[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1740 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1740

 To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
 Liability Act of 1980 to prohibit the use of solid waste as fuel for 
   any incinerator being used for the destruction of polychlorinated 
      biphenyls or other hazardous substances and to require the 
   Environmental Protection Agency to review and research methods of 
           disposal and storage of polychlorinated biphenyls.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 20, 1993

Mr. McCloskey introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
   to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and Science, Space, and 
                               Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
 Liability Act of 1980 to prohibit the use of solid waste as fuel for 
   any incinerator being used for the destruction of polychlorinated 
      biphenyls or other hazardous substances and to require the 
   Environmental Protection Agency to review and research methods of 
           disposal and storage of polychlorinated biphenyls.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON USE OF SOLID WASTE AS FUEL FOR CERTAIN 
              INCINERATORS.

    Section 104 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9604) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(k) Prohibition on Use of Solid Waste as Fuel for Certain 
Incinerators.--Solid waste may not be used as fuel in any incinerator--
            ``(1) being used for the destruction of polychlorinated 
        biphenyls or other hazardous substances from a facility subject 
        to a response action under this Act; or
            ``(2) being used in any other way in the implementation of 
        a response action under this Act.''.

SEC. 2. REVIEW AND RESEARCH ON DISPOSAL AND STORAGE OF POLYCHLORINATED 
              BIPHENYLS.

    Section 25 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2624) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) PCB Disposal and Storage.--(1) Not later than 120 days after 
the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Administrator shall 
conduct a review of the methods for disposal and long-term storage of 
polychlorinated biphenyls. In conducting the review, the Administrator 
shall analyze the safety of such methods and determine whether the 
safest methods are being used or authorized. Using the results of the 
review, the Administrator shall make revisions in the regulations under 
such section to require use of the safest methods for disposal of 
polychorinated biphenyls.
    ``(2) Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of 
this subsection, the Administrator shall establish and begin 
implementing a research program on additional methods for disposal, 
long-term storage, and other means of containing and preventing the 
spread of contamination of polychlorinated biphenyls. The research 
program shall emphasize research on methods of disposal other than 
incineration.
    ``(3) Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of 
this subsection, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a report on 
the review conducted under paragraph (1) and the research program 
established under paragraph (2), with recommendations on legislative 
changes that may be necessary to carry out the results of the review 
and research.
    ``(4) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator 
such sums as may be necessary for purposes of carrying out the review 
and research program under this subsection.''.

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