[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3522 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3522

 To amend title 23, United States Code, to ensure consideration of and 
 planning for reuse or disposal of construction and demolition debris 
        resulting from highway projects, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 1996

   Mrs. Collins of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was 
     referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 23, United States Code, to ensure consideration of and 
 planning for reuse or disposal of construction and demolition debris 
        resulting from highway projects, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Construction and Demolition Debris 
Disposal Act''.

SEC. 2. STANDARDS.

    (a) Guidelines.--Section 109(h) of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (4);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (5) and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
            ``(6) method and location of disposal of construction and 
        demolition debris resulting from the project, including 
        transportation of such debris.''.
    (b) Intent of Congress.--Section 109(o) of such title is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``Congress''; and
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end the 
        following: ``; and (2) that any project for resurfacing, 
        restoring, or rehabilitating any highway (other than a highway 
        access to which is fully controlled) in which Federal funds 
        participate shall include, to the extent possible, as a part of 
        the project the reuse or recycling of any construction and 
        demolition debris resulting from the project and, in any case 
        in which such reuse or recycling is not possible, include a 
        requirement that the construction and demolition debris will be 
        disposed of in existing municipal landfills or used for fill as 
        permitted under State and local law''.

SEC. 3. PUBLIC HEARINGS.

    (a) Requirements.--Section 128(a) of title 23, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) by inserting before the period at the end of the first 
        sentence the following: ``and has considered the economic, 
        social, environmental, and other effects of the method and 
        location of disposal of construction and demolition debris 
        resulting from the project'';
            (2) in the second sentence by striking ``enabling persons 
        in'' and all that follows through the period and inserting the 
        following: ``enabling persons in areas through or contiguous to 
        whose property or schools the highway will pass or into whose 
        neighborhoods construction and demolition debris from the 
        project will be disposed of to express any objections they may 
        have to the proposed locations of such highway or the proposed 
        transportation or disposal.''; and
            (3) by inserting before the period at the end of the third 
        sentence the following: ``and the method and location of the 
        disposal of construction and demolition debris resulting from 
        the project''.
    (b) Special Rules for Hearings on Disposal of Debris.--Section 128 
of such title is amended by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection 
(c) and by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Special Rules for Hearings on Disposal of Debris.--
            ``(1) Consideration of other debris.--The hearings held 
        under subsection (a) with respect to the economic, social, 
        environmental, and other effects of the method and location of 
        disposal of construction and demolition debris resulting from a 
        project shall include consideration of the following:
                    ``(A) Debris resulting from any previous 
                construction that must be removed in order to carry out 
                the project.
                    ``(B) Debris resulting from any renovation, 
                rebuilding, or construction attributable to the 
                project, including relocation of dwellings, buildings, 
                or other facilities.
                    ``(C) Other construction and demolition debris 
                indirectly attributable to the project.
            ``(2) Personal notification.--If the location proposed for 
        the disposal of the construction and demolition debris is not 
        in an existing municipal solid waste landfill, contiguous 
        property owners to the proposed location shall be personally 
        notified of the public hearing.''.

SEC. 4. STATEWIDE PLANNING.

    Section 135(c) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(21) The economic, social, environmental, and other 
        effects of the method and location of the disposal of 
        construction and demolition debris resulting from the project, 
        including debris described in section 128(b)(1).''.
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