[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1718 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1718

 To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
 Liability Act of 1980 to require public availability of an accounting 
of all funds used, or required to be used, for response to a release of 
           a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 20, 2005

 Mr. Andrews introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and 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 require public availability of an accounting 
of all funds used, or required to be used, for response to a release of 
           a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant.

    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 ``Pollution Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 117 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9617) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f) Accounting.--Any person who undertakes, or who is required to 
undertake, a response to a release of a hazardous substance or 
pollutant or contaminant shall make available to any person, on 
request, an accounting of any funds used, or required by any court or 
administrative action to be used, for such response.''.
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