[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3319 Introduced in House (IH)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 3319

 To require that the United States promptly sue for recovery of costs 
 and damages for the cleanup of the Stepan Property Superfund Site in 
                       Bergen County, New Jersey.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 24, 1996

  Mr. Zimmer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require that the United States promptly sue for recovery of costs 
 and damages for the cleanup of the Stepan Property Superfund Site in 
                       Bergen County, New Jersey.

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

SECTION 1. RECOVERY OF CLEANUP COSTS FOR STEPAN SITE.

    (a) Prompt Cost Recovery Required.--Within 90 days after the 
enactment of this Act, the President, acting through the Attorney 
General of the United States, shall bring an action in the appropriate 
United States District Court under section 107 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(``Superfund'') against all persons who are potentially responsible 
parties with respect to the Stepan Property Superfund Site in Bergen 
County, New Jersey (Superfund Site No. NJD980529762) to recover all 
costs of removal or remedial action incurred by the United States and 
all damages for injury to, or destruction of, or loss of natural 
resources that are recoverable by the United States under that section.
    (b) Existing Cleanup Activities.--Nothing in subsection (a) shall 
be construed to authorize or permit the cessation, delay, or slowing of 
any response or remedial action at the site referred to in subsection 
(a) that would otherwise take place if this Act has not been enacted.
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