[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2086 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2086

 To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
 Liability Act of 1980 to limit the portion of the Superfund expended 
       for administration, oversight, support, studies, design, 
investigations, monitoring, assessment, and evaluation, and enforcement 
                              activities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 1997

    Mr. Gillmor (for himself, Mr. Largent, Mr. Deal of Georgia, Mr. 
    Bilbray, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Bonilla, Mr. Graham, Mr. 
 Stenholm, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Oxley, Mr. Frelinghuysen, and Mr. Lewis of 
 California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
      Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
  Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
 Liability Act of 1980 to limit the portion of the Superfund expended 
       for administration, oversight, support, studies, design, 
investigations, monitoring, assessment, and evaluation, and enforcement 
                              activities.

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

SECTION 1. LIMIT ON CERTAIN EXPENDITURES.

    Section 111 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 is amended by inserting the 
following new subsection after subsection (g):
    ``(h) Limtation on Certain Expenditures.--From the total sums made 
available under subsection (a) of this section for any fiscal year, the 
aggregate amount expended in such fiscal year for administration, 
oversight, support, studies, design, investigations, monitoring, 
assessment, and evaluation, and enforcement activities shall not exceed 
the following percentages of such total:
            ``(1) Fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000: 25 percent.
            ``(2) Fiscal year 2001 and thereafter: 20 percent.
The Administrator shall report to the Congress, within 90 days after 
the enactment of this subsection, any regulatory or statutory relief 
that will be required to operate under the funding limitations 
specified in this subsection.''.
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