COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND LIABILITY ACT

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of HUD: facilitate the cleanup and economic redevelopment of brownfields (see H.R. 239), H134 [8JA]

Ecology and environment: provide assistance to communities for redevelopment of brownfield sites (see S. 645), S3881 [18MR] (see H.R. 1334), H1954 [18MR]

EPA: provide relocation and other assistance for residents at the Tar Creek Superfund site (see H.R. 2116), H4203 [15MY]

Gloucester, NJ: encourage on-site treatment of pollutants at the Gloucester Environmental Management Services landfill, E49 [8JA]

Hazardous substances: require public availability of accounting of funds used, or required to be used, in response to release of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant (see H.R. 1420), H2310 [25MR]

Recycled materials: modify provisions on liability associated with a release or threatened release of recycled oil (see H.R. 3543), H11700 [20NO]

Taxation: exclude from unrelated business taxable income the gain or loss on the sale or exchange of certain brownfield sites (see S. 1936), S15812 [24NO] (see H.R. 3527), H11650 [19NO]

———expand incentives for the environmental cleanup of certain brownfield sites (see H.R. 402), H217 [28JA]

———extend expensing of environmental remediation costs (see H.R. 2815), H7329 [22JY]

———extend financing of the Superfund program by reinstating certain excise taxes (see S. 173), S848 [15JA]

———reinstate Superfund and oil spill excise taxes and extend leaking underground storage tank taxes (see H.R. 610), H321 [5FE]

———treatment of certain CERCLA settlement funds (see H.R. 805), H701 [13FE]

Letters

Brownfields Redevelopment Assistance Act: Carol Wayman, National Congress for Community Economic Development, S3892 [18MR]

———Don Chen, Smart Growth America (organization), S3892 [18MR]

———Donald J. Borut, National League of Cities, S3893 [18MR]

———F. Barton Harvey III, Enterprise Foundation, S3892 [18MR]

———Larry Naake, National Association of Counties, S3892 [18MR]

———Thomas L. Jackson, American Society of Civil Engineers, S3893 [18MR]

Tax treatment of certain CERCLA settlement funds: Robert E. Fabrican, EPA, E240 [13FE]

Remarks in House

Boyd, Gerald: EPA Phoenix Award recipient, E2189 [31OC]

Dept. of HUD: facilitate the cleanup and economic redevelopment of brownfields (H.R. 239), E44 [8JA]

Ecology and environment: evaluation of Bush administration policies, H6842 [15JY]

Roberson, Jessie: EPA Phoenix Award recipient, E2189 [31OC]

Superfund program: funding through reductions in NASA Project Prometheus funding, H7700-H7702 [25JY]

Taxation: extend expensing of environmental remediation costs (H.R. 2815), E1633 [25JY]

Remarks in Senate

Ecology and environment: national objectives priority assignments, S1647-S1649 [28JA]

———provide assistance to communities for redevelopment of brownfield sites (S. 645), S3891-S3894 [18MR]

———redirect proposed tax revenues to increase enviromental and natural resources conservation programs funding, S4142-S4144 [20MR], S4267 [21MR]

Leavitt, Michael O.: nomination to be EPA Administrator, S13237-S13251 [27OC], S13326-S13340 [28OC]

Superfund program: funding, S1430, S1431 [23JA]

Taxation: exclude from unrelated business taxable income the gain or loss on the sale or exchange of certain brownfield sites (S. 1936), S15813-S15815 [24NO]

———extend financing of the Superfund program by reinstating certain excise taxes, S4361, S4362 [25MR], S4417 [26MR]

———extend financing of the Superfund program by reinstating certain excise taxes (S. 173), S859, S860 [15JA], S1647 [28JA]

Reports filed

Brownfields Redevelopment Enhancement Act: Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 239) (H. Rept. 108-22), H1639 [5MR]

Texts of

S. 645, Brownfields Redevelopment Assistance Act, S3893 [18MR]

S. 1936, exclude from unrelated business taxable income the gain or loss on the sale or exchange of certain brownfield sites, S15815 [24NO]