civil penalties for specified violations of this title. Requires the suspension of fees imposed under this title during any fiscal year which commences after September 30, 1991, if the Administrator determines (on or before the first day of such fiscal year) that the unobligated balance in the Fund exceeds $3,000,000,000. Provides that such suspension shall continue until the expiration of the fiscal year concerned. Title IV: Citizen Suits and Liability of Certain Persons - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act (the Act) to revise provisions for citizen suits. Adds provisions for citizen suits against any person, including the United States and any other governmental instrumentality or agency, to the extent permitted by the eleventh amendment of the Constitution, and including any past or present generator, transporter, or owner or operator of a treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal facility who has contributed or is contributing to the past or present handling, storage, treatment, transportation, or disposal of any solid or hazardous waste which may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to health or the environment. Grants the district jurisdiction to immediately restrain any person contributing to such endangerment, to order such person to take other necessary action, and to apply any appropriate civil penalties relating to hazardous waste management violations. Provides that citizen suits for such purposes may not be commenced: (1) if the Administrator has commenced, and is diligently prosecuting, an action under imminent hazard provisions of the Act, or if the State has brought an action under specified provisions of the Act, to immediately restrain any person contributing to such endangerment; or (2) by any person (other than a State or local government) with respect to the siting of a hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility. Adds provisions to the Act relating to the liability of certain persons for specified damages. Makes the following persons liable for specified damages to individuals (or their dependents) caused by the exposure of such individuals to a hazardous substance: (1) in cases of exposure to such substance from a facility or site at which treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal took place, the owner or operator of such facility or site at the time of such treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal, and any subsequent owner or operator of such facility or site; (2) in cases of exposure to such substance during storage of such substance pending transport for storage or treatment, any person who arranged for treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal, or who arranged for transport for such purposes; and (3) in cases of exposure during the transportation to, or treatment, storage, or disposal at, a disposal or treatment facility or site, any person who accepts or accepted such substance for transport to a treatment, recycling, storage, or disposal facility selected by such person. Provides that such liability shall be: (1) strict liability, with specified exceptions; (2) joint and several; and (3) construed to be the standard of liability which obtains under specified provisions of CERCLA and of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Excuses from such liability any defendant who can establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the exposure to a hazardous substance or the damage resulting from such exposure was caused solely by: (1) an act of God; or (2) an act of war. Makes the following damages compensable under such liability provisions: (1) any medical expenses, rehabilitation costs, or burial expenses due to personal injury, illness, or death; (2) any loss of income or profits or any impairment or loss of earning capacity due to personal injury, illness, or death; (3) any pain and suffering which results from personal injury, illness, or death; and (4) any economic loss and any damages to property, including diminution in value. Sets forth procedural provisions relating to such liability. Provides that no evidence may be introduced in an action under such liability provisions of this Act with respect to the results of any proceeding brought by the plaintiff under specified medical and relocation expenses provisions of this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to a presumption of cause of damages. Sets forth provisions for jurisdiction of U.S. district courts over actions under such liability provisions. Authorizes the court to award appropriate legal fees. Provides that nothing in such liability provisions or in provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act shall be construed to preempt, or otherwise affect, any provision of State law regarding liability for damages in connection with any hazardous substance. Sets forth a statute of limitations relating to such liability provisions and to provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act. Sets such limitation at three years after: (1) the date the physical injury or illness was first known (or reasonably should have been known) by the applicant or plaintiff to exist, or the date of the individual's death; (2) the date the applicant or plaintiff knew (or reasonably should have known) that the physical injury, illness, or death or other expense was caused or contributed to by exposure to such hazardous substance; or (3) the date of enactment of this Act. Sets forth exceptions to such limitation in the case of minors or incompetents. Sets forth provisions for collateral recovery relating to such liability provisions and to provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act. Provides for recovery from other sources and for liens. Prohibits recovery under such liability provisions and under provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act of any amount for injury, illness, or death for which compensation is available under a State workers' compensation law. Sets forth criminal penalties for false statements in any application or proceeding under provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act.",2025-08-29T17:38:42Z, 98-hr-5329,98,hr,5329,"A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to the city of San Diego, California, for construction of a publicly owned treatment works in the city of San Diego which will provide treatment of municipal sewage and industrial wastes for the cities of San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico.",Environmental Protection,1984-04-03,1984-05-01,For Further Action See H.R.3282.,House,"Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-45]",CA,R,H000981,10,"Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to the city of San Diego, California, for the construction of a publicly-owned treatment works in such city which will treat municipal sewage and industrial wastes for such city and for the city of Tijuana, Mexico. Makes certain provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act applicable to such grants, with specified exceptions. Provides that the Federal share of such construction costs shall be: (1) 55 percent for those costs attributable to providing such treatment for San Diego; and (2) at full Federal expense less any costs paid by the Government of Mexico as a result of agreements negotiated with the United States, for those costs attributable to providing such treatment for Tijuana. Authorizes the Administrator, upon application of the city of San Diego, to issue a permit which modifies specified requirements under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to permit the discharge of pollutants from any ocean outfall constructed with Federal assistance under this Act if such pollutants have received primary or more advanced treatment. Provides that such permits shall not be effective after December 31, 1993. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator to make such grants for FY 1985 and succeeding fiscal years.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-5316,98,hr,5316,A bill to terminate certain authority of the executive branch of the Government which is subject to congressional review unless that authority is approved by an enactment of the Congress.,Environmental Protection,1984-04-02,1984-04-05,"Referred to Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture.",House,"Rep. Levitas, Elliott H. [D-GA-4]",GA,D,L000265,0,"Terminates certain pesticide regulation authority of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (formerly subject to congressional veto), unless the exercise of such authority is approved by an enactment of Congress within 180 days after enactment of this Act.",2024-02-05T11:45:06Z, 98-hr-5313,98,hr,5313,"A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1985 to carry out the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 and the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1984-03-30,1984-06-25,House Incorporated this Measure (Amended) in S.2688 as an Amendment.,House,"Rep. Sharp, Philip R. [D-IN-2]",IN,D,S000294,0,"(Reported to House from the Committee on Energy and Commerce with amendment, H.Rept. 98-780(Part II)) Amends the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 and the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 to authorize amounts to be appropriated for FY 1985, including the State grant programs. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) study issues relating to the transportation of methanol through the interstate liquid pipeline system and make recommendations for the safe and efficient transportation of methanol through such pipeline, and report the results of the study to Congress; and (2) study the feasibility of and costs connected with requiring various methods of testing and inspecting hazardous liquid pipeline facilities subject to provisions of the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 and to report the results to Congress. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make recommendations, based on the study undertaken under clause (2) of the previous sentence and on consultation between the Secretary and the Technical Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Standards Committee, as to the frequency and type of testing and inspection of pipeline facilities which should be required; and (2) report the recommendations to Congress. Requires, under provisions of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, any person owning or operating interstate transmission facilities, within 120 days of the enactment of this Act, to submit a report to the Secretary which: (1) identifies the location and condition of all pipeline facilities whose construction was completed before January 1, 1938; (2) identifies any leaks in such pipeline facilities; and (3) includes the most recent leak survey information compiled by such owner or operator with respect to such pipelines. Directs the Secretary, within 90 days of receiving any such report, to: (1) inspect such pipeline facilities, except when the Secretary determines that a pipeline facility is in safe condition; and (2) identify any pipeline facilities which might pose a danger to the public health and safety. Authorizes amounts to be appropriated to carry out this paragraph for FY 1985.",2025-04-07T14:20:38Z, 98-hr-5314,98,hr,5314,Clean Air Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-03-30,1984-05-02,Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.,House,"Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-24]",CA,D,W000215,0,"Clean Air Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1984 - Amends the Clean Air Act (the Act) to establish new requirements for acid deposition control under title I (Air Pollution Prevention and Control) of the Act. Sets forth direct federally mandated emission reductions and retrofit technology for the 50 fossil fuel fired electric utility generating plants which had the largest total emissions of sulfur dioxide during the calendar year 1980. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) identify each such plant which emitted sulfur dioxide during calendar year 1980 at an annual average rate equal to or exceeding three pounds per million Btu; (2) within two months after enactment of this Act, publish a list of the 50 plants which have the largest total emissions; (3) notify the owner or operator of each of the 50 plants listed; and (4) within four months after such enactment, and after notice and opportunity for comment, publish a final list of the 50 plants with the largest total emissions. Requires the owner or operator of each plant on the final list to submit to the Administrator, by January 1, 1985, a compliance schedule, including increments of progress. Directs the Administrator to approve or disapprove such schedule, within one year after submission, and after notice and opportunity for hearing. Directs the Administrator, if such schedule is not submitted by the deadline or is not approved, to promulgate a compliance schedule for such plant on January 1, 1986. Provides for modification and publication of such schedules. Requires that each compliance schedule provide that: (1) a technological system of continuous emission reduction be used for each steam generating unit in the fossil fuel fired electric utility generating plant concerned; and (2) sulfur dioxide emissions from such plant for the calendar year 1990 and each calendar year thereafter shall not exceed 1.2 pounds per million Btu heat input and ten percent of the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions during calendar year 1980 (90 percent reduction) or 0.6 pounds per million Btu and 30 percent of the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions during the calendar year 1980 (70 percent reduction). Sets forth procedures for determining plant compliance with such emission limitation. Requires that: (1) contracts be entered into for the purchase and installation of the technological systems of continuous emission reduction by January 1, 1988; (2) such systems be installed and in operation by January 1, 1990; and (3) the emission limitation be achieved for each calendar year after 1989. Directs the Administrator, from the Acid Deposition Control Fund established under this Act, to pay for 90 percent of the costs of construction and installation of the technological system of continuous emission reduction necessary for each such plant to comply with the emission limitation. Directs the Administrator, after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, to promulgate regulations under which such payments: (1) may be made to utilities only if they will be used entirely to reduce those electric rate increases which would otherwise result from such construction and installation; and (2) shall be made at such times as will minimize rate increases. Sets forth requirements for State plans for additional emission reductions of sulfur dioxide. Directs the Administrator, within four months after the enactment of this Act, to compute a State share, for each of the 48 contiguous States, of a 10,000,000 ton reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide by 1993 below that of 1980. Sets forth a formula for computation of State shares. Permits the Governors of two or more States to reallot State shares among agreeing States, if there is an equal or greater total reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide through such reallotment. Sets deadlines and procedures for submission and approval of State plans for such State shares. Directs the Administrator to promulgate a State plan on January 1, 1988, if no State plan has been: (1) submitted by June 1, 1985; or (2) approved by January 1, 1988. Requires State plans for State shares to provide for emission limitations applicable to any stationary sources in the State for which the actual annual sulfur dioxide emission rates have been calculated by the Administrator for the calendar year 1980, other than a source which is one of the listed 50 electric utility plants subject to direct federally mandated emission reductions. Requires that the emission limitations for each stationary source subject to the State plan establish an allowable average annual sulfur dioxide rate at a level such that the total reduction would equal the State share, with specified credits for States in which any of the 50 listed plants are located. Permits State plans for State shares to provide for compliance with emission limitations through use of technological systems of continuous emission reduction or any other appropriate requirements. Directs the Administrator, from the Acid Deposition Control Fund (established within this Act), to pay for 90 percent of the costs of the construction and installation at an electric utility generating plant of any technological system of continuous emission reduction necessary to comply with requirements under a State plan for a State share of sulfur dioxide emission reductions. Subjects such payments to regulations relating to reduction of increases in utility rates. Establishes a trust fund in the Treasury to be known as the Acid Deposition Control Fund, consisting of amounts generated by fees imposed under this Act. Directs the Administrator to make payments from the fund first to facilities covered by direct federally mandated emission reductions and then to facilities covered by State share plan requirements. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to be the trustee of the Fund and to report to the Congress for each fiscal year ending on or after September 30, 1984, on its financial condition and the results of its operation during such fiscal year and on its expected condition and operations during the next five fiscal years. Sets forth Fund investment duties of the Secretary. Imposes, under regulations promulgated by the Administrator, a fee of one mill for each kilowatt hour of electric energy: (1) generated in the contiguous 48 States by an electric utility; and (2) imported into the contiguous 48 States. Exempts from such fee electric energy: (1) used at the electric generating facility concerned; or (2) generated by a nuclear generating facility. Makes such fee effective with respect to electric energy generated, or imported, after December 31, 1984. Makes the fee cease to apply on the earlier of: (1) December 31, 1995; or (2) the date on which all payments required under this Act have been made. Authorizes the Administrator to terminate the fee at an earlier date upon estimation that sufficient funds have been collected to fund all such required payments. Directs the Administrator to promulgate within six months after enactment of this Act regulations setting forth the time and manner required for payment of such fee and related reporting requirements. Establishes civil penalties for: (1) electric utilities (or importers of electric energy) which fail or refuse to pay such fees or to file required reports; and (2) any person who makes false or misleading statements in such required documents. Directs the Administrator to bring civil actions in such cases. Establishes additional criminal penalties for electric utilities (or importers of electric energy) which knowingly commit such violations. Makes conforming amendments. Directs the Administrator to revise standards of performance for new stationary sources for emissions of nitrogen oxides from electric utility steam generating units which burn bitumonous or subbituminous coal and which commence construction after the enactment of this Act. Prohibits the emission of nitrogen oxides from such units at a rate which exceeds: (1) 0.30 pounds per million Btu, in the case of subbituminous coal; and (2) 0.40 pounds per million Btu, in the case of bituminous coal. Adds to provisions relating to emissions from mobile sources to set the following nitrogen oxide emission standards for model year 1986 and after truck and truck engines: (1) gross vehicle weight of 6,000 pounds or less - 1.2 grams per vehicle mile; (2) 6,000 to 8,500 pounds - 1.7 grams per vehicle mile; and (3) more than 8,500 pounds - 4.0 grams per brake horsepower-hour. Revises the Act to provide for the control of hazardous air pollutants from stationary and mobile sources. Revises title I provisions of the Act relating to stationary sources to provide for expedited listing of hazardous air pollutants. Directs the Administrator, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to classify 35 substances into two categories for purposes of determining whether such substances are hazardous air pollutants as defined under provisions for national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs). Requires that 25 substances, including each of the 22 substances listed in specified testimony of the Administrator before Congress, be classified in the first category. Requires that ten additional substances, from among the 37 substances identified to Congress on a specified date by the EPA as being in the assessment phase of the review process, be classified in the second category. Authorizes the Administrator, at any time up to 90 days before the commencement of specified determination proceedings for any substance in the second category, to substitute for that substance another substance if the Administrator determines that there is a higher priority for determining whether the substitute substance is a hazardous air pollutant. Directs the Administrator to republish the classification with a statement of the reasons for such substitution. Directs the Administrator to commence hazardous air pollutant determination proceedings concerning: (1) the 25 substances in the first category, within 90 days after enactment of this Act; and (2) the ten substances in the second category, within one year after such enactment. Requires that such proceedings include an opportunity for a public hearing. Directs the Administrator to solicit and consider the advice of the Science Advisory Board in making a determination in such proceedings. Directs the Administrator to establish a docket for such proceeding containing all relevant information and analyses in EPA's possession. Directs the Administrator to make a hazardous air pollutant determination for each substance: (1) in the first category by January 1, 1986; and (2) in the second category by January 1, 1987. Directs the Administrator, simultaneously with such determination, to include any substance determined to be a hazardous air pollutant on the required published list and to publish a list of all categories of stationary sources which emit such pollutant. Directs the Administrator, for each category of stationary sources listed as emitting a hazardous air pollutant which was classified in the first category and subsequently listed, to: (1) publish proposed national emission standards (and, if necessary, proposed interim standards) by January 1, 1987; and (2) promulgate national emission standards (and, if necessary, interim standards), by January 1, 1988. Requires, for categories of stationary sources listed as emitting hazardous air pollutants classified in the second category and subsequently listed, publication of proposed standards by January 1, 1988, and promulgation of standards by January 1, 1989. Makes requirements under this Act relating to such expedited listing of, and promulgation of standards for, hazardous air pollutants nondiscretionary duties of the Administrator, for purposes of citizen lawsuit provisions of the Act. Allows any person to bring a civil action to require the Administrator to make any classification, commence any proceeding, make any determination, list any substance, or propose or promulgate any standard in accordance with specified provisions of this Act. Provides that the notice requirement under citizen lawsuit provisions shall not apply to any such action. Directs any court having jurisdiction over any such action to expedite its consideration of such action. Requires that a substance be treated as listed as a hazardous air pollutant until the Administrator makes a determination, if the Administrator has not made the required determination by the specified deadline. Directs a court to issue an order requiring a substance classified in the first or second category to be treated as listed as a hazardous air pollutant until the Administrator completes further proceedings, if: (1) the Administrator determines that such substance is not a hazardous air pollutant; and (2) the court reviewing such determination for any reason remands such determination to the Administrator for further proceedings. Directs the Administrator, on or before January 31, 1987, to commence hazardous air pollutant determination proceedings for each substance which: (1) has been classified, prior to January 31, 1987, by the national toxicology program as a known carcinogen or as a substance which may reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer; (2) is an air pollutant; and (3) has not been the subject of a determination under provisions of this Act for the 35 substances classified in two categories. Requires that such proceeding be completed within one year from the date required for commencement. Provides for annual hazardous air pollutant determination proceedings beginning on or before January 31, 1988, for each air pollutant which has been classified during the preceding year by the national toxicology program as a carcinogen or as one which may reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer. Requires that such proceedings be completed within one year from the date required for commencement. Revises provisions for NESHAPs. Directs the Administrator to publish and revise a list which includes each air pollutant which has been determined to be a hazardous air pollutant. Requires that such list also be revised to include the pollutants listed in accordance with the timetables established under this Act (including the pollutants listed by operation of law if the Administrator has not made a required determination by the specified deadline). Provides for emissions standards for control of hazardous air pollutants from stationary sources. Directs the Administrator to publish with the listing of a hazardous air pollutant (including a listing by operation of law) or the revision of such listing a list or revised list of all categories of stationary sources which emit such air pollutant. Requires that such list of source categories be revised whenever necessary to include all categories of stationary sources which emit any hazardous air pollutant listed. Directs the Administrator, within one year after listing a hazardous air pollutant, to publish proposed national emission standards (and, if necessary, proposed interim standards) for each category of stationary sources listed as emitting such air pollutant. Directs the Administrator, within one year after proposal of such standards, to promulgate national emission standards (and, if necessary, interim standards) for each such category of new stationary sources. Requires that such standards be established at a level which, in the Administrator's judgment, provides an ample margin of safety to protect public health. Authorizes the Administrator to also promulgate such an interim standard if a specified determination is made. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the promulgation of any such interim standard at any time other than simultaneously with the initial promulgation of the national emission standard applicable to the emission of the hazardous air pollutant from such category of stationary sources. Prohibits revision of any such interim standard to make it less stringent after the date on which it takes effect. Allows promulgation of any such interim standard only if the Administrator determines that the national standard for such sources requires an emissions level of that hazardous air pollutant which is lower than the lowest level achievable (as determined at the date of promulgation) by the application of all potential emission reduction measures. Limits the period for which any such interim standard may remain in effect to six years after the date of the initial promulgation of the applicable national standard. Provides that any such interim standard shall require a level of emission reduction at least as stringent as that achievable through the use of all potential emission reduction measures. Defines ""all potential emission reduction measures"" as all measures or techniques for the reduction of emissions of the hazardous air pollutant concerned, except those which the Administrator finds to be technologically infeasible at the time of the determination on the date of promulgation. Includes the use of advanced emission control technology, closed systems, or substitute raw materials, processes, or products among such measures and techniques, except those found technologically infeasible. Prohibits any such national emissions standard or interim standard applicable to the emission of any hazardous air pollutant from being less stringent than the most stringent level of control for such air pollutant which is: (1) achieved in practice (as of the date of proposal of the standard) by any source in the category concerned (or in a category of sources having similar air pollution control characteristics); or (2) required in any permit (as of the date of proposal of the standard) applicable to any such source. Authorizes the Administrator to distinguish among classes, types, and sizes within categories of sources for purposes of establishing such national emission standards (including interim standards) for stationary sources emitting hazardous air pollutants. Directs the Administrator to revise such national standards where appropriate following periodic review. Directs the Administrator to complete a review of each such national standard within eight years from the date of promulgation, and at eight-year intervals thereafter. Directs the Administrator, within four years after enactment of this Act, to: (1) complete a review of each national emissions standard for hazardous air pollutants in effect on December 1, 1983, applicable to each hazardous air pollutant listed prior to December 31, 1983; and (2) revise the national emission standard (and if necessary promulgate an interim standard) for such hazardous air pollutant in accordance with this Act. Establishes permit requirements for new or modified sources of hazardous air pollutants. Requires such permits to be obtained from the Administrator or a delegated State prior to: (1) construction of any new stationary source which emits any hazardous air pollutant listed under the Act; or (2) modification of any existing stationary source which emits any such listed hazardous air pollutant if such modification will increase the emission of that hazardous air pollutant. Provides that such permits shall require compliance by the source with an emission limitation applicable to the hazardous air pollutant concerned which provides an ample margin of safety to protect public health. Allows an interim limitation for a specified period if such emission limitation would require an emissions level lower than the lowest level achievable by application of all potential emission reduction measures. Limits the period for which any such interim emission limitation included in a permit may remain in effect to six years after the earlier of: (1) the date of initial promulgation of a national emission standard applicable to the emission of such hazardous air pollutant from sources in the category concerned; (2) the date of the required revision to conform with this Act of such standards promulgated before the enactment of this Act; or (3) the date of issuance of the permit. Provides that each such interim limitation shall require a level of emission reduction at least as stringent as that achievable through the use of all potential emission reduction measures as determined at the time of issuance of the permit. Requires that any emission limitation or interim emission limitation established in such permits and applicable to the emission of any hazardous air pollutant be at least as stringent as the most stringent level of control for such air pollutant which is: (1) achieved in practice (as of the date of issuance of the permit) by any source or category concerned (or in a category of sources having similar air pollution control characteristics); or (2) required in any other permit (as of the date of issuance of the permit concerned) applicable to any such source. Requires that any emission limitation or interim emission limitation established in such a permit be at least as stringent as any applicable interim standard promulgated or, if no such interim standard has been established, any applicable national emission standard promulgated. Establishes permit requirements for control of hazardous air pollutants from existing stationary sources. Makes it unlawful for an owner or operator to operate an existing source without a permit one year after promulgation of a national emissions standard applicable to hazardous air pollutant emissions from sources in such category (or one year after the enactment of this Act in the case of any standard promulgated before such enactment). Sets forth provisions for standards under such existing source permits which are similar to those for new and modified source permits. Authorizes the Administrator to grant a waiver permitting an existing source a period of up to two years after the effective date of the permit requirement to comply with the requirement, upon determination that such period is necessary for the installation of controls and that steps will be taken during the waiver period to assure that the health of persons will be protected from imminent endangerment. Allows the source owner or operator, prior to expiration of such waiver period, to apply to the Governor of the State in which the source is located for an emergency extension of the waiver for up to three years from its expiration date. Authorizes the Governor, after statewide notice and opportunity for public hearing and upon making specified determinations, to petition the President to grant such extension. Requires consultation with the Governor of any other State whose residents may become exposed to such source emissions, and statewide notice and opportunity for residents of such other State to participate in the public hearing on such waiver extension. Authorizes the President, after reviewing the hearing, public comments, and any recommendations of the Governor of another State, to grant such petition if the President specifically concurs in each of the findings of the petitioning Governor. Requires publication of the President's reasons for concurring or not concurring. Directs the President to report to Congress on each extension granted. Sets forth general requirements applicable to permits under provisions for national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants. Sets forth such permit requirements relating to: (1) monitoring; (2) administrative procedure and judicial review of issuance; (3) delegation to State permit programs; (4) revocation, renewal, and review; and (5) fees. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate regulations under which permits may be issued by rule to one or more classes of stationary sources which emit hazardous air pollutants in small annual amounts where such sources are numerous. Sets forth conforming amendments. Revises title II provisions of the Act relating to mobile sources to establish a program for the control of motor vehicle hazardous air pollutants. Defines a ""motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant"" as an air pollutant emitted from a motor vehicle or motor vehicle part, whether emitted into the ambient air or the interior of the motor vehicle, which the Administrator judges to cause or contribute to air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to result in an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness. Directs the Administrator, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to publish a list which includes each motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant, and to revise such list from time to time. Requires that the list include: (1) lead, ethylene dibromide, diesel particulates, and benzene; and (2) each hazardous air pollutant listed under the Act if the Administrator determines that such air pollutant is emitted from a motor vehicle or motor vehicle part. Directs the Administrator to make such determination: (1) simultaneously with the hazardous air pollutant listing; or (2) in the case of hazardous air pollutants listed before the enactment of this Act, within 180 days after such enactment. Makes requirements relating to motor vehicle hazardous air pollutants nondiscretionary duties of the Administrator for purposes of citizen lawsuit provisions. Allows any person to bring a civil action to require the Administrator to comply with any such duty. Provides that notice requirements for citizen lawsuits shall not apply to any such action. Directs any court having jurisdiction over any such action to expedite consideration of such action. Directs the Administrator to prescribe regulations to require manufacturers of motor vehicles, motor vehicle parts, fuels, fuel additives, oil, and oil additives to report to the Administrator any pollutant which is generated in normal use of its product and which it has reason to believe may be required to be listed as a motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant. Directs the Administrator, within one year after the inclusion of any motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant on the list (except in the case of lead) to publish proposed regulations: (1) under provisions for regulation of fuels and fuel additives respecting the substance concerned; or (2) (if it is technologically infeasible to achieve the objective of controlling a motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant under provisions for regulation of fuel or fuel additives) under provisions for new motor vehicles or engines establishing an emission standard for such pollutant. Directs the Administrator, within 180 days after publication of proposed regulations for establishing an emission standard for any motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant, to prescribe an emission standard applicable to the emission of such air pollutant from new motor vehicles and engines. Requires that such standard be established at a level which the Administrator judges to provide an ample margin of safety to protect public health. Sets forth provisions for interim standards for motor vehicle hazardous air pollutants which are similar to provisions for interim standards for stationary source hazardous air pollutants under this Act. Provides that, with specified exceptions, any new motor vehicle or engine emission standard established for a motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant shall become effective beginning with the second model year which commences after the model year in which such standard is promulgated. Requires that such regulations for emission standards for control of diesel particulate emissions establish standards which are at least as stringent as the following: (1) not more than 0.2 grams per mile (gpm) for model years 1986 and 1987 light-duty vehicles; (2) not more than 0.26 gpm for model years 1986 and 1987 light-duty trucks; (3) not more than 0.08 gpm for model years 1988 and after light- duty vehicles and light-duty trucks; and (4) not more than 0.25 grams per brake horsepower-hour for model years 1989 and after heavy-duty vehicles and engines. Directs the Administrator, within 180 days after publication of proposed regulations for any motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant which is a fuel or fuel additive, to prescribe a rule controlling or prohibiting the manufacture, introduction into commerce, offering for sale, or sale of such substance. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations prohibiting the use of lead or lead additives in gasoline after December 31, 1986. Revises title III general provisions of the Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 through 1990 to the Administrator to carry out the Act. Provides that nothing in this Act or in any amendment made by this Act authorizes appropriations for any research or development.",2025-08-29T17:40:41Z, 98-s-2513,98,s,2513,A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect groundwater resources and to prevent leaks and releases from underground storage tanks.,Environmental Protection,1984-03-30,1984-03-30,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,5,"Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act (title XIV of the Public Health Service Act) to add new part F provisions for the regulation of underground storage tanks containing substances other than hazardous waste. Defines ""hazardous substances,"" for purposes of part F, as: (1) any substance defined under specified provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) (CERCLA), but not including substances regulated as hazardous wastes under the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (2) petroleum, including oil or any fraction thereof; and (3) natural gas liquids or gas liquids, except that the term ""gas liquids"" does not include propane or butane having in the container an absolute pressure exceeding 40 pounds per square inch absolute at 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Defines ""owner or operator,"" ""person,"" and ""release."" Defines ""underground storage tank"" to include underground pipes connected to such a tank, and lists the following exclusions from this term: (1) farm or residential underground storage tanks of 1,100 gallons or less capacity used for storing motor fuel for noncommercial purposes; (2) underground storage tanks used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises where stored; (3) residential septic tanks; (4) pipelines regulated under the National Gas Pipeline Act of 1968, as amended; or (5) unenclosed surface impoundments, pits, ponds, lagoons, or basins. Sets forth notification and certification requirements. Requires owners of underground storage tanks used for storing hazardous substances to notify designated State or local agencies of specified information relating to such tanks. Requires owners of such tanks which are operational as of the date of enactment of this Act to provide specified information within 12 months of such enactment date. Requires owners of such tanks which are nonoperational as of such enactment date but which were operational after January 1, 1974, to supply specified information within 12 months of such enactment date. Requires owners or operators that install or bring into use an underground storage tank after the initial notification for operational tanks to notify the designated State or local agency within 30 days of installation or use. Directs the Governor of each State, within 90 days of such enactment date, to designate the appropriate State or local agencies to receive such notifications. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within 180 days of such enactment date and in consultation with designated State and local officials, to prescribe in greater detail the form and content of such notifications. Provides that, if a Governor chooses not to designate a State or local agency for such purpose, such notifications shall be submitted to the Administrator. Requires the State, if such notifications are submitted to a designated State or local agency, to compile the submitted information into a comprehensive inventory and furnish such inventory to the Administrator within 18 months of such enactment date. Directs the Administrator, or the appropriate official in a State with an approved program, to issue a certificate to: (1) the owner of each tank for which a complete and valid notification was received under specified provisions, within 30 months of such enactment date; and (2) the owner or operator of a tank installed or brought into use after the initial certification, within 30 days of notification by the owner or operator. Sets forth provisions for release detection, prevention, and correction regulations applicable to all owners and operators of underground storage tanks used for storing hazardous substances, as may be necessary to protect human health and the environment. Directs the Administrator to promulgate such regulations, after opportunity for public comment and within 18 months after enactment of this Act. Requires that such regulations include requirements respecting specified areas, including: (1) valid certification; (2) leak detection or inventory systems and tank testing; (3) records of such testing, inventory, or detection; (4) reporting releases and corrective actions; (5) standards of performance for new underground tanks, including specified requirements; (6) corrective actions; (7) closure to prevent future release; and (8) evidence of financial responsibility for taking corrective action and for bodily injury and property damage to third parties. Prohibits, until the effective date of such regulations and after 180 days from the enactment of this Act, any person from installing or beginning to use an underground storage tank to store hazardous substances unless such tank is cathodically protected against corrosion, constructed of a noncorrosive material, or contained in a manner designed to prevent the release into the environment of any stored hazardous substances. Sets forth provisions relating to approval of State programs by the Administrator. Sets forth provisions relating to inspections, monitoring, and testing. Sets forth provisions for confidentiality of information, and criminal penalties for violations of such confidentiality. Requires that all information reported to, or otherwise obtained by, the EPA under this Act be made available, upon written request, to any duly authorized committee of the Congress. Sets forth provisions for Federal enforcement of requirements under this Act. Sets forth civil penalties for specified violations. Makes requirements under this Act applicable to Federal facilities. Authorizes the President to grant exemptions from such requirements upon determination that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to do so. Requires the President to report annually to Congress on such exemptions and the reasons for granting them. Provides that nothing in this Act shall preclude or deny any State or local authority to regulate more stringently underground storage tanks used to store hazardous substances. Directs the Administrator, within 36 months after the enactment of this Act, to study the following underground storage tanks exempted under the definition of ""underground storage tanks: (1) farm or residential underground storage tanks of $1,100 gallons or less capacity used for storing motor fuel for noncommercial purposes; and (2) underground storage tanks used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises where stored. Requires that such study include estimates of the number and location of such tanks and an analysis of the extent to which there may be releases or threatened releases from such tanks into the environment. Directs the Administrator to report to the President and the Congress on the results of the study, with recommendations as to whether or not such tanks should be subject to regulation under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator to carry out this Act for FY 1984 through 1988. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1988 for grants to States to assist States in implementing approved State underground storage tank programs. Includes underground storage tank regulations under provisions for judicial review of regulations under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Amends CERCLA to include under the definition of ""hazardous substance"" for purposes of such Act gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbons or natural gas liquids or gas liquids released or threatening to be released into ground water or subsurface soils from an underground storage tank as defined under this Act.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-hr-5296,98,hr,5296,A bill to terminate certain authority of the executive branch of the Government which is subject to congressional review unless that authority is approved by an enactment of the Congress.,Environmental Protection,1984-03-29,1984-04-17,"Executive Comment Requested from EPA, OMB.",House,"Rep. Levitas, Elliott H. [D-GA-4]",GA,D,L000265,0,"Terminates the authority of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency or any other Federal official (formerly subject to congressional veto) to promulgate regulations under title I (Hazardous Substances Releases, Liability, Compensation) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, unless the exercise of such authority is approved by an enactment of Congress within 180 days after enactment of this Act.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-5249,98,hr,5249,A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require any person selling a hazardous waste site to provide certain notice to the purchaser.,Environmental Protection,1984-03-27,1984-03-30,"Referred to Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism.",House,"Rep. Bryant, John W. [D-TX-5]",TX,D,B000997,0,Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require any person selling a hazardous waste site to provide certain notice to the purchaser.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z, 98-hr-5186,98,hr,5186,"A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to permit any State to regulate the transportation of solid waste into the State for purposes of storage or disposal in that State, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1984-03-20,1984-03-26,"Referred to Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism.",House,"Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,F000215,1,"Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to permit any State to regulate the transportation of solid waste into that State for purposes of storage or disposal there. Permits such State to discriminate in any manner (including the amount of tax, fee, or charge on such importation, storage, or disposal) against solid waste which is imported from any other State. Provides that this Act shall not apply to waste listed or identified under hazardous waste management provisions of such Act.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z, 98-hr-5157,98,hr,5157,"A bill to amend and extend title I of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, as amended, for two years.",Environmental Protection,1984-03-15,1984-03-29,Referred to Subcommittee on Water Resources.,House,"Rep. Howard, James J. [D-NJ-3]",NJ,D,H000840,1,"Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 and 1986 for administering title I of such Act. Authorizes either the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency or the Secretary of the Army, in order to recover certain program costs, to collect an additional fee as a condition for issuing or maintaining an ocean dumping permit for dredged or certain other materials. States that such fee does not apply to other Federal agencies. Requires that the fee charged to non-Federal entities for disposal of dredged material be equal to the total cost of the dredged material program attributable to such entities.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-5109,98,hr,5109,A bill expressing the sense of Congress with respect to preemption of State and local laws restricting the transportation of hazardous materials and requiring the Secretary of Transportation to submit to Congress a report on proposed routes for the transportation of hazardous materials through less populated areas.,Environmental Protection,1984-03-13,1984-03-26,Referred to Subcommittee on Surface Transportation.,House,"Rep. Collins, Cardiss [D-IL-7]",IL,D,C000634,0,"Expresses the sense of Congress that the Department of Transportation, in exercising its authority to exempt from preemption State and local laws, should permit State and local governments greater authority to restrict the transportation of hazardous (especially nuclear) materials. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to report to Congress, not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, on proposed new routes for the transportation of hazardous materials through rural areas and areas less populated than those through which such materials are currently transported.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-s-2421,98,s,2421,"A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) to provide for cleanup authority and liability for petroleum releases and to regulate underground storage tanks used for the storage of hazardous substances.",Environmental Protection,1984-03-13,1984-03-13,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]",PA,R,S000709,1,"Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) (CERCLA) to include (by removing an exclusion) under the definition of ""hazardous substance"" for purposes of CERCLA response and liability provisions: petroleum (including crude oil) and natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel (or mixtures of natural gas and such synthetic gas). Includes (by removing an exclusion) under the definition of ""pollutant or contaminant"" for purposes of CERCLA response authorities: petroleum (including crude oil) and natural gas, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas of pipeline quality (or mixtures of natural gas and such synthetic gas). Sets forth a regulatory program with standards for underground storage tanks. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations establishing performance standards applicable to owners and operators of underground storage tanks used for the storage of hazardous substances, including gasoline or other liquid hydrocarbons, in order to prevent releases into the environment for the operational life of the tank. Provides that such regulations shall apply only to underground storage tanks located on property used primarily for commercial or governmental purposes. Directs the Administrator to distinguish in such standards between requirements for new tanks and those for tanks already in existence. Sets forth requirements which must be included in such standards. Authorizes the Administrator to implement such standards through: (1) the promulgation of regulations made effective in accordance with specified hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; or (2) the establishment of a permit program, if necessary. Provides that such permits may be required for any person or category of persons who stores any hazardous substance, including gasoline or any other liquid hydrocarbon, in an underground storage tank located on property primarily used for commercial or governmental purposes. Provides that specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act shall apply to the program and requirements established under this Act in the same manner as such provisions apply to the hazardous waste regulatory program under such Act. Provides that the failure or refusal of an owner or operator of any underground storage tank to provide to a supplier of any hazardous substance, including gasoline or any other liquid hydrocarbon, appropriate evidence of compliance with standards established under this Act shall constitute a defense to any enforcement action brought under any other authority of law to require such supplier to deliver any such substance to such tank. Sets forth criminal penalties for persons who knowingly commit material violations or omissions with respect to requirements established by the Administrator under the regulatory program established by this Act, if such violation or omission results in a release or threatened release of any hazardous substance, including gasoline or other liquid hydrocarbon, from an underground storage tank. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 to carry out this regulatory program. Provides that up to 50 percent of such appropriations in any such fiscal year may be used to make grants to States for development and implementation of State programs to carry out this regulatory program. Directs the Administrator, within one year after the enactment of this Act, to conduct a study regarding underground storage tanks which are located on residential property and used for the storage of hazardous substances, including gasoline or other liquid hydrocarbons. Requires that such study include estimates of the number and location of such tanks and an analysis of the extent to which there may be releases or threatened releases from such tanks into the environment. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress on the results of such study, with recommendations on whether such tanks on residential property should be subject to requirements under this regulatory program.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-s-2407,98,s,2407,"A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to establish certain requirements with respect to hazardous substances released from Federal facilities, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1984-03-12,1984-03-12,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Proxmire, William [D-WI]",WI,D,P000553,1,"Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) (""Superfund"") to establish certain requirements with respect to hazardous substances released from Federal facilities. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to enter into specified interagency agreements with any Federal agency. Directs the Administrator, in addition to undertaking response action, to take action under CERCLA against any Federal agency in the same manner and to the same extent as against a nongovernmental entity, unless such an interagency agreement is reached within specified time periods. Sets forth procedures for interagency agreements and emergency actions applicable to Federal agencies under CERCLA. Directs the Administrator to establish a special Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket. Directs the Administrator to report annually to Congress on: (1) progress in reaching interagency agreements; (2) cost estimates and budgetary proposals involved; (3) public comments regarding each proposed agreement; and (4) instances in which no agreement has been reached, including an explanation of why no agreement was reached. Authorizes citizen lawsuits under CERCLA against: (1) any person (including the United States and any other governmental instrumentality or agency, to the extent permitted by the eleventh amendment to the Constitution) who is alleged to be in violation of any requirement which has become effective pursuant to CERCLA; or (2) the Administrator where there is an alleged failure to perform any non-discretionary act or duty under CERCLA. Sets forth requirements relating to such citizen lawsuits, which are to be brought in the appropriate U.S. district court. Directs the President, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to publish a schedule for including on the national priority list under CERCLA any federally owned or operated facilities which present a risk or danger to public health or welfare or the environment. Provides that such facilities shall be included on such list in the same manner and subject to the same criteria as facilities which are owned or operated by other persons.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-hr-5084,98,hr,5084,Hazardous Air Pollutants Amendments Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-03-08,1984-03-30,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Wirth, Timothy [D-CO-2]",CO,D,W000647,47,"Hazardous Air Pollutants Amendments Act of 1984 - Title I: - Amends the Clean Air Act (""the Act"") to provide for the control of hazardous air pollutants from stationary and mobile sources. Provides for expedited listing of hazardous air pollutants. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to classify 35 substances into two categories for purposes of determining whether such substances are hazardous air pollutants as defined under provisions for national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs). Requires that 25 substances, including each of the 22 substances listed in specified testimony of the Administrator before Congress, be classified in the first category. Requires that ten additional substances, from among the 37 substances identified to Congress on a specified date by the EPA as being in the assessment phase of the review process, be classified in the second category. Authorizes the Administrator, at any time up to 90 days before the commencement of specified determination proceedings for any substance in the second category, to substitute for that substance another substance if the Administrator determines that there is a higher priority for determining whether the substitute substance is a hazardous air pollutant. Directs the Administrator to republish the classification with a statement of the reasons for such substitution. Directs the Administrator to commence hazardous air pollutant determination proceedings concerning: (1) the 25 substances in the first category, within 90 days after enactment of this Act; and (2) the ten substances in the second category, within one year after such enactment. Requires that such proceedings include an opportunity for a public hearing. Directs the Administrator to solicit and consider the advice of the Science Advisory Board in making a determination in such proceedings. Directs the Administrator to establish a docket for such proceeding containing all relevant information and analyses in EPA's possession. Directs the Administrator to make a hazardous air pollutant determination for each substance: (1) in the first category by January 1, 1986; and (2) in the second category by January 1, 1987. Directs the Administrator, simultaneously with such determination, to include any substance determined to be a hazardous air pollutant on the required published list and to publish a list of all categories of stationary sources which emit such pollutant. Directs the Administrator, for each category of stationary sources listed as emitting a hazardous air pollutant which was classified in the first category and subsequently listed, to: (1) publish proposed national emission standards (and, if necessary, proposed interim standards) by January 1, 1987; and (2) promulgate national emission standards (and, if necessary, interim standards), by January 1, 1988. Requires, for categories of stationary sources listed as emitting hazardous air pollutants classified in the second category and subsequently listed, publication of proposed standards by January 1, 1988, and promulgation of standards by January 1, 1989. Makes requirements under this Act relating to such expedited listing of, and promulgation of standards for, hazardous air pollutants nondiscretionary duties of the Administrator, for purposes of citizen lawsuit provisions of the Act. Allows any person to bring a civil action to require the Administrator to make any classification, commence any proceeding, make any determination, list any substance, or propose or promulgate any standard in accordance with specified provisions of this Act. Provides that the notice requirement under citizen lawsuit provisions shall not apply to any such action. Directs any court having jurisdiction over any such action to expedite its consideration of such action. Requires that a substance be treated as listed as a hazardous air pollutant until the Administrator makes a determination, if the Administrator has not made the required determination by the specified deadline. Directs a court to issue an order requiring a substance classified in the first or second category to be treated as listed as a hazardous air pollutant until the Administrator completes further proceedings, if: (1) the Administrator determines that such substance is not a hazardous air pollutant; and (2) the court reviewing such determination for any reason remands such determination to the Administrator for further proceedings. Directs the Administrator, on or before January 31, 1987, to commence hazardous air pollutant determination proceedings for each substance which: (1) has been classified, prior to January 31, 1987, by the national toxicology program as a known carcinogen or as a substance which may reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer; (2) is an air pollutant; and (3) has not been the subject of a determination under provisions of this Act for the 35 substances classified in two categories. Requires that such proceeding be completed within one year from the date required for commencement. Provides for annual hazardous air pollutant determination proceedings beginning on or before January 31, 1988, for each air pollutant which has been classified during the preceding year by the national toxicology program as a carcinogen or as one which may reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer. Requires that such proceedings be completed within one year from the date required for commencement. Revises provisions for NESHAPs. Directs the Administrator to publish and revise a list which includes each air pollutant which has been determined to be a hazardous air pollutant. Requires that such list also be revised to include the pollutants listed in accordance with the timetables established under this Act (including the pollutants listed by operation of law if the Administrator has not made a required determination by the specified deadline). Provides for emissions standards for control of hazardous air pollutants from stationary sources. Directs the Administrator to publish with the listing of a hazardous air pollutant (including a listing by operation of law) or the revision of such listing a list or revised list of all categories of stationary sources which emit such air pollutant. Requires that such list of source categories be revised whenever necessary to include all categories of stationary sources which emit any hazardous air pollutant listed. Directs the Administrator, within one year after listing a hazardous air pollutant, to publish proposed national emission standards (and, if necessary, proposed interim standards) for each category of stationary sources listed as emitting such air pollutant. Directs the Administrator, within one year after proposal of such standards, to promulgate national emission standards (and, if necessary, interim standards) for each such category of new stationary sources. Requires that such standards be established at a level which, in the Administrator's judgment, provides an ample margin of safety to protect public health. Authorizes the Administrator to also promulgate such an interim standard if a specified determination is made. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the promulgation of any such interim standard at any time other than simultaneously with the initial promulgation of the national emission standard applicable to the emission of the hazardous air pollutant from such category of stationary sources. Prohibits revision of any such interim standard to make it less stringent after the date on which it takes effect. Allows promulgation of any such interim standard only if the Administrator determines that the national standard for such sources requires an emissions level of that hazardous air pollutant which is lower than the lowest level achievable (as determined at the date of promulgation) by the application of all potential emission reduction measures. Limits the period for which any such interim standard may remain in effect to six years after the date of the initial promulgation of the applicable national standard. Provides that any such interim standard shall require a level of emission reduction at least as stringent as that achievable through the use of all potential emission reduction measures. Defines ""all potential emission reduction measures"" as all measures or techniques for the reduction of emissions of the hazardous air pollutant concerned, except those which the Administrator finds to be technologically infeasible at the time of the determination on the date of promulgation. Includes the use of advanced emission control technology, closed systems, or substitute raw materials, processes, or products among such measures and techniques, except those found technologically infeasible. Prohibits any such national emissions standard or interim standard applicable to the emission of any hazardous air pollutant from being less stringent than the most stringent level of control for such air pollutant which is: (1) achieved in practice (as of the date of proposal of the standard) by any source in the category concerned (or in a category of sources having similar air pollution control characteristics); or (2) required in any permit (as of the date of proposal of the standard) applicable to any such source. Authorizes the Administrator to distinguish among classes, types, and sizes within categories of sources for purposes of establishing such national emission standards (including interim standards) for stationary sources emitting hazardous air pollutants. Directs the Administrator to revise such national standards where appropriate following periodic review. Directs the Administrator to complete a review of each such national standard within eight years from the date of promulgation, and at eight-year intervals thereafter. Directs the Administrator, within four years after enactment of this Act, to: (1) complete a review of each national emissions standard for hazardous air pollutants in effect on December 1, 1983, applicable to each hazardous air pollutant listed prior to December 31, 1983; and (2) revise the national emission standard (and if necessary promulgate an interim standard) for such hazardous air pollutant in accordance with this Act. Establishes permit requirements for new or modified sources of hazardous air pollutants. Requires such permits to be obtained from the Administrator or a delegated State prior to: (1) construction of any new stationary source which emits any hazardous air pollutant listed under the Act; or (2) modification of any existing stationary source which emits any such listed hazardous air pollutant if such modification will increase the emission of that hazardous air pollutant. Provides that such permits shall require compliance by the source with an emission limitation applicable to the hazardous air pollutant concerned which provides an ample margin of safety to protect public health. Allows an interim limitation for a specified period if such emission limitation would require an emissions level lower than the lowest level achievable by application of all potential emission reduction measures. Limits the period for which any such interim emission limitation included in a permit may remain in effect to six years after the earlier of: (1) the date of initial promulgation of a national emission standard applicable to the emission of such hazardous air pollutant from sources in the category concerned; (2) the date of the required revision to conform with this Act of such standards promulgated before the enactment of this Act; or (3) the date of issuance of the permit. Provides that each such interim limitation shall require a level of emission reduction at least as stringent as that achievable through the use of all potential emission reduction measures as determined at the time of issuance of the permit. Requires that any emission limitation or interim emission limitation established in such permits and applicable to the emission of any hazardous air pollutant be at least as stringent as the most stringent level of control for such air pollutant which is: (1) achieved in practice (as of the date of issuance of the permit) by any source or category concerned (or in a category of sources having similar air pollution control characteristics); or (2) required in any other permit (as of the date of issuance of the permit concerned) applicable to any such source. Requires that any emission limitation or interim emission limitation established in such a permit be at least as stringent as any applicable interim standard promulgated or, if no such interim standard has been established, any applicable national emission standard promulgated. Establishes permit requirements for control of hazardous air pollutants from existing stationary sources. Makes it unlawful for an owner or operator to operate an existing source without a permit one year after promulgation of a national emissions standard applicable to hazardous air pollutant emissions from sources in such category (or one year after the enactment of this Act in the case of any standard promulgated before such enactment). Sets forth provisions for standards under such existing source permits which are similar to those for new and modified source permits. Authorizes the Administrator to grant a waiver permitting an existing source a period of up to two years after the effective date of the permit requirement to comply with the requirement, upon determination that such period is necessary for the installation of controls and that steps will be taken during the waiver period to assure that the health of persons will be protected from imminent endangerment. Allows the source owner or operator, prior to expiration of such waiver period, to apply to the Governor of the State in which the source is located for an emergency extension of the waiver for up to three years from its expiration date. Authorizes the Governor, after statewide notice and opportunity for public hearing and upon making specified determinations, to petition the President to grant such extension. Requires consultation with the Governor of any other State whose residents may become exposed to such source emissions, and statewide notice and opportunity for residents of such other State to participate in the public hearing on such waiver extension. Authorizes the President, after reviewing the hearing, public comments, and any recommendations of the Governor of another State, to grant such petition if the President specifically concurs in each of the findings of the petitioning Governor. Requires publication of the President's reasons for concurring or not concurring. Directs the President to report to Congress on each extension granted. Sets forth general requirements applicable to permits under provisions for national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants. Sets forth such permit requirements relating to: (1) monitoring; (2) administrative procedure and judicial review of issuance; (3) delegation to State permit programs; (4) revocation, renewal, and review; and (5) fees. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate regulations under which permits may be issued by rule to one or more classes of stationary sources which emit hazardous air pollutants in small annual amounts where such sources are numerous. Sets forth conforming amendments. Title II: Hazardous Air Pollutants from Motor Vehicles - Amends Clean Air Act provisions relating to mobile sources to establish a program for the control of motor vehicle hazardous air pollutants. Defines a ""motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant"" as an air pollutant emitted from a motor vehicle or motor vehicle part, whether emitted into the ambient air or the interior of the motor vehicle, which the Administrator judges to cause or contribute to air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to result in an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness. Directs the Administrator, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to publish a list which includes each motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant, and to revise such list from time to time. Requires that the list include: (1) lead, ethylene dibromide, diesel particulates, and benzene; and (2) each hazardous air pollutant listed under the Act if the Administrator determines that such air pollutant is emitted from a motor vehicle or motor vehicle part. Directs the Administrator to make such determination: (1) simultaneously with the hazardous air pollutant listing; or (2) in the case of hazardous air pollutants listed before the enactment of this Act, within 180 days after such enactment. Makes requirements relating to motor vehicle hazardous air pollutants nondiscretionary duties of the Administrator for purposes of citizen lawsuit provisions. Allows any person to bring a civil action to require the Administrator to comply with any such duty. Provides that notice requirements for citizen lawsuits shall not apply to any such action. Directs any court having jurisdiction over any such action to expedite consideration of such action. Directs the Administrator to prescribe regulations to require manufacturers of motor vehicles, motor vehicle parts, fuels, fuel additives, oil, and oil additives to report to the Administrator any pollutant which is generated in normal use of its product and which it has reason to believe may be required to be listed as a motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant. Directs the Administrator, within one year after the inclusion of any motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant on the list (except in the case of lead) to publish proposed regulations: (1) under provisions for regulation of fuels and fuel additives respecting the substance concerned; or (2) (if it is technologically infeasible to achieve the objective of controlling a motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant under provisions for regulation of fuel or fuel additives) under provisions for new motor vehicles or engines establishing an emission standard for such pollutant. Directs the Administrator, within 180 days after publication of proposed regulations for establishing an emission standard for any motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant, to prescribe an emission standard applicable to the emission of such air pollutant from new motor vehicles and engines. Requires that such standard be established at a level which the Administrator judges to provide an ample margin of safety to protect public health. Sets forth provisions for interim standards for motor vehicle hazardous air pollutants which are similar to provisions for interim standards for stationary source hazardous air pollutants under this Act. Provides that, with specified exceptions, any new motor vehicle or engine emission standard established for a motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant shall become effective beginning with the second model year which commences after the model year in which such standard is promulgated. Requires that such regulations for emission standards for control of diesel particulate emissions establish standards which are at least as stringent as the following: (1) not more than 0.2 grams per mile (gpm) for model years 1986 and 1987 light-duty vehicles; (2) not more than 0.26 gpm for model years 1986 and 1987 light-duty trucks; (3) not more than 0.08 gpm for model years 1988 and after light-duty vehicles and light-duty trucks; and (4) not more than 0.25 grams per brake horsepower-hour for model years 1989 and after heavy-duty vehicles and engines. Directs the Administrator, within 180 days after publication of proposed regulations for any motor vehicle hazardous air pollutant which is a fuel or fuel additive, to prescribe a rule controlling or prohibiting the manufacture, introduction into commerce, offering for sale, or sale of such substance. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations prohibiting the use of lead or lead additives in gasoline after December 31, 1986.",2025-08-29T17:41:04Z, 98-hr-5058,98,hr,5058,"A bill to amend the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, as amended, and the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1985 and 1986.",Environmental Protection,1984-03-07,1984-05-03,For Further Action See H.R.5313.,House,"Rep. Howard, James J. [D-NJ-3]",NJ,D,H000840,1,Amends the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968 and the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act of 1979 to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 and 1986 to carry out such Acts.,2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-5002,98,hr,5002,A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to establish certain rules regarding the liability of corporate officers and employees for criminal acts with respect to hazardous waste.,Environmental Protection,1984-03-01,1984-11-03,For Further Action See H.R.2867.,House,"Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,F000215,0,Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide that both the corporate employee who commits a specified criminal act with respect to the disposal of hazardous waste and any responsible corporate officer shall be subject to prescribed criminal penalties.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z, 98-hr-5008,98,hr,5008,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to undertake a study on consumptive uses of Great Lakes water.,Environmental Protection,1984-03-01,1984-06-26,See H.R.3282.,House,"Rep. Lipinski, William O. [D-IL-5]",IL,D,L000342,15,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (also known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to undertake a study on consumptive uses of Great Lakes water. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct such study, in cooperation with other interested Federal agencies and the eight Great Lake States and their local governments, of all possible control measures which can be implemented to reduce the quantity of Great Lakes water consumed without adversely affecting the projected growth of the Great Lakes region. Requires that such study include an analysis of both existing and new technology which appears to be feasible in the foreseeable future. Requires that such study include at a minimum: (1) a review of methodologies used to forecast Great Lakes consumptive uses; (2) a discussion of environmental and economic impacts associated with various types of cooling systems for thermal electric generating plants; (3) an analysis of the effect of laws, regulations, and national policy objectives on consumptive uses of Great Lakes water used in manufacturing; (4) an analysis of the economic effects on a consuming industry and other Great Lakes interests associated with a particular consumptive use control strategy; (5) an analysis of associated environmental impacts, both singularly and in combination with other consumptive use control strategies; and (6) a summary discussion of recommendations of methods of controlling consumptive uses so as to maximize benefits to the Great Lakes ecosystem and also provide for continued full economic growth for consuming industries as well as other industries which depend on the use of Great Lakes water. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1984.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-s-2383,98,s,2383,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to mobile source emissions control.,Environmental Protection,1984-03-01,1984-03-01,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act (""the Act"") to revise mobile source emissions control provisions to prohibit any individual from: (1) tampering with a pollution control device or elements of design; or (2) using leaded gasoline, or other prohibited or controlled fuels or fuel additives, in certain motor vehicles or engines. Makes such amendments effective 90 days after enactment of this Act. Provides that inspection and maintenance program requirements for nonattainment areas must include requirements that all motor vehicles which are or were equipped with an emission control device or element of design in compliance with specified regulations under the Act must have such device or element in good working order to pass the State inspection. Makes such amendment effective on January 1, 1985. Authorizes appropriations, in addition to any amount authorized under the Act, for FY 1985 to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for: (1) research on the development of technology which could be used in gasoline vapor recovery and which could also reduce the possibility of the prohibited use of leaded fuel in motor vehicles and motor vehicle engines; and (2) a study on the relationship between gasoline octane levels and the performance of motor vehicles and motor vehicle engines, including recommendations for methods to assure adequate engine performance with the use of lower octane levels in unleaded gasoline and/or recommendations to increase the octane levels in unleaded gasoline. Makes it unlawful, effective 90 days after enactment of this Act, for: (1) any retailer to sell any leaded gasoline for less than the lowest price per unit at which such retailer offers unleaded gasoline sells at same retailer outlet; or (2) any refiner, distributor, or reseller to sell any leaded gasoline for less than the price per unit (for the same quantity) at which such refiner, distributor, or reseller offers unleaded gasoline at the same time under the same conditions of sale. Makes it unlawful, effective January 1, 1990, for any person to sell, offer for sale, or introduce into commerce, leaded gasoline for use as a fuel for any highway vehicle.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-hr-4985,98,hr,4985,"A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) to provide for cleanup authority and liability for petroleum releases and to regulate underground storage tanks used for the storage of hazardous substances.",Environmental Protection,1984-02-29,1984-11-08,For Further Action See H.R.2867.,House,"Rep. Ritter, Don [R-PA-15]",PA,R,R000277,8,"Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) (CERCLA) to include (by removing an exclusion) under the definition of ""hazardous substance"" for purposes of CERCLA response and liability provisions: petroleum (including crude oil) and natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel (or mixtures of natural gas and such synthetic gas). Includes (by removing an exclusion) under the definition of ""pollutant or contaminant"" for purposes of CERCLA response authorities: petroleum (including crude oil) and natural gas, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas of pipeline quality (or mixtures of natural gas and such synthetic gas). Sets forth a regulatory program with standards for underground storage tanks. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations establishing performance standards applicable to owners and operators of underground storage tanks used for the storage of hazardous substances, including gasoline or other liquid hydrocarbons, in order to prevent releases into the environment for the operational life of the tank. Provides that such regulations shall apply only to underground storage tanks located on property used primarily for commercial or governmental purposes. Directs the Administrator to distinguish in such standards between requirements for new tanks and those for tanks already in existence. Sets forth requirements which must be included in such standards. Authorizes the Administrator to implement such standards through: (1) the promulgation of regulations made effective in accordance with specified hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; or (2) the establishment of a permit program, if necessary. Provides that such permits may be required for any person or category of persons who stores any hazardous substance, including gasoline or any other liquid hydrocarbon, in an underground storage tank located on property primarily used for commercial or governmental purposes. Provides that specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act shall apply to the program and requirements established under this Act in the same manner as such provisions apply to the hazardous waste regulatory program under such Act. Provides that the failure or refusal of an owner or operator of any underground storage tank to provide to a supplier of any hazardous substance, including gasoline or any other liquid hydrocarbon, appropriate evidence of compliance with standards established under this Act shall constitute a defense to any enforcement action brought under any other authority of law to require such supplier to deliver any such substance to such tank. Sets forth criminal penalties for persons who knowingly commit material violations or omissions with respect to requirements established by the Administrator under the regulatory program established by this Act, if such violation or omission results in a release or threatened release of any hazardous substance, including gasoline or other liquid hydrocarbon, from an underground storage tank. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 to carry out this regulatory program. Provides that up to 50 percent of such appropriations in any such fiscal year may be used to make grants to States for development and implementation of State programs to carry out this regulatory program. Directs the Administrator, within one year after the enactment of this Act, to conduct a study regarding underground storage tanks which are located on residential property and used for the storage of hazardous substances, including gasoline or other liquid hydrocarbons. Requires that such study include estimates of the number and location of such tanks and an analysis of the extent to which there may be releases or threatened releases from such tanks into the environment. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress on the results of such study, with recommendations on whether such tanks on residential property should be subject to requirements under this regulatory program.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-4960,98,hr,4960,"A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to promote competitiveness in the motor vehicle aftermarket and to preserve consumer freedom of choice to select parts and service, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1984-02-28,1984-03-01,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Dannemeyer, William E. [R-CA-39]",CA,R,D000044,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act (""the Act"") to revise warranty provisions. Requires the manufacturer of each new motor vehicle and engine to warrant to the ultimate and each subsequent purchaser that such vehicle or engine is: (1) equipped with emission control components designed to enable such vehicle or engine to conform at the time of sale with applicable regulations under the Act; and (2) free from defects in materials and workmanship which cause such vehicle or engine to fail to conform with applicable regulations for the first two years or the first 24,000 miles, whichever first occurs. Repeals provisions relating to certification of motor vehicle or engine parts by manufacturers or rebuilders. Sets the warranty period for emission control components on new motor vehicles or engines at two years or 24,000 miles, whichever occurs first. Defines ""emission control component"" to mean only a catalytic converter, thermal reactor, or other component installed on or in a vehicle for the sole purpose of reducing vehicle emissions. Excludes from such term vehicle components which were in general use prior to model year 1968. Deletes requirements that a manufacturers' instructions for maintenance and use: (1) correspond to regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and (2) contain references to the certification of automotive parts. Repeals provisions for waivers of the prohibition against a manufacturers' instructions containing conditions on using certain components or services or distinguishing between services offered by certain automotive repair facilities. Requires that State standards for warranties or prescribed maintenance requirements for new motor vehicles and engines be identical to Federal standards. Revises prohibitions against tampering with pollution control parts or components to specify exceptions in connection with routine maintenance. Prohibits State standards for new motor vehicle emissions in nonattainment areas from including any provisions similar to specified warranty provisions under the Act. Makes technical and conforming amendments to provisions for replacement and maintenance costs borne by the owner. Makes a prohibition against a manufacturers' communications conditioning a warranty under the Act upon the purchaser's use of certain brands of parts, components, or systems, or of certain service agents, inapplicable to communications regarding any part, component, or system, or service provided without charge under the terms of the purchase agreement.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z, 98-hr-4965,98,hr,4965,Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Amendments of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-02-28,1984-05-03,For Further Action See H.R.5530.,House,"Rep. Weiss, Ted [D-NY-17]",NY,D,W000258,24,"Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Amendments of 1984 - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to promote the public safety by providing State and local governments with the authority to adequately meet their enforcement and emergency response responsibilities. Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to set forth standards and procedures for the Secretary of Transportation to use in making inconsistency and nonpreemption determinations about State and local safety requirements in relation to Federal requirements. Directs the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements for the establishment of regional training centers to train State and local personnel to: (1) respond to hazardous materials transportation accidents; and (2) enforce State and local hazardous materials transportation requirements. States that such agreements shall be for terms of three years. Requires any party to an agreement with the Secretary to bear the cost of constructing training facilities. Directs the Secretary to provide, upon request, training materials and other assistance as may be appropriate. Requires parties to agreements with the Secretary, in developing training materials, to consider the procedures and standards for responding to hazardous substance releases as set forth in the national contingency plan required under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. Directs (currently, authorizes) the Secretary to establish: (1) criteria for handling hazardous materials; and (2) minimum levels of insurance coverage sufficient to meet injury or damage claims resulting from transportation of such materials. Directs (currently, authorizes) the Secretary to require transporters or shippers of hazardous materials to submit registration statements and to amend such statements as necessary. Requires the Secretary to study and determine the most effective, equitable, and cost-efficient method for imposing a fee on all participants in the registration program to assist States or political subdivisions in developing and conducting enforcement and emergency response programs related to transportation of hazardous materials. Requires a report to Congress on such study within 12 months of enactment. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985.",2025-08-29T17:38:13Z, 98-s-2356,98,s,2356,"A bill entitled the ""Urban Radioactive Materials Protection Act of 1984"".",Environmental Protection,1984-02-28,1984-02-28,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]",PA,R,S000709,0,Amends the National Environmental Policy Act to require an environmental impact statement from the agency which approves the transportation of radioactive waste materials by highway routing through a standard metropolitan area. Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue new regulations on routing requirements after filing and considering an environmental impact statement and making an environmental and safety assessment of alternative routes for shipment of such materials.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-hr-4915,98,hr,4915,"Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act Amendments of 1984",Environmental Protection,1984-02-23,1984-10-03,See H.R.2867.,House,"Rep. Lent, Norman F. [R-NY-4]",NY,R,L000243,28,"Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act Amendments of 1984 - Title I: Funding - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) (CERCLA) to replace provisions for environmental taxes on petroleum, certain chemicals, and hazardous waste disposal with provisions for fees on petroleum, certain chemicals, and hazardous waste disposal and provisions for the collection, enforcement, and deposit of such fees in the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund. Imposes a fee of four cents a barrel on: (1) crude oil received at a U.S. refinery (to be paid by the operator of the U.S. refinery); and (2) petroleum products entering the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing (to be paid by the person entering the product for such purposes). Imposes such fee (to be paid by the user or exporter) on any domestic crude oil if: (1) it is used in or exported from the United States; and (2) such fee was not imposed before such use or exemption. Provides that such fee shall not apply to any use of domestic crude oil for extracting oil or natural gas on the premises where such crude oil was produced. Sets forth definitions and special rules. Provides that only one fee may be imposed under this part with respect to any petroleum product. Makes such fee effective on October 1, 1985. Provides that such fee shall not apply after September 30, 1990. Imposes a fee on any assessed chemicals sold (or used) by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof. Sets forth a table of assessed chemicals, with a specified fee per ton for each. Sets forth definitions, exceptions, and other special rules. Provides for a refund or credit for certain uses. Makes such fee effective on October 1, 1985. Provides that such fee shall not apply after September 30, 1990. Imposes a fee on the disposal of hazardous waste which is listed or identified under specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Provides that such fee shall apply only to hazardous waste disposal which is required to be carried out in compliance with hazardous waste management provisions of such Act, and shall not apply to the treatment of any hazardous waste, including thermal treatment by incineration at a facility for which a permit is in effect under hazardous waste management provisions of such Act. Sets the amount of such fee at: (1) $20 per ton of assessable hazardous waste which is disposed of by means other than underground injection; and (2) $10 per ton of assessable hazardous waste which is disposed of by means of underground injection. Requires the owner or operator of the facility to pay such fee with respect to the disposal of any hazardous waste at a facility for which a permit is in effect under the hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Requires the person disposing of the hazardous waste to pay such fee with respect to any other disposal of hazardous waste. Sets forth special rules relating to such fee on disposal of hazardous waste. Provides that no such fee shall be imposed on the disposal of any solid waste which is required to be studied under specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act unless, after receipt of the required studies, the Congress enacts legislation respecting the application of such fee to such solid waste. Makes the fee on disposal of hazardous waste effective on October 1, 1985. Provides that such fee shall not apply after September 30, 1990. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate regulations for the collection of fees under this title, including reporting and information-gathering regulations. Authorizes the Administrator to use authorities relating to inspection of records and access under hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act and specified provisions of this Act for purposes of carrying out this title. Sets forth criminal and civil penalties for specified violations of this title. Requires that revenues from fees established under this title be deposited in the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund. Authorizes appropriations to the Fund for FY 1986 through 1990. Title II: Amendments Relating to Response Authorities under CERCLA - Amends CERCLA to revise provisions relating to response authorities. Revises provisions relating to the State share of certain costs. Prohibits the Administrator from providing specified remedial actions unless the State in which the release first occurs enters into a contract or cooperative agreement with the Administrator providing specified assurances deemed adequate by the Administrator. Limits the State share to: (1) ten percent of the future operation and maintenance costs of any onsite remedial actions provided for the expected life of such actions, as determined by the Administrator, and ten percent of costs of the remedial action; or (2) 50 percent of any sums expended in response to a release or threatened release at a facility (not including navigable waters or the beds underlying those waters) that was owned and operated by the State or local government at the time of any disposal of hazardous substances therein, including all future operation and maintenance costs of any onsite remedial action. Directs the President to reimburse from the Fund any State which has paid, at any time after the enactment of CERCLA, in excess of ten percent of the costs of remedial action at a facility owned but not operated by the State or local government. Repeals specified provisions relating to CERCLA preemption of State law (thus allows States to require taxes or other contributions to State funds similar to Superfund. Authorizes States to bring abatement actions under CERCLA in Federal district courts and to take other necessary abatement actions, including issuing orders to protect public health and welfare and the environment. Raises the amount of the fine for willful violations of, or failures or refusals to comply with, such abatement orders of the President (or of a State). Sets forth provisions for citizen petitions for evaluation of facilities included in the emergency and remedial response information system (ERRIS). Allows any person, in the case of any release or threatened release at an ERRIS facility, to petition the Administrator to evaluate such facility in accordance with the hazard ranking system under the national contingency plan in order to determine the national priority of such release or threatened release. Directs the Administrator, upon receipt of any such petition, to promptly commence such evaluation or provide a written explanation as to why such evaluation is not warranted. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants available to any group of individuals which may be affected by a release or threatened release at any facility which is listed under the national priorities list under the national contingency plan for the purpose of enabling such group to obtain technical assistance to review and assess data and information prepared by the Administrator in connection with: (1) the evaluation of such facility under the hazard ranking system; or (2) any proposed plan for remedial action at such facility. Allows only one such grant with respect to any single facility. Limits the amount of any such grant to $40,000. Requires each grant recipient to contribute at least one-eighth of the total costs of the review and assessment. Sets forth standards for cleanup actions under CERCLA response authorities. Provides that the remedial action selected shall require that the level or standard of control of each hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant be consistent with such standards under other relevant provisions of law. Directs the Administrator to make any revisions in the national contingency plan necessary to carry out such purpose. Permits waivers of such standards if: (1) an alternative remedial action will provide protection of human health and the environment substantially equivalent to the remedial action which would be necessary to comply with such standards; or (2) compliance with such standards at the site or facility in question will consume such a disproportionate share of the Fund resources as to have the effect of deferring or preventing remedial action at other sites or facilities which pose a significantly greater threat to human health and the environment. Provides that no permit shall be required under Federal, State, or local law for any removal or remedial action undertaken by any person pursuant to CERCLA at the location of the release or threatened release. Authorizes the Administrator to establish the exclusive administrative procedures for making any determination under provisions for standards for CERCLA cleanups. Includes (by removing an exclusion) under the definition of ""hazardous substance"" for purposes of CERCLA response and liability provisions: petroleum (including crude oil) and natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel (or mixtures of natural gas and such synthetic gas). Includes (by removing an exclusion) under the definition of ""pollutant or contaminant"" for purposes of CERCLA response authorities: petroleum (including crude oil) and natural gas, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas of pipeline quality (or mixtures of natural gas and such synthetic gas). Sets forth a regulatory program with standards for underground storage tanks. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations establishing performance standards, applicable to owners and operators of underground storage tanks used for the storage of hazardous substances, including gasoline or other liquid hydrocarbons, in order to prevent releases into the environment for the operational life of the tank. Provides that such regulations shall apply only to underground storage tanks located on property used primarily for commercial or governmental purposes. Directs the Administrator to distinguish in such standards between requirements for new tanks and those for tanks already in existence. Sets forth requirements which must be included in such standards. Authorizes the Administrator to implement such standards through: (1) promulgation of regulations made effective in accordance with specified hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; or (2) establishment of a permit program if necessary. Provides that such permits may be required for any person or category of persons who stores any hazardous substance, including gasoline or any other liquid hydrocarbon, in an underground storage tank located on property primarily used for commercial or governmental purposes. Provides that specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act shall apply to the program and requirements established under this Act in the same manner as such provisions apply to the hazardous waste regulation program under such Act. Provides that the failure or refusal of an owner or operator of any underground storage tank to provide to a supplier of any hazardous substance, including gasoline or any other liquid hydrocarbon, appropriate evidence of compliance with standards established under this Act shall constitute a defense to any enforcement action brought under any other authority of law to require such supplier to deliver any such substance to such tank. Sets forth criminal penalties for persons who knowingly commit material violations or omissions with respect to requirements established by the Administration under the regulatory program established by this Act, if such violation or omission results in a release or threatened release of any hazardous substance (including gasoline or other liquid hydrocarbon) from an underground storage tank. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 to carry out this regulatory program. Provides that up to 50 percent of such appropriations in any such fiscal year may be used to make grants to States for development and implementation of State programs to carry out this regulatory program. Directs the Administrator, within one year after the enactment of this Act, to conduct a study regarding underground storage tanks which are located on residential property and used for the storage of hazardous substances, including gasoline or other liquid hydrocarbons. Requires that such study include estimates of the number and location of such tanks and an analysis of the extent to which there may be releases or threatened releases from such tanks into the environment. Directs the Administrator to report to the President and the Congress on the results of such study, with recommendations on whether such tanks on residential property should be subject to requirements under this regulatory program. Makes CERCLA national contingency plan provisions applicable to federally owned or operated facilities. Directs the Administrator, within one year after the enactment of this Act, to: (1) apply specified criteria (for determining priorities among releases or threatened releases throughout the United States for purposes of taking remedial action) to each facility owned or operated by a Federal agency at which there is a release or threatened release of any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant; and (2) revise the national priority list (based on such criteria) to include such Federal facilities in the same manner and to the same extent as non-Federal facilities. Provides for remedial investigations and feasibility studies at Federal facilities. Directs each Federal agency with administrative jurisdiction over any facility included on the national priority list under the national contingency plan to conduct, in accordance with such plan, a remedial investigation and feasibility study with respect to such facility. Requires that such investigations and studies be completed by December 31, 1986. Directs the Administrator to approve such investigations and studies which are consistent with the national contingency plan. Directs the Federal agency involved to commence remedial actions at such facility within 120 days after such approval by the Administrator. Includes references to ""pollutants"" or ""contaminants,"" in addition to ""hazardous substances,"" under CERCLA liability provisions. Revises the statute of limitations under CERCLA claims procedure provisions to allow presentation of claims and commencement of specified cost recovery actions until six years after the date of completion of the response action. Limits court review of abatement orders under CERCLA to actions to: (1) enforce such orders; (2) recover penalties for violations of such orders; or (3) recover punitive damages in connection with such order. Provides that, in any action under CERCLA liability provisions, the results of any EPA laboratory tests to determine what substances are present at the site of the release or threatened release may be introduced into evidence and shall be presumed to be accurate. Provides that such presumption shall be overcome if the defendant establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that such test results lack a reasonable basis. Includes interest on the costs and damages referred to in CERCLA liability provisions among the amounts recoverable in actions under such provisions. Provides for access authorities under CERCLA response authorities. Establishes civil penalties for noncompliance with EPA or State requests for such access. Sets forth requirements for the use of settlement funds obtained under CERCLA. Requires that any costs or damages recovered by the Administrator in any settlement of an action brought under liability provisions with respect to a release at a facility shall be retained by the Administrator and used only for removal or remedial action (or both) at such facility, except to the extent that the amount of settlement exceeds EPA expenses (after receipt of the settlement) for removal and remedial action at such facility. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), on or before September 30, 1991, to also carry out health effects studies at a total of 75 top priority sites on the national priority list under the national contingency plan. Provides that such sites shall be the 75 which the ATSDR determines to present the most significant risk to human health. Authorizes for the period FY 1986 through 1990 the use of not more than $20,000,000 of the amounts available for payments to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for costs incurred in carrying out ATSDR responsibilities under CERCLA. Provides that such sums shall remain available until expended. Authorizes for the period FY 1986 through 1990 the use of not more than $50,000,000 of the amounts available in the Fund for grants to States to implement State response actions which are consistent with the national contingency plan in the case of States which have demonstrated the ability and willingness to carry out a high level of such response actions and which are authorized to carry out State programs under hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes for the period FY 1986 through 1990 the use of not more than $25,000,000 of the amounts available in the Fund for grants for research and development activities regarding innovative technologies which may be used in removal and remedial actions under CERCLA. Deletes a condition that a guarantor must be ""acting in good faith"" in order for certain limitations of liability to apply. Repeals specified provisions for transfer of liability to the Postclosure Liability Fund. Directs the Administrator, within six months after enactment of this Act, and after consultation with the States, to submit a report to the Congress with a schedule for the cleanup of sites which are listed on the national priority list under the national contingency plan. Repeals provisions authorizing the use of the Fund to pay the costs of Federal or State efforts in the restoration, rehabilitation, or replacement or acquiring the equivalent of any natural resources injured, destroyed, or lost as a result of a release of a hazardous substance. Repeals provisions authorizing the President or a State to assert claims against the Fund for injury to, or destruction or loss of, natural resources resulting from a release or threatened release of a hazardous substance from a vessel or a facility.",2025-08-29T17:38:33Z, 98-hr-4939,98,hr,4939,Pesticide Tolerance Emergency Authority Act,Environmental Protection,1984-02-23,1984-03-09,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-24]",CA,D,W000215,3,"Pesticide Tolerance Emergency Authority Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to revoke exemptions, or establish or reduce tolerance levels, for raw agricultural commodity pesticides when necessary to prevent an imminent public health hazard. Makes such an order effective upon issuance. Requires the Administrator to promptly notify an affected person of any such order. Grants such person five days (from the order's publication in the Federal Register) to request a public hearing. Requires: (1) such hearing to begin within five days of such request; and (2) such order to be affirmed or revised within ten days of the hearings's competition. States that the effective date of any such order shall not be delayed during administrative or judicial review. Prohibits judicial review until completion of a hearing. Requires the Administrator to revoke the exemption of ethylene dibromide and establish a raw agricultural commodity tolerance level for it within ten days.",2025-08-29T17:40:42Z, 98-hr-4906,98,hr,4906,Acid Rain Control Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-02-22,1984-03-01,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Rinaldo, Matthew J. [R-NJ-7]",NJ,R,R000262,9,"Acid Rain Control Act of 1984 - Amends the Clean Air Act (""the Act"") to provide for reduction of acid deposition through reduction of emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Establishes a program for reduction of total sulfur dioxide emissions in the 48 contiguous States. Provides that such reduction is to be: (1) to a level 10,000,000 tons below the total sulfur dioxide emissions in 1980; and (2) achieved by December 1, 1995. Provides that the requirements of such program are to be in addition to other requirements under the Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to compute and publish State aggregate sulfur dioxide emission targets for January 1, 1989, and January 1, 1995. Sets forth formulas for calculating such targets for each State, based on reductions from the 1980 sulfur dioxide emissions levels which would have been achieved if all fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units in the State had complied with specified emissions limitations during 1980 (two pounds per million Btu for the 1989 target and one and two-tenths pounds per million Btu for the 1995 target). Requires each State, by January 1, 1986, to develop and submit State plans for emission limitations necessary to achieve such targets. Allows such plans to provide for compliance through: (1) the use of a technological sytem of continuous emission reduction; or (2) any other continuous emission reduction requirements (applicable to stationary sources) which the State finds appropriate. Directs the Administrator to approve such plans if they are adequate to achieve such targets. Prohibits commencement of construction of any new stationary source of sulfur dioxide if no State plan is submitted by the deadline or if the Administrator disapproves a State plan. Directs the Administrator to promulgate a plan for any State which fails to submit: (1) a plan by the deadline; or (2) a revised plan within six months after disapproval. Provides that the plan promulgated by the Administrator shall only be applicable to fossil fuel-fired steam generating units in the State which are not subject to more stringent emission limitations under any other provision of the Act. Provides that such plan shall require each such unit to comply with an emission limitation of: (1) two pounds per million Btu by January 1, 1989; and (2) one and two-tenths pounds per million Btu by January 1, 1995. Prohibits commencement of construction of any new stationary source of sulfur dioxide in any State which does not meet the 1989 or 1995 target. Provides for crediting toward the State target: (1) emissions reductions credited under a specified trading program; and (2) nitrogen oxide emissions reductions substituted for sulfur dioxide emissions reductions in accordance with a specified ratio. Prohibits the establishment, under any provision of the Act, of any sulfur dioxide emission limitation which would permit any stationary source (or unit) to exceed the sulfur dioxide emissions allowable from it in 1982 under the applicable implementation plan in effect on January 1, 1982. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations to facilitate the trading of emission reduction requirements, and actual reductions, on a State or regional basis under the sulfur dioxide emissions program of this Act. Allows such regulations to provide for emission reduction banks or brokerage institutions. Allows such trading to include trading of sulfur dioxide emissions for nitrogen oxide emissions in accordance with a specified ratio. Allows the State plan to permit any owner or operator of a stationary source of sulfur dioxide emissions to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions in lieu of any sulfur dioxide emissions reduction which would otherwise be required under the plan. Requires that such reduction of nitrogen oxide emissions be at a rate of two units by weight of nitrogen oxides for each unit of sulfur dioxide. Provides that State plan requirements under this Act shall be treated as requirements of applicable implementation plans for specified purposes under the Act. Imposes a fee for each kilowatt hour of electric energy which is either generated by an electric utility in or imported into the contiguous 48 States. Requires that EPA regulations for such fee allow utilities to pass through to customers the cost of the fee and indicate the fee as a separate item on bills. Provides that such fee shall: (1) take effect with respect to electric energy generated, or imported, after December 31, 1984; (2) cease to apply on December 31, 1990; (3) be applied during each calendar quarter at the rate of one and five-tenths mill per kilowatt hour; and (4) not apply to any electric energy (including imported electric energy) which is generated by nuclear or hydroelectric power. Sets civil and criminal penalties for specified violations of such fee requirements. Establishes the Acid Deposition Control Fund in the Treasury. Allows the Fund to be used for: (1) certain loans for capital costs of emission control; (2) specified studies, research, and demonstrations; and (3) assistance to States for acid deposition mitigation programs. Credits to the Fund amounts determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be equivalent to the amount received into the Treasury from fees imposed under this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report annually to Congress on the Fund; and (2) make investments on behalf of the Fund. Directs the Administrator to: (1) report, within one year after enactment of this Act, to Congress on the expected costs of the construction and installation of technological systems of continuous emission reductions necessary to meet emission limitations; and (2) estimate the amount, and establish a schedule for issuance, of specified notes or other obligations which must be issued to meet such costs. Authorizes the Administrator to issue to the Secretary such specified notes and other obligations, but only in such amounts as may be specified in appropriation Acts. Directs the Administrator to make loans from the Fund, in the five-year period beginning on the date the Fund is established, for capital costs of emission control. Allows owners or operators of stationary sources subject to emission limitations under plans adopted or promulgated under this Act to apply for such loans. Authorizes the Administrator to make such loans only upon determination that loan proceeds will be used only for the costs of the construction and installation of any technological system of continuous emission reduction used to comply with such emission limitations in accordance with requirements which the Administrator deems appropriate. Provides that such loans shall be: (1) made without interest; (2) required to be repaid within such period and under such conditions as the Administrator shall establish. Directs the Administrator to require only such repayment of such loans as is necessary to assure the availability of adequate sums for the Administrator to make payments of principal and interest on specified notes and other obligations issued under this Act. Directs the Administrator, upon expiration of the five-year period beginning on the date of the establishment of the Fund, to report to Congress the amount required to pay such principal and interest. Directs the Administrator to issue regulations establishing the criteria upon which such loans shall be made and the procedures for handling applications. Revises provisions for new stationary source performance standards to direct the Administrator, promptly after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate or revise such performance standards for emissions of: (1) nitrogen oxides from fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units; and (2) sulfur dioxides and nitrogen oxides from other fossil fuel-fired steam generating units which are capable of combusting more than 50,000 pounds per million Btu/hour heat input of fossil fuel (either alone or in combination with any other fuel). Revises provisions for emissions standards for new motor vehicles or engines to direct the Administrator to revise specified regulations applicable to nitrogen oxide emissions from trucks and truck engines manufactured during and after model year 1986 so that total nitrogen oxide emissions will be reduced by 4,000,000 tons by January 1, 1995. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study and report to Congress on the rate-making policies of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and of State public utility regulatory authorities regarding the costs incurred by regulated electric utilities in complying with emission control requirements under the sulfur dioxide emissions program established under this Act. Requires that such study determine the extent to which: (1) such costs are equitably allocated, under rate schedules approved or established by the Commission and such State authorities, among the customers of such utilities; and (2) a disproportionate burden of such costs are borne by customers of any utility who are not located in the State in which the utility is located. Directs the Administrator to undertake studies regarding: (1) formation of acid deposition and interstate transport of acid deposition precursors; (2) effects of acid deposition on human health and the environment, including visibility; (3) adverse effects associated with acid rain in areas outside the northeast; (4) effectiveness of acid deposition mitigation measures; and (5) innovative means to control acid deposition. Directs the Administrator to carry out a demonstration program for clean coal technologies. Directs the Administrator to provide financial assistance to State programs for mitigation of the adverse effects of acid rain. Requires that at least one-third of the total amounts expended by a State for any such program in any fiscal year be derived from non-Federal sources. Limits to one percent of the amounts available in the Fund the amount which may be used to provide such assistance for such State programs.",2025-08-29T17:38:44Z, 98-hr-4813,98,hr,4813,Comprehensive Hazardous Substances Cleanup and Emergency Relief Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-02-09,1984-07-31,For Further Action See H.R.5640.,House,"Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,F000215,87,"Comprehensive Hazardous Substances Cleanup and Emergency Relief Act of 1984 - Sets forth the finding that in order to adequately protect human health and the environment from hazardous waste it is necessary to: (1) establish a program for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites; (2) establish standards for the cleanup of such sites which will insure the same degree of protection for human health and the environment as are applicable in the case of facilities regulated under hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act and other applicable Federal and State law; (3) establish enforcement standards which require parties responsible for the release or threatened release of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants to assume financial responsibility for injuries of those exposed and for either conducting cleanup or reimbursing government costs of cleanup; (4) establish a full and cooperative Federal-State partnership in the cleanup program; and (5) afford citizens emergency assistance, reimbursement of medical and reimbursement expenses, and an opportunity to participate in the cleanup process. Title I: Cleanup of Hazardous Substances, Pollutants, and Contaminants - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act (""the Act"") (also known as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976) to add provisions for cleanup of, and liability for, certain hazardous substances, pollutants and contaminants. Defines ""hazardous substance"" as: (1) any substance designated under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (2) any element, compound, mixture, solution, or substance designated under specified provisions for additional designations under this Act; (3) any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified or listed under specified hazardous waste management provisions of the Act (but not including any other waste the regulation of which under specified hazardous waste management provisions has been suspended by Act of Congress); (4) any toxic pollutant listed under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (5) any hazardous air pollutant listed under the Clean Air Act; and (6) any imminently hazardous chemical substance or mixture with respect to which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (""the Administrator"") has taken action under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Provides for designation of additional hazardous substances and reportable quantities under this Act. Directs the Administrator to promulgate and revise: (1) regulations designating as hazardous substances, in addition to those referred to in the definition under this Act, such elements, compounds, mixtures, solutions, and substances which, when released into the environment, may present substantial danger to the public health or welfare or the environment; and (2) regulations establishing that quantity of any hazardous substance the release of which shall be reported under this Act. Allows the Administrator to determine that one single quantity shall be the reportable quantity for any hazardous substance, regardless of the medium into which it is released. Provides that, unless and until superceded by such regulations, the substances designated as additional hazardous substances and the reportable quantities of such substances established under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) (CERCLA) shall be deemed designated and established under this Act. Sets forth a notice requirement relating to releases of hazardous substances from any facility. Defines ""facility"" as: (1) any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor vehicle, rolling stock, or aircraft; or (2) any site or area where a hazardous substance, or pollutant or contaminant, has been deposited, stored, dispensed of, or placed, or otherwise located (but does not include any consumer product in consumer use or any vessel). Requires any person in charge of a facility, as soon as such person has knowledge of any release (other than a federally permitted release) of a hazardous substance from such facility in quantities equal to or greater than those determined as reportable under this Act to immediately notify the National Response Center. Directs the Center to convey the notification expeditiously to all appropriate Government agencies, including the Governor of any affected State. Provides that such notification, or information obtained by exploitation of it, shall not be used against any such person in any criminal case, except a prosecution for perjury or for giving a false statement. Provides that such notice requirement shall not apply to the normal application of a pesticide product under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act or to the handling and storage of such a pesticide product by an agricultural producer. Exempts from such notice requirement any hazardous substance release which: (1) is required to be reported (or specifically exempted from a reporting requirement) under specified hazardous waste management provisions and regulations under the Act and has been reported to the Center; or (2) is a continuous release, stable in quantity and rate, and either is from a facility for which notification has been given under specified provisions of CERCLA or is a release for which notification has been given under the notice requirement of this Act for a period sufficient to establish the continuity, quantity, and regularity of the release. Requires, in the case of such exemptions, that notification be given for releases annually or at such time as there is any statistically significant increase in the quantity of any hazardous substance or constituent thereof released, above that previously reported or occurring. Sets forth response authorities. Authorizes the Administrator, whenever there is a release or substantial threat of release into the environment of any hazardous substance or of any pollutant or contaminant which may present an imminent or substantial danger to human health or the environment, to: (1) remove or arrange for the removal of, and provide for remedial action relating to such hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant at any time (including its removal from any contaminated natural resource); or (2) take any other response measure necessary to protect human health and the environment. Requires that removal actions be consistent with the National Contingency Plan and long-term remedial actions. Allows the Administrator to authorize facility owners or operators or other responsible parties to undertake such response actions. Provides, for purposes of such response authorities, that the term ""pollutant or contaminant"" shall include, but not be limited to, any element, substance, compound, or mixture, including disease-causing agents, which after release into the environment and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation, or assimilation into any organism either directly from the environment or indirectly by ingestion through food chains, will or may reasonably be anticipated to cause death, disease, behavorial abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutation, physiological malfunctions (including malfunctions in reproduction) or physical deformations in such organisms or their offspring. Sets forth investigation and planning authorities. Authorizes the Administrator to undertake investigations, monitoring, surveys testing, and other information gathering to identify the existence or extent of a release or threat thereof, the source and nature of the hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants involved and the extent of danger to human health and the environment, whenever the Administrator: (1) is authorized to act under response authorities for imminent and substantial danger; or (2) has reason to believe that a release has occurred or is about to occur, or that illness, disease, or complaints thereof may be attributable to exposure to a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant and that a release may have occurred or be occurring. Authorizes the Administrator, in addition, to undertake planning, legal, fiscal, economic, engineering, architectural, and other studies or investigations to plan and direct response actions, recover costs, and enforce cleanup, liability, and funding provisions of this Act. Directs the Administrator, in such information gathering or planning, to assess the risk to human health associated with the release or threatened release. Provides for a six-months limitation on response action. Discontinues obligations, other than those authorized for investigation and planning, from the Hazardous Substances Trust Fund (""the Fund"") established under this Act after $1,000,000 has been obligated for response actions or six months after the initial response to a release or threatened release of hazardous substances, unless the Administrator: (1) finds that continued response actions are immediately required to prevent, limit, or mitigate an emergency, there is an immediate risk to human health or the environment, and such assistance will not otherwise be provided on a timely basis; or (2) has determined the appropriate remedial actions and the States in which the source of release is located have complied with provisions for State payment of certain costs. Sets forth provisions for State payment of certain costs. Prohibits the Administrator from providing any remedial actions under response provisions of this Act unless the State in which the release or threatened release occurs first provides certain assurances. Requires the State to assure the availability of a hazardous waste disposal facility for any necessary offsite storage, destruction, treatment, or secure disposition of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants. Requires the State to pay or assure payment of: (1) ten percent of the costs of remedial action and ten percent of all future operation and maintenance costs of any onsite remedial action; or (2) at least 50 percent (or such greater amount as the Administrator may determine appropriate, taking into account the degree of responsibility of the State or local government) of costs of remedial action and future operation and maintenance of onsite remedial action at facilities owned or operated by the State or local government at the time of any disposal of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants therein. Directs the Administrator to grant the State a credit for amounts expended or obligated by the State or local government after January 1, 1978, and before December 11, 1980, for any response action costs which are covered by provisions for the Fund and which were incurred at a release listed under National Contingency Plan provisions. Provides for reimbursement to the State of any amount paid by the State, pursuant to a specified contract or agreement at any time after December 11, 1980, in excess of ten percent of remedial action costs at a facility owned, but not operated, by the State or local government. Requires that any amount expended by a State for administrative expenses in carrying out cleanup, liability, and funding provisions of this Act be credited against the required ten percent share. Sets forth provisions for selection of remedial action. Directs the Administrator to select appropriate cost-effective remedial actions in accordance with the National Contingency Plan and with a required protection level. Directs the Administrator to consider permanent solutions and alternative treatment technologies in evaluating the cost-effectiveness. Directs the Administrator to: (1) consult with the affected States before determining the appropriate remedial action; and (2) approve a more protective action if the State or local government assures payment of 90 percent of that portion in excess of the costs of the action chosen by the Administrator. Provides that the selected remedial action shall require a level or standard of control: (1) necessary to protect human health and the environment; (2) as stringent as the most stringent applicable Federal law; and (3) as stringent as the most stringent applicable State law. Authorizes the Administrator to waive the requirements of a protection level as stringent as the most stringent Federal and State laws and to select an alternative remedial action upon a finding that: (1) such an alternative remedial action will provide substantially equivalent protection; or (2) compliance with the requirements of a level of protection necessary to protect human life and the environment at a site or facility will consume such a disproportionate share of Fund resources as to defer or prevent remedial action at other sites or facilities which pose a significantly greater threat. Prohibits permit requirements for any removal or remedial action undertaken pursuant to this Act at the location of the release or threatened release. Authorizes the Administrator to establish the exclusive administrative procedures for making any determination under provisions for required protection level. Authorizes the Administrator to enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with State and local governments to take remedial actions and to be reimbursed for reasonable response costs from the Fund. Provides for enforcement of such contracts and agreements, and of cost-sharing agreements, in Federal district courts. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical and legal assistance to State or local governments in administering and enforcing contracts and subcontracts in connection with response actions and to intervene in civil actions involving such enforcement. Authorizes the Administrator to treat two or more noncontiguous facilities as one if they are reasonably related on the basis of geography or of threat or potential threat to human health or the environment. Sets forth information gathering and access authorities for purposes of assisting in determining the need for response to a release or enforcing cleanup, liability, and funding provisions of this Act. Requires that access to records and information, including samples of hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants or substances which may have been hazardous, and samples of containers and labels, be provided to authorized Federal and State officers by any person: (1) who generates, stores, treats, recycles or disposes of such substances; or (2) who generates, stores, transports, or otherwise handles or has handled such substances (where necessary to ascertain facts not available at the facility where such substances are located). Provides for access to the site or facility at which any hazardous substance or pollutant, or contaminant is located, whenever necessary to carry out cleanup, liability, and funding provisions of this Act. Provides for public availability of records, reports, or information obtained, with specified exceptions for data entitled to confidentiality. Requires that all information reported or obtained be made available to any duly authorized congressional committee. Directs the Administrator or the State to require compliance with Federal health and safety standards established in the National Contingency Plan in awarding contracts for response actions. Requires that the prevailing wage rates of the Davis-Bacon Act be paid to all laborers and mechanics for construction, repair, or alteration work funded in whole or part under response action provisions of this Act. Authorizes the President to authorize the use of emergency procurement powers necessary to effect the purpose of the Act. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), in cooperation with other Federal officials and States, to implement the health related authorities of the Act. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to establish and maintain: (1) national registries of serious diseases and of persons exposed to toxic substances; (2) inventories of research on the health effects of toxic substances; and (3) a complete listing of areas closed to the public or otherwise restricted in use because of toxic substance contamination. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to: (1) provide medical care and testing, or other appropriate assistance to exposed individuals in public health emergencies; and (2) conduct periodic survey and screening programs to determine relationships between exposure to toxic substances and illness. Directs the ATSDR Administrator to prepare toxicological profiles sufficient to establish the likely effect on human health of the 100 hazardous substances which are most frequently found or which pose the most significant threat to human health at facilities listed on the National Priorities List prepared under the National Contingency Plan. Requires that the 100 profiles be completed 48 months after enactment of this Act (at 12-month intervals for four groups of 25 substances). Sets forth provisions for public participation in remedial action planning. Sets forth remedial action schedules. Directs the Administrator to complete remedial investigations and feasibility studies for all releases and threatened releases at sites listed or proposed to be listed on the National Priority List prepared under the National Contingency Plan: (1) within 18 months after the enactment of this Act, at sites listed or proposed to be listed as of such enactment date; and (2) within 12 months after the date of listing, at sites listed or proposed to be listed after such enactment date. Directs the Administrator or the State to complete, within five years after such enactment date, remedial actions for all releases or threatened releases at sites listed or proposed to be listed as of such enactment date. Directs the Administrator to complete by January 1, 1987, a preliminary assessment of all sites listed, as of such enactment date, on the Emergency and Remedial Response Information System. Requires that the National Contingency Plan be revised within 12 months after the enactment of this Act to reflect and effectuate the powers and responsibilities created by this Act, in addition to those matters specified in CERCLA and other applicable law. Requires that the portion of such plan known as ""the National Hazardous Substance Response Plan"" be revised to provide procedures and standards for response actions consistent with protection level requirements under this Act. Requires that, on or before January 1, 1988, at least 1,000 of the highest priority facilities be designated individually on the National Priorities List as ""top priority among known response targets."" Requires that plan criteria for determining priorities among releases or threatened releases throughout the United States for purposes of taking remedial action shall take into account (in addition to factors required under CERCLA): (1) the release-associated damage to natural resources which may affect the human food chain; and (2) the release-associated contamination or potential contamination of the ambient air. Sets forth provisions for citizen petitions for site ranking. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after receipt of a citizen petition, to complete a preliminary assessment of the hazards to public health and environment associated with any actual or threatened release of a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant. Directs the Administrator, if such assessment indicates a significant threat, to make a prompt evaluation in accordance with the hazard ranking system referred to under specified provisions of CERCLA to determine the national priority of such release or threatened release. Sets forth provisions for abatement actions. Directs the Administrator, upon determining that there may be imminent and substantial danger to human health or the environment because of an actual or threatened release of a hazardous substance or any pollutant or contaminant from a facility, to request the Attorney General, in addition to any other State or local action, to secure relief necessary to abate such danger or threat. Gives the U.S. district court in the district in which the threat occurs jurisdiction to grant such relief as the public interest and the equities of the case may require. Authorizes the Administrator, after notice to the affected State, to take other abatement action including issuing orders necessary to protect human health and the environment. Directs the Administrator, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, and after consultation with the Attorney General, to revise and republish guidelines published under CERCLA for using the imminent hazard, enforcement, and emergency response authorities of this Act and other existing statutes administered by the Administrator to effectuate the responsibilities and powers created by this Act. Requires that such guidelines: (1) be consistent with the National Contingency Plan; and (2) include the assignment of responsibility for coordinating response actions with the issuance of administrative orders, enforcement of standards and permits, information gathering, and other imminent hazard and emergency powers authorized by other provisions of law. Authorizes the Administrator to establish administrative procedures regarding the opportunity for a person to object to an abatement order under this Act. Provides that no court shall have jurisdiction to review any such abatement order in any action other than an action to: (1) enforce such order; (2) recover a penalty for a violation; or (3) recover punitive damages. Sets forth provisions for liability for releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants which cause incurrence of response costs. Makes strictly liable for specified costs and damages: (1) owners or operators of facilities at which hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants were stored, treated, disposed of, or recycled; (2) persons who owned or operated such facilities at the time of such storage, treatment, disposal, or recycling; (3) persons who owned or possessed such substances and who arranged for such storage, treatment, disposal, or recycling by, or for transport for such purposes, by any other party or entity; and (4) persons who accept or accepted any such substances for transport to storage, disposal, treatment, or recycling facilities or sites selected by such persons. Provides that such costs and damages shall be: (1) all Federal and State costs of removal or remedial action and investigation and planning; (2) any other necessary response costs incurred by any other person consistent with the National Contingency Plan; (3) damages for injury to, destruction of, or loss of natural resources, including assessment costs; and (4) costs of specified emergency relief actions and health effects studies. Provides that such liability shall be: (1) joint and several; and (2) according to the standard which obtains under specified provisions of CERCLA and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Provides for recovery of interest on amounts recoverable as costs and damages. Sets forth defenses to such strict liability. Sets forth a limitation on the amount of such liability (the total of all response costs plus $50,000,000 for any damages) but makes the responsible person liable for full and total costs of response and damages in cases involving willful misconduct, willful negligence, or violations of Federal standards (within the privity or knowledge or such person), or failure or refusal to cooperate with requests in connection with response activities with respect to regulated carriers. Provides for punitive damages in an amount three times the amount of any costs incurred by the Fund as a result of a responsible person's failure without sufficient cause to properly provide removal or remedial action upon order of the Administrator. Provides that no person shall be liable under this Act for costs and damages incurred as a result of actions taken or omitted in the course of rendering care, assistance, or advice at the direction of an on scene coordinator, except in cases of gross negligence or intentional misconduct. Sets forth provisions relating to indemnification agreements. Sets forth provisions relating to liability for damages to natural resources. Makes all requirements, including liability, of this Act applicable to all Federal agencies. Prohibits recovery under such liability provisions of this Act for response costs or damages resulting from the application of a pesticide product registered under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Provides that recovery for response costs or damages resulting from a federally permitted release shall be pursuant to existing law in lieu of such liability provisions of this Act. Provides that, for purposes of abatement actions, the presumption that EPA (or State) laboratory tests are accurate may be overcome if the defendant establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that such test results lack a reasonable basis. Sets forth provisions for financial responsibility. Directs the Administrator to promulgate requirements (for facilities in addition to those under hazardous waste management provisions of the Act) that classes of facilities establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility consistent with the degree and duration of risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances. Requires that priority in the development of such requirements be accorded to those classes of facilities, owners, and operators which the Administrator determines present the highest level of risk of injury. Directs the Administrator to publish notice of the identification of those classes for which requirements will be first developed. Requires that the level of financial responsibility be established and adjusted to protect against the level of risk which the Administrator believes is appropriate based on the payment experience of the Fund, commercial insurers, court settlements and judgments, and voluntary claims satisfaction. Directs the Administrator to cooperate with and seek the advice of the commercial insurance industry in developing such financial responsibility requirements. Requires that such financial responsibility requirements be incrementally imposed over a period of between three to six years after promulgation. Provides that, where possible, the financial responsibility level appropriate as a final requirement be achieved through incremental, annual increases in the requirements. Sets forth provisions for consolidated forms of evidence of financial responsibility under specified circumstances. Provides that the requirements for evidence of financial responsibility for motor carriers covered by this Act shall be determined under specified provisions of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. Sets forth provisions relating to claims against guarantors and the limitation of guarantor liability. Sets forth provisions for penalties for specified violations under this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to employee protection. Prohibits firing or discriminating against any employee or authorized employee representative because he or she has provided information to a State or the Federal Government, or has caused the filing or institution of, or testified, or is about to testify in, any proceeding resulting from the administration or enforcement of this Act. Sets forth procedures for review by the Secretary of Labor of employee allegations of such a firing or discrmination, and for judicial review of the Secretary's orders. Provides for abatement orders, including rehiring or reinstatement with compensation and reimbursement of legal costs and expenses to the employee by the violator. Makes such employee protection provisions inapplicable to any employee who, acting without discretion from the employer (or the employer's agent), deliberately violates any requirement of this Act. Directs the President to conduct continuing evaluations of potential loss or shifts of employment which may result from the administration or enforcement of this Act, including, where appropriate, investigating threatened plant closures or reductions in employment allegedly resulting from such administration or enforcement. Permits employees and their representatives to request investigations. Provides for a public hearing at the request of any party. Directs the President to make investigation reports, findings of fact, and recommendations available to the public. Sets forth provisions for citizen petitions for emergency relief and health effects studies. Directs the Administrator, upon receiving a petition providing reason to believe that the petitioners were exposed to any hazardous substance in a manner which may present a significant risk to human health, to: (1) immediately terminate such risk by provision of alternative drinking supplies, decontamination of soil, or relocation of residents; and (2) perform a health effects study to ascertain the nature, magnitude, scope, and duration of the exposure, including a determination of the source of any groundwater contamination and a toxicological evaluation of the substances involved. Directs the Administrator to also perform a health effects study upon receiving a petition providing reason to believe that one or more persons have been exposed to any hazardous substance and such exposure has abated but previously presented a significant risk to human health. Requires that each health effects study be completed within six months after the date on which the petition is filed, and that the results of such study be made public within ten days after completion. Provides for judicial review of the Administrator's denial of such petitions in the U.S. district court for the district in which the exposure occurred. Sets forth claims procedures. Requires that all claims which may be asserted against the Fund be presented first to the owner, operator, or guarantor of the facility from which a hazardous substance has been released, if known to the claimant, and to any other person known to the claimant who may be liable under this Act. Allows the claimant, in any case where the claim has not been satisfied within 60 days of such presentation, to elect to: (1) commence an action in court against such owner, operator, guarantor, or other person; or (2) present the claim to the Fund for payment. Directs the Administrator to prescribe appropriate forms and procedures for claims filed against the Fund. Directs the Administrator, upon receipt of any claim, to: (1) inform any known affected parties of the claim; and (2) attempt to promote and arrange a settlement between the claimant and any person who may be liable. Provides that, if the claimant and alleged liable party agree upon a settlement, it shall be final and binding upon the parties thereto, who will be deemed to have waived all recourse against the Fund. Provides that where a responsible party is unknown or cannot be determined, the claimant and the Administrator shall attempt to arrange settlement of any claim against the Fund. Authorizes the Administrator to award and make payment of such settlement, subject to proof and procedures promulgated by regulation. Directs the Administrator (except in extraordinary circumstances where inadequate services of private organizations or State agencies make the use of Federal personnel necessary) to use the facilities and services of private insurance and claims adjusting organizations or State agencies in implementing such claims settlement requirements. Sets forth provisions relating to contracts for such facilities and services. Authorizes the Administrator, if no settlement is reached within 45 days after filing of a claim and if the information developed during the claim processing warrants it, to make and pay an award of the claim. Provides for the appeal of such an award in the U.S. district court for the district in which the arbitral hearing took place. Requires that, if the Administrator declines to make an award, the claim be submitted to a member of the Board of Arbitrators established under CERCLA. Sets forth subrogation provisions. Sets forth statute of limitations provisions. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the presentation of a claim or the commencement of an action for damages under this Act unless that claim is presented or action commenced within three years from the date of the discovery of the loss, whichever is later. Provides that such time limitations shall not begin to run against minors or incompetent persons until a legal representative is duly appointed for them or until the minor reaches 18 years of age or the incompetency ends. Prohibits presentation of claims or commencement of actions for recovery of specified response costs until the date six years after the completion of the response action. Provides that no person who asserts a claim against the Fund pursuant to this Act shall be deemed or held to: (1) have waived any other claim not covered or assertable against the Fund under this Act arising from the same incident, transaction, or set of circumstances; (2) have split a cause of action; or (3) as a result of any determination of a question of fact or law in connection with such claim, be collaterally estopped from raising such question in connection with any other claim not covered or assertable against the Fund. Provides that judicial review of any regulation promulgated under this Act may be had upon application, within 90 days from the date of promulgation, by any interested person only in the Circuit Court of Appeals of the United States for the District of Columbia. Grants the U.S. district courts exclusive original jurisdiction over all other controversies arising under this Act. Sets forth provisions for venue in such cases. Provides that no provision of this Act shall be deemed or held to meet any prior litigation concerning any release of any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant or any associated damages. Sets forth provisions concerning the relationship of this Act to other law. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed or interpreted as preempting any State from imposing any additional liability or requirements with respect to the release of hazardous substances or pollutants or contaminants within such State. Bars any person from receiving double compensation for the same removal costs or damages or claims pursuant to this Act and any other Federal or State law. Authorizes States to require any person to contribute to any fund to pay compensation for claims for any response costs or damages or claims which may be compensated under this Act. Prohibits State or local governments from requiring any other evidence of financial responsibility in connection with liability for the release of a hazardous substance from a facility, if the owner or operator establishes and maintains evidence of financial responsibility in accordance with this Act. Authorizes the President and the Administrator to delegate any powers or duties and to promulgate regulations to carry out cleanup, liability, and funding provisions of this Act. Adds provisions for medical and relocation expenses and other recovery to the Act. Sets forth definitions applicable to such provisions. Title II: Establishment and Uses of Hazardous Substance Trust Fund - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act (""the Act"") to establish the Hazardous Substance Trust Fund (""the Fund"") in the Treasury. Transfers to the Fund amounts determined by the Secretary of the Treasury (""the Secretary"") to be equivalent to: (1) the fees imposed under title III of this Act; (2) amounts recovered on behalf of the Fund under specified provisions of this Act; (3) civil penalties assessed under specified provisions of this Act; and (4) punitive damages under specified provisions of this Act. Authorizes appropriations in a specified amount for the Fund for FY 1986 through 1988. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year thereafter in an amount equal to not more than 12.5 percent of the amount deposited in the Fund during the second preceding fiscal year which is derived from the fees imposed under title III of this Act. Limits the liability of the U.S. Government to the amount in the Fund. Sets forth provisions for the Secretary's administration of the Fund, relating to method of transfer, management (including an annual report to Congress and investment requirements), and authority to borrow (including limitations on advances and repayment requirements). Sets forth the uses of the Fund. Directs the Administrator to use the money in the Fund for payment of: (1) governmental response costs incurred pursuant to response provisions of this Act; (2) any claim for necessary response costs incurred by any other person as a result of carrying out the revised National Contingency Plan, if such costs are approved in advance of expenditure under that plan and certified by the responsible Federal official; (3) any claim authorized by provisions relating to natural resources damages and finally decided under settlement provisions, including interest, administrative and adjudicative costs, and attorney's fees; (4) medical and relocation expenses; and (5) other specified costs. Directs the Administrator to cooperate with State and local governments in their undertaking of response actions under this Act. Requires that any administrative costs or expenses paid out of the Fund be reasonably necessary and incidental to the implementation of this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to claims for damages to natural resources. Allows claims resulting from a release or threat of release of a hazardous substance from a facility to be asserted against the Fund for injury to, or destruction or loss of, natural resources. Provides that such claims may be asserted only by: (1) the President, as trustee, for natural resources over which the United States has sovereign rights or within U.S. territory to the extent they are managed and protected by the United States; or (2) any State for natural resources within its boundaries belonging to, managed by, controlled by, or appertaining to such State. Provides that the Fund may be used for other specified ""included costs"" of: (1) natural resources damages assessment; (2) Federal or State efforts to restore, rehabilitate, replace, or acquire the equivalent of the natural resources damaged; (3) a program to identify, investigate, and take enforcement and abatement action against releases of hazardous substances (subject to amounts provided in appropriation Acts); (4) epidemiologic studies, a registry of and long-term health effect studies on persons exposed to hazardous substances, and otherwise unavailable diagnostic services to determine whether persons in populations exposed to hazardous substances in connection with a release or suspected release are suffering from long- latency diseases; (5) providing supplementary equipment and similar overhead and damage assessment capability for any Federal agency involved in strike forces, emergency task forces, or other response teams under the National Contingency Plan (subject to amounts provided in appropriations Acts); (6) a program to protect the health and safety of employees involved in response to hazardous substances releases (subject to amounts provided in appropriations Acts); (7) preparation of toxic profiles by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; (8) evaluation of sites by the Administrator pursuant to citizen petitions; and (9) emergency relief and health effects studies carried out by the Administrator. Provides that the health and safety program for employees involved in response actions shall: (1) be developed jointly by the EPA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; and (2) include measures for identifying and assessing hazards to which persons engaged in the removal or remedy of, or other response to hazardous substances may be exposed, methods to protect workers from such hazards, and necessary regulatory and enforcement measures to assure adequate protection of such employees. Prohibits the use of money in the Fund for: (1) assessment or restoration costs or claim payments where the damage to natural resources and the release occurred wholly before the enactment of this Act; or (2) claim payments for natural resources damages where such expenses are associated with injury or loss resulting from long-term exposure to ambient concentrations of air pollutants from multiple or diffuse sources. Provides that claims against or presented to the Fund shall: (1) not be valid or paid in excess of the total money in the fund at any one time; and (2) become valid only when additional money is collected, appropriated, or otherwise added to the Fund. Directs the Administrator, should the total claims outstanding at any time exceed the current balance of the Fund, to pay such claims, to the extent authorized, in full in the order in which they were finally determined. Limits the portion of money credited to the Fund that shall be available in any fiscal year: (1) to six percent for payment of any claims and related costs for natural resources damages; and (2) to 12 percent for payment of medical and relocation expenses. Provides that no money in the Fund shall be available for remedial actions, other than actions specified under provisions for ""included costs"" under uses of the Fund, with respect to federally owned facilities. Provides that the following uses of the Fund shall, in the aggregate, be subject to such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts: (1) payment of governmental response costs; and (2) payment of the specified ""included costs."" Authorizes the Administrator to delegate authority to obligate money in the Fund or to settle claims to officials of a State operating under a specified contract or cooperative agreement. Directs the Administrator to promulgate appropriate regulations for the notice to be provided to potential injured parties by an owner or operator of any facility from which a hazardous substance has been released. Requires such owners and operators to: (1) provide notice in accordance with such regulations; and (2) until such regulations are promulgated, provide reasonable notice to potential injured parties by publication in local newspapers serving the affected area. Requires that natural resources damages be assessed for purposes of this Act by Federal officials designated by the President under the National Contingency Plan and acting for the President as trustee. Provides that any such determination or assessment of natural resources damages shall have the force and effect of a rebuttable presumption on behalf of any claimant in any judicial or adjudicatory administrative proceeding under this Act. Requires that a plan for the use of funds under this Act for natural resources restoration be developed and adopted by affected Federal agencies and Governors of States sustaining damages to natural resources belonging to, managed by, or appertaining to such States, after adequate public notice and opportunity for a hearing and consideration of all public comment. Requires that such plan be developed and adopted before such funds may be used for such purposes, except in a situation requiring action to avoid an irreversible loss of natural resources or to prevent or reduce any continuing danger to natural resources or to meet a similar need for emergency action. Sets forth provisions for audits by the Inspector General of the EPA. Sets forth provisions relating to foreign claimants. Prohibits any potentially liable claimant from seeking judicial review of any determination to incur any government response costs under response provisions of this Act or to utilize the Fund for payment of any such costs, except in an action to recover such costs under liability provisions of this Act. Directs the President, acting through Federal officials designated by the revised National Contingency Plan, to promulgate regulations for assessment of natural resources damages within six months after enactment of this Act. Sets forth required contents of such regulations. Requires review, and appropriate revision, of such regulations every two years. Provides that, effective on the date of enactment of this Act, specified CERCLA provisions shall be superseded by this Act. Adds provisions regarding medical and relocation expenses to the Solid Waste Disposal Act (""the Act""). Allows individuals who allege that they sustained injury for which relief is payable under this Act to file an application for such relief with the Administrator. Directs the Administrator, within 45 days after the enactment of this Act, to issue a rule or order for the manner of filing such applications. Directs the Administrator to pay relief under this Act if individuals establish by a preponderance of the evidence that they have suffered physical injuries or illnesses caused by exposure to a hazardous substance: (1) from a facility or site at or from which such substance was stored, treated, recycled, disposed of, or migrated; or (2) during transportation to such a facility or site. Directs the Administrator to pay relief under this Act to dependents of any deceased individual who establish to the satisfaction of the Administrator that the death was caused by any such exposure. Provides that such relief to any individual who has suffered such physical injury or illness shall consist of: (1) payment or reimbursement for all medical costs incurred in connection with the physical injury, illness, or death; (2) a monthly payment (not to exceed $2,000 per month) in an amount equal to the injured, ill, or deceased individual's monthly earnings which are lost by reason of such injury, illness, or death during the five-year period following such injury, illness, or death; and (3) reimbursement for expenses incurred in obtaining alternative water supplies or relocating a residence where the individual's exposure (or potential exposure) to hazardous substances caused or significantly contributed to such expenses. Provides that relief to dependents of any such individual shall be equal to all such medical costs incurred, plus the reasonable expenses of burial. Directs the Administrator to promulgate rules for equitable allocation of such relief where there are two or more dependents. Directs the Administrator to compute the amount of relief and determine the method, terms, and time of payment. Requires that payments made pursuant to such provisions for medical and relocation expenses be charged against the Fund. Provides that such claims against the Fund which are in excess of the total money in the Fund shall become valid and be paid in the same manner as provided for other claims against the Fund. Limits to 12 percent that portion of the Fund which may be used for purposes of such payments for medical and relocation expenses. Sets forth the procedure for determination of such claims for medical and relocation expenses. Directs the Administrator, except as otherwise provided, to use the procedures used by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in determining entitlement to disability insurance benefit payments under the Social Security Act. Directs the Administrator and the Secretary of HHS to arrange to use Social Security Administration personnel and offices for administration and determination of claims filed for medical and relocation expenses under this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to delegate to the Secretary of HHS, or to any HHS employee, any function vested in the Administrator under provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act. Provides that the injury, illness, or death shall be presumed to have been caused by the exposure if the applicant provides information sufficient to enable the Administrator to find that: (1) the individual suffered any physical injury, illness, or death; (2) the individual was exposed in any manner to a hazardous substance from a facility or site at or from which such substance was treated, recycled, stored, disposed, or migrated, or during transportation to such site;(3) exposure in such manner to such hazardous substance has a reasonable likelihood of causing or significantly contributing to death or to a personal injury or illness of the type suffered by the individual. Provides that such presumption shall be overcome if the Administrator determines, on the basis of any available information, that it is reasonably certain that such exposure did not cause, or significantly contribute to, the individual's injury, illness, or death. Provides that any information which tends to establish that exposure to the hazardous substance in question causes or contributes to death or to personal injury or illness of the type or class allegedly suffered by an individual, shall be considered relevant to the issues of causation for purposes of determination of such claims for medical and relocation expenses under this Act. Includes among such relevant information: (1) an increase in the incident of injury, illness, or death in the exposed population above that which is otherwise probable; (2) epidemiological studies (without regard to the size of the sample); (3) animal studies; (4) tissue culture studies; (5) micro-organism culture studies; (6) laboratory and toxilogic studies; (7) immunological studies; (8) toxicology profiles prepared under this Act; and (9) health effects studies prepared under this Act. Directs the Administrator to require medical tests or examinations of the applicant to confirm the diagnosis or determination of physical injury or illness. Authorizes the Administrator to investigate and gather other appropriate information in making such claim determinations. Directs the Administrator, upon request by the claimant, to conduct a hearing with respect to any claim which has been denied, in whole or in part. Requires that the involved owner, operator, or transporter be given notice of any proceeding under provisions for claims for medical or relocation expenses, but declares that such persons have no right to participate in such proceedings. Provides for the award of legal costs for such hearings to claimants who prevail. Sets forth subrogation provisions. Provides for deposit in the Fund of any amount so recovered. Sets forth provisions for the judicial review of such claim determinations in U.S. district courts. Provides that a determination of the Administrator shall constitute a final administrative determination for the purpose of such judicial review. Sets forth provisions for additional recovery. Provides that individuals who have recovered any amount under such provisions for medical or relocation expenses shall not be prohibited from recovering an additional amount under this Act at a subsequent time if such individuals establish that an additional physical injury or illness: (1) was caused by such exposure; and (2) was not known to the individual at the time of the prior application. Title III: Funding - Part 1: Fee on Petroleum - Imposes a fee of four and one-half cents a barrel on: (1) crude oil received at a U.S. refinery (to be paid by the operator of the U.S. refinery); and (2) petroleum products entering the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing (to be paid by the person entering the product for such purposes). Imposes such fee (to be paid by the user or exporter) on any domestic crude oil if: (1) it is used in or exported from the United States; and (2) such fee was not imposed before such use or exemption. Provides that such fee shall not apply to any use of domestic crude oil for extracting oil or natural gas on the premises where such crude oil was produced. Sets forth definitions and special rules. Provides that only one fee may be imposed under this part with respect to any petroleum product. Makes such fee effective on October 1, 1985. Part 2: Fee on Certain Chemicals and Metals - Imposes a fee on any assessed chemicals sold (or used) by the manufacturer, producer, or importer thereof. Sets forth a table of assessed chemicals, with a specified fee per ton for each. Sets forth definitions, exceptions, and other special rules. Provides for a refund or credit for certain uses. Makes such fee effective on October 1,1985. Part 3: Waste End Fee - Imposes a fee on the disposal of hazardous substances. Provides that such fee shall apply only to a disposal which is: (1) required to be carried out in compliance with hazardous waste management provisions of the Act; and (2) not specifically exempt under this part. Exempts from such fee the disposal of any substance: (1) by incineration in accordance with the standards applicable to incineration facilities permitted under hazardous waste management provisions of the Act; or (2) by any person in the course of carrying out any removal or remedial actions under this Act. Sets the amount of such fee in the case of: (1) any hazardous substance for which there is in effect under this Act a reportable quantity of one pound or less, at $15 for each metric ton disposed of by underground injection and $30 for each metric ton not disposed of by such method; and (2) all hazardous substances for which there is in effect under this Act a reportable quantity of more than one pound, at $5 for each metric ton disposed of by underground injection and $10 for each metric ton not disposed of by such method. Provides that, in the cases of mixtures of hazardous substances with reportable quantities of one pound or less and those with reportable quantities more than one pound, the entire mixture shall be deemed to have a reportable quantity of one pound or less. Provides for imposing a fraction of the fee in the case of a fraction of a metric ton. Requires the owner or operator of the facility to pay such fee with respect to the disposal of any hazardous substance at a facility for which a permit is in effect under the hazardous waste management provisions of the Act. Requires the person disposing of the hazardous substance to pay such fee with respect to any other disposal of any hazardous substance. Requires, in the case of a fee imposed with respect to the long-term storage of any hazardous substance, that such fee be paid by the owner or operator of the site or facility at which the substance is located on the date one year after the date of generation of such substance. Sets forth provisions concerning the time of fee payment and regulations to carry out this part. Provides that the fee imposed under this part shall apply only with respect to the disposal of hazardous substances after January 1, 1987, and that no period of storage before such date shall be taken into account for purposes of imposition of such fee with respect to long-term storage of hazardous wastes. Provides that, after such date, the fee with respect to long-term storage of a hazardous waste shall: (1) cease to apply on the effective date of a removal of such waste from the list under hazardous waste management provisions of the Act; or (2) take effect after the effective date of a listing or identification of such waste under such provisions. Part 4: Administration and Enforcement; Suspension - Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations for the collection of fees under this title, including reporting and information-gathering regulations. Authorizes the Administrator to use authorities relating to the inspection of records and access under hazardous waste management provisions of the Act for purposes of carrying out this title. Sets forth criminal and civil penalties for specified violations of this title. Requires the suspension of fees imposed under this title during any fiscal year which commences after September 30, 1991, if the Administrator determines (on or before the first day of such fiscal year) that the unobligated balance in the Fund exceeds $3,000,000,000. Provides that such suspension shall continue until the expiration of the fiscal year concerned. Title IV: Citizen Suits and Liability of Certain Persons - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act (""the Act"") to revise provisions for citizen suits. Adds provisions for citizen suits against any person, including the United States and any other governmental instrumentality or agency, to the extent permitted by the eleventh amendment of the Constitution, and including any past or present generator, transporter, or owner or operator of a treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal facility who has contributed or is contributing to the past or present handling, storage, treatment, transportation, or disposal of any solid or hazardous waste which may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to health or the environment. Grants the district jurisdiction to immediately restrain any person contributing to such endangerment, to order such person to take other necessary action, and to apply any appropriate civil penalties relating to hazardous waste management violations. Provides that citizen suits for such purposes may not be commenced: (1) if the Administrator has commenced, and is diligently prosecuting, an action under imminent hazard provisions of the Act, or if the State has brought an action under specified provisions of the Act, to immediately restrain any person contributing to such endangerment; or (2) by any person (other than a State or local government) with respect to the siting of a hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility. Adds provisions to the Act relating to the liability of certain persons for specified damages. Makes the following persons liable for specified damages to individuals (or their dependents) caused by the exposure of such individuals to a hazardous substance: (1) in cases of exposure to such substance from a facility or site at which treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal took place, the owner or operator of such facility or site at the time of such treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal, and any subsequent owner or operator of such facility or site; (2) in cases of exposure to such substance during storage of such substance pending transport for storage or treatment, any person who arranged for treatment, storage, recycling, or disposal, or who arranged for transport for such purposes; and (3) in cases of exposure during the transportation to, or treatment, storage, or disposal at, a disposal or treatment facility or site, any person who accepts or accepted such substance for transport to a treatment, recycling, storage, or disposal facility selected by such person. Provides that such liability shall be: (1) strict liability, with specified exceptions; (2) joint and several; and (3) construed to be the standard of liability which obtains under specified provisions of CERCLA and of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Excuses from such liability any defendant who can establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the exposure to a hazardous substance or the damage resulting from such exposure was caused solely by: (1) an act of God; or (2) an act of war. Makes the following damages compensable under such liability provisions: (1) any medical expenses, rehabilitation costs, or burial expenses due to personal injury, illness, or death; (2) any loss of income or profits or any impairment or loss of earning capacity due to personal injury, illness, or death; (3) any pain and suffering which results from personal injury, illness, or death; and (4) any economic loss and any damages to property, including diminution in value. Sets forth procedural provisions relating to such liability. Provides that no evidence may be introduced in an action under such liability provisions of this Act with respect to the results of any proceeding brought by the plaintiff under specified medical and relocation expenses provisions of this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to a presumption of cause of damages. Sets forth provisions for jurisdiction of U.S. district courts over actions under such liability provisions. Authorizes the court to award appropriate legal fees. Provides that nothing in such liability provisions or in provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act shall be construed to preempt, or otherwise affect, any provision of State law regarding liability for damages in connection with any hazardous substance. Sets forth a statute of limitations relating to such liability provisions and to provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act. Sets such limitation at three years after: (1) the date the physical injury or illness was first known (or reasonably should have been known) by the applicant or plaintiff to exist, or the date of the individual's death; (2) the date the applicant or plaintiff knew (or reasonably should have known) that the physical injury, illness, or death or other expense was caused or contributed to by exposure to such hazardous substance; or (3) the date of enactment of this Act. Sets forth exceptions to such limitation in the case of minors or incompetents. Sets forth provisions for collateral recovery relating to such liability provisions and to provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act. Provides for recovery from other sources and for liens. Prohibits recovery under such liability provisions and under provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act of any amount for injury, illness, or death for which compensation is available under a State workers' compensation law. Sets forth criminal penalties for false statements in any application or proceeding under provisions for medical and relocation expenses under this Act. Title V: Law Enforcement Authority - Grants specified law enforcement authority to EPA officers or employees authorized by the Administrator to investigate, or supervise the investigation of, any activity for which a criminal penalty is provided under the Solid Waste Disposal Act (""the Act"") or under this Act. Directs the Administrator to request the Attorney General to appear and represent the United States in any civil or criminal action instituted under this Act to which the Administrator is a party. Requires EPA attorneys to appear and represent the United States in a civil action, unless the Attorney General notifies the Administrator within a reasonable time that the Attorney General will appear and represent the United States in such action.",2025-08-29T17:39:07Z, 98-hr-4829,98,hr,4829,Ocean Dumping Amendments Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-02-09,1984-10-02,Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,House,"Rep. D'Amours, Norman E. [D-NH-1]",NH,D,D000017,6,"(Measure passed House, amended) Ocean Dumping Amendments Act of 1984 - Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to include ""wetlands"" among the factors considered in assessing the effect of ocean dumping. Prohibits after December 31, 1986, the issuance of any permit for the dumping of municipal sludge unless: (1) the applicant is in compliance with all the requirements of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act pertaining to pretreatment standards for the introduction of pollutants into treatment works; and (2) there is not available any land-based alternative to the ocean disposal of the sludge. Makes mandatory the authority (currently, discretionary authority) of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Administrator) to designate recommended dumpsites. Sets forth explicit factors to be considered when designating dumping sites. Requires periodic monitoring of the effects of dumping of materials at or adjacent to each site. Requires the Administrator when a site is found unsuitable for continued dumping to: (1) limit dumping at the site; or (2) suspend or terminate such site's designation. Requires an analysis of a site for suitability for dumping to include consideration of: (1) type and quantity of waste pollutants projected to be deposited in, and adjacent to, the site from dumping and other sources; (2) ability of the waters at the site to disperse, detoxify, or neutralize the materials; (3) importance of the site to the surrounding biological community; and (4) immediate and cumulative effects on human health and on the ecosytem within the site. Grants to the Administrator or the Secretary of the Army (Secretary), as the case may be, authority to impose on permittees any special provisions deemed necessary to minimize the harm from dumping. Makes it mandatory for the Administrator or the Secretary, as the case may be, to collect ocean dumping permit processing fees. Requires an additional special fee to be collected from applicants of ocean dumping permits to recoup the cost of undertaking activities directly associated with permits. Directs the Administrator and the Secretary to establish quality assurance programs to ensure the validity, accuracy, and efficiency of information submitted with permit applications. Requires the Administrator and the Secretary to adhere to the requirements of the London Dumping Convention that are binding upon the United States (to the extent consistent with the requirements of this Act). Sets forth transitional provisions, including ""grandfathering"" (with certain exceptions) specific dumping sites from the amendments under this Act. Revises the definition of ""ocean waters"" to include ""subjacent areas"". Establishes criminal penalties for the knowing falsification of information or tampering with testing devices required by this Act. Grants jurisdiction to U.S. district courts to issue writs of mandamus to compel the Administrator to designate dumping sites. Directs the Administrator to establish a schedule for expeditiously completing the study and designation or denial of designation of certain sites used for dumping under interim designations or court order. Requires such schedule to be submitted to the Congress no later than 180 days after enactment of this Act. Requires separate annual reports to the Congress by the Administrator and the Secretary on the administration of the Ocean Dumping Act. Sets forth the Congressional finding that the New York Bight Apex is no longer suitable for municipal sludge dumping. Requires applicants seeking permits to dump municipal sludge within the Apex to be eligible authorities. Prohibits the Administrator from issuing or renewing permits for the dumping of municipal sludge within the Apex either after 18 months from the date of enactment of this Act or after the first day the Administrator determines sludge can reasonably be dumped at a designated site outside the Apex, whichever date occurs first. Directs the Administrator to develop a New York Bight Apex Restoration Plan for improving the overall water quality and marine resources of the Apex. Requires the Administrator to hold public hearings to obtain comments from interested parties. Requires a report to be submitted to Congress within three years. Sets forth various activities which must be covered by the plan. Directs the Administrator to submit to Congress within six months a schedule for completing the plan and an estimate of the cost for developing and, where possible, implementing the plan. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress within one year on the economic and technical feasibility of establishing and implementing quality standards for the disposal of municipal sludge through ocean or land-based methods. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 to the Environmental Protection Agency for purposes of preparing the New York Bight Apex Restoration Plan. Authorizes appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency for FY 1986 through 1991 for projects to improve the water quality of the Hudson-Raritan Estuary and the New York Bight. Authorizes the Administrator to use such appropriations to reimburse eligible authorities, up to 100 percent in FY 1986 and up to 50 percent in FY 1987, for the excess costs of transporting for dumping its municiple sludge at a site other than the Apex. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 for the purposes and administration of ocean dumping. Prohibits the ocean dumping of all harmful municipal sludge after 18 months of the date of enactment of this Act. Defines ""harmful municipal sludge"" as municipal sludge which fails to meet Environmental Protection Agency's environmental impact criteria.",2025-04-07T14:20:37Z, 98-s-2291,98,s,2291,Superfund Improvement Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-02-09,1984-02-09,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Humphrey, Gordon J. [R-NH]",NH,R,H000951,0,"Superfund Improvement Act of 1984 - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) (""Superfund"") to allow immediate access to the full amount which will be available in the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund by removing: (1) a requirement that uses of the Fund be subject to such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts; (2) a provision that limits aggregate advances to the Fund to the amount estimated for the Fund for the following 12-month period; and (3) provisions relating to advances for payment of response and other costs. Limits the State share of remedial costs for cleanup of facilities owned by State or local governments to no more than 50 percent of the total amount (or such lesser amount as the President may determine appropriate). Authorizes the use of the Fund to cover the costs of specified health surveys. Requires that at least five percent of the total amount expended from the Fund in any fiscal year be used to carry out epidemiologic studies and health surveys, development and maintenance of a registry of persons exposed to hazardous substances to allow long-term health effect studies, and diagnostic services not otherwise available to determine whether persons in populations exposed to hazardous substances in connection with a release or suspected release are suffering from long-latency diseases. Includes among the activities qualifying for such five percent expenditure any of the above mentioned activities related to hazardous waste stored, treated, or disposed of at a facility having a hazardous waste management permit under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Requires that such activities be carried out by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) either directly or through grants to State or local governments. Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to revise provisions relating to hazardous waste site inventories. Authorizes an additional $10,000,000 for FY 1985 to be used for conducting health surveys with respect to hazardous waste sites identified and eligible to be identified in such inventories and hazardous waste disposal facilities having a hazardous waste management permit. Requires that such health surveys be carried out by ATSDR either directly or through grants to State or local governments. Directs the State or local government to report the results of the survey to the Administrator of ATSDR, including recommendations with respect to further activities which need to be carried out under CERCLA provisions for epidemiologic studies, health surveys, registry of exposed persons, and diagnostic services. Directs the Administrator to: (1) include such recommendations in a report of any survey carried out directly by ATSDR; and (2) issue a final report which includes the results of all the surveys. Defines ""health surveys,"" for purposes of this Act's amendments to the Solid Waste Disposal Act and to CERCLA, to include preliminary assessments of the potential risk to human health posed by individual hazardous waste sites and facilities, based on specified factors. Provides that a purpose of such preliminary assessments shall be to help determine whether full-scale health or epidemiological studies and medical evaluations of exposed populations shall be undertaken. Provides that such amendments relating to health surveys shall be effective with respect to FY 1985 and thereafter.",2025-08-29T17:40:54Z, 98-hr-4771,98,hr,4771,"A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to the city of San Diego, California, for construction of a publicly owned treatment works in the city of San Diego which will provide advanced primary treatment of municipal sewage and industrial wastes for the cities of San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico.",Environmental Protection,1984-02-07,1984-05-01,For Further Action See H.R.3282.,House,"Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-45]",CA,R,H000981,1,"Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to the city of San Diego, California, for construction of a publicly-owned sewage treatment works to treat sewage for such city and the city of Tijuana, Mexico. Directs the Administrator to make such grants in two stages, with each stage providing construction funds for treatment works to treat specified amounts of municipal sewage and industrial waste per day. Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-4760,98,hr,4760,"A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to establish certain requirements with respect to hazardous substances released from Federal facilities, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1984-02-06,1984-10-03,See H.R.2867.,House,"Rep. Moody, Jim [D-WI-5]",WI,D,M000881,66,"Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) (""Superfund"") to establish certain requirements with respect to hazardous substances released from Federal facilities. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to enter into specified interagency agreements with any Federal agency. Directs the Administrator, in addition to undertaking response action, to take action under CERCLA against any Federal agency in the same manner and to the same extent as against a nongovernmental entity, unless such an interagency agreement is reached within specified time periods. Sets forth procedures for interagency agreements and emergency actions applicable to Federal agencies under CERCLA. Directs the Administrator to establish a special Federal Agency Hazardous Waste Compliance Docket. Directs the Administrator to report annually to Congress on: (1) progress in reaching interagency agreements; (2) cost estimates and budgetary proposals involved; (3) public comments regarding each proposed agreement; and (4) instances in which no agreement has been reached, including an explanation of why no agreement was reached. Authorizes citizen lawsuits under CERCLA against: (1) any person (including the United States and any other governmental instrumentality or agency, to the extent permitted by the eleventh amendment to the Constitution) who is alleged to be in violation of any requirement which has become effective pursuant to CERCLA; or (2) the Administrator where there is an alleged failure to perform any non-discretionary act or duty under CERCLA. Sets forth requirements relating to such citizen lawsuits, which are to be brought in the appropriate U.S. district court. Directs the President, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to publish a schedule for including on the national priority list under CERCLA any federally owned or operated facilities which present a risk or danger to public health or welfare or the environment. Provides that such facilities shall be included on such list in the same manner and subject to the same criteria as facilities which are owned or operated by other persons.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-4761,98,hr,4761,Leaking Underground Storage Tank Liability and Standards Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-02-06,1984-11-08,For Further Action See H.R.2867.,House,"Rep. Ritter, Don [R-PA-15]",PA,R,R000277,3,"Leaking Underground Storage Tank Liability and Standards Act of 1984 - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) (""Superfund"") to include under the definition of ""hazardous substance"" (for purposes of CERCLA coverage for removal, remedial action, and liability) gasoline and other liquid hydrocarbons which are stored in an underground storage tank from which there is a release or threatened release. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations establishing performance standards applicable to owners and operators of underground storage tanks used for the storage of hazardous substances, including gasoline or other liquid hydrocarbons, in order to prevent releases into the environment for the operational life of the tank. Provides that such regulations shall apply only to underground storage tanks located on property used primarily for commercial or governmental purposes. Directs the Administrator to distinguish in such standards between requirements for new tanks and those for tanks already in existence. Sets forth requirements which must be included in such standards. Authorizes the Administrator to implement such standards through: (1) the promulgation of regulations made effective in accordance with specified hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act; or (2) the establishment of a program under which any person or category of persons may be required to have a permit to store any hazardous substance in such an underground storage tank. Provides that specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act shall apply to the program and requirements established under this Act in the same manner as such provisions apply to the hazardous waste regulatory program under such Act. Provides that the failure or refusal of an owner or operator of any underground storage tank to provide to a supplier of any hazardous substance appropriate evidence of compliance with standards established under this Act shall constitute a defense to any enforcement action brought under any other authority of law to require such supplier to deliver any such substance to such tank. Sets forth criminal penalties for knowing material violations or omissions with respect to requirements established by the Administrator under this Act, if such violation or omission results in a release or threatened release of any hazardous substance from an underground storage tank. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 to carry out this Act. Provides that up to 50 percent of such appropriations in any such fiscal year may be used to make grants to States for development and implementation of State programs to carry out this Act. Directs the Administrator, within one year after the enactment of this Act, to conduct a study regarding underground storage tanks which are located on residential property and used for the storage of hazardous substances, including gasoline or other liquid hydrocarbons. Requires that such study include estimates of the number and location of such tanks and an analysis of the extent to which there may be releases or threatened releases from such tanks into the environment. Directs the Administrator to report to the President and Congress on the results of such study, with recommendations on whether such tanks on residential property should be subject to requirements under this Act.",2025-08-29T17:39:38Z, 98-s-2215,98,s,2215,Acid Deposition Control and Cost Sharing Act of 1984,Environmental Protection,1984-01-26,1984-01-26,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Glenn, John H., Jr. [D-OH]",OH,D,G000236,0,"Acid Deposition Control and Cost Sharing Act of 1984 - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish an acid deposition control and cost sharing program. Defines an ""acid deposition impact region"" as the 31 States east of or bordering on the Mississippi River, and the District of Columbia. Defines ""existing major emitting electric powerplant"" as any fossil fuel-fired steam electric power plant consisting of one or more steam generating units which: (1) is a major emitting facility; and (2) had been in commercial operation on or before December 31, 1980. Provides that steam generating units not in commercial operation on or before December 31, 1980, shall not be considered part of an existing major emitting electric powerplant. Defines ""innovative emission limitation system"" as a technological system of continuous emission reduction which has not been adequately demonstrated on a commercial scale and which, compared with any system which has been adequately demonstrated, has a substantial likelihood of achieving: (1) either greater continuous emission reduction of sulfur dioxide or greater simultaneous reduction of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions; and (2) reduction of sulfur dioxide emissions at a lower cost in terms of energy, economic, or nonair quality environmental impact. (Gives limestone injection multistage burners (""LIMB"") as an example of an innovative emission limitation system.) Requires that, by January 1, 1996, the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions from existing major emitting powerplants in the acid deposition impact region not exceed a level 8,000,000 tons less than the actual level of such emissions from such powerplants in 1980. Prohibits any existing major emitting electric powerplant in the acid deposition impact region from increasing its annual emissions of sulfur dioxide (measured in tons per year) above the actual annual rate of emissions experienced by the plant during 1978, 1979, or 1980, unless: (1) there has been identified for such plant an enforceable, contemporaneous, and equivalent reduction in actual emissions not otherwise required under the Act at one or more points within the same State or (with the permission of the Governors of such States) within other States within the region; (2) the increase is authorized in an approved plan under this Act; or (3) the increase is due to a conversion completed pursuant to the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974, the Fuel Use Act of 1978, or the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, to the extent that such conversion does not result in emissions exceeding one and one-half pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btus of heat input on an annual average. Makes violations of such prohibition violations of applicable implementation plans and emission limitations under specified provisions of the Act. Provides that no expenditure of funds on an existing major emitting electric powerplant in order to satisfy an emission limitation under this Act shall be deemed a reconstruction of that plant (or any part thereof) for any purpose under the Act. Requires each State in the acid deposition impact region to achieve its share of the reduction in annual sulfur dioxide emissions required for the entire region. Bases such share on the actual 1980 sulfur dioxide emissions which are in excess of one and one-half pounds per million Btus from existing major emitting electric powerplants within such State. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, after consultation with the Governors of the States in the region, to publish within six months after enactment of this Act a list identifying such powerplants and 1980 emissions and specifying the sulfur dioxide emissions reductions which each State must achieve. Authorizes the Governors of any two or more States in the region to reallot among agreeing States such required reductions, provided that the total reductions equal the required total. Prohibits court review of any such list or agreement. Requires each State in the region, within three years after enactment of this Act, to submit a plan to achieve its required share of the reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions. Directs the Administrator to approve, within 12 months after its submission, any such plan or plan modification if, taking into consideration the comments of Governors of other States in the region, the Administrator finds that the plan or plan modification: (1) contains compliance schedules and authorized emission reduction methods or programs; (2) contains adequate monitoring requirements; and (3) is adequate to achieve the required total reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions for such State as expeditiously as practicable, but no later than January 1, 1996. Makes each emission limitation, compliance schedule, or other measure approved under this Act a requirement of an applicable implementation plan and an emission limitation for purposes of specified provisions of the Act. Provides that, if a State plan which fully satisfies the requirements of this Act has not been approved by January 1, 1989, an annual average emission limitation of one and one-half pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btus shall apply to each existing major emitting electric powerplant within such State in the region. Requires the owner or operator of each such powerplant within such State to submit to the Administrator, by July 1, 1989, a plan for achieving such emission limitation. Directs the Administrator to approve such plan or plan modification within 12 months if it meets the same criteria and deadline as required for a State plan. Makes any measures approved under such plan a requirement of an applicable implementation plan and an emission limitation for purposes of specified provisions of the Act, and makes it a violation of such provisions for any owner or operator to fail to: (1) submit an approvable plan within the time prescribed; (2) comply with the plan; or (3) achieve the emission limitation as expeditiously as practicable but not later than January 1, 1996. Authorizes, for purposes of State plans under this Act, the use of any emission reduction methods or programs, if: (1) such methods or programs do not include the use of coal having a significantly lower sulfur content (as mined, disregarding reductions accomplished through precombustion cleaning) than the average sulfur content used by the powerplant during any six-month period in the five-year period ending December 31, 1983, with specified exceptions; (2) emissions limitations under such methods or programs are enforceable; and (3) emissions reductions occur within the State or within other agreeing States in the region. Provides that such authorized methods or programs may include: (1) any technological system of continuous emission reduction; (2) least emission dispatch to meet electric generating demand at existing generating capacity; (3) retirement of existing major emitting electric powerplants or portions thereof at an earlier date than provided in schedules on file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, or State utility regulatory agencies; (4) trading of emissions reduction requirements imposed under this Act and actual reductions not otherwise required under the Act; and (5) investments in energy conservation with which quantifiable reductions in emissions can be identified. Allows a State plan or plan modification to require emission reductions at sources other than existing major emitting electric powerplants, if such reductions are actual emission reductions not otherwise required under the Act. Requires, for purposes of powerplant owner or operator plans which are submitted when State plans have not been approved on time, that authorized reduction methods or programs: (1) meet all the requirements for those under State plans; (2) reduce emissions at sources owned or operated by the person submitting the plan (with specified exceptions); and (3) be limited to technological systems of continuous emission reduction, least emission dispatch to meet electric generating demand at existing generating capacity, early retirement of powerplants, and trading of emission reduction requirements and actual reductions (whether or not such requirements or reductions occur at sources owned or operated by the person submitting the plan). Directs States and the Administrator to establish emission reduction banks or brokerage institutions to facilitate trading in emissions reduction requirements imposed under this Act and actual reductions not otherwise required under the Act. Directs the Administrator, before October 1, 1989, to contract with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to study and report on: (1) the significant adverse effects on public health and welfare which may reasonably be associated with atmospheric deposition of acidic compounds; (2) areas of the country which are, or are exposed to a significant risk of, experiencing such effects; (3) whether and to what extent particular sources in particular areas can reasonably be associated with the atmospheric acidic compounds associated with such risks and effects; and (4) the availability of controls for such sources and the social and economic costs of controlling them so as to eliminate or significantly mitigate such risks and effects. Requires that the NAS report be submitted to the President and Congress before December 31, 1996. Directs the Administrator to submit to Congress, before June 1, 1997, draft legislation to require, if necessary, further emission control strategies that are consistent with the NAS report. Authorizes the Administrator to issue an innovative control order to an existing major emitting electric powerplant, after consultation with the Governor of the State where the plant is located, upon determination that: (1) the plant owner or operator will expeditiously use an innovative emission limitation system which is reasonably likely to be adequately demonstrated, upon expiration of the order, at one or more facilities; (2) such system is not likely to be used at the plant unless such order is granted; (3) the owner or operator has demonstrated that the proposed system will not cause or contribute to an unreasonable risk to public health, welfare or safety in its operation, function, or malfunction; and (4) the granting of such order will not make the total number of such orders with respect to such system exceed that which the Administrator finds appropriate to ascertain whether or not such system has been adequately demonstrated or will achieve an equivalent continuous reduction at lower cost in terms of energy, economic, or nonair quality environmental impact. Requires that such innovative control orders: (1) specify a final date of compliance with emission limitations under this Act, which shall not be later than January 1, 1996, with specified exceptions; and (2) set forth compliance schedules containing increments of progress which require such compliance as expeditiously as practicable. Requires a source, during the period covered by an innovative control order, to comply with interim requirements which the Administrator: (1) determines are reasonable and practicable; and (2) specifies in the order. Prohibits any enforcement action from being pursued based upon noncompliance with any emission limitations under this Act which is covered by the innovative control order during the period for which such order is in effect. Makes any compliance schedule or interim requirement imposed in an innovative control order a requirement of an applicable implementation plan and an emission limitation for purposes of specified provisions of the Act. Authorizes the Administrator to revoke, extend, or modify an innovative control order upon specified determinations. Authorizes the Administrator to issue a compliance coal order to an existing major emitting electric powerplant allowing that source to comply in whole or part with an emission limitation under this Act by using coal having a significantly lower sulfur content than coal used by the source during any six-month period in the five-year period ending December 31, 1983, upon determination that: (1) the plant is subject to an emission limitation under this Act; (2) the only feasible way of complying with such emission limitation which is authorized under this Act would involve the installation and use of a technological system of continuous emission reduction; and (3) the costs of installing and operating that system would be grossly disproportionate to any local or regional economic disruption or unemployment which would result from the use by that plant of such lower sulfur content coal. Prohibits the granting of any compliance coal order unless the annualized capital and operating costs of a technological system of continuous emission reduction, as determined by the Administrator, are at least 20 percent greater than the baseline model estimate (BME) of the annualized capital cost of a system as calculated in a specified manner. Directs the Administrator, within six months after the enactment of this Act, to develop a baseline model to estimate representative retrofit capital and operating costs of technological systems of continuous emission reduction, following specified procedures and taking specified factors into account. Provides that any reduction in the sulfur content of coal accomplished through precombustion cleaning be disregarded in determining for purposes of this Act the average sulfur content of coal used by a plant during any six-month period in the five-year period ending December 31, 1983. Directs the Administrator to consult with the Governor of the State in which the plant is located, and the Governors of the States where the coal used by that plant is mined, prior to issuing a compliance coal order. Requires that a compliance coal order have a five-year duration, and allows extensions for additional five-year periods. Authorizes the Administrator to revoke, extend, or modify a compliance coal order upon specified determinations. Makes a term or condition of a compliance coal order a requirement of an applicable implementation plan and an emission limitation under specified provisions of the Act. Establishes in the U.S. Treasury an Acid Deposition Control Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish the Fund within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides that the Fund shall continue in existence until all distributions have been made in accordance with this Act. Provides that any amount remaining in the Fund on January 1, 2006, shall be used to make additional payments which may be required on account of past underpayments. Provides that, after such additional payments have been made, and all repayments into the Fund required on account of past overpayments have been collected, any remaining amount in the Fund shall be distributed to the owners and operators of existing major emitting electric powerplants in proportion to the amount of fees they paid during the Fund's lifetime, but only if they pass on such refunded payment to their current customers in the form of a rebate or rate reduction. Directs the Secretary to: (1) be the Fund's trustee; (2) manage the Fund by investing in a specified manner any portion of the Fund not required to meet current obligations; (3) report annually to Congress on the financial condition of the Fund; and (4) make a final report, and accounting, to Congress at the termination of the Fund. Requires the payment into the Fund of acid deposition impact region user fees by owners and operators of existing major emitting electric powerplants located within the region. Requires such fee payment to begin January 1, 1985, and to continue until December 31, 1999. Sets the amount of the fee on the basis of electricity generated by such plant: (1) during 1985, at one mill per kilowatt-hour; (2) during 1986, at two mills per kilowatt-hour; and (3) during 1987 through 1999, at three mills per kilowatt-hour. Exempts from such fee payment determinations any unit of such a plant which: (1) operates a technological system of continuous emission reduction which was not installed to meet requirements under this Act; and (2) operates such emissions control equipment to remove 70 percent or more of potential combustion emission of sulfur dioxide. Directs the Administrator, within six months after enactment of this Act, and after consulting with the Secretary, to issue regulations governing the conditions under which payments will be made from the Fund. Directs the Administrator, beginning after January 1, 1992, and ending by December 31, 2005, to make annual payments from the Fund to owners or operators of existing major electric powerplants. Requires that such payments cover: (1) 90 percent of all annual capital costs, and 50 percent of all annual operating costs, of control technology which the Administrator determines to be necessary to comply with specified requirements of this Act; or (2) 90 percent of all such capital costs and 90 percent of all such annual operating costs as the Administrator determines to be necessary to comply with specified requirements of this Act if an innovative control technology is used. Limits payment of such costs to specified periods ending on or before December 31, 2005. Prohibits payments from the Fund to cover: (1) costs not essential to the construction, retrofit, and operation of the control equipment; (2) financing costs above the acceptable range of interest costs available to the utility; or (3) capacity or energy losses resulting from the retrofitting of an emission reduction system. Directs the Administrator to publish, within 18 months after the enactment of this Act, regulations specifying procedures for approving and making payments from the Fund to cover all applicable costs according to specified criteria. Authorizes the Administrator to delegate to a State, at its request and if it has an approved State plan, the authority to approve such payments, subject to the Administrator's approval. Prohibits any annual operating cost payment during any period in which the major existing electric powerplant is not in compliance with any applicable requirements under this Act. Provides that any operating costs incurred during any such period shall not be considered in determining whether overpayments or underpayments have been made. Prohibits any annual capital cost payment during any period in which the powerplant is not in compliance with any compliance schedule under this Act, unless such plant is making a good faith effort. Directs the Administrator, within 24 months after the enactment of this Act, and after consultation with the Secretary, to promulgate regulations governing the making of payments from the Fund and the collection of overpayments. Sets forth requirements relating to such regulations. Sets forth civil and criminal fines for specified failures to pay fees or repayments under this Act. Allows up to $50,000,000 per year from the Fund to be used for the development and demonstration of sulfur dioxide emission control technologies and for specified research authorized under the Energy Security Act of 1980. Provides that no payments from the Fund shall be considered as ""income"" for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code, or as ""rate relief"" for purposes of any State regulatory system. Provides that no capital or operating expenses which are compensated under this Act shall be used to reduce any tax obligation under the Internal Revenue Code. Directs the Administrator to make payments of up to $40,000,000 from the Fund to the NAS for services performed pursuant to the contracts for the study and report under this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to delegate to a State, at its request and if it has an approved State plan, the authority to approve payments required under provisions of this Act relating to the Fund.",2025-08-29T17:37:45Z, 98-hr-4655,98,hr,4655,Acid Deposition Reporting Act of 1983,Environmental Protection,1984-01-25,1984-01-27,"Referred to Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agricultural Research, and Environment.",House,"Rep. D'Amours, Norman E. [D-NH-1]",NH,D,D000017,0,"Acid Deposition Reporting Act of 1983 - Directs the National Weather Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Department of Commerce to issue periodic reports describing the acid content in both precipitation and dry deposition throughout the United States. Sets deadlines and priorities for such reports. Authorizes the Administrator of NOAA to reimburse other public or private entities for costs of data collection for such reports in areas where the NOAA does not presently collect such data. Directs the Administrator to report annually to the Congress on the implementation of this Act, within 90 days of the previous calendar year, beginning in 1985. Directs the Administrator to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1987 to carry out specified provisions of this Act.",2025-08-29T17:40:08Z, 98-hr-4585,98,hr,4585,"A bill to authorize appropriations for the Office of Environmental Quality and the Council on Environmental Quality for fiscal years 1985, 1986, and 1987.",Environmental Protection,1984-01-23,1984-10-30,Became Public Law No: 98-581.,House,"Rep. Breaux, John B. [D-LA-7]",LA,D,B000780,0,(House agreed to Senate amendment with amendments) Amends the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 to authorize appropriations for FY 1985 and 1986 for the Office of Environmental Quality and the Council on Environmental Quality. Establishes an Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund to receive advance payments from other agencies or accounts that may be used solely to finance: (1) study contracts that are jointly sponsored by the Office and one or more other Federal agencies; and (2) Federal interagency environmental projects (including task forces) in which the Office participates. Provides that any study contract or project that is to be so financed may be initiated only with the approval of the Director of the Office. Requires the Director to promulgate regulations setting forth policies and procedures for operation of the Fund. Revises the area authorized for acquisition for the establishment of the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana to include any additional lands and waters adjacent to the boundaries on the February 1980 map of such refuge which the Secretary of the Interior considers appropriate for inclusion.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-hconres-235,98,hconres,235,A concurrent resolution regarding the United States position on the subseabed emplacement of high-level radioactive materials.,Environmental Protection,1983-11-18,1984-02-16,Executive Comment Received From Justice.,House,"Rep. Hughes, William J. [D-NJ-2]",NJ,D,H000930,11,Declares that the London Dumping Convention: (1) is the appropriate vehicle for the regulation and control of subseabed emplacement of high-level radioactive materials; and (2) should continue to prohibit the subseabed emplacement of high-level radioactive wastes until scientific research demonstrates that such activity will not pose a threat to the marine environment.,2024-02-07T11:38:03Z, 98-hr-4483,98,hr,4483,Acid Deposition Control Act of 1983,Environmental Protection,1983-11-18,1983-11-18,Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.,House,"Rep. Aspin, Les [D-WI-1]",WI,D,A000224,0,"Acid Deposition Control Act of 1983 - Title I: Acid Deposition Assistance Program - Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to pay owners or operators of fossil fuel electric utility generating plants up to 90 percent of the construction and installation costs of a system for the control of emissions of sulfur dioxide. Directs the Administrator to pay to operators of any facility which uses coal as a fuel for any purpose 50 cents for each pound of sulfur which such operator certifies has been removed prior to the emission of the combustion products of such coal into the air. Imposes a civil penalty of $10,000 for any misrepresentation of any material fact in any certification. Establishes the Acid Deposition Control Fund to pay the costs of the emission control systems and sulfur removal. Requires that the tax revenues generated from the excise tax on coal containing sulfur be deposited in the Acid Deposition Control Fund. Appoints the Secretary of Treasury as the trustee of the Fund and requires the Secretary to report to Congress yearly on the financial conditions and the operations of the Fund. Title II: Acid Deposition Tax - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a 50 cents per pound excise tax for each pound of sulfur contained in coal to the extent the sulfur content of the coal exceeds ten pounds of sulfur per ton of coal.",2025-08-29T17:37:57Z, 98-hr-4491,98,hr,4491,A bill to establish a user fee system under the ocean dumping program.,Environmental Protection,1983-11-18,1984-03-01,Joint Hearings held by Subcommittee on Oceanography and by Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE-At Large]",DE,D,C000174,13,"Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to prescribe and collect an application fee for ocean dumping permits. Requires the Administrator to prescribe and collect a special fee for activities directly associated with the issuance of permits for ocean dumping, including: (1) site designations and program operations; (2) the undertaking of measures to determine compliance with permit terms; (3) the assessment of the effects of the dumping; and (4) surveillance and enforcement activities undertaken by the Coast Guard.",2021-06-29T21:06:37Z, 98-hr-4492,98,hr,4492,Sewage Sludge Dumping Amendments Act of 1983,Environmental Protection,1983-11-18,1984-03-01,Joint Hearings held by Subcommittee on Oceanography and by Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE-At Large]",DE,D,C000174,12,"Sewage Sludge Dumping Amendments of 1983 - Amends a specified Federal law which amended the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 (""the Act""). Revises provisions relating to the dumping of sewage sludge into ocean waters or other specified waters. Provides that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may not issue or renew any permit for such dumping: (1) after December 31, 1988; or (2) to any person other than a municipality that was authorized to dump sewage sludge into such waters under such Act, or under court order, as of January 1, 1983. Provides that sewage sludge shall be considered harmful, for purposes of such regulation of dumping, if it fails to meet the environmental impact criteria of EPA regulations issued under the Act, except that, for constituents under specified provisions of the London Dumping Convention, applicable trace contaminant limits that are binding on the United States must be defined numerically without regard to the rate of sludge discharge into the ocean. Sets a civil penalty for each act of unlawful dumping of sewage sludge at: (1) $10,000 for each act that occurs during 1989; and (2) $50,000 for each act that occurs after 1989.",2025-08-29T17:39:27Z, 98-hr-4501,98,hr,4501,A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide for the protection of aquifers which are the sole or principal source of drinking water for public water systems.,Environmental Protection,1983-11-18,1984-09-13,For Further Action See H.R.5959.,House,"Rep. Downey, Thomas J. [D-NY-2]",NY,D,D000471,8,"Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act (""the Act"") to provide for protection of aquifers which are the sole or principal source of drinking water for public water systems by establishing a program for protection of critical ground water recharge areas. Authorizes municipalities within a sole or principal source area to petition the Governor of the State to designate a part of such area as a ""special protection area."" Requires that the petition propose boundaries for the special protection area and make certain evaluations. Directs the Governor to approve or disapprove the petition, based on a consideration of specified criteria, within 180 days after receipt. Requires the Governor, upon approving the petition, to: (1) propose the boundaries of the special protection area; (2) designate or establish an entity to develop a comprehensive management plan; and (3) establish procedures for public participation in plan development, for plan review, approval, and adoption, and for assistance to municipalities and other public agencies for plan implementation. Directs the Governor to submit to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency approved petitions and summaries of actions taken with respect to petitions. Directs the Administrator, within 60 days after receipt, to approve or disapprove the petition on the basis of specified findings relating to the proposed boundaries and the planning entity's qualifications. Authorizes the Administrator, upon approving the petition, to make a 50 percent matching grant to the State for the costs of preparing the petition and developing the plan. Requires the plan to maintain the quality of the ground water recharged through the special protection area by maintenance, to the maximum extent possible, of the natural vegetative and hydrogeological conditions. Lists several requirements to be included in the plan. Directs the Governor to approve or disapprove the plan. Requires the Governor to submit an approved plan to the Administrator. Directs the Administrator, within 120 days after receipt, to approve the plan or to submit to the Governor the reasons for disapproving the plan. Allows the Governor to resubmit a plan. Authorizes the Administrator, upon approving the plan, to make a 50 percent matching grant to the State for the costs of implementing the plan. Prohibits such grant from exceeding $20,000,000. Authorizes appropriations: (1) for FY 1985 through 1987 for plan development; and (2) for FY 1986 through 1988 for matching grants for plan implementation. Allows a public water system which relies on a principal or sole source aquifer designated under specified provisions of the Act to bring an action in the appropriate U.S. district court against any person causing or contributing to the presence of any contaminant in such aquifer if such system is required to: (1) treat drinking water derived from the aquifer in order to comply with national drinking water regulations under the Act; or (2) obtain alternative water supplies. Authorizes the court to issue an order requiring such person to: (1) abate such contamination; and/or (2) reimburse all or part of the costs of compliance with national drinking water regulations and/or the costs of obtaining alternative drinking water supplies. Authorizes the court to award litigation costs to the prevailing party. Authorizes the Administrator (or any State with primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems under the Act) to issue an order requiring a person to provide adequate supplies of potable drinking water to the persons served by a public water system, if the Administrator (or such State) finds that: (1) such person has caused or contributed to the presence of any contaminant in any designated sole or principal source aquifer which supplies, or can reasonably be expected to supply, such public water system; and (2) the presence of such contaminant in such water system may adversely affect the health of persons unless such water is treated or alternative water supplies are provided. Permits any interested person to obtain judicial review of such an order issued by the Administrator (or the State) within 30 days after issuance of the order. Provides for civil penalties of not more than $5,000 per day of violation for violations of such orders.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z, 98-s-2159,98,s,2159,Hazardous Air Pollutant Control Act of 1983,Environmental Protection,1983-11-18,1983-11-18,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]",MT,D,B000243,9,"Hazardous Air Pollutant Control Act of 1983 - Amends the Clean Air Act (""the Act"") to revise provisions relating to hazardous air pollutants. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), within 60 days after enactment of this Act, to identify at least 25 substances or materials for which the Administrator intends to make a decision by December 31, 1985, on whether to include such substances or materials on the list of hazardous air pollutants established under provisions for national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (""the NESHAPs list""). Requires that such identification include: (1) polycyclic organic matter, nickel, toluene, coke oven emissions, acrylonitrile, carbon tetrachloride, perchloroethylene, trichloroethylene, methyl chloroform, CFC-113, manganese, chromium, cadmium, chlorobenzenes, dioxin, vinylidene chloride, epichlorohydrin, chloroform, hexachlorocyclopentadiene, ethylene oxide, and ethylene dichloride; and (2) each other substance or material under EPA evaluation for inclusion on the NESHAPs list for which EPA has positive data from one or more tests indicating carcinogenicity in humans or other mammals. Directs the Administrator, within one year of such enactment date, to identify at least 15 additional substances or materials for which an inclusion decision will be made by December 31, 1986. Requires that first consideration, in both such identifications, be given to specified substances and materials which the EPA has been evaluating. Directs the National Toxicology Program, through its Director, to recommend substances or materials which should be so identified, and to continue to recommend substances and materials which may be appropriate for inclusion on the NESHAPs list. Directs the Administrator, at the time the additional substances or materials are identified, to also identify any additional research, study, or evaluation which may be useful in making a determination. Directs the Administrator, in cooperation with the National Toxicology Program, to: (1) establish a schedule for initiating and completing such research, study, or evaluation; (2) identify the agency which will undertake it; and (3) identify the source and amount of funding for it, if such funding is not provided through the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund. Directs the Administrator, within 30 days after publication of any report under specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act, to publish a notice identifying each substance or material listed in such report which is known or may reasonably be anticipated to be an air pollutant. Requires such notice to allow 60 days for interested parties to submit information and comment on whether any substance or material identified in such notice is a hazardous air pollutant. Directs the Administrator, by December 31, 1985, in the case of those substances in the first identification and by December 31, 1986, in the case of the additional substances identified, to publish the determination of whether each substance or material is a hazardous air pollutant to be included on the NESHAPs list (along with the basis and the available information for such determination) after opportunity for submittal of information by interested parties. Directs the Administrator, within one year after the required date for issuance of each notice relating to the Public Health Service Act list, to determine whether each substance or material identified in each such notice is a hazardous air pollutant. Directs the Administrator, within 30 days after the identification of any substance or material required under this Act, to establish a docket for each such substance or material. Requires that such docket include all relevant information and analyses in the possession of the Administrator, all written comments and documentary information received from any person, and detailed written summaries of oral communications from or to any person on such issue. Requires that a substance or material be included on the NESHAPs list, by operation of law, if the Administrator: (1) fails to make a determination by the appropriate deadline; or (2) determines that such substance or material is a hazardous air pollutant. Directs the Administrator to specify the chemical forms of a substance or material which are determined to be hazardous air pollutants when including such substance or material on the NESHAPs list. Allows any interested party to petition the Administrator to remove any substance or material from the NESHAPs list, but only on the basis of information which was not available to the Administrator before the inclusion on such list. Directs the Administrator, within 120 days after receipt, to: (1) make a finding whether the petition is based on such information; (2) if there is such a basis, to publish a notice of such finding and provide opportunity for public comment; and (3) within 120 days after such notice, publish a determination whether the substance or material is a hazardous air pollutant. Provides that the pendency of any such petition shall not suspend the running time of any statutory or judicial time limit for the proposal or promulgation of NESHAPs standards. Provides that neither the identification for determination purposes nor the automatic listing due to failure to meet the deadline shall be deemed a presumption that a substance or material is a hazardous air pollutant. Directs the Administrator to identify the categories of sources which emit, in significant amounts, each hazardous air pollutant on the NESHAPs list. Requires that such identification include specified categories of stationary sources. Extends from 180 days to one year the period after proposal of emission standards during which the Administrator must establish final emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs). Requires that NESHAPs be established at a level requiring the greatest degree of emission reduction of such pollutant through the application of the best system of continuous emission reduction available for the class or category of source, taking into account the cost of achieving such reduction and any nonair quality health or environmental impacts (BACT - the Best Available Control Technology). Directs the Administrator to determine whether such emission standard is adequate to protect the public health from such hazardous air pollutant with an adequate margin of safety; and, if not, to establish such standard at a more stringent level. Requires that NESHAPs be at least as stringent as the most stringent emission limitation shown by an adequate operating history to have been achieved in practice by a source of the same category or in a category with similar air pollutant control characteristics (LAER-the Lowest Achievable Emission Rate). Authorizes the Administrator to distinguish among classes, types, sizes, and periods of remaining useful life for sources within a category of sources for purposes of establishing NESHAPs. Revises NESHAPs prohibitions to require permits for: (1) construction of new sources or modification of existing sources which emit or will emit any substance or material included on the NESHAPs list; and (2) operation of existing stationary sources which emit a hazardous air pollutant in violation of a NESHAPs standard. Directs the Administrator to determine specified standards relating to such permits. Directs the Administrator, in the case of such permits for operation of an existing source, to provide for compliance with NESHAPs standards as expeditiously as practicable, but in no event later than two years after the promulgation of the standard. Requires that all such permits include specified monitoring requirements. Limits the period of validity for such permits to seven years, with provisions for renewal. Requires fees to cover costs of reviewing and acting upon such permit applications and implementing and enforcing the terms and conditions of such permits and renewals. Requires that notice and opportunity for a hearing be provided within the locality where the source is located before any such permit or renewal may be issued. Directs the Administrator to delegate NESHAPs implementation and enforcement authority to a State only if the State procedure: (1) provides necessary assurances that the State will have adequate personnel, funding, and authority to carry out such implementation and enforcement; and (2) contains provisions equivalent to those provided under this Act for the issuance and renewal of permits, including requirements for monitoring and permit fees. Provides that the grant or denial of a permit or permit renewal by a State to which such a delegation has been made shall be deemed an action of the Administrator for purposes of judicial review provisions of the Act. Requires that design, equipment, work practice, and operational standards be consistent with specified requirements under NESHAPs provisions. Allows a citizen lawsuit against the Administrator for failure to perform a nondiscretionary act or duty with respect to NESHAPs provisions, or with respect to provisions for listing certain unregulated pollutants, to be commenced ten days after the plaintiff has given notice to the Administrator. Provides that specified amendments made by this Act shall not affect any NESHAP emission standard promulgated prior to the enactment of this Act.",2025-08-29T17:40:36Z, 98-hr-4404,98,hr,4404,National Acid Deposition Control Act of 1983,Environmental Protection,1983-11-16,1983-11-18,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. D'Amours, Norman E. [D-NH-1]",NH,D,D000017,30,"National Acid Deposition Control Act of 1983 - Title I: Acid Deposition Control and Assistance Program - Amends the Clean Air Act to establish new requirements for acid deposition control. Sets forth direct federally mandated emission reductions and retrofit technology for the 50 fossil fuel fired electric utility generating plants which had the largest total emissions of sulfur dioxide during the calendar year 1980. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) identify each such plant which emitted sulfur dioxide during calendar year 1980 at an annual average rate equal to or exceeding three pounds per million Btu; (2) within two months after enactment of this Act, publish a list of the 50 plants which have the largest total emissions and notify the owner or operator of each of the 50 plants listed; and (3) within four months after such enactment, after notice and opportunity for comment, publish a final list of the 50 plants with the largest total emissions. Permits the owner or operator of any plant on the final list and the owner or operator of any other plant located in the same State to apply, within 18 months after enactment of this Act to substitute one or more fossil fuel fired steam generating units of such other plant for a unit of the plant on the list. Authorizes the Administrator to approve such a substitution under specified conditions. Requires the owner or operator of each plant on the final list to submit to the Administrator, by January 1, 1985, a compliance schedule, including increments of progress. Directs the Administrator to approve or disapprove such schedule, within one year after submission, and after notice and opportunity for hearing. Directs the Administrator, if such schedule is not submitted by the deadline or is not approved, to promulgate a compliance schedule for such plant on January 1, 1986. Provides for modification and publication of such schedules. Requires that each compliance schedule provide that: (1) a technological system of continuous emission reduction be used for each steam generating unit in the fossil fired electric utility generating plant concerned (other than a unit for which a substitute has been approved); and (2) sulfur dioxide emissions from such plant for the calendar year 1990 and each calendar year thereafter shall not exceed 1.2 pounds per million Btu heat input and ten percent of the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions during calendar year 1980 (90 percent reduction) or 0.6 pounds per million Btu and 30 percent of the total annual sulfur dioxide emissions during the calendar year 1980 (70 percent reduction). Sets forth procedures for determining plant compliance with such emission limitation. Sets forth similar emissions reduction requirements and procedures for substitute units. Requires that: (1) contracts be entered into for the purchase and installation of the technological systems of continuous emission reduction by January 1, 1988; (2) such systems be installed and in operation by January 1, 1990; and (3) the emission limitation be achieved for each calendar year after 1989. Directs the Administrator, from the Acid Deposition Control Fund established under this Act, to pay for 90 percent of the costs of construction and installation of the technological system of continuous emission reduction necessary for each such plant to comply with the emission limitation. Directs the Administrator, after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, to promulgate regulations under which such payments: (1) may be made to utilities only if they will be used entirely to reduce those electric rate increases which would otherwise result from such construction and installation; and (2) shall be made at such times as will minimize rate increases. Sets forth requirements for State plans for additional emission reductions of sulfur dioxide. Directs the Administrator, within 18 months after the enactment of this Act, to compute a State share, for each of the 48 contiguous States, of a 12,000,000 ton reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide by 1993 below that of 1980 (or below that of any subsequent year designated by the Administrator as the baseline year in the case of: (1) any fossil fuel fired steam generating unit which is not part of an electric utility generating plant; or (2) any stationary source of industrial process emissions). Directs the Administrator, in computing State shares, to use the best available data and, to the extent that better data is not available, to use the inventory of emissions developed under a specified memorandum of intent on transboundary air pollution signed by Canada and the United States. Makes each State share the sum of the number of tons computed, under specified formulas, for: (1) fossil fuel fired electric utility plants in the State (except those required to comply with federally mandated emission reductions under this Act); (2) other fossil fuel fired steam generating units in the State; and (3) industrial process emitters of sulfur dioxide in the State. Directs the Administrator, on the basis of specified data and within one year after enactment of this Act, to establish a national average best available control technolgoy (BACT) emission limit for sulfur dioxide for emissions units within each category of process emitters of sulfur dioxide. Permits, under regulations promulgated by the Administrator, the Governors of two or more States to reallot State shares among agreeing States, if there is an equal or greater total reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide through such reallotment. Sets deadlines and procedures for submission and approval of State plans for such State shares. Sets emissions limitations applicable in the absence of an approved State plan. Requires State plans for State shares to provide for emission limitations applicable to any stationary sources (other than a source which is one of the listed 50 electric utility plants subject to direct federally mandated emission reductions) in the State for which: (1) the actual annual sulfur dioxide emission rates have been calculated by the Administrator for the baseline year; and (2) no new source standard of performance is applicable. Requires that the emission limitations for each stationary source subject to the State plan establish an allowable average annual sulfur dioxide rate at a level such that the total reduction would equal the State share. Permits State plans for State shares to provide for compliance with emission limitations through use of technological systems of continuous emission reduction or any other appropriate requirements. Directs the Administrator, from the Acid Deposition Control Fund established under this Act, to make available a portion of specified funds to each State: (1) which has in effect a State plan approved under this Act; and (2) which each plant subject to the direct federally mandated emission reduction has achieved such reduction. Sets forth a formula for determining each State's portion of such funds. Requires that such funds be used by the State, in such manner as it deems appropriate, to: (1) provide for the required State share of emissions reductions; (2) reduce, or provide refunds of, the fee on electric energy imposed under this Act; or (3) fund any other State program which it deems appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act. Limits to five percent of the amount of the State portion the amount which may be used for administration of the State plan under this Act. Establishes a trust fund in the Treasury of the United States to be known as the Acid Deposition Control Fund, consisting of amounts generated by fees imposed under this Act. Directs the Administrator to make expenditures from the Fund in accordance with the following priorities: (1) the Administrator shall make payments to utilities for specified utility rate reductions; (2) not more than $10,000,000 may be made available for the limestone injection multistaged burner (LIMB) technology demonstration project; (3) not more than $10,000,000 may be made available in any fiscal year for accelerated research on other cleaner burning industrial processes; (4) not more than $25,000,000 per fiscal year for each of FY 1984 through 1988 may be made available for the mitigation program under title III; (5) the Administrator shall next make expenditures for payment of capital costs of control for plants subject to the direct federally mandated emissions reductions, allocating available amounts first to the facilities which first applied for such payment; and (6) if all expenditures for such capital costs which currently can be made have been made, the Administrator shall provide funding to States to assist compliance with State plans. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to be the trustee of the Fund and to report to the Congress for each fiscal year ending on or after September 30, 1984, on its financial condition and the results of its operation during such fiscal year and on its expected condition and operations during the next five fiscal years. Sets forth Fund investment duties of the Secretary. Imposes, under regulations promulgated by the Administrator, a fee for each kilowatt hour of electric energy: (1) generated in the contiguous 48 States by an electric utility; and (2) imported into the contiguous 48 States. Makes such fee effective with respect to electric energy generated, or imported after December 31, 1984. Makes the fee cease to apply on December 31, 1995. Requires that the fee be applied during each calendar quarter at a rate per kilowatt hour which is equal to 1.5 mill multiplied by the inflation adjustment for the calendar quarter in which the electric energy is generated or imported. Sets forth a formula for determining such inflation adjustment. Exempts from such fee any electric energy (including imported electric energy) which is generated by nuclear or hydroelectric power. Requires each electric utility to determine the fraction of energy sold which is exempt from the fee to state the amount subject to such fee on each billing document. Directs the Administrator to make payments from the Fund to each electric utility which has sold electric energy to any individual customer who certifies that, at the time of such certification, he or she is: (1) receiving aid to families with dependent children under the Social Security Act; (2) receiving supplemental security income benefits under the Social Security Act; (3) receiving low-income home energy assistance under the Low-Income Energy Assistance Act of 1981; (4) a member of a household receiving food stamps under the Food Stamp Act of 1977; or (5) receiving payments under specified Federal law relating to veterans or under specified provisions of the Veterans and Survivors Pensions Improvement Act of 1978. Requires that such certification be made within 180 days after the date of the sale of the electric energy with respect to which such payment is made. Prohibits any such payment unless the Administrator determines that: (1) under applicable rate schedules, the full amount of such payment will be used to reduce the electric rates of the certified customer; and (2) the utility has established adequate procedures to assure that each customer will be informed, in the utility's periodic billings, of such payment and such rate reduction. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such payment. Directs the Administrator to promulgate within six months after enactment of this Act regulations setting forth: (1) the time and manner required for payment of such fee; (2) related reporting requirements; and (3) requirements applicable to the exemption and rate reduction. Establishes civil penalties for: (1) electric utilities (or importers of electric energy) which fail or refuse to pay such fees or to file required reports; and (2) any person who makes false or misleading statements in such required documents. Directs the Administrator to bring civil actions in such cases. Establishes additional criminal penalties for: (1) electric utilities (or importers of electric energy) which knowingly commit such violations; and (2) persons who knowingly file any false certificate or document to obtain an exemption from the fee. Directs the Administrator to carry out a full-scale demonstration project to demonstrate the feasibility of the limestone injected multistaged burner (LIMB) technology. Limits the amount authorized to be appropriated from the Fund for such project to $10,000,000. Directs the Administrator to make such grants, contracts, and other arrangements to accelerate the research necessary to develop advanced industrial processes, including atmospheric fluidized bed construction and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), other than the LIMB technology which may result in lower levels of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Limits to $10,000,000 in each of fiscal year 1985 through 1989 the amount which is authorized to be appropriated for the Fund for such research. Makes conforming amendments. Title II: Control of Nitrogen Oxide Emissions - Directs the Administrator to revise standards of performance for new stationary sources for emissions of nitrogen oxides from electric utility steam generating units which burn bituminous or subbituminous coal and which commence construction from such units at a rate which exceeds: (1) 0.30 pounds per million Btu, in the case of subbituminous coal; and (2) 0.40 pounds per million Btu, in the case of bituminous coal. Adds to provisions relating to emissions from mobile sources to set the following nitrogen oxide emission standards for model year 1986 and after truck and truck engines: (1) gross vehicle weight of 6,000 pounds or less - 1.2 grams per vehicle mile; (2) 6,000 to 8,500 pounds - 1.7 grams per vehicle mile; and (3) more than 8,500 pounds - 4.0 grams per brake horsepower-hour. Title III: Acid Deposition Damage Mitigation Program - Allows any State to prepare and submit for the approval of the Administrator and for comment by the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: (1) a survey of water quality deterioration in such State which has resulted from acid deposition; (2) a proposal for research mitigating the effects of acid deposition on terrestial and aquatic ecosystems; and (3) proposed methods and procedures to restore the quality of water in such State which has deteriorated as a result of acid deposition. Directs the Administrator, after consultation with the Director, to provide from the Fund financial assistance to States to carry out measures and procedures for restoration which have been approved by the Administrator. Limits the amount granted under this title to any State for any fiscal year to 80 percent of the funds expended by such State in such year for carrying out such methods and procedures. Directs the Administrator to provide for equitable distribution of sums appropriated under this title among States with approved methods and procedures. Requires that such distribution be based on the relative need of such State for the restoration of water quality which has deteriorated as a result of acid deposition. Provides that the amount of any grant to a State under this title shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other Federal financial assistance.",2025-08-29T17:40:57Z, 98-hr-4416,98,hr,4416,"A bill to extend the Superfund legislation through the fiscal year 1990, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1983-11-16,1984-07-31,For Further Action See H.R.5640.,House,"Rep. Green, S. William [R-NY-15]",NY,R,G000417,0,"Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (""Superfund"") to extend the authorization of appropriations to the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund (""Response Trust Fund"") for five additional years, through FY 1990. Provides that so much of the aggregate amount authorized to be appropriated for prior fiscal years as has not been appropriated shall be added to the specified amount authorized to be appropriated for each such fiscal year. Makes a conforming amendment extending by five years the period to be covered by the Secretary of the Treasury's annual report to the Congress on the management of the Response Trust Fund. Extends the authority to collect taxes conferred by such Act through FY 1990. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for five-year extensions of provisions for an environmental tax on petroleum.",2024-02-07T16:32:33Z, 98-hr-4393,98,hr,4393,Wetlands Reform Act of 1983,Environmental Protection,1983-11-15,1984-01-12,"Executive Comment Requested from EPA, OMB.",House,"Rep. Mrazek, Robert J. [D-NY-3]",NY,D,M001057,4,"Wetlands Reform Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (also known as the Clean Water Act) to require that guidelines developed by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters shall prohibit specification of a disposal site unless specified demonstrations are made. Requires a demonstration that: (1) discharge of dredged or fill material at such site does not contain any toxic pollutant included on a specified list published under such Act (except a toxic pollutant which is only a trace contaminant in such discharge); (2) such discharge at such site will not have an unacceptable individual or cumulative adverse impact on the aquatic environment; and (3) there is no practicable alternative to the proposed discharge which would have less adverse effect on the environment. Revises provisions for denial or restriction of use of defined areas as disposal sites. Requires the Administrator to review permit applications and to deny or restrict such use upon determination of specified factors. Allows any person to petition the Administrator to deny or restrict dredged or fill activities in any defined area based on specified criteria. Directs the Administrator, within 30 days after receipt, to make a finding as to whether the petition presents substantial information indicating that the petitioned action may be warranted. Directs the Administrator to promptly notify the Secretary of the Army of each finding made and promptly make such finding public. Directs the Administrator, within 90 days after receiving a petition found to present substantial information that the petitioned action may be warranted, after notice and opportunity for a public hearing, to determine whether or not to implement the petitioned action or some modification of the petitioned action, based on determinations as to whether or not the discharge of such materials into such area will have an unacceptable adverse effect on municipal water supplies, shellfish beds and fishery areas (including spawning and breeding areas), wildlife, or recreation areas. Prohibits any individual or general permit for a dredged or fill material discharge activity from being issued before such a determination is made, if such activity would be precluded or restricted by implementation of the petitioned action that the Administrator has found may be warranted. Subjects such findings and determinations to judicial review. Provides for citizen lawsuits under such Act: (1) against the Secretary of the Army; and (2) with respect to any limitation or requirement of any guideline developed for permits for dredged or fill material.",2025-08-29T17:40:32Z, 98-hr-4396,98,hr,4396,A bill to authorize community relocation and business and employee protection in cases of toxic substance contamination.,Environmental Protection,1983-11-15,1984-07-31,For Further Action See H.R.5640.,House,"Rep. Skelton, Ike [D-MO-4]",MO,D,S000465,1,"Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (""Superfund"") to authorize community relocation and business and employee protection in cases of toxic substance contamination. Includes under the term ""remove"" or ""removal"" the costs of permanent relocation of residents where it is determined that such permanent relocation is cost-effective or may be necessary to protect health or welfare. Provides that such term may also include, in the case of a business located in an area of evacuation or relocation, the payment of those installments of principal and interest on business debt which accrue between the date of evacuation or temporary relocation and 30 days following the date that permanent relocation is actually accomplished or, if permanent relocation is formally rejected as the appropriate response, the date on which evacuation or temporary relocation ceases. Provides that such term may also include, in the case of an individual unemployed as a result of such evacuation or relocation, specified types of assistance authorized under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974. Exempts permanent relocation payments from specified limitations on Superfund obligations.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-4364,98,hr,4364,"A bill to amend the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 regarding the ocean dumping of municipal sludge, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1983-11-10,1984-03-01,Joint Hearings held by Subcommittee on Oceanography and by Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Hughes, William J. [D-NJ-2]",NJ,D,H000930,12,"Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to prohibit the dumping of municipal sludge, except as provided in the Act. (Current law prohibits dumping sludge, except as provided in the Act.) Defines ""municipal sludge"" as solid, semisolid, or liquid waste generated by a wastewater treatment plant. Authorizes issuance of a dumping permit for any hazardous waste identified and listed under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1979 only if the waste will be incinerated at sea or rapidly neutralized in the marine environment. Authorizes the issuance of a dumping permit for municipal sludge only if: (1) the plant generating the sludge is in compliance with requirements of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; and (2) a suitable land-based alternative to ocean disposal is not available. Requires, rather than permits, the imposition of processing fees for permits. Sets forth provisions regarding the dumping of municipal sludge in the New York Bight Apex. Prohibits dumping in the Apex after the earlier of December 31, 1986, or the day the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines that municipal sludge can reasonably be dumped elsewhere. Permits dumping, however, after December 1, 1986: (1) if dumping in the Apex will result in less harm than dumping elsewhere; and (2) until a more suitable location is found. Imposes fees for municipal sludge dumped in the Apex of: (1) $25 for each dry ton dumped during 1984; (2) $40 for each dry ton dumped during 1985; and (3) $55 for each dry ton dumped after 1985. Requires the fees, whether used by the Administrator or local authorities, to be utilized as specified for the improvement of the Apex. Provides for trust accounts for local authorities for any fee amounts not paid to the Administrator. Requires the Administrator to: (1) prepare a comprehensive assessment of disposal options for municipal sludge generated by local authorities; (2) prepare a New York Bight Apex Restoration Plan; and (3) carry out base-line monitoring of alternative sites. Requires the assessment and plan to be submitted to Congress. Requires the assessment to be prepared in consultation with State and local officials from New York and New Jersey. Requires the Administrator to submit a report to Congress on the technological and economic feasibility of establishing and implementing quality standards for the disposal of municipal sludge through ocean or land-based methods. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 to the Environmental Protection Agency for purposes of preparing the New York Bight Apex Restoration Plan.",2021-06-29T21:05:54Z, 98-hr-4302,98,hr,4302,A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide that the exemptions provided with respect to barium shall not terminate prior to the completion of health studies by the Environmental Protection Agency.,Environmental Protection,1983-11-03,1984-09-13,For Further Action See H.R.5959.,House,"Rep. Crane, Philip M. [R-IL-12]",IL,R,C000873,0,Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act (title XIV of the Public Health Service Act) to provide that specified exemptions from contaminant level or treatment technique requirements with respect to barium granted by States to public water systems shall not terminate until one year after the date on which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency completes and publishes studies regarding the effects of barium in drinking water on the health of persons.,2024-02-05T14:30:09Z, 98-hr-4303,98,hr,4303,Toxic Substances Control Act Liability Amendments of 1983,Environmental Protection,1983-11-03,1983-11-08,"Referred to Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism.",House,"Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,F000215,1,"Toxic Substances Control Act Liability Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to include under the definition of ""chemical substance"" any microorganism or other biological substance (thus providing for regulation under TSCA of ""bioengineering"" substances before they are genetically manufactured and sold). Revises provisions for citizens civil actions under TSCA to establish a Federal cause of action for toxic substances damages. Permits any person to bring an action in an appropriate U.S. district court against manufacturers or processors of a chemical substance or mixture to recover specified compensable damages. Provides that U.S. district court jurisdiction over such actions shall be concurrent with State court jurisdiction. Sets forth provisions relating to liability, evidence, and limitation of such actions.",2025-08-29T17:38:30Z, 98-hr-4304,98,hr,4304,Toxic Substances Control Act Improvements Amendments of 1983,Environmental Protection,1983-11-03,1983-11-08,"Referred to Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism.",House,"Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1]",NJ,D,F000215,1,"Toxic Substances Control Act Improvements Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to include under the definition of ""chemical substance"" any microorganism or other biological substance (thus providing for regulation under TSCA of ""bioengineering"" substances before they are genetically manufactured and sold). Provides for voluntary testing agreements under TSCA. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to negotiate agreements with chemical manufactures or processors to conduct testing. Requires: (1) publication of proposed agreements; (2) at least a 60-day public comment period; and (3) recordkeeping of all information and data regarding such agreements. Authorizes the Administrator to reopen such agreements if changed circumstances require modification of such agreements. Directs the Administrator to initiate appropriate action under specified TSCA provisions with respect to formaldehyde, not later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, taking into consideration both acute and chronic health effects associated with exposure to formaldehyde. Requires, within six months after enactment of this Act, that specified rules be amended to require any person who treats, stores or disposes of hazardous waste containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) to certify to the generator of such hazardous waste, in a form and manner determined by the Administrator, that such treatment, storage, or disposal is carried out in compliance with all applicable legal requirements. Prohibits the land disposal of liquid hazardous wastes containing specified concentrations of PCBs, effective 12 months after enactment of this Act, unless the Administrator determines that the prohibition on one or more methods of land disposal is not required in order to protect human health and the environment for as long as the waste remains hazardous, taking into account the long-term uncertainties associated with land disposal, the goal of managing hazardous waste in an appropriate manner in the first instance, and the persistence, toxicity, mobility of such substances and its propensity to bioaccumulate. Revises provisions for exemptions from specified PCB requirements to: (1) include specified circumstances where good faith efforts have been made to reduce the concentration of PCBs inadvertently manufactured; and (2) eliminate a one-year limit for such exemptions. Requires that EPA regulation under TSCA regarding PCBs which are (or are contained in) hazardous waste shall conform in all significant respects to the requirements of regulations under hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, except with respect to any aspect of PCB regulations under TSCA which is more protective of health or the environment than a corresponding aspect of the regulations under hazardous waste management provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Requires premanufacture testing of new chemical substances. Directs the Administrator, within two years after enactment of this Act, to promulgate a rule requiring the testing, before submission of specified manufacturing and processing notices, of each new chemical substance for which such a notice is required. Requires that such rule provide for a tiered system of tests designed to determine whether the manufacture, distribution in commerce, processing, use, or disposal of such new chemical substances, or any combination of such activities, may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. Requires that such rule and any substantive amendment thereto be promulgated in accordance with specified provisions. Requires the person who intends to manufacture such chemical substance to conduct such testing. Permits exemptions from such rule under the same conditions as under other provisions for exemptions for new chemical substances. Authorizes the Administrator to also grant exemptions from such rule upon determination that such testing is not required by reason of the insubstantial quantities of the chemical substance which enter, or may reasonably be expected to enter, the environment or the insignificant or insubstantial human exposure to such substance. Terminates such exemptions if there is any significant change in the use of the chemical substance, the nature of exposure, or the production amount. Revises the definition of ""category of chemical substances"" which are grouped together solely on the basis of their being new chemical substances. Provides for an interim list of each chemical substance: (1) which is not required to be tested under the rule for testing new chemical substances before notice by reason of an exemption on the basis of insubstantial quantities entering the environment or insignificant or insubstantial human exposure; (2) to which an exemption from manufacturing and process notice requirements applies on the basis of the use of such chemical substance, the nature of exposure, or the production amount; or (3) which is subject to an order or agreement under specified provisions for regulation pending development of information. Directs the Administrator to maintain such list and publish it annually. Prohibits removal of any chemical substance from such list, unless the Administrator: (1) takes regulatory action respecting such substance under provisions for regulation of hazardous chemical substances and mixtures; or (2) determines that there is a reasonable basis to conclude that such substance is not, and does not have the potential of being, a carcinogen, mutagen, teratogen, or neurotoxin. Requires that, if specified exemptions terminate by reason of any significant change in the use of the chemical substance, the nature of exposure, or production amount, the manufacturer or processor shall be: (1) subject to a specified manufacturing and processing notice requirement and prohibition; and (2) required to submit test data in accordance with the rule for testing new chemical substances before submission of such notice. Makes conforming amendments to provide that any new chemical substance which is on the interim list: (1) shall be included under a specified manufacturing and processing prohibition; and (2) shall not be included on a list under specified provisions for reporting and retention of information. Limits significant new use determinations, for purposes of the manufacturing and processing notice requirement and prohibition, to chemical substances listed under provisions for reporting and retention of information. Revises provisions relating to relevant factors to be considered in such significant use determination. Authorizes the Administrator to issue certain administrative orders pending development of information if a determination is made that the available information is insufficient to permit a reasoned evaluation of the health and environmental effects of a chemical substance with respect to which a manufacturing and processing notice is required. Eliminates provisions which condition such authority on determinations relating to the unreasonable risk the substance may present or the amount of production, environmental entry, or human exposure. Authorizes U.S. district courts to issue certain injunctions pending development of information if a finding is made of insufficient information to make a reasoned evaluation (similar to that required for such EPA administrative orders). Eliminates provisions conditioning such authority on findings relating to unreasonable risk, production amount, environmental entry, or human exposure. Revises provisions regarding TSCA relationship to other Federal laws. Repeals the prohibition against the Administrator's promulgating a rule under TSCA provisions for regulation of hazardous chemical substances and mixtures whenever the risk of injury to health or the environment could be sufficiently eliminated or reduced by actions taken under other Federal laws administered by the Administrator. Repeals other prohibitions against the Administrator's acting in specified circumstances under hazardous substances or imminent hazard provisions of TSCA until other Federal agencies have received reports and have had an opportunity to respond under other Federal laws. Directs the Administrator, at least 20 days before proposing action to prevent or reduce an unreasonable risk, to give notice of such intended action to any other agency that administers a Federal law under which such risk might be prevented. Repeals requirements that the Administrator use authorities contained in other Federal laws to prevent or eliminate specified risks before using authority under TSCA. Revises TSCA confidentiality provisions. Provides that the disclosure of specified information relating to hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal is not prohibited under TSCA. Requires that a full and complete explanation of the reasons that each item of data submitted under specified TSCA provisions is entitled to confidentiality accompany any designation of such data as confidential. Shortens the waiting period for release of information from 30 days to 15 days in the case of specified data. Provides that the five-day deadline for publication of specified information required to be disclosed to the public shall be suspended: (1) for a period of ten days, if a designation of confidentiality is made; or (2) until the resolution of any disagreement of the Administrator with the designation of any item of such information as confidential. Provides that the 90-day waiting period before manufacturing or processing shall begin on the date on which an agreement is reached regarding a designation of confidentiality by a person submitting a manufacturing or processing notice. Increases criminal penalties under TSCA. Requires that any rulemaking proceeding for a chemical substance or mixture on the priority list be completed within 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act or the date on which such proceeding began, whichever is later. Includes jurisdiction over enforcement proceedings under provisions for judicial review of specified rules under TSCA. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for TSCA for FY 1985 through 1987.",2025-08-29T17:38:02Z, 98-hr-4281,98,hr,4281,"A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to pay the costs of constructing the uncompleted portion of the Saw Mill Run relief sewer.",Environmental Protection,1983-11-02,1983-11-18,"Executive Comment Requested from EPA, OMB.",House,"Rep. Coyne, William J. [D-PA-14]",PA,D,C000846,0,"Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to pay 100 percent of the costs of constructing a portion of the Saw Mill Run relief sewer in such city.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-4270,98,hr,4270,A bill relating to the dumping of dredged material in Long Island Sound.,Environmental Protection,1983-11-01,1983-11-07,Referred to Subcommittee on Oceanography.,House,"Rep. Mrazek, Robert J. [D-NY-3]",NY,D,M001057,0,"Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries of 1972 to require anyone dumping dredged material into the Long Island Sound to first obtain a dumping permit from the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Previously only those dumping more than 25,000 cubic yards were required to obtain permits).",2021-06-29T21:05:11Z, 98-s-2023,98,s,2023,Mobile Source Emission Control Protection Act,Environmental Protection,1983-10-28,1983-10-28,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,1,Mobile Source Emission Control Protection Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit any person from: (1) offering for sale any device for the purpose of rendering inoperative any device or element of design installed on or in a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine in compliance with regulations under such Act following its sale and delivery to the ultimate purchaser; or (2) from manufacturing any device capable of being used for such purpose which is being offered for sale for such purpose within the privity and knowledge of such person.,2025-08-29T17:38:24Z, 98-s-2006,98,s,2006,Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Act of 1983,Environmental Protection,1983-10-26,1983-10-26,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 494.,Senate,"Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT]",VT,R,S000776,15,"Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Act of 1983 - Amends the Clean Water Act (""the Act"") (also known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act) to provide for a nonpoint source pollution management program. Requires each State, by itself or in combination with other States and after notice and opportunity for public comment, to submit a proposed nonpoint source pollution management program to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency within 18 months after the enactment of the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1983. Requires that such proposed State program: (1) identify waters within State boundaries which, without additional action to control nonpoint sources of pollution, cannot be reasonably expected to attain or maintain applicable water quality standards or the goals and requirements of the Act; (2) designate categories or subcategories of nonpoint sources of pollution or, where appropriate, particular nonpoint sources, that contribute significant pollution loadings to such identified waters; (3) identify best management practices which will be undertaken to reduce pollutant loadings resulting from each designated category, subcategory, or particular nonpoint source; (4) identify programs to achieve implementation of such best management practices; (5) include a schedule containing annual milestones for utilization of program implementation methods and implementation of best management practices at the earliest practicable date; (6) include a statement by the State attorney general, or attorney for the State water pollution control agency, that State laws provide adequate authority to carry out the program, or a schedule and commitment by the State to seek such authorities as expeditiously as practicable; and (7) include an indentification of Federal financial assistance programs and Federal development projects for which the State will review individual assistance applications or development projects for their effect on water quality, pursuant to specified procedures, to determine whether such applications or projects would be consistent with and further the purposes and objectives of the program. Allows the State, in developing such program to rely upon specified information and utilize appropriate elements of waste treatment management plans. Allows the State, in developing and implementing such program, to make use of local agencies or organizations. Sets forth procedures and deadlines for revisions and approval or disapproval by the Administrator of such proposed or revised State programs. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on actions taken with regard to any State which fails to submit a program which meets specified requirements. Directs the Administrator to award grants to assist States in the implementation of approved management programs. Limits such grants to 75 percent of program implementation costs in any fiscal year. Requires that non-Federal sources provide at least 25 percent of such costs. Provides that two-thirds of the funds appropriated in any fiscal year for such grants shall be allotted among States according to a specified table of percentage allotments. Provides that one-third of such appropriations shall be made available to the Administrator who shall make grants in response to applications from States if the Administrator determines such grants are necessary and appropriate to assist such States in: (1) controlling particularly difficult or serious nonpoint source pollution problems, including those resulting from mining; (2) implementing innovative methods or practices for controlling nonpoint sources of pollution, including both regulatory or nonregulatory programs where appropriate; (3) controlling interstate nonpoint sources pollution problems; or (4) providing financial assistance, limited to a specified amount, for approved management program implementation by an Indian tribe within the reservation. Sets forth provisions for reallotment of State allotments. Permits States to use such grant funds for financial assistance to persons only to the extent that such assistance is related to the cost of demonstration projects. Prohibits such a grant to any State unless the Administrator determines that the State is implementing such program satisfactorily. Authorizes the Administrator to request information, data, and reports necessary for determination of continuing eligibility for such grants. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the nonpoint source pollution management program for FY 1985 through 1987. Requires each State to report annually to the Administrator on: (1) its progress in meeting the schedule of milestones; and (2) where appropriate information is available, reductions in nonpoint source pollutant loadings and improvements in water quality resulting from implementation of the management program. Directs the Administrator to transmit to the Office of Management and Budget and the appropriate Federal departments and agencies a list of those assistance programs and development projects identified by States for which individual assistance applications and projects will be reviewed. Requires each Federal department and agency, within 60 days after receiving such notification, to: (1) modify existing regulations to allow States to conduct such review; and (2) accommodate the concerns of the State regarding the consistency of such applications or projects with the State program. Directs the Administrator to collect and make available information pertaining to management practices and implementation methods. Directs the Administrator, within 36 months of enactment of the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1983, to report on: (1) management programs being implemented by the States by types and amount of affected waters, categories and subcategories of nonpoint sources, and types of best management practices being implemented; (2) State experiences in adhering to schedules and implementing best management practices; (3) the amount and purpose of grants awarded; (4) progress in reducing pollutant loads and improving water quality in the waters of the United States; and (5) what further actions need to be taken to attain and maintain in those waters applicable water quality standards and the goals and requirements of the Act. Revises provisions relating to agreements among Federal agencies to include a reference to approved nonpoint source pollution management programs.",2025-08-29T17:40:38Z, 98-s-2012,98,s,2012,"A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.",Environmental Protection,1983-10-26,1983-10-26,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Bradley, Bill [D-NJ]",NJ,D,B001225,1,"Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) to require that cleanup actions begin whether or not negotiation is concluded. Directs the President to commence remedial actions within 60 days of notification of responsible parties, and thereafter seek reimbursement for the costs of such remedial actions, under specified conditions. Revises provisions relating to the Federal and State shares for costs of operation and maintenance of such remedial actions. Requires that the State pay or assure payment of: (1) ten percent of the capital, future operation, and future maintenance costs of the remedial action; or (2) 50 percent of the capital, future operation, and future maintenance costs of the remedial action relating to a release at a facility that was owned and primarily used for the treatment, storage, or disposal at the time of any disposal of hazardous substances in such facility, by the State or local government. Provides for the use of State or local funds for additional remedial actions. Directs the President to approve a more costly remedial action than the one already chosen, if the State or local government informs the President that it believes conditions at a site require such more expensive action. Requires the State or local government to pay or assure payment of 90 percent of that portion of the costs of such remedial action which exceeds the costs of the one already chosen by the President. Authorizes the President to seek the advice of one or more consultants expert in the field of public health or remedial action in the selection of appropriate remedial action at a particular site, incident or group of sites. Limits the State share of cleanup costs at facilities owned by a State or local government to those facilities primarily used for treatment, storage, or disposal at the time of any disposal of hazardous substances at such facilities by the State or local government. Provides that, for purposes of the State share of cleanup costs at facilities owned by a State or local government, ""facility"" does not include navigable waters or the beds underlying those waters. Provides that State or local contribution of ten percent or 50 percent of remedial costs, as appropriate, shall constitute full satisfaction of any claims which the Superfund may have against the State and local government. Revises provisions relating to the statute of limitations on claims and actions for damages under such Act. Requires that such claims be presented or action commenced within three years from the date of discovery of the loss or the date on which final regulations are promulgated implementing the provision of such Act under which the claims or action is brought. Provides for reimbursement credits for State remedial actions taken before the date on which a Superfund contract or cooperative agreement is executed between the State and the United States. Repeals specified provisions which prohibit, with specified exceptions, requiring any person to contribute to any fund with a similar purpose of that of Superfund. (Thus this Act provides that no Federal preemption exists with respect to taxation or contributions to State funds similar to Superfund.) Authorizes any State to bring an action in any U.S. district court within such State to require the President or the President's delegate to take any action required to be taken under title I (Hazardous Substances Releases, Liability, Compensation) of such Act. Grants the court the power to require the President or the President's delegate to take such action if the court finds that the President is required under title I to take such action. Permits the transfer of State credit for independent response actions to any other release for which remedial action is authorized.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-s-2001,98,s,2001,National Acid Deposition Reduction Act of 1983,Environmental Protection,1983-10-25,1983-10-25,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Durenberger, Dave [R-MN]",MN,R,D000566,3,"National Acid Deposition Reduction Act of 1983 - Title I: Acid Deposition Control Program - Amends the Clean Air Act (""the Act"") to establish an acid deposition control program. Requires that a reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide in an acid deposition impact region (consisting of the 31 States, and the District of Columbia, east of or bordering on the Mississippi River) of 10,000,000 tons from the total actual annual level in 1980 of such emissions. Requires that this be a phased reduction and completed no later than January 1, 1993. Prohibits, beginning January 1, 1993, the total actual annual level of emissions of sulfur dioxide from stationary sources from being allowed to exceed 16,600,000 tons per year nationwide. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to publish, by January 1, 1985, an inventory and projection of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions for the United States, including (in tons): (1) 1980 emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from each major stationary source within the 50 States, by source and State; (2) 1980 emissions of nitrogen oxides from mobile sources for each of the 50 States, by type of mobile source; (3) 1980 emissions of sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides from other than major stationary or mobile sources; (4) emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from major stationary sources within the United States beginning operation after December 31, 1980 and before January 1, 1987; (5) additional increments of emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides above 1980 emissions rates for major stationary sources in operation on or before December 31, 1980; (6) additional increments of emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from mobile sources and other than major stationary sources which are projected to occur after December 31, 1980 and before January 1, 1993; (7) additional increments of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions which will occur at major stationary sources as a result of increasing plant utilization above 1980 levels and which are not subject to certain emissions limitations under specified provisions of this Act; and (8) an estimate of the gross tons of reductions in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide that are necessary to achieve a net reduction of 10,000,000 tons from the 1980 actual annual emissions of sulfur dioxide in the acid deposition impact region. Directs the Administrator to annually update such inventory and projection. Sets forth provision for an emissions cap and offsets. Prohibits any major stationary source which is in operation before 1987 from increasing its actual rate of emissions of sulfur dioxide over its 1980 level, unless there has been identified for such source a simultaneous net reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions at one or more sources in the same EPA administrative region in excess of the proposed increase in emission rate, and not otherwise required by a State implementation plan or under specified provisions of this Act. Requires that, for each major stationary source beginning operations after January 1, 1987, there shall be identified for such source a simultaneous net reduction in emissions of sulfur dioxide at one or more sources in the same EPA region in excess of the proposed emission rate for that source, and not otherwise required by a State implementation plan or under specified provisions of this Act. Provides that, for purposes of such emissions cap and offsets, a major stationary source beginning operation after January 1, 1987, and which commenced construction before January 1, 1984, shall be considered: (1) to be in operation before January 1, 1987; and (2) to have actual annual emissions not in excess of specified standards of performance under the Act. Provides that, for purposes of the emissions cap and offsets for major stationary sources in operation before January 1, 1987, actual annual emissions may exceed 1980 emissions if the additional increment of emissions results from increasing plant utilization above 1980 levels, but in no case may the actual annual emissions used to determine whether an emissions increase has occurred exceed the emissions rate that would result by multiplying the 1980 emissions rate by a plant utilization factor equal to the average level of production experienced by such source during the period from January 1, 1970 through December 31, 1980 (or the portion of such period during which such source was in operation), divided by the level of production experienced by such source in 1980. Requires States to assure: (1) compliance which such emissions cap and offsets requirements; and (2) the provision of emission reduction banks and brokerage institutions authorized under State implementation plan and acid deposition control provisions. Sets forth provisions for a priority list and emissions limitations. Directs the Administrator to publish, by January 1, 1986, a priority list of proposed control strategies for sulfur dioxide emissions reductions: (1) at major stationary sources which began operation prior to enactment of this Act; and (2) for which the Administrator intends to provide assistance by the use of funds available under the trust fund established by title II of this Act. Allows such control strategies to include specified methods or projects for net emission reduction, in addition to certain continuous emissions reductions measures, if emissions limitations under such methods or projects are enforceable by the Federal Government, States other than those in which the emissions occur, or citizens under provisions for citizen suits under the Act. Sets forth other requirements relating to such priority list. Authorizes the Administrator to limit the number of projects on the priority list which rely on fuel switching, if substantial unemployment or economic dislocation might otherwise result. Authorizes the Administrator to include on the priority list control strategies for emissions reductions by sources outside the acid deposition impact region under specified conditions relating to acid deposition or air quality improvement. Requires each State, within 12 months after publication of the priority list, to adopt enforceable measures, including emissions limitations and compliance schedules, to achieve the reductions in sulfur dioxide emissions set forth on the priority list for each source within such State. Directs each State Governor to submit such measures to the Administrator for review, and to the Governors of all States in the acid deposition impact region for comment. Directs the Administrator to approve such measures within six months, taking into consideration the comments of Governors of the other States, if specified conditions are met. Provides that such measures shall be deemed State implementation plan requirements. Requires each major stationary source identified for such a control strategy to be in compliance with such an emission limitation by January 1, 1993, but does not require any such source to implement a particular control strategy, provided that the emission limitation is achieved. Directs the Administrator to use funds available under the trust fund established under title II of this Act to pay up to 70 percent of the capital costs necessary to implement the control strategies identified in the priority list. Sets forth conditions for such assistance. Directs the Administrator to use funds available under such trust fund to pay up to 30 percent of the operation and maintenance costs necessary to implement such control strategies. Sets forth conditions for such assistance. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after the publication of the priority list, to enter into binding agreements with the owners and operators of all sources with a control strategy included on the priority list. Sets forth requirements relating to such agreements. Limits to five percent of the funds available under such trust fund the amount which may be used to assist specified air quality improvement projects outside the acid deposition impact region. Allows up to two percent of the funds available under such trust fund to be used for the development and demonstration of sulfur dioxide emission control technologies or to conduct specified research under the Energy Security Act of 1980. Sets forth alternative reduction requirements which shall apply to all fossil-fuel-burning electric generating facilities which are major stationary sources located within: (1) the acid deposition impact region, if the Administrator fails to publish the priority list by January 1, 1986; or (2) any State, if such State fails to promulgate emissions limitations and compliance schedules as required under this Act. Title II: Acid Deposition Reduction Trust Fund - Establishes within the Treasury of the United States the Acid Deposition Reduction Trust Fund, consisting of such amounts as may be appropriated or transferred to the trust fund under this title. Appropriates to the trust fund amounts determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be equivalent to the revenues received in the Treasury under the taxes imposed by this title. Provides that amounts in the trust fund shall be available only for expenditures relating to control strategies under title I. Imposes a tax on: (1) sulfur dioxide emissions from major stationary sources; (2) nitrogen oxides emissions from major stationary sources; and (3) nitrogen oxides emissions from motor vehicles and other mobile sources, including aircraft, railroad locomotives, and heavy construction equipment, without regard to whether it is capable of being relocated. Provides that such tax shall take effect on January 1, 1985, and terminate December 31, 1994. Directs the Secretary, after consultation with the Administrator, to establish such tax rates so that the total received during the period such tax is in effect shall be $40,000,000,000. Requires that: (1) two-thirds of such amount will be received from the tax on sulfur dioxide emissions from major stationary sources; (2) one-sixth of such amount will be received from the tax on nitrogen oxides emissions from major stationary sources; and (3) one-sixth of such amount will be received from the tax on nitrogen oxides emissions from motor vehicles and other mobile sources. Provides that the taxes on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions from major stationary sources be paid by the operator of each such source. Provides that the portion of the tax imposed on nitrogen oxides emissions attributable to light-duty motor vehicles shall be paid at the time of first sale by the ultimater purchaser of each such vehicle sold in the United States after December 31, 1984. Provides that the portion of the tax on nitrogen oxides emissions attributable to mobile sources other than light-duty motor vehicles shall be paid by the owner of each such mobile source on an annual basis. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust such tax rate in the light of accumulated experience. Makes such adjustments effective on January 1 of 1987, 1990, or 1993. Authorizes the Secretary to modify such tax rate with respect to the operator of a specific fossil-fuel-burning electric generating facility which will be installing a technological system of continuous emission reduction to comply with certain emission limitations during the period such tax will be in effect. Requires that such modification establish a tax of equal annual amounts during such period, based on the average of emission levels expected prior to and subsequent to the installation and operation of such technological system. Authorizes the Secretary to establish such tax rates on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions from major stationary sources on the basis of ranges of quantities of such pollutants emitted from a class of such sources, in lieu of a strict per-unit-of-weight rate, if it is enforceable and produces adequate revenue, without imposing monitoring costs which bear no reasonable relationship to the revenues received from such sources. Sets forth administrative provisions relating to the trust fund. Authorizes the Secretary to allow a source to make annual payments of equal amounts in those cases where a source otherwise would be required prior to installation of control technology to make payments substantially greater than payments after the installation of such technology. Allows such a source, if it is one which would receive assistance from the trust fund, to escrow its tax payments if such action would levelize electricity rate charges.",2025-08-29T17:40:38Z, 98-hr-4108,98,hr,4108,"A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the enhanced water quality of the Chesapeake and Narragansett Bays, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1983-10-06,1984-06-26,See H.R.3282.,House,"Rep. Dyson, Roy [D-MD-1]",MD,D,D000593,0,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (also known as the Clean Water Act) to add provisions relating to Chesapeake and Narragansett Bays. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to continue the Chesapeake Bay program and to establish and maintain in the EPA an Office, Division, or Branch of Chesapeake Bay Programs to: (1) collect and disseminate research and other information on the environmental quality of the Bay; (2) coordinate all Federal research projects pertaining to the Bay; (3) conduct research on sediment deposition in the Bay; and (4) conduct research on natural and man-induced environmental changes' impact on the living resources of the Bay, with particular emphasis on the impact of pollutant loadings of nutrients, chlorine, acid precipitation, dissolved oxygen, and toxic pollutants, including organic chemicals and heavy metals, and with special attention to the impact on the striped bass. Directs the Administrator, at the request of the Governor of a State affected by the interstate management plan developed under the Chesapeake Bay program, to make a grant to implement management mechanisms in the plan if the State has, within one year after the date of enactment of this Act, approved and committed to implement all or substantially all aspects of the plan. Requires a State or combination of States to submit a description of proposed abatement actions and estimated costs for the approval of the Administrator. Limits such grants to 55 percent of the plan implementation costs in any year and requires non-Federal sources to provide the remainder of such costs during such fiscal year. Limits administrative costs to ten percent of the annual Federal grant to a State. Requires States to submit progress reports in conjunction with the EPA to the Congress within 18 months after the receipt of such grants. Directs the Administrator, at the request of the Governor of an affected State and after consultation with appropriate Federal and State agencies and other interested persons, to make a grant for purposes of assessing the principal factors having an adverse effect on the environmental quality of the Narragansett Bay, as perceived by both scientists and users, in conjunction with developing and implementing a management program to improve such Bay's water quality. Requires States to submit descriptions of the proposed programs for the approval of the Administrator. Directs the Administrator to approve such programs if the applicant State demonstrates that it will: (1) establish a committee to provide advice on design and implementation of a management program and to coordinate communication on issues affecting such Bay's water quality; (2) coordinate research and pollution abatement programs to address adverse water quality factors; (3) establish methods for improving sampling data collection and a system for collecting, analyzing, storing, and disseminating such data; and (4) develop, and implement within three years after enactment of this Act, water quality management practices and measures (including land use requirements) to reduce to the greatest extent feasible pollutant loadings in such Bay and to improve its water quality. Limits such grants to 55 percent of the program implementation costs and requires non-Federal sources to provide the remainder. Requires States to submit descriptions of the proposed programs for the approval of the Administrator. Requires States to submit progress reports to the Administrator, within two years after issuance of such grants and annually thereafter. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1987 for such Chesapeake and Narragansett Bays programs.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-4037,98,hr,4037,"A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the States to identify areas which have water quality control problems as a result of pollution from nonpoint sources and to establish plans and priorities for controlling those problems, to provide assistance to the States for implementing such plans, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1983-09-29,1984-05-01,Provisions Included in H.R.3282.,House,"Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]",MN,D,O000006,27,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (""the Act"") (also known as the Clean Water Act) to provide for State nonpoint source control reports and plans and grants to States for implementation of such plans. Directs the Governor of each State, within 270 days after the enactment of this Act, to prepare and submit for the approval of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency a report on: (1) those portions of the navigable waters within a State that, as a result of pollution from nonpoint sources in whole or in part, are not meeting applicable water quality standards or are not attaining a water quality which ensures protection of public health, use and value for water supply, agricultural, industrial, and other purposes, and propagation of a balanced indigenous population of shellfish, fish, wildlife, and plants and which allows recreational activities in and on the water; (2) those categories and subcategories of nonpoint sources which add significant pollutant loadings to each portion of such waters in amounts which contribute to nonattainment of such water quality or standards; (3) State and local programs for controlling pollutant loadings added from nonpoint sources to such waters, including but not limited to programs receiving Federal assistance under this Act; and (4) the process, including intergovernmental coordination and public participation, for identifying best management practices and measures to control such categories and subcategories of nonpoint sources and to reduce, to the maximum extent practicable, the level of pollution resulting from such categories and subcategories. Requires annual written updates of such reports. Requires that such reports and updates be based on available information. Permits such reports or updates to include all or part of an approved existing water quality management program. Directs the Governor of each State, within 270 days after the enactment of this Act, to prepare and submit for the approval of the Administrator: (1) a plan, developed in cooperation with local agencies and organizations with expertise in control of nonpoint sources of pollution, which the State proposes to implement in the four-fiscal-year period beginning after the date of submission of the report for controlling pollutant loadings added from nonpoint sources to navigable waters within the State; and (2) a report identifying each Federal department, agency, or instrumentality which will be engaging in, supporting, or providing financial assistance for any activity or program within the State during such four-fiscal-year period and which would be inconsistent with plan implementation, and recommending appropriate administrative modification of such program or activity. Requires that such plans include: (1) a list of those waters in the order in which the State plans to begin control during such period, and of those categories and subcategories for which control measures are to be implemented; (2) a description of proposed best management practices to be implemented in each fiscal year of such period; (3) a schedule requiring each category and subcategory to implement such practices as expeditiously as possible, indicating estimated dates for such implementation; (4) an identification of methods to encourage, assist, or require such implementation; (5) an identification, description, and estimated cost of practices and measures to be implemented with Federal assistance under this Act in each such year; (6) an identification of other sources of Federal and other assistance available in each such year for supporting such proposed State programs and a description of the purposes for which such assistance will be used; and (7) a certification by the State attorney general or the head attorney of the State water pollution control agency that State laws provide adequate authority to carry out such programs or a list of any additional authority needed. Requires annual updates of the information on sources of assistance. Requires each State to report annually to the Administrator on activities and programs carried out under the plan in the preceding fiscal year and the progress made in meeting the schedule. Directs the Administrator to consolidate and submit recommendations for modifications of Federal activities and programs submitted by the States to the appropriate Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalites. Directs such entities to carry out their activities and programs in a manner consistent with the approved State plan and helpful to its implementation. Requires States to utilize local agencies and organizations with expertise in nonpoint source pollution control, to the maximum extent practicable, in identifying and implementing best management practices and measures. Sets forth procedures and deadlines for approval, disapproval, or revision of reports, plans, and updates. Directs the Administrator to provide technical assistance to local agencies or organizations in developing plans, whenever a State fails to submit or the Administrator does not approve a plan. Makes such local agencies or organizations eligible to receive implementation assistance after development of such plan. Directs the Administrator, upon State request, to provide technical assistance to a State in developing a plan. Sets forth requirements for State petitions, interstate management conferences and agreements, and State plans for reduction of interstate water pollution from nonpoint sources. Directs the Administrator, upon State application, to make grants to each State for which a report, or update, and a plan is approved for any fiscal year. Provides that such grants shall be made to carry out in any fiscal year such plan for controlling nonpoint source pollution of navigable waters. Makes the Federal share equal to 50 percent of the cost of each plan. Limits administrative costs (except costs of implementing enforcement and regulatory activities, education, training, technical assistance, or technology transfer programs) to ten percent of the grant amount. Sets forth maintenance of effort requirements for such grants. Limits to 15 percent of the amount appropriated for such grants the amount which may be used to make grants to any one State, including any grants to any local agency or organization with authority to control pollution from nonpoint sources in any area in such State. Authorizes appropriations for such grants for FY 1984 through 1988. Directs the Administrator, by January 1, 1985, and each January 1 thereafter, to report to specified congressional committees on the activities carried out under this Act for the preceding fiscal year and the progress made in reducing nonpoint source pollution in the navigable waters. Directs the Administrator, by January 1, 1988, to transmit a final report to Congress on the activities carried out under this Act, with specified analyses and recommendations. Directs the Administrator to maintain personnel levels at the Environmental Protection Agency which are adequate to carry out this Act. Includes plans approved under this Act under provisions of the Act for agreements with the Secretaries of Agriculture, Army, and the Interior to provide maximum utilization of programs to achieve and maintain water quality. Extends through FY 1988 the authorization of appropriations for transfers of funds relating to such agreements.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-3965,98,hr,3965,"A bill to provide that the Rocky River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Rocky River, Ohio, shall be eligible for reimbursement under section 206 (a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.",Environmental Protection,1983-09-22,1984-05-01,For Further Action See H.R.3282.,House,"Rep. Feighan, Edward F. [D-OH-19]",OH,D,F000059,1,"Declares the Rocky River Wastewater Treatment Plant, Rocky River, Ohio, eligible for reimbursement under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-3904,98,hr,3904,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for grants to States for restoration of water quality which has deteriorated as a result of acid deposition.,Environmental Protection,1983-09-15,1984-05-01,For Further Action See H.R.3282.,House,"Rep. Donnelly, Brian J. [D-MA-11]",MA,D,D000416,20,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (also known as the Clean Water Act) to allow any State to prepare and submit for approval to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: (1) a survey of water quality deterioration in the State which has resulted from acid deposition; and (2) methods and procedures to restore the water quality insofar as it has deteriorated as a result of acid deposition. Directs the Administrator to provide financial assistance to States to carry out such approved methods and procedures. Limits the amount of any such grant to 80 percent of the State expenditure for carrying out the approved methods and procedures. Directs the Administrator to provide for equitable distribution of such grants on the basis of the relative need of each State for the restoration of water quality which has deteriorated as a result of acid deposition. Provides that such grants shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other Federal assistance. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act for FY 1984 through 1988.",2024-02-07T16:02:17Z, 98-hr-3818,98,hr,3818,"Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Reform Act",Environmental Protection,1983-08-04,1983-11-03,Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.,House,"Rep. Harkin, Tom [D-IA-5]",IA,D,H000206,23,"Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Reform Act - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to expand the definition of ""active ingredient"" to include any ingredient of a pesticide which will endanger human beings. Revises Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) information requirements for pesticide registration. Provides that waivers and variation in data requirements may be granted only if the advisability of the waiver or variation is clearly established. Requires the Administrator of EPA to make the data submitted in support of registration applications and petitions to establish tolerances publicly available. Specifies the procedures and provisions governing the joint development and sharing of defensive data as required by the Administrator to fill a data gap. Extends the application comment period from 30 to 90 days. Requires the Administrator, when registering a pesticide, to make a written determination of active and inert ingredients. Requires the Administrator to consider potential chronic health effects in determining whether a pesticide will endanger human beings. Eliminates the Administrator's authority to waive efficiency data requirements. Requires the Administrator to publish in the Federal Register a summary of the factual basis supporting registration actions. Requires, rather than allows, the Administrator to deny registrations when certain requirements are not met. Prohibits the Administrator from granting a conditional registration for a previously canceled or suspended pesticide. Requires the Administrator to make the data submitted in support of a conditional registration publicly available. Repeals provisions specifying the conditions which must be met before initiating an interim administrative review. Directs the Administrator, in all decisions pertaining to classification, to consider the potential contamination of groundwater in determining whether a pesticide should be classified for restricted use. Provides that registration of a pesticide constitutes prima facie evidence that a pesticide is in compliance only if the active ingredient has been registered after enactment of this Act or re-registered since October 21, 1972, and provided that a cancellation proceeding is not in progress and that no required studies are outstanding. Requires the Administrator to publish in the Federal Register a list of pesticide active ingredients not re-registered since September 31, 1978, in order of their priority for re-registration, and a list of active ingredients and data gaps. Requires the Administrator to issue a notice of intent to suspend a pesticide's registration if there are outstanding data gaps on the pesticide and the Administrator has failed to include the ingredient on the re-registration priority list. Provides that a registrant must conduct studies to fill data gaps and report the results of the studies to the Administrator within three years of the publication of the list and data gaps. Requires the Administrator to issue regulations specifying what tests shall be undertaken on inert ingredients. Allows information on inert ingredients to be disclosed under specified circumstances. Revises requirements for restricted use certification. Eliminates provisions that prohibit a State from requiring a written examination as part of the certification process. Prohibits the Administrator from granting an experimental use permit if the use has previously been canceled, suspended, or voluntarily withdrawn for health or environmental reasons. Requires the Administrator to revoke an experimental use permit if such permit will not yield certain registration data. Authorizes the Administrator to immediately issue a notice of intent to cancel a pesticide's registrations, or revoke tolerances, if it appears that false, misleading, or inaccurate supporting information has been submitted. Requires, rather than allows, the Administrator to issue a notice of intent to hold a hearing or cancel a pesticide's registration if it may reasonably be expected to endanger human beings (including children permitted to work in areas treated with pesticides). Restricts the scope of a hearing held to consider data not available to the Administrator either when the hearing for registration of a previously canceled use of a pesticide was terminated or upon issuance of a cancellation decision. Provides that when a use or uses of a pesticide have been canceled, suspended, or voluntarily withdrawn because of health or environmental concerns, such use or uses shall not be eligible for registration unless there are no alternatives to control new or expanding pest infestation. Authorizes the Administrator to issue commercial applicators' recordkeeping regulations. Repeals certain EPA indemnification provisions. Establishes a private right of action against any person (including the United States or any other governmental instrumentality or agency), or against the Administrator for violations under this Act. Specifies time limits and conditions for such an action. Revises the foreign government notification requirement to include cases where a pesticide's registration has been voluntarily withdrawn. Authorizes an Administrator to grant a public health danger exemption to a State or Federal agency when no other pesticide alternatives are available. Provides that such an exemption may not be issued for more than one year or renewed more than twice. Revises requirements regarding the comprehensive national plan for monitoring pesticides. Provides that the plan shall be proposed by rule not later than June 1, 1984, and be effective not later than October 1, 1984. Transfers responsibility for regulating occupational exposure to pesticides to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Authorizes States to impose or continue in effect requirements for pesticide labeling or packaging in order to enforce a prohibition on the use of a federally registered pesticide or device in the State. Eliminates the Administrator's discretion to disapprove a special local need registration that is inconsistent with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Allows a rebuttable presumption that a special local need for a pesticide does not exist if five or more States seek the same pesticide for the same local need. Revises provisions pertaining to the appointment of members of the Scientific Advisory Panel. Directs the Administrator to appoint members from specified scientific disciplines. Requires the Administrator to promulgate safe use regulations within one year. Allows States to impose enforcement provisions and regulations more stringent than required by Federal law. Allows States two years to adopt an enforcement program responsive to the new requirements and regulations established pursuant to the National Pesticide Hazard Prevention Act. Directs the Administrator to collect registration fees. Provides certain protections for employees who have commenced actions, testified, or otherwise participated in an enforcement action or complaint. Authorizes the Administrator to establish and enforce standards for indoor human exposure to pesticides. Makes certain technical and conforming amendments.",2025-08-29T17:41:38Z, 98-s-1774,98,s,1774,"Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Reform Act",Environmental Protection,1983-08-04,1983-08-04,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.,Senate,"Sen. Proxmire, William [D-WI]",WI,D,P000553,3,"Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Reform Act - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act expand the definition of ""active ingredient"" to include any ingredient of a pesticide which will endanger human beings. Revises Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) information requirements for pesticide registration. Provides that waivers and variation in data requirements may be granted only if the advisability of the waiver or variation is clearly established. Requires the Administrator of EPA to make the data submitted in support of registration applications and petitions to establish tolerances publicly available. Specifies the procedures and provisions governing the joint development and sharing of defensive data as required by the Administrator to fill a data gap. Extends the application comment period from 30 to 90 days. Requires the Administrator, when registering a pesticide, to make a written determination of active and inert ingredients. Requires the Administrator to consider potential chronic health effects in determining whether a pesticide will endanger human beings. Eliminates the Administrator's authority to waive efficiency data requirements. Requires the Administrator to publish in the Federal Register a summary of the factual basis supporting registration actions. Requires, rather than allows, the Administrator to deny registrations when certain requirements are not met. Prohibits the Administrator from granting a conditional registration for a previously canceled or suspended pesticide. Requires the Administrator to make the data submitted in support of a conditional registration publicly available. Repeals provisions specifying the conditions which must be met before initiating an interim administrative review. Directs the Administrator, in all decisions pertaining to classification, to consider the potential contamination of groundwater in determining whether a pesticide should be classified for restricted use. Provides that registration of a pesticide constitutes prima facie evidence that such pesticide is in compliance only if the active ingredient has been registered after enactment of this Act or re-registered since October 21, 1972, and provided that a cancellation proceeding is not in progress and that no required studies are outstanding. Requires the Administrator to publish in the Federal Register a list of pesticide active ingredients not re-registered since September 31, 1978, in order of their priority for re-registration, and a list of active ingredients and data gaps. Requires the Administrator to issue a notice of intent to suspend a pesticide's registration if there are outstanding data gaps on the pesticide and the Administrator has failed to include the ingredient on the re-registration priority list. Provides that a registrant must conduct studies to fill data gaps and report the results of the studies to the Administrator within three years of the publication of the list and data gaps. Requires the Administrator to issue regulations specifying what tests shall be undertaken on inert ingredients. Allows information on inert ingredients to be disclosed under specified circumstances. Revises requirements for restricted use certification. Eliminates provisions that prohibit a State from requiring a written examination as part of the certification process. Prohibits the Administrator from granting an experimental use permit if the use has previously been canceled, suspended, or voluntarily withdrawn for health or environmental reasons. Requires the Administrator to revoke an experimental use permit if such permit will not yield certain registration data. Authorizes the Administrator to immediately issue a notice of intent to cancel a pesticide's registrations, or revoke tolerances, if it appears that false, misleading, or inaccurate supporting information has been submitted. Requires, rather than allows, the Administrator to issue a notice of intent to hold a hearing or cancel a pesticide's registration if it may reasonably be expected to endanger human beings (including children permitted to work in areas treated with pesticides). Restricts the scope of a hearing held to consider data not available to the Administrator either when the hearing for registration of a previously canceled use of a pesticide was terminated or upon issuance of a cancellation decision. Provides that when a use or uses of a pesticide have been canceled, suspended, or voluntarily withdrawn because of health or environmental concerns, such use or uses shall not be eligible for registration unless there are no alternatives to control new or expanding pest infestation. Authorizes the Administrator to issue commercial applicators' recordkeeping regulations. Repeals certain EPA indemnification provisions. Establishes a private right of action against any person (including the United States or any other governmental instrumentality or agency), or against the Administrator for violations under this Act. Specifies time limits and conditions for such an action. Revises the foreign government notification requirement to include cases where a pesticide's registration has been voluntarily withdrawn. Authorizes an Administrator to grant a public health danger exemption to a State or Federal agency when no other pesticide alternatives are available. Provides that such an exemption may not be issued for more than one year or renewed more than twice. Revises requirements regarding the comprehensive national plan for monitoring pesticides. Provides that the plan shall be proposed by rule not later than June 1, 1984, and be effective not later than October 1, 1984. Transfers responsibility for regulating occupational exposure to pesticides to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Authorizes States to impose or continue in effect requirements for pesticide labelling or packaging in order to enforce a prohibition on the use of a federally registered pesticide or device in the State. Eliminates the Administrator's discretion to disapprove a special local need registration that is inconsistent with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Allows a rebuttable presumption that a special local need for a pesticide does not exist if five or more States seek the same pesticide for the same local need. Revises provisions pertaining to the appointment of members of the Scientific Advisory Panel. Directs the Administrator to appoint members from specified scientific disciplines. Requires the Administrator to promulgate safe use regulations within one year. Allows States to impose enforcement provisions and regulations more stringent than required by Federal law. Allows States two years to adopt an enforcement program responsive to the new requirements and regulations established pursuant to the new requirements and regulations established pursuant to the National Pesticide Hazard Prevention Act. Directs the Administrator to collect registration fees. Provides certain protections for employees who have commenced actions, testified, or otherwise participated in an enforcement action or complaint. Authorizes the Administrator to establish and enforce standards for indoor human exposure to pesticides. Makes certain technical and conforming amendments.",2025-08-29T17:40:05Z, 98-s-1779,98,s,1779,Hazardous Waste Reduction Act of 1983,Environmental Protection,1983-08-04,1983-08-20,"Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Treasury Department, Environmental Protection Agency.",Senate,"Sen. Proxmire, William [D-WI]",WI,D,P000553,1,"Hazardous Waste Reduction Act of 1983 - Title I - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (the Superfund Act) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make grants to States to assist States in: (1) carrying out hazardous waste enforcement programs under the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (2) carrying out remedial actions and other response measures necessary with respect to the release, or substantial threat of release, of any pollutant or contaminant from a facility not on the 400 top priority known response targets list but which the State determines may present an imminent and substantial danger to the public health or welfare; and (3) providing technical assistance to companies engaged in the recycling of hazardous substances. Requires that at least $200,000,000 of the amounts appropriated to the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund shall be reserved to make such grants to States. Revises provisions for audits by each Inspector General of each department or agency delegated responsibility to obligate money in the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund. Directs each such Inspector General to report annually to the President and the Congress on such auditing of the Fund and to specifically identify any improper uses of the Fund. Provides for reimbursement to the Fund for any improper expenditures. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for the Fund. Increases the yearly amount of such authorization of appropriations for FY 1986 through 1995 (above the yearly amount currently authorized through FY 1985). Amends the hazardous waste management provision of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976) to establish a hazardous waste quantity assessment program. Directs the Administrator, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the States, to develop and implement methods of estimate the quantities of hazardous waste which are generated in each calendar year, on the basis of specified data. Directs the Administrator to report at least annually to the Congress, comparing the quantities of hazardous waste estimated to have been generated during the preceding calendar year and the quantities of waste on which the recycling incentive tax on disposal of hazardous wastes was paid. Title II - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace (effective October 1, 1985) the environmental taxes on petroleum and chemical feedstocks with a recycling incentive tax on disposal of hazardous wastes (effective for FY 1985 through 1995). Sets forth tables for determining the amount of such tax. Distinguishes between: (1) toxic and nontoxic hazardous waste; (2) waste disposal before and after the end of FY 1990; and (3) disposal of waste and storage of waste for more than one year. Imposes such tax on the person disposing of such waste. Sets forth requirements for records, statements, and returns relating to such tax. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe any such requirements, as necessary, for persons involved in the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous wastes. Extends through FY 1995 the authority to collect taxes conferred by the Superfund Act.",2025-08-29T17:39:37Z, 98-sjres-143,98,sjres,143,"A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation designating the calendar week beginning with Sunday, June 3, 1984, as ""National Garden Week"".",Environmental Protection,1983-08-03,1984-04-24,Referred to House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,Senate,"Sen. Melcher, John [D-MT]",MT,D,M000635,27,"Designates the week beginning June 3, 1984, as National Garden Week.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z, 98-s-1696,98,s,1696,An original bill authorizing three additional Assistant Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency.,Environmental Protection,1983-07-28,1983-08-23,Became Public Law No: 98-80.,Senate,"Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT]",VT,R,S000776,0,"(Measure passed Senate, amended) Authorizes three additional Assistant Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency. Makes technical and conforming amendments to: (1) specified Federal law relating to compensation of Federal officials; (2) the Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1970; (3) the Toxic Substances Control Act; and (4) the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z, 98-hr-3626,98,hr,3626,"A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to define the term ""Motor vehicle emission control inspection and maintenance program"".",Environmental Protection,1983-07-21,1983-07-26,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Fields, Jack [R-TX-8]",TX,R,F000111,1,"Amends the Clean Air Act to define the term ""motor vehicle emission control inspection and maintenance program."" Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in approving or promulgating any State implementation plan, from requiring any specific percentage of reduction in emissions to be achieved by means of a motor vehicle emission control inspection and maintenance program.",2025-01-15T18:51:50Z, 98-hr-3476,98,hr,3476,"A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to promote competitiveness in the motor vehicle aftermarket and to preserve consumer freedom of choice to select parts and service of the consumer's own choosing, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1983-06-30,1983-07-12,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Dannemeyer, William E. [R-CA-39]",CA,R,D000044,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act to repeal the new motor vehicle emission standards in certain States with respect to model years beginning after enactment of this Act. Repeals the requirement that new motor vehicles shall be sold with a production warranty and parts certification with respect to model years beginning after enactment of this Act. Requires the manufacture's performance warranty to cover the vehicle's first two years or first 24,000 miles, whichever occurs first. (Currently the warranty covers the useful life of the vehicle.) Deletes the provision which declares that no such warranty shall be invalid on the basis of any part used in the maintenance or repair of a vehicle or engine if such part was certified. Deletes the provision which defines emission control device or system for purposes of such warranty. Deletes the requirement that the maintenance instruction which the manufacturer must furnish with each new motor vehicle shall correspond to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. Requires that the maintenance instructions provide notice that maintenance, replacement, or repair of the emission control devices and systems may be performed by any automobile automotive repair establishment or individual using any automotive part of the establishment's or individual's choosing. Deletes the waiver of the prohibition against the instructions including a condition that the purchaser must use a component or service identified by brand name or distinguishing between service performed by establishments affiliated with the manufacturer and independent establishments. Eliminates the prohibition against causing specified prohibited acts relating to the provision, use, maintenance, or inspection of emission control devices. Prohibits specified persons from knowingly removing or rendering inoperative any part or component placed in or on a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine solely to control emissions in compliance with EPA regulations, except in connection with routine maintenance.",2024-02-05T14:30:09Z, 98-hr-3477,98,hr,3477,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,1983-06-30,1983-07-12,Referred to Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Dannemeyer, William E. [R-CA-39]",CA,R,D000044,9,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.,2025-01-15T18:51:50Z,