[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2754 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2754

 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

                             August 5, 1999

 Mr. Gillmor (for himself, Mr. Bilbray, Mr. Doyle, and Mr. Whitfield) 
 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 2000, 2001, and 2003: 25 percent.
            ``(2) Fiscal year 2004 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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