[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2542 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2542

   To clarify the effect of State statutes of repose on the required 
  commencement date for actions under the Comprehensive Environmental 
           Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 26, 2014

  Mrs. Hagan introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
   To clarify the effect of State statutes of repose on the required 
  commencement date for actions under the Comprehensive Environmental 
           Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.

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

SECTION 1. ACTIONS UNDER STATE LAW FOR DAMAGES FROM EXPOSURE TO 
              HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.

    Section 309 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9658) is amended--
            (1) in the subsection heading of subsection (a), by 
        inserting ``and Repose'' after ``Statutes of Limitations''; and
            (2) by inserting ``or repose'' after ``limitations'' each 
        of the other places it appears.
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