[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 139 (Thursday, September 29, 1994)]
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                              FLOW CONTROL

  (Mr. RICHARDSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, along with my colleague, Jack Fields, I 
will offer a bipartisan amendment in the nature of a substitute that 
sharply curtails the future ability of local governments to exercise 
complete control of municipal solid waste disposal.
  If adopted, this amendment will send a signal that Congress cares 
more about the environment, more about the free market and more about 
the future ability of businesses large and small to compete than about 
the pressure packed pleas of those who have been telling us that local 
governments need unfettered monopoly power over local solid waste 
disposal decisions.
  The Richardson-Fields amendment addresses the legitimate concerns of 
local governments by allowing them to continue exercising flow control 
authority for a limited time but says that future waste disposal 
decisions should be based on competition not monopoly control.
  Our amendment will not saddle waste generators with potential 
Superfund liability or require them to send waste to substandard 
facilities.
  Our amendment will not open the door for more dangerous waste 
incinerators to be built.
  When the House takes up flow control today, I urge my colleagues to 
support the Richardson-Fields amendment.

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