bill_id,congress,bill_type,bill_number,title,policy_area,introduced_date,latest_action_date,latest_action_text,origin_chamber,sponsor_name,sponsor_state,sponsor_party,sponsor_bioguide_id,cosponsor_count,summary_text,update_date,url
97-s-3119,97,s,3119,"A bill to extend until October 1, 1988, the authority for advances to the migratory bird conservation fund.",Environmental Protection,1982-12-19,1982-12-19,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Pryor, David H. [D-AR]",AR,D,P000556,0,"Extends through September 30, 1988, (currently, September 30, 1983) the authority for advances to the migratory bird conservation fund.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/3119
97-s-3087,97,s,3087,Hazardous Waste Identification Improvement Act,Environmental Protection,1982-12-08,1982-12-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]",CT,D,D000388,0,"Hazardous Waste Identification Improvement Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to revise provisions relating to criteria for identification and listing of hazardous waste. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), when evaluating a petition to exclude a waste generated at a particular facility from being listed as a hazardous waste, to consider criteria other than those for which the waste was listed if the Administrator has a reasonable basis to believe that such additional criteria could cause such waste to be listed as a hazardous waste. Directs the Administrator to grant or deny such petition only after the petitioner and all interested parties have been given notice and opportunity for public hearing with respect to such additional criteria and to demonstrate whether such waste meets such criteria. Directs the Administrator to develop, and submit to the Congress by July 1, 1983, a two-year plan for:  (1) revising or adding new characteristics for identifying hazardous waste; and (2) the listing of those hazardous wastes which are not so listed on the date of enactment of this Act, with a determination with respect to the listing of dioxin and certain organic and inorganic waste streams (described in a specified document) to be made prior to March 1, 1983; and (3) an evaluation of possible determinations as to the levels of certain hazardous constituents which may cause wastes to be hazardous per se.  Directs the Administrator to submit progress reports on such program on January 1, 1984, and January 1, 1985, in conjunction with the submittal of the proposed budget for EPA, to the appropriate congressional committees. Provides that such amendments shall become effective on the date of enactment of this Act, and required regulations shall be promulgated within 180 days after such date.",2025-08-29T19:51:51Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/3087
97-s-3041,97,s,3041,Clean Air Act Amendments of 1982,Environmental Protection,1982-11-15,1982-11-15,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 957.,Senate,"Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT]",VT,R,S000776,0,"Clean Air Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Clean Air Act (""the Act""). Title I:  Amendments Relating Primarily to Stationary Sources - Amends title I of the Act (Air Pollution Prevention and Control). Indian Tribes - Amends the definition of ""air pollution control agency"" to provide that any single agency designated by the tribal governing body of a federally recognized Indian tribe shall be eligible for grants for support of air pollution planning and control programs within an Indian reservation. Provides that specified funding level requirements for such grants to other agencies in each State shall not apply to grants to tribal agencies. Information for Technology Requirements - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make available to State agencies administering permit programs, and to other interested persons, guidance documents to assist such agencies in implementing requirements regarding:  (1) best available control technology (BACT) for proposed new and modified major stationary sources; and (2) reasonably available control technology (RACT) for existing sources.  Requires publication of such documents within one year after enactment of this Act and updating every year thereafter. Requires that such documents describe, in detail and with specified distinctions, BACT and RACT determinations made by the Administrator and State air pollution control agencies. Secondary Ambient Air Quality Standards - Makes a technical revision of requirements for national secondary ambient air quality standards (secondary NAAQS). Implementation Plan Revisions - Directs the Administrator to announce a 60-day public comment period after receipt of any State implementation plan (SIP) revision.  Provides for automatic approval of SIP revisions if the Administrator does not disapprove the revision within 120 days after the end of such public comment period.  Authorizes the Administrator to extend the disapproval deadline for 60 days if the State submits additional information after the close of the public comment period. Directs the Administrator, within the 120-day period after the close of the public comment period to:  (1) review any objections filed during the public comment period which were also filed during State proceedings; and (2) either disapprove or determine not to disapprove the revision based on such review. New Source Permits and Operating Permits - Revises SIP requirements relating to new source permits and operating permits. Provides that a modification of an existing source shall be subject to a new source review only if such modification increases emissions or potential emissions by 100 tons or more per year (the same level as that which applies to new sources). Prohibits the Administrator from requiring major stationary sources which comply with BACT requirements to adopt more stringent emission limitation or standard during the ten-year period after the new source permit is issued, except in cases of previously unregulated pollutants or hazardous pollutants or public health emergencies. Prohibits the Administrator from requiring a proposed major emitting facility to comply with any administrative or procedural requirements for permit issuance or emissions calculation which are adopted or modified after the date on which the permit application has been deemed complete, until final action on such application. Allows a State to adopt a program for establishing or modifying emission limitations and schedules and timetables for compliance for all or any class of sources in such State, through operating permits, general source-specific regulations, or other means. Excludes from coverage under such State program emission limitations established for a new source by a State pursuant to specified provisions relating to new source performance standards, national emission standards for hazardous pollutants, prevention of significant deterioration of air quality, and nonattainment areas. Sets forth requirements for any such State program.  Provides for EPA review of:  (1) any new or modified emission limitation which involves a potential net increase in emissions of 100 tons or more per year for a particular source or class of sources; or (2) any action delaying compliance with an emission limitation for a particular source or class of sources which would reduce emissions by 100 tons or more per year. Hazardous Air Pollutants - Directs the Administrator, within 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, to identify at least 20 substances or materials for which the Administrator intends to decide, within two years after such enactment date, whether or not to include such substances in the list of hazardous air pollutants (the NESHAPs list). Requires that such identification include:  (1) each substance or material for which the EPA is projected to have completed a health assessment within two years of such enactment date; and (2) each other substance or material under EPA evaluation for inclusion on the NESHAPs list for which EPA has positive data from one or more tests indicating carcinogenicity in humans or other mammals.  Directs the Administrator, within one year of such enactment date, to identify at least 20 additional substances or materials for which an inclusion decision will be made within five years of such enactment date.  Requires that first consideration, in both such identifications, be given to specified substances and materials which the EPA has been evaluating. Directs the National Toxicology Program, through its Director, to recommend substances or materials which should be so identified, and to continue to recommend substances and materials which may be appropriate for inclusion on the NESHAPs list. Directs the Administrator, at the time the additional substances or materials are identified, to also identify what additional research, study, or evaluation is necessary for a determination. Directs the Administrator, in cooperation with the National Toxicology Program, to:  (1) establish a schedule for initiating and completing such research, study, or evaluation; (2) identify the agency which will undertake it; and (3) identify the source and amount of funding for it, if such funding is not provided through the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund. Directs the Administrator to establish a docket for each substance identified and provide opportunity for submittal of information by interested parties.  Directs the Administrator, within two years in the case of those substances in the first identification and within five years in the case of the additional substances identified, to publish the determination of whether each substance or material is a hazardous air pollutant to be included on the NESHAPs list, with the basis and the available information for such determination. Requires that a substance or material be included on the NESHAPs list by operation of law if the Administrator fails to make a determination by the appropriate deadline.  Provides for removal from the list if the Administrator, within 180 days of such inclusion and upon petition by an interested party, makes a determination that such substance or material is not a hazardous air pollutant. Provides that neither the identification for determination purposes nor the automatic listing due to failure to meet the deadline shall be deemed a presumption that a substance or material is a hazardous air pollutant. Directs the Administrator to specify the chemical forms of a substance or material which are determined to be hazardous air pollutants when including such substance or material on the NESHAPs list. Directs the Administrator to identify the categories of sources which emit each hazardous air pollutant on the NESHAPs list in significant amounts. Extends from 180 days to one year the period after proposal of emission standards during which the Administrator must establish final emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs).  Requires that NESHAPs be established at a level requiring the greatest degree of emission reduction of such pollutant through the application of the best system of continuous emission reduction available for the class or category of source, taking into account the cost of achieving such reduction and any nonair quality health or environmental impacts (BACT - the Best Available Control Technology).  Directs the Administrator to determine whether such emission standard is adequate to protect the public health from such hazardous air pollutant with an adequate margin of safety, and, if not, to establish such standard at a more stringent level.  Requires that NESHAPs be at least as stringent as the most stringent emission limitation shown by an adequate operating history to have been achieved in practice by a source of the same class or category (LAER-the Lowest Achievable Emission Rate). Authorizes the Administrator to distinguish among classes, types, sizes, and periods of remaining useful life for sources within a category of sources for purposes of establishing NESHAPs. Directs the Administrator to establish for each class or category of existing source deadlines which provide for NESHAP compliance as expeditiously as possible, but not later than two years after the effective date of the NESHAP. Provides that such NESHAPs amendments shall not affect any NESHAP promulgated prior to the enactment of this Act. Primary Nonferrous Smelter Orders - Extends the date by which primary nonferrous smelter orders must require final compliance with applicable sulfur oxides emission limitations from January 1, 1988, to January 1, 1993. Permits determinations of such compliance to take into account the effect of the de-minimis use of supplementary controls (up to five percent of any calendar year). Noncompliance Penalties - Requires that noncompliance penalties be reduced by the amount of any expenditures used to achieve interim reductions of the pollutant, by a method approved by the Secretary (or the State, as appropriate). Ozone Protection - Directs the Administrator to give priority in ozone protection studies and research to increasing actual measurements of stratosphere ozone and improving methods of identifying potential trends in such measurements. Directs the Administrator to contract annually with the National Academy of Sciences to:  (1) continue review and research; (2) determine the extent, nature, and causes of changes in stratosphere ozone concentration; (3) investigate probable or possible effects on health and the environment; and (4) report all findings and associated uncertainties. Directs the National Academy of Sciences, in consultation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to report, within two years after enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, all findings concerning actual or potential alteration of the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere, its causes, and associated implications and uncertainties.  Requires that such report be made to the Administrator and to to the Congress, with copies available to the public. Requires that research and monitoring programs be continued and expanded to determine the extent, nature, causes, effects, and associated uncertainties of stratospheric ozone changes. Directs the President, within two years after enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, to report to the Congress and the public on efforts to reach international agreements among the major free-world producing countries of chlorofluorocarbons as to the nature, extent, and implications of any threat to the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere and as to the appropriate regulatory action to be taken. Directs the Administrator, in proposing further regulations for the control in the United States of any chlorofluorocarbon under the Act or the Toxic Substance Control Act, to first:  (1) determine that chlorofluorocarbons are contributing to depletion of the stratospheric ozone which is occurring, or is likely to occur, at a rate that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health or welfare; or (2) report that international agreement has been reached as to the nature, extent, and implications of any threat to the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere and as to the appropriate regulatory action to be taken. Directs the Administrator, in promulgating such regulations to:  (1) take into account any unresolved scientific questions and the availability of suitable alternative products; and (2) specifically consider the health implications of chlorofluorocarbon chemical substitutes and implications of ozone depletion for the public health and welfare. Prevention of Significant Deterioration - Revises provisions for Prevention of Significant Deterioration of Air Quality (PSD).  (PSD provisions currently specify allowable short-term and long-term ""increments"" of emissions of sulfur oxide and particulate matter--regulations for other pollutants are not yet final--in areas with cleaner air than that required by NAAQS.  Currently, the smallest increments are allowed in ""class I"" areas, which include ""statutorily designated"" large national parks and wilderness areas, with larger increments in ""class II"" areas, and the largest increments in ""class III"" areas). Makes a technical amendment relating to the purpose of the PSD program. Eliminates the tracking of the short-term (three-hour and 24-hour for sulfur dioxide and 24-hour for particulate matter) increments in class II areas, by providing that the owner or operator of a major emitting facility must only demonstrate that such facility will not cause such maximum allowable increases to be exceeded during one such period per year. Exempts class II areas within the State of Alaska from compliance with the three-hour maximum allowable increase for sulfur dioxide. Eliminates provisions for class III areas (both for incremental limits and area redesignation purposes). Permits States to designate a PSD area as ""unclassified"" instead of class I or class II.  Provides that unclassified areas (unlike the replaced class III area designation) shall not be subject to PSD increment limits.  Permits States to eliminate the PSD increment system anywhere except on national lands which are mandatory class I or ""mandatory"" class II areas. Requires each State, within 18 months after enactment of this Act, to submit an area classification plan to the Administrator.  Requires that such plan:  (1) list all areas in the State which are federally mandatory class I or class II or which the State has determined warrant class I or class II designation; and (2) identify all ""unclassified"" areas within such State to which PSD provisions apply and which are not listed as class I or class II.  Provides that unclassified areas shall not be subject to the PSD increment system.  Sets forth plan requirements for unclassified areas, including:  (1) comprehensive assessment of air quality; (2) long-term (at least 20 years) air quality goals and a procedure for periodic review of such goals; (3) emissions growth projections consistent with attainment of such goals; (4) a requirement that all proposed major emitting facilities which will emit or have the potential to emit 500 tons or more per year of particulate matter or 1,000 tons or more per year of any air pollutant be subject to review and be determined to be consistent with such goals prior to the issuance of a PSD construction permit; and (5) any other requirements the State deems necessary to attain such goals. Subjects area classification plans and revisions to specified requirements for SIP revisions. Requires that all areas which are class II areas immediately prior to enactment of this Act continue to be subject to class II increment limits until the area classification plan is approved.  Requires that:  (1) notice be afforded and public hearings conducted in at least three different locations in the State prior to submittal of such plan; (2) prior to such hearings, the proposed plan be available for inspection; and (3) affected local officials and Federal Land Managers be notified and provided with opportunity to comment. Eliminates area redesignation provisions requiring preparation of an analysis of the effects of a proposed redesignation and local government concurrence in the redesignation. Revises PSD preconstruction requirements to shorten the period (from one year to six months) during which a PSD permit application must be granted or denied, in the case of a facility emitting less than 500 tons per year of particulate matter and less than 1,000 tons per year of every other pollutant regulated under the Act. Requires that all PSD permit applicants be notified whether the application is complete, within two months after filing.  Requires States to notify the Administrator only of applications and final actions on permits for facilities which will emit or have the potential to emit:  (1) 500 tons or more per year of particulate matter and 1,000 tons or more per year of any other air pollutant; or (2) pollutants affecting air quality in any class I area. Provides that Federal Land Managers have a responsibility to:  (1) identify (as well as protect) air quality related values of Federal class I areas (including visibility within such area); and (2) file a notice, and supporting information, to the permitting authority where emissions from a proposed major facility may have an adverse impact on such values; and (3) monitor and gather other information on air quality to assist in determining baseline concentrations and carrying out other responsibilities. Allows States to make ""integral vista"" determinations as to whether a proposed facility outside a Federal class I area will impair the vista within such area.  Requires States, in any case in which the Federal Land Manager files such an allegation, to provide a public hearing with opportunity for the Federal Land Manager and other interested persons to comment on such impact. Allows a permit to be issued if the State determines that:  (1) the facility would not cause a significant impairment of visibility within the integral vista; or (2) such issuance would be in the public interest notwithstanding any such significant impact. Requires the Administrator to follow any recommendations of the Governor, consistent with other requirements of the Act, when the Administrator is the PSD permitting authority for an integral vista determination. Eliminates the requirement that an air quality analysis include continuous air quality monitoring data gathered over a specified period. Allows a State to determine whether such monitoring data is necessary or appropriate for making a construction permit decision. Redefines ""construction"" for PSD permit purposes, to exclude modifications of existing facilities that will increase or have the potential to increase emissions of any pollutant by less than 100 tons per year. Requires the PSD permitting authority, before determining the ""best available control technology"" (BACT) to be achieved by a proposed major facility which will emit 500 tons or more per year of particulate matter or 1,000 tons or more per year of any other air pollutant regulated under the Act, to:  (1) review the emission limitations with respect to such pollutant achieved in practice by or required under the Act for major emitting facilities of the same size, type, and class; and (2) identify the most stringent of such emission limitations and first consider these before determining the BACT to be achieved; and (3) provide information to the public regarding any decision to require a less stringent limitation. Requires that such review consider only emissions limitations:  (1) for facilities within the same State (or EPA administrative region, if appropriate) as the proposed facility; (2) described in specified guidance documents; or (3) of which actual notice has been received by the permitting authority. Redefines ""baseline concentration"" to specify that this term refers to the ambient concentration levels in all PSD areas where such levels have been or will be affected by a facility which is applying for a permit. Includes data submitted by a Federal Land Manager among the data to be used in determining baseline concentration.  Provides for updating of baseline concentrations following the redesignation of an area as class I. Fugitive Dust - Allows the Governor, in determining PSD increment consumption by a new source, to exclude concentrations of particulate matter attributable to emissions composed of soil which is uncontaminated by pollutants resulting from industrial activity. Requires that the State have an approved SIP for carrying out the PSD program and that there be notice and opportunity for public hearing before the Governor makes such exclusion.  Provides, in any State where the Administrator is the permitting authority, that the Administrator may (and must, if petitioned by the Governor) make such exclusion of uncontaminated soil. Visibility - Revises provisions for the visibility protection program in mandatory class I areas to specify that such program is intended to prevent significant impairment of visibility in such areas. Prohibits the Administrator from requiring any existing source to procure, install, or operate any retrofit technology to prevent or remedy impairment of visibility outside the boundaries of a mandatory class I Federal area, unless the appropriate Governor has been notified and has not determined within a reasonable time that such action would not be in the public interest notwithstanding such impairment.  Adds a definition of ""integral vista"" as ones included in a specified list published by the Department of the Interior for public comment. International Pollution - Discounts emissions from an immediately adjacent area in a foreign country which does not allow the United States to seek specified emissions reductions, in determining whether nonattainment provisions apply to an area in the United States that is exceeding a national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS).  Declares the sense of the Congress that the President shall undertake negotiations with any foreign country from which emissions would cause an area in the United States to be a nonattainment area except for such discount, with the purpose of having such foreign country give the United States essentially the same rights to seek emissions reductions given other countries under the Act. Technology Requirements for Nonattainment Areas - Deletes provisions for a ""lowest achievable emission rate"" (LAER) from nonattainment area requirements.  Requires new or modified sources constructed in nonattainment areas to adopt ""best available control technology"" (BACT). Requires, further, for any major stationary source emitting a pollutant (or pollutant precursor) for which the area is nonattainment, the permitting authority to establish an emission limitation for such pollutant at least as stringent as the more stringent of the most stringent limitation:  (1) shown by an adequate operating history to have been achieved in practice by a major stationary source of the same size, type, and class within the same Federal administrative region; or (2) included in a permit issued for such an existing source before the permit application for the proposed source is complete, unless the permitting authority determines that such emission limitation in the issued permit is not achievable for the proposed source. Requires the permitting authority to review emission limitations and identify most stringent limitations only if:  (1) the sources are in the same State (or EPA administrative region) as the proposed source; (2) specified guidance documents describe the emission limitation; or (3) the permitting authority has received actual notice of the emission limitation. Revises permit issuance requirements for nonattainment areas to subject a proposed source to BACT (rather than LAER). Nonattainment Definitions - Provides, for nonattainment area purposes, that ""major stationary source"" includes each discrete operation, unit, or other activity which produces or may produce emissions of 100 tons or more per year of a pollutant or pollutant precursor for which the area is a nonattainment area. Defines ""vehicle inspection and maintenance programs"" (I/M programs) to require:  (1) areas which are nonattainment for carbon monoxide to have a program that is as effective in reducing vehicle emissions as specified programs fully approved by the EPA; and (2) areas which are nonattainment only for photochemical oxidant and in which motor vehicle emissions contribute less than one-third of the total hydrocarbon emissions to have a program that requires annual emissions testing or direct inspection of control equipment and that provides for attainment of the photochemical oxidant standard by the applicable deadline. Construction in Nonattainment Areas - Provides for an alternative to specified construction bans in nonattainment areas. Allows construction of a new or modified source, under specified circumstances, if offsets equal to twice the emissions from the new or modified source are obtained from existing sources. Nonattainment Plan Provisions - Extends to December 31, 1984, a State's deadline for attaining any primary ambient standard (primary NAAQS) if the State:  (1) certifies that attainment could not be achieved by the December 31, 1982, deadline despite implementation of all measures in an approved or promulgated SIP; and (2) agrees not to relax any emission limitation in an approved SIP.  Requires States to submit by December 31, 1984, any SIP revision providing for extensions of attainment deadlines to:  (1) December 31, 1985, for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and particulate matter; or (2) December 31, 1987, for photochemical oxidants and carbon monoxide.  Permits areas, if the Administrator determines they cannot meet the 1987 deadline despite implementing all reasonably available control technologies, an offset or equivalent program, and a vehicle I/M program, to extend the deadline:  (1) for photochemical oxidants or carbon monoxide until December 31, 1992, if 1979 or 1980 levels for such pollutant were at least twice the primary NAAQS; or (2) for photochemical oxidants until December 31, 1990, if such levels were less than twice the primary NAAQS. Requires SIPs to provide for operation of a vehicle I/M program in any urbanized area with greater than 200,000 population which is seeking a deadline extension beyond 1982 for:  (1) carbon monoxide; or (2) photochemical oxidants, if the 1979 and 1980 level exceeded the primary NAAQS by 50 percent or more.  Requires that operation of such vehicle I/M programs begin as expeditiously as possible, but no later than January 1, 1985, for extensions requested after the enactment of this Act, and that such SIPs include reasonably available measures to assure continous compliance with SIP and permit requirements for major stationary sources. Prohibits relaxation or delay of any stationary source emission limitation or schedule of compliance in any area which receives a deadline extension under specified provisions of this Act for any primary NAAQS. Provides that an SIP establish the ""growth allowance"" (the allowance permitted for a pollutant, or precursor, for which an area is nonattainment from a new or modified major stationary sources) if: (1) there is an approved emissions inventory and allowable emissions from proposed new or modified stationary sources, in combination with all other increases in emissions of such pollutant (not offset by any reductions in emissions at any source) do not exceed one percent, in any calendar year, of the total annual emissions for such pollutant recorded in the inventory; (2) the State conducts a review prior to construction or modification and requires BACT for every new or modified source with potential emissions of 50 tons or more per year of such pollutant (without offsets); and (3) the SIP meets specified requirements, including the demonstration of reasonable further progress. Permit Requirements for Nonattainment Areas - Provides that any emissions reductions from existing sources required as a precondition for nonattainment area permit issuance may include any emissions reductions:  (1) from nonindustrial sources, inanimate natural sources, and mobile sources; or (2) achieved by a State or local government and paid for by the owner or operator of the proposed new or modified source. Limitations on Certain Federal Assistance - Authorizes the Administrator to determine the extent and categories of withholding grants and project approval under the Act and under the Federal aid to highways program. Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from approving projects or making grants in nonattainment areas which are not planning or implementing required vehicle I/M programs by the established deadlines. Exempts from such prohibition highway grants for Interstate highway construction, landscaping, and noise attention barriers (as well as for safety, mass transit, and transportation projects related to air quality improvement or maintenance). Interstate Transport and Acid Precipitation Reduction - Establishes a new program entitled ""Interstate Transport and Acid Precursor Reduction."" Establishes a long-range transport corridor, the ""acid deposition impact region,"" consisting of 31 States (east of or bordering the Mississippi River) and the District of Columbia. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) conduct a study of air pollution problems associated with the long-range transport of pollutants in the portions of the continental United States not included in the acid deposition impact region; and (2) report the results to Congress within two years. Directs the Acid Precipitation Task Force established under the Energy Security Act to submit to the appropriate congressional committees two comprehensive reports, one by December 31, 1985, and one by December 31, 1987, on the specified research findings and recommendations for reducing acid deposition and its effects.  Authorizes additional appropriations for the Task Force for carrying out specified activities in FY 1983 through 1987.  Directs the Task Force to also conduct and support research on advanced flue-gas cleaning and precombustion fuel treatment technologies and inherently low-emission combustion processes (including atmospheric and pressurized fluidized bed combustion).  Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 to a Task Force member for partial funding of a joint project among the Tennessee Valley Authority and other appropriate participants for a demonstration facility to generate electricity using an atmospheric fluidized bed combustion process. Establishes an Acid Precipitation Scientific Review Board, to be appointed by the National Academy of Sciences. Directs the Board to review:  (1) all available information on the causes, extent, and potential environmental impacts of acid deposition; and (2) all activities being performed by the Task Force.  Directs the Board to submit at least two comprehensive reports, one not later than June 30, 1986, and one not later than June 30, 1988, on the results of such reviews, including a review of the Task Force's reports and the Board's own recommendations for acid deposition reduction.  Authorizes appropriations for Board activities for FY 1983 through 1988. Directs the Administrator to report to the appropriate congressional committees on emission limitation and other enforceable measures for all States in the acid deposition impact region which are adopted, approved, or in effect under interstate transport and acid precursor reduction provisions.  Directs the Office of Technology Assessment to:  (1) analyze the control requirements of such reported enforceable measures in terms of environmental benefits, implementation costs, and potential effects on coal production or markets, on both aggregate regional and a State-by-State basis; and (2) report to the appropriate congressional committees. Requires such committees to conduct hearings on such acid deposition control matters. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) develop an inventory of sources of nitrogen oxides in the acid deposition impact region and each of its States; and (2) report within four years of enactment of this Act to the appropriate congressional committees on the inventory, control technologies and methods for new and existing nitrogen oxides sources, and recommendations for control requirements. Directs the Administrator and the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct, and report to the Congress on, a joint study of a fee system on energy generators in the acid deposition region to finance emission reductions. Authorizes the Administrator, directly or through grants to any State or interstate agency, to develop, refine, demonstrate, and implement methods of:  (1) neutralizing or restoring the buffering capacity of acid altered bodies of water that can no longer support game fish species; and (2) removing from bodies of water toxic metals or other toxic substances mobilized by acid deposition.  Permits inclusion in such grants of amounts necessary for reports, plans, and specifications. Prohibits such grants from being made for any project:  (1) in an amount exceeding 75 percent of costs; or (2) that involves bodies of water that did not contain game fish as established by State law prior to 1970.  Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for FY 1983 through 1985. Requires that annual emissions of sulfur dioxide in the acid deposition be reduced by 8,000,000 tons from the total 1980 level, through a phased reduction to be completed by January 1, 1995. Requires that post-1980 increases in sulfur dioxide emissions from major stationary sources be added to the amount which a State in the region is required to reduce.  Prohibits any major stationary source in the region from increasing its actual rate of sulfur dioxide over its 1980 level. Exempts from such requirement and such prohibition: (1) any State (and sources in such State) which had no 1980 utility boiler with annual average emissions greater than 1.2 pounds per million Btu; and (2) any utility boiler which converts to coal and emits no more than 1.5 pounds per million Btu. Prohibits any new major stationary source of sulfur dioxide from commencing operation in the region after January 1, 1995, unless there is an ""offset"" (a simultaneous net reduction in emissions of sulfur dioxide at one or more points in such region, which is:  (1) identified for the new source; (2) in excess of the potential emissions from the new source; and (3) not otherwise required under specified provisions of the Act).  Exempts from such prohibition any such source which:  (1) adopts BACT; and (2) attains the most stringent emission limitation achieved by any source of the same size, type, and class within the region. Prohibits any major stationary source of nitrogen oxides in the region which began operation before January 1, 1981, from increasing its actual rate of such emissions over 1980 levels or levels experienced during a thirty-day period immediately prior to enactment of this Act, unless there is an ""offset.""  Exempts from such prohibition utility boilers which convert to coal as a primary fuel. Requires the Governors of the 31 States within the region to negotiate the allocation of required reductions of sulfur dioxide among such States. Provides that any such allocation agreement shall be binding and enforceable upon each such State within 18 months after enactment of this Act upon notification to the Administrator by 75 percent of such Governors that such agreement has been reached.  Sets forth a formula to determine such allocation of State sulfur dioxide reduction requirements, if the Governors fail to make such agreement within such time period. Provides for reallotment agreements between the Governors of two or more States in the region. Requires each State in the region, within 42 months after enactment of this Act, to:  (1) adopt measures to achieve such sulfur dioxide emissions reductions, including emissions limitations and compliance schedules; and (2) submit such measures to the Administrator for review and approval and to the other Governors for comment. Subjects any major stationary source in the region which is not by December 31, 1985, in full compliance with the applicable SIP for sulfur dioxide in effect on January 1, 1981, to: (1) a 30-day average emission limitation of 1.2 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu for all sources owned by its owner; and (2) specified noncompliance penalties. Encourages each State in the region adopting, and the Administrator in reviewing, such measures to phase compliance dates so that significant emission reduction is achieved prior to January 1, 1995.  Requires each source which proposes to comply with such sulfur dioxide emission limitations by any means other than an innovative system of continuous emission reduction or the replacement of existing facilities with new facilities of substantially lower emissions to comply by January 1, 1993. Provides that, in States which have not adopted such measures within 42 months after enactment of this Act or which have not had such measures approved by the Administrator within six months after submission, each fossil-fuel-burning electric generating facility shall comply with an emission limitation for all such facilities owned or operated by the same entity in the region equivalent to a 30-day average of 1.2 pounds of sulfur dioxide per million Btu.  Requires owners or operators of such facilities to submit to the Administrator a plan and schedule for compliance not later than four years after enactment of this Act or six months after such owner or operator becomes subject to such emission limitation.  Directs the Administrator to approve any such plan and schedule if it contains requirements for continuous emission reduction and monitoring and achievement of compliance by January 1, 1995. Allows a State or source owner or operator to use specified methods or programs for net emission reduction required under the acid deposition region provisions in addition to enforceable continuous emission reduction measures, if such methods or programs are enforceable by the Federal Government, States other than those in which the emissions occur, and citizens.  Lists such methods and programs as:  (1) least emissions dispatch to meet electric generating demand at existing generating capacity; (2) early retirement of sources; (3) energy conservation investments; (4) trading emission reduction requirements and actual reductions on a State or regional basis; and (5) precombustion cleaning of fuels. Interstate Pollution - Requires SIPs to prohibit any stationary source from emitting any air pollutant in amounts which will: (1) interfere with attainment or maintenance by any other State of any primary or secondary NAAQS; or (2) contribute to atmospheric loadings of pollutants or their transformation products which may reasonably be anticipated to cause or contribute to an adverse effect on public health or welfare or the environment in any other State or foreign country. Revises provisions relating to stack heights to redefine ""good engineering practice"" to mean the height necessary to insure that stack emissions do not result in excessive air pollutant concentrations in the ""impact area"" of the source.  Authorizes the Administrator to prohibit increases in, or restrict, the stack height of any source.  Directs the Administrator, within one year of enactment of this Act, to complete a review of emission limits for all existing major sources which have come into existence since 1970, or raised stack heights since 1970, to determine if such limits are inappropriately based upon modeling credit for stack heights above good engineering practice.  Directs the Administrator to require States to correct inappropriately based emission limits within six months. Makes it the burden of the operator of each such source to demonstrate the correct stack height credit to be used. Makes emission of an air pollutant which, by itself or in combination, reaction, or transformation, adversely affects the public health or welfare of another State a violation of interstate pollution abatement provisions. Requires major existing sources to install reasonably available control technology (RACT) within two years of a finding of such violation. Requires SIPs to require each major proposed new (or modified) source which may significantly contribute to levels of air pollution in any air quality control region outside the State to notify all nearby States. Allows State or local governments to petition the Administrator for a finding that any major source or group of sources is in violation of specified SIP or interstate pollution abatement provisions. Provides that all language referring to welfare under the Act also includes, but is not limited to:  (1) effects on precipitation; and (2) specified effects whether caused by transformation, conversion, or combination with other air pollutants. Makes violations of the interstate pollution provisions subject to citizen suit provisions under the Act. Title II:  Amendments Relating Primarily to Mobile Sources - Amends part A (Motor Vehicle Emission and Fuel Standards) of title II (Emission Standards for Moving Sources) of the Act. Heavy Duty Vehicle Emissions - Eliminates the authority of the Administrator to revise the heavy duty vehicle standards for emissions of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide, which require a reduction of at least 90 percent.  Makes such standards applicable during and after model year 1984. Sets a four-model-year period ""lead time"" between promulgation (or revision) and effective date of heavy duty vehicle standards for particulate matter.  Provides that standards for particulate matter and for nitrogen oxides shall remain in effect for at least four model years.  Authorizes the Administrator to make appropriate arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences to review the technological feasibility of any proposed standard for particulate matter. Directs the Administrator, in setting any heavy duty vehicle emission standard, to take into account the effect of attaining that standard on the attainment of other such existing or proposed emission standards for each other pollutant. Authorizes the Administrator to prescribe heavy duty vehicle or engine standards for emissions of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter for diesel-powered vehicles and engines which take effect in the same model year. Directs the Administrator to consider studies available from the Health Effects Institute, in conducting a continuing pollutant study concerning the effects of each air pollutant emitted from heavy-duty vehicles or engines and from other sources of mobile source related pollutants on the public health and welfare. Redefines ""useful life,"" for purposes of heavy-duty vehicle and engine regulations, as the greater of:  (1) one-half of the average time or use between first use and engine retirement or rebuild or any other measure of actual life determined by the Administrator; or (2) the duration or mileage of the published commercial warranty. Light Duty Vehicle Emissions - Sets a nitrogen oxides emissions limitation of 1.5 grams per vehicle mile for diesel-powered duty vehicles and engines manufactured during model years 1983 and 1984. Sets a particulate matter emissions limitation of 0.2 grams per vehicle mile for light duty vehicles and engines manufactured during model year 1986 and thereafter.  Provides for a waiver of such standard to O.6 gram per vehicle mile of particulate matter for any class or category of light duty vehicles or engines manufactured during the model years 1986 and 1987, under specified conditions.  Provides for a waiver of the 1986-1987 model year nitrogen oxides emissions standard to 1.5 grams per vehicle mile for diesel-powered light duty vehicles or engines, if such waiver will avoid granting the waiver with respect to particulate matter. Light Duty Truck Emissions - Sets low altitude emissions limitations for light duty trucks.  Sets such limits at the following grams per vehicle mile for:  (1) hydrocarbons, 1.7 in model year 1983 and 0.8 in model year 1984 and thereafter; (2) carbon monoxide; 18 in 1983 and ten in 1984 and thereafter; (3) nitrogen oxides, 2.3 in 1983 and 1984, 1.2 (for 6,000 pounds or less vehicle weights) in 1985 and thereafter, and 1.7 (for over 6,000 pounds vehicles) in 1985 and thereafter; and (4) particulate matter, 0.26 in 1986 and thereafter. Provides for waivers of such particulate matter standard to 0.6 grams per vehicle mile, under specified conditions. Provides for waiver of such nitrogen oxides standards to 1.7 (for 6,000 pounds or less vehicles) and 2.3 (for over 6,000 or less vehicles), if such waiver will avoid granting the waiver with respect to particulate matter. High Altitude Motor Vehicle Emissions - Eliminates the requirement that all model year 1984 and later light duty vehicles comply with national emission standards regardless of the altitude at which they are sold. Directs the Administrator to establish separate low altitude and high altitude emission standards for model year 1984 and later light duty vehicles and light duty trucks. Requires that the high altitude standards be equal in numerical value to the low altitude standards for emissions of:  (1) nitrogen oxides from all such model year 1984 and later vehicles; and (2) carbon monoxide from model year 1984 and later light duty vehicles and model year 1985 and later light duty trucks. Provides that high altitude emission standards for every other pollutant must require a percentage reduction at least equal to the percentage reduction which the corresponding low altitude standards require at low altitude. Prohibits such high altitude standards from being numerically more stringent than corresponding low altitude standards. Authorizes the Administrator to issue certificates of conformity for model year 1984 and later for light duty vehicles and light duty trucks if they comply under:  (1) low altitude conditions with low altitude standards, and are capable by design, or by approved adjustments or modifications, of complying under high altitude conditions with high altitude standards; (2) low altitude conditions with low altitude standards, and are subject to a specified exemption; or (3) high altitude conditions with high altitude standards, and the manufacturer demonstrates that virtually all such vehicles are intended for principal use at elevations of at least 4,000 feet above sea level. Directs the Administrator to determine the durability under high altitude conditions of the emission control performance of vehicles using data from tests conducted under low altitude conditions on the same or similar vehicles, unless the Administrator determines that it is necessary or appropriate to conduct separate tests under high altitude conditions. Sets forth requirements for adjustments and modifications to ensure adequate performance under high altitude conditions, and for readjustments or remodifications for such performance under low altitude conditions. Exempts, upon a manufacturer's application, motor vehicles for one model year from high altitude requirements if: (1) the Administrator has approved high altitude performance instructions for such vehicles; and (2) the number of such vehicles intended for principal use in designated high altitude areas represents not more than 15 percent of the manufacturer's anticipated combined sales in that model year of light duty vehicles and light duty trucks intended for principal use in designated high altitude areas. Requires exempted manufacturers to make all reasonable efforts to ensure that an individual vehicle has been adjusted or modified before sale or delivery to the ultimate purchaser in accordance with such approved instructions.  Requires exempted manufacturers to inform the Administrator of actual combined sales, and provides for appropriate reductions of future exemptions. Requires dealers to certify to purchasers that required adjustments or modifications have been performed on model year 1984 or later light duty vehicles or light duty trucks intended for principal use in a designated high altitude area. Permits manufacturer's instructions for high altitude performance adjustments or modifications (and readjustments and remodifications) to include changes in gear ratios.  Requires manufacturers to make such instructions and descriptions available to their authorized dealers, and upon request to service and repair establishments, in high altitude areas. Directs the Administrator, upon the request of a national association of motor vehicle dealers, to compile data on the availability and distribution of light duty vehicles and light duty trucks to dealers in designated high altitude areas.  Requires a report on such data to be submitted to the Congress and published in the Federal Register within six months of such request.  Provides for a six-month extension of this deadline if there is also a request for data on high altitude emission standards compliance costs and effects on sales. Sulfur Emissions - Directs the Administrator to prohibit the sale of diesel fuel for use in motor vehicles with a sulfur content of more than 0.5 percent by weight or such lesser limit as is necessary to protect the public health or welfare.  Requires that regulations for such prohibition:  (1) be promulgated at such time as diesel-powered vehicles constitute ten percent of the total annual sales of light duty vehicles and light duty trucks; and (2) take effect within 48 months after January 1 of the first calendar year in which such a sales level is reached. Imported Vehicles - Revises the prohibition against importation of new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines without a certificate of conformity with applicable emissions standards.  Limits the exemption from such prohibition, exemption under which an importer may furnish a bond to insure that such vehicle or engine will be brought into such conformity, to those vehicles or engines which are of a class for which application for a certificate is pending.  Exempts new vehicles or engines which are five model years old or older. Provides that an importer of vehicles who is not otherwise a manufacturer shall not be considered a small manufacturer for purposes of the small volume certification procedure. Vehicle Imports into Territories - Exempts from imported vehicle certification requirements of the Act vehicles imported for commercial or public transportation use, which would otherwise be unavailable, into and solely for use within a Territory of the United States which is not a nonattainment area and which imports fewer than 500 vehicles per year. Lead in Gasoline - Prohibits the Aministrator from allowing the average lead content per gallon of leaded gasoline to exceed, in future quarters, the average achieved during the quarter ending June 30, 1982.  Prohibits any amendment of specified EPA regulations in effect on July 1, 1982, which would allow any increase in the average lead content per gallon of gasoline. Definitions - Defines ""heavy duty vehicle"" and ""heavy duty vehicle and engine"" as a motor vehicle, including engine, with: (1) more than 8,500 pounds gross vehicle weight; (2) more than 6,000 pounds vehicle curb weight; or (3) more than 45 square feet basic vehicle frontal area.  Defines ""light duty truck"" and ""light duty truck and engine"" as a vehicle, including engine, with gross vehicle and curb weight below the heavy duty vehicle level and which:  (1) is designed primarily for transportation of property or is a derivation of such vehicle; (2) is designed primarily for transportation of persons has a capacity of more than 12 persons; or (3) has special features enabling off-street or off-highway operation and use.  Authorizes the Administrator, notwithstanding such definitions, to define as a heavy duty vehicle instead of a light duty truck any vehicle with a gross weight more than 6,000 pounds but less than 8,500 pounds, and which is designed primarily for commercial (including agricultural) use and not for uses performed by light duty trucks.  Sets forth provisions for high altitude emission standards for such redefined vehicles. Defines ""light duty vehicle"" and ""light duty vehicle and engine"" as a motor vehicle, including engine, designed primarily for transportation of persons which has a capacity of 12 persons or less. Defines ""designated high altitude areas"" as all countries identified in high altitude emission standards regulations in effect on December 31, 1981, which are in a State in which one or more such countries was in whole or in part during calendar year 1981 a nonattainment area for carbon monoxide photochemical oxidants.  Defines ""high altitude conditions"" as an elevation of approximately 5,300 feet above sea level, or a barometric pressure corresponding to such elevation. Defines ""low altitude conditions"" by the definition given in regulations in effect on December 31, 1981, unless the Administrator by regulation promulgates another definition. Title III:  Other Amendments and Provisions - Judicial Review - Revises provisions governing judicial review of EPA final actions under the Act. Allows petitions for review of locally or regionally applicable actions to be filed only in the U.S. Court of Appeals for an appropriate circuit.  Allows petitions of review of nationally applicable actions to be filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia or in any U.S. Court of Appeals for a circuit in which the petitioner resides or transacts business. Establishes a random selection procedure, to be administered by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, to determine the court of appeals in which an EPA action is to be reviewed when petitions for review have been filed in two or more courts of appeals.  Directs the Administrator, following such determination, to promptly file the record in such court.  Directs other courts to promptly transfer such petitions to such court.  Provides that any court in which a petition has been filed, including any court selected by the random procedure, may transfer such petition to any other court of appeals for the convenience of the parties or otherwise in the interest of justice. Changes the period within which a petition for review of an EPA promulgation, approval, or action must be filed from 60 to 120 days after notice is published in the Federal Register, but requires petitions based solely on grounds arising after such 120-day period to be filed within 60 days after such grounds arise. Award of Fees - Limits the award of litigation costs, in proceedings for judicial review of EPA actions and citizen suits under the Act, to prevailing or substantially prevailing parties. Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1987 to carry out the Act, other than specified provisions for research and special studies under the interstate transport and acid precursor reduction program and other research, development, and demonstration activities. Wood Smoke Study - Directs the Administrator to:  (1) study the effects of wood combustion on ambient air quality; (2) research and monitor the direct or indirect effects of emissions associated with wood combustion on public health or welfare; (3) research and develop a uniform method to measure emissions from wood combustion devices, including testing and recommending designs for such devices; (4) report by December 31, 1984, to Congress on such study and research and on any regulatory action taken or proposed and any recommendations for legislation made; and (5) consider any appropriate use of specified provisions under the Act to control emissions associated with wood combustion. Allows such studies and research to be undertaken with cooperation and assistance from universities, private industries, and local and State governments.  Directs Federal agencies to assist the Administrator in carrying out such studies and research.  Limits the term ""wood combustion,"" for purposes of such requirements, to the burning of wood, wood by-products, or wood wastes to produce heat for residential, commercial, or institutional applications with a heat input of less than 5,000,000 Btu per hour. Indoor Air Pollution Study - Directs the Administrator to carry out a research program on indoor air quality designed to gather information on associated health problems and to coordinate Federal, State, local, and private research, development, and demonstration relating to indoor air quality improvement.  Authorizes the Administrator to establish:  (1) committees representing concerned Federal agencies; and (2) advisory groups representing science, industry, and public interest organizations.  Directs the Administrator to consult and coordinate with State and local officials and other interested parties.  Sets forth activities which the research program must include but not be limited to. Directs the Administrator to submit to Congress:  (1) an implementation plan for such research program within one year after enactment of this Act; (2) a progress report within 36 months of such enactment; and (3) a final report within 54 months of such enactment. Requires the progress report and final report to be submitted to the National Academy of Science (NAS) before submittal to Congress, and to include any NAS comments. Declares that nothing in such indoor air quality research program provisions shall be construed to:  (1) authorize the Administrator to carry out any regulatory program or activity; or (2) limit the authority of the Administrator or any other Federal agency or instrumentality under any other authority of law. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and 1984 to carry out the indoor air quality research program. Cold Weather Carbon Monoxide Emissions Study - Directs the Administrator to:  (1) study the feasibility and benefits of requiring motor vehicle design modifications or engine adjustments, or both, to reduce emissions of carbon monoxide under cold weather conditions, while maintaining or improving vehicle performance and fuel economy; and (2) report to Congress the study's findings and recommendations within two years after enactment of this Act.",2025-08-29T19:51:51Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/3041
97-s-2959,97,s,2959,Acid Deposition Study and Sulfur Emission Limitation Act of 1982,Environmental Protection,1982-09-24,1982-09-24,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Randolph, Jennings [D-WV]",WV,D,R000046,0,"Acid Deposition Study and Sulfur Emission Limitation Act of 1982 - Amends title I (Air Pollution Prevention and Control) of the Clean Air Act to establish a program of acid deposition analysis and mitigation. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, within the five-fiscal-year period following the enactment of this Act, to report on acid deposition to specified congressional committees.  Sets forth requirements relating to such report. Directs the Administrator to solicit data, views, and comments from State and other Federal agencies which are carrying out studies and research relating to acid deposition. Encourages State Governors to: (1) establish and designate appropriate regional acid deposition corridors comprising several States; and (2) negotiate appropriate measures to reduce emissions of acid deposition pollutants, taking into consideration actions taken and planned by various States and Canada to control sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, future economic growth in the corridors, employment impact, environmental endangerment, consumer costs, and equity among States. Directs the Administrator to cooperate with and to provide technical assistance for such State efforts. Prohibits the Administrator from approving State implementation plan revisions, during the five-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, which would increase the annual allowable emissions of sulfur dioxide for any existing major stationary source. Sets forth exemptions from such prohibitions where: (1) the revised plan requires reduction of annual allowable emissions of sulfur dioxide from one or more other stationary sources in the State and such reduction is equal to, or greater than, such increase; (2) the increase is less than a deminimum amount established for stationary source construction or modification; (3) there is conversion from burning petroleum products or natural gas to the use of coal, or coal mixed with any other fuel, as the primary energy source; (4) modifications based on required monitoring and adopted pursuant to a consent decree entered into prior to enactment of this Act; and (5) specified sulfur dioxide emissions limitations are established. Authorizes the Administrator, directly or through grants to any State or interstate agency, to develop, refine, demonstrate, and implement methods of: (1) neutralizing or restoring the buffering capacity of acid altered bodies of water that can no longer support game fish species; and (2) removing from bodies of water toxic metals or other toxic substances mobilized by acid deposition. Permits inclusion in such grants of amounts necessary for reports, plans, and specifications.  Prohibits such grants being made for any project: (1) in an amount exceeding 75 percent of costs; or (2) that involves bodies of water that did not contain game fish as established by State law prior to 1970. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for the five fiscal years following the date of enactment of this Act, in order to prepare the report on acid deposition and to make grants to State or interstate agencies.",2025-08-29T19:51:51Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2959
97-s-2941,97,s,2941,A bill to authorize funds for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for fiscal year 1983 to carry out the provisions of the National Ocean Pollution Planning Act of 1978.,Environmental Protection,1982-09-23,1982-12-27,Referred to Subcommittee on Oceanography.,Senate,"Sen. Schmitt, Harrison H. [R-NM]",NM,R,S000132,0,"(Measure passed Senate, amended) Amends the National Ocean Pollution Planning Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 for the administration of such Act by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Amends the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere Act of 1977 to authorize appropriations for such Committee for FY 1983.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2941
97-s-2894,97,s,2894,A bill to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Army acting through the Corps of Engineers to relocate the Christina River Dredge Spoil Disposal Site.,Environmental Protection,1982-09-10,1982-09-10,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Roth Jr., William V. [R-DE]",DE,R,R000460,1,"Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Corps of Engineers, to relocate the site of disposal for dredge spoil from the Christina River, Wilmington, Delaware, from its current location at Cherry Island to a Delaware River site between the Wilmington Marine Terminal and Pigeon Point.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2894
97-s-2874,97,s,2874,"A bill to amend the Act of March 16, 1934, as amended, to credit entrance fees for the migratory-bird hunting and conservation stamp contest to the account which pays for the administration of the contest.",Environmental Protection,1982-08-20,1982-10-14,Became Public Law No: 97-307.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,0,"Credits entrance fees for the migratory-bird hunting and conservation stamp contest, first, to the account which pays for the administration of the contest and, then, to the migratory-bird conservation fund.",2023-05-11T13:18:01Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2874
97-s-2867,97,s,2867,Environmental Programs Assistance Act of 1982,Environmental Protection,1982-08-19,1982-08-19,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,9,"Environmental Programs Assistance Act of 1982 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Administrator) to develop a program, through grants or contracts, designed to assist Federal, State, and local environmental agencies in carrying out projects of pollution prevention, abatement, and control. Provides that such program may include projects such as: (1) air monitoring and emission testing; (2) pesticides inventory and control; (3) water quality and supply sampling and monitoring; (4) technical libraries and public information projects; (5) carcinogenic surveys and followup; (6) hazardous materials routing surveys; (7) health screening in rural areas and among migrant workers; and (8) noise abatement and control. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) submit to Congress, within 180 days after enactment of this Act a report identifying projects which serve the purpose of the program; (2) consult with representatives of State and local environmental agencies concernign ways to implement this Act; and (3) utilize the talents of older Americans available for project participation and consult with the Secretary of Labor and the Administrator of the Administration on Aging to ensure coordination with similar projects under the Older Americans Act of 1965 or the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (or under any successor statute). Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to and cooperative agreements with, public and private institutions and individuals to carry out the program under this Act.  Prohibits the Administrator from making any grants to, or agreements with, any State or local environmental agency for any activities which would take the job of any agency employee or impair any existing contract for services. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for FY 1982 through 1985 to carry out the administrative provisions of this Act.  Provides that environmentally related programs described under this Act shall be eligible for funding made available through title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 and title III of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.",2025-08-29T19:51:45Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2867
97-s-2795,97,s,2795,"A bill to amend the Clean Air Act in order to expedite the evaluation of potentially hazardous air pollutants, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1982-07-30,1982-07-30,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA]",LA,D,J000189,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act to revise provisions relating to national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs). Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, within 90 days of the enactment of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1982, to publish:  (1) a list of not less than 40 substances for priority review concerning whether such substances should be included on the list for which NESHAPs will be established (the NESHAPs list); and (2) a schedule for making such determinations on at least ten of such substances during each of the following four years.  Directs the Administrator to include those substances for which previous evaluations are most advanced, taking into account specified data. Makes the selection of the substances, schedule dates for determination on each substance, and any revision of such list or schedule within the first two years discretionary and not subject to judicial review. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) consider any information relevant to whether the substance has hazardous effects on human health; (2) consult with the Science Advisory Board and other experts; (3) provide an opportunity for public submission of data and views; and (4) obtain other information appropriate in making a final determination.  Authorizes the Administrator to request data from any person and use specified authority to obtain such data. Directs the Administrator to determine for each substance included in the schedule whether such substance is or is not a hazardous air pollutant to be included on the NESHAPs list or whether the information available is insufficient for such a determination. Requires publication of statements of the basis for such determinations and identification of data relied upon.  Requires that a substance be considered, as a matter of law, a hazardous air pollutant and be included on the NESHAPs list, if the Administrator fails to make such determinations. Authorizes the Administrator, upon the Administrator's own motion or the petition of any interested person, to:  (1) make such determinations for any other substance; or (2) determine that a substance should be removed from the NESHAPs list.  Directs the Administrator to make such determinations within one year of receipt of petitions filed: (1) after the scheduled review is completed; or (2) on a pollutant listed as a matter of law. Permits a six-month extension of such one-year deadline upon a published finding that relevant data is not available or has not been available for a sufficient time for adequate consideration. Subjects final determinations to judicial review according to specified procedures. Directs the Administrator, following the addition of any hazardous air pollutant to the NESHAPs list, to:  (1) within 60 days, to publish a list of source categories which emit the pollutant in significant amounts; and (2) within six months, to propose emission standards (NESHAPs) for such source categories.  Directs the Administrator to promulgate such emmission standards within one year following the date of proposal.  Permits a six-month extension of the deadline for proposal or promulgation, upon a published finding that necessary data is not available or has not been available for a sufficient time.  Authorizes the Administrator to distinguish among sizes, types, and classes of sources within each category.  Directs the Administrator to review each emission standard at least once in every ten-year period following promulgation. Provides that such emission standards shall require achievement of the greatest degree of emission reduction achievable through application of the best system of continuous emission reduction which the Administrator determines is available (taking into account the cost of achieving such reduction and any nonair quality health and environmental impacts, energy requirements, and in the case of existing sources, the remaining useful life of the facilities).  Requires, for new or modified major stationary sources, that such standard, at a minimum, be set at a level equal to the most stringent emission limitation imposed upon any source in that category by any Federal, State, or local requirement or permit and which is being achieved under actual operating conditions. Authorizes the Administrator to establish an alternative standard upon a showing by an individual source that such standard is not achievable by that source. Requires new, modified, and existing sources to comply with emissions limitations based upon a promulgated standard for the applicable category or a case-by-case determination based on criteria for such standards.  Directs the Administrator, upon a discretionary finding that with respect to one or more sources in a category the established standards are inadequate to protect the public health, to set stricter emission limitations for such sources. Makes emission standards for new or modified sources effective upon promulgation. Directs the Administrator to establish the effective date of emission standards for existing sources as expeditiously as practicable, but not later than 30 months after promulgation.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2795
97-s-2779,97,s,2779,A bill to specify that the release of water from dams is not the discharge of water pollution.,Environmental Protection,1982-07-27,1982-07-27,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Hart, Gary W. [D-CO]",CO,D,H000287,1,"Amends the Clean Water Act to declare that ""discharge of a pollutant or pollutants"" does not include controlled or uncontrolled flows of water through, over, or around dams with water quality effects resulting solely from impoundment or from the method of release.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2779
97-s-2652,97,s,2652,"A bill to revise and extend certain provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, for five years, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1982-06-18,1982-07-29,Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,2,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (""the Act,"" also known as the Clean Water Act) to extend through FY 1987:  (1) authorizations of appropriations for programs of investigations and information and for State program grants; and (2) the general authorization of appropriations to carry out programs under the Act. Specifies amounts of such authorizations for FY 1983, but provides for such sums as may be necessary for FY 1984 through 1987. Extends until July 1, 1988, the deadline for industry compliance with best available technology (BAT) and best conventional technology (BCT) guidelines and effluent limitations for pollutants.  Extends until July 1, 1991, the deadline for facilities with permits to use innovative production processes, control techniques, or systems to achieve compliance with BAT. Extends the deadline for requests by owners or operators of municipal, publicly owned treatment works for permits to extend the time for achievement of effluent limitations based on secondary treatment or on more stringent water quality standards. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prescribe and collect processing fees for applications for modifications and exemptions under specified provisions of the Act.  Requires that amounts collected be credited to the appropriation that incurs the costs and be available only in such amounts as are included in appropriations Acts. Redefines ""new source"" to mean any source the construction of which is commenced after the publication of final regulations prescribing applicable new source performance standards (NSPS). Extends until July 1, 1984, the deadlines for the Administrator to:  (1) publish regulations providing guidelines for effluent limitations; (2) propose and publish regulations establishing Federal new source performance standards (NSPS) within listed categories of sources; and (3) establish effluent limitations for specified toxic pollutants. Revises provisions for the pretreatment of sources which introduce pollutants into publicly owned treatment works and which are incompatible with such works.  Directs the Administrator to continue in force and revise as appropriate pretreatment regulations generally applicable to all categories of such sources.  Requires that such generally applicable pretreatment regulations which are promulgated or significantly revised after the enactment of the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1982 shall specify a compliance date not to exceed two years from the promulgation date. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate pretreatment standards for specific categories and classes of such sources, specifying a compliance date not to exceed three years from the promulgation date. Provides that pretreatment standards for specific categories and classes of sources which were in effect immediately prior to enactment of the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1982 shall continue in full force and effect unless modified, rescinded, or determined by the Administrator to be no longer necessary or reasonable. Permits owners or operators of publicly owned treatment works to revise such pretreatment requirements for specified categories or classes or for equivalent new sources, if:  (1) the treatment by such works removes all or part of the pollutant; (2) the discharge from such works does not violate the effluent limitation or standard which would be applicable if it were discharged other than through a publicly owned treatment works; and (3) the discharge does not impair sludge use or disposal by such works. Authorizes the Administrator to revise pretreatment standards as control technology, processes, operating methods, or other alternatives change. Authorizes the Administrator, with State concurrence (or, if appropriate, the State itself) and after opportunity for a public hearing, to issue permits exempting publicly owned treatment works from discharge requirements involving:  (1) identification of the character and volume of pollutants introduced by any significant source; and (2) assurance of compliance with pretreatment standards by such source.  Sets forth certification requirements for such exemptions.  Provides for exemptions for:  (1) all sources, subject to specified category; or (2) new sources, upon specified certifications by the owner or operator of the publicly owned treatment works into which the pollutants are introduced.  Sets forth procedures relating to such exemptions, including limiting the term of such exemptions to ten years. Directs the Administrator to promulgate pretreatment standards for equivalent categories and classes of new sources, simultaneously with the promulgation of such standards for existing categories and classes of sources. Authorizes the Administrator, after consultation with the State in which the violation occurs, to assess a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 per day of violation and not exceeding $75,000 in total, for violations of specified provisions of the Act.  Sets forth procedures for assessment of such penalties. Revises provisions for criminal penalties under the Act. Prescribes penalties for negligently introducing, and for knowingly introducing, pollutants or hazardous substances into sewer systems or publicly owned treatment works under specified conditions.  Raises penalties for knowing violations of the Act to a minimum of $5,000 and a maximum of $50,000 per day of violation and/or up to two years imprisonment. Revises provisions on Presidential exemptions for Federal effluent sources from requirements of the Act.  Repeals the prohibition against Presidential exemptions of Federal facilities from toxic and pretreatment effluent standards and from national standards of performance for new sources (NSPS). Requires with respect to such Presidential exemptions, that:  (1) all existing wastewater treatment facilities and techniques be utilized to their full design capacity; and (2) all reasonable efforts be taken to comply at the earliest possible date with the requirements of the Act.  Extends the initial exemption period from one year to three years. Directs the President to include in the report to Congress on such exemptions the progress toward achieving compliance with exempted requirements. Authorizes the President, in addition to such effluent source exemptions, to issue regulations exempting from requirements any property owned or operated by the United States or by the National Guard which is essential to the national defense. (Currently, such regulations may exempt property owned or operated by the U.S. armed forces or the National Guard which is uniquely military in nature.)  Requires that, with respect to United States or National Guard facilities so exempted:  (1) all existing wastewater treatment facilities be utilized to full design capacity; and (2) all reasonable efforts be made to comply at the earliest possible date with the requirements of the Act.  Authorizes the President to modify or suspend the provisions of the Act during the period of any war declared by Congress or any national emergency declared by Congress or the President. Revises provisions relating to thermal discharges. Authorizes the Administrator (or, if appropriate, the State) to issue a permit for modified effluent limitations for control of the thermal component of any discharge from a point source, upon a satisfactory showing by the applicant that such modified requirement will assure:  (1) the attainment and maintenance of thermal water quality criteria adopted under provisions for water quality standards and implementation plans and in compliance with provisions for ocean discharge criteria; or (2) the protection and propagation of a balanced population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife in and on that body of water  as determined by the State (or, if appropriate, the Administrator).  Provides that the applicant must also show that a monitoring program to ensure continued compliance will be established before such modified limitation may be imposed. Provides that any standard established under effluent limitation provisions and applicable to a point source shall require that:  (1) the location, design, construction, and capacity of cooling water intake structures reflect the best technology available for minimizing adverse environmental impacts; or (2) other equally effective measures will be applied, alone or in combination with best available technology, to minimize adverse environmental impacts. Extends from five years to ten years the maximum term of a permit issued by the Administrator or a qualified State under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). Revises provisions for approval of State programs under NPDES.  Authorizes the Administrator to approve a state plan to administer part of a permit program, with a State commitment to administer the full program within five years.  Provides that return of permit program administration to the Administrator, or withdrawal of approval by the Administrator, may only be made of the entire program currently being administered by a State. Provides that the term ""point source"" does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture or controlled or uncontrolled flows of water through, over, or around dams with water quality effects: resulting solely from such impoundment or the method of release of impounded waters.  Prohibits the Administrator from requiring an NPDES permit for discharges composed entirely of any flow from a dam excluded under the definition of ""point source."" Allows the State continuing planning process for navigable waters to include a process to:  (1) identify adverse changes in quality movement, flow, or circulation of navigable waters caused by hydrologic modifications, including changes caused by the existence or operation of dams; and (2) set forth procedures and methods to control such adverse changes. Excludes from the definition of ""pollutant"" munitions expended in the course of conventional weapons training exercises by the U.S. armed forces, or by its allies in joint training exercises.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2652
97-s-2644,97,s,2644,A bill to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to prohibit the disposal in landfills of certain hazardous wastes.,Environmental Protection,1982-06-17,1982-06-17,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Hart, Gary W. [D-CO]",CO,D,H000287,1,"Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to list those hazardous wastes which may reasonably be anticipated to cause adverse health or environmental effects if disposed of without adequate prior treatment. Directs the Administrator to make such list within 18 months after the enactment of this Act and periodically thereafter.  Directs the Administrator to consult with appropriate Federal and State agencies and to provide notice and opportunity for public hearing before making such list. Prohibits disposal of such listed hazardous waste without prior treatment by a method, technique, or process certified by the Administrator.  Sets forth procedures for such certification.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2644
97-s-2620,97,s,2620,"Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Amendments of 1982",Environmental Protection,1982-06-10,1982-09-15,Committee on Agriculture. Ordered favorably reported H.R.5203 in lieu of this measure.,Senate,"Sen. Helms, Jesse [R-NC]",NC,R,H000463,1,"Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act to exclude from the definition of ""use inconsistent with the label"" the use of a registered pesticide for another end-use product or for repackaging such product, unless such use is prohibited by the labeling. Revises pesticide registration provisions. Increases reply time to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data request from 90 to 180 days.  Requires, rather than permits, joint development arrangements where appropriate unless all parties object.  Sets forth a 25 percent or $100,000 (whichever is less) cost-sharing arrangement.  Requires the Administrator of the EPA to suspend the registration of a party for data request noncompliance. Makes such suspension enforceable in U.S. district courts. Expands the scope of suspension appeals. Provides a 15-year protective period for such additional data.  Permits new parties to use such data (and be considered original developers) if they reimburse the joint developers. Permits registrants to replace scientifically insufficient health and safety data with new data submitted after September 30, 1978. Authorizes joint development arrangements. Establishes a 120 day joint developer transition period. Sets forth end-use product formulator exemptions. Requires the Administrator to give 90-day notice to affected registrants of the risks upon which a proposed public interim review will be based.  Makes an interim decision not to restrict a pesticide's use or classification subject to judicial review. Sets forth required registration data.  Requires: (1) 90-day reregistration notice: and (2) cancellation (subject to judicial review) for failure to reregister within the permitted time. Provides 15-year exclusive use protection for supporting data for: (1) a pesticide containing a new active ingredient initially registered after September 30, 1978; (2) a new use registration; (3) an experimental use permit for a pesticide containing a new active ingredient; and (4) new uses of existing ingredients originally registered after January 1, 1970. Permits an applicant to use his own data or data already submitted to the EPA, or a combination of both, unless precluded by compensation or exclusive use provisions. Sets forth: (1) transitional exclusive use protection provisions; and (2) effective dates for exclusive use and compensation provisions. Directs the Administrator to: (1) compile and make public a data index for each protected active ingredient within one year; and (2) update such indexes at least semiannually.  Requires that data cited in a new registration application be made public.  Permits original registrants claiming to be adversely affected to have a cancellation hearing.  Provides for judicial review of such hearing. Provides 15-year exclusive use protection for specified applications approved after the enactment of this Act but before the effective date of relevant provisions. Requires the Administrator to take agricultural production and prices into account when considering classification changes.  Authorizes registration phase-out in addition to changes or cancellations. Requires an applicant to explain why specific registration data should be protected from disclosure as a trade secret or commercial or financial information.  Requires the Administrator to provide an applicant with up to 60 days to show that data to be disclosed is protected manufacturing, testing, or ingredient percentage information. Requires the Administrator to issue disclosure regulations.  Requires interim regulations within 60 days. Establishes separate procedures for disclosure of innovative methods and technology. Makes such information available only to scientists and certain nonprofit organizations. Prohibits any piece of information from being so considered for more than five years. Sets  forth guidelines for nondisclosure of certain information acquired from foreign governments or international organizations. Provides a private right of action for or data disclosure violations. Makes it unlawful to disclose or transfer, solicit, or use information in a manner prohibited by such Act. Makes it unlawful to fire a person or adversely affect his or her work status for exercising his or her rights under such Act. Revises provisions regarding penalties for improperly obtaining or using specified pesticide data. Extends the scientific advisory panel through FY 1984. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1984.",2025-08-29T19:51:39Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2620
97-s-2621,97,s,2621,"A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.",Environmental Protection,1982-06-10,1982-09-15,Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure H.R. 5203 ordered to be reported.,Senate,"Sen. Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye [R-CA]",CA,R,H000384,0,"Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to revise State review and health and safety data request authority under such Act. Prohibits a political subdivision of a State from regulating the sale or use of any federally registered pesticide or device. Permits a State to request previously submitted (in support of a Federal registration) health and safety data for its own review from either the applicant or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Permits a State to require additional data when there are special local concerns about increased environmental risk or pesticide  ineffectiveness.  Authorizes:  (1) the applicant to contest such request through the EPA; and (2) the EPA to modify or overrule such State request.  Subjects State and EPA determinations to judicial review in U.S. district courts. Makes other State data requests subject to EPA review. Requires States to review a registration application within 60 days or such application shall be considered approved.  Gives States up to 120 days to review an application for a pesticide used in the commercial production of food crops if a new use or active ingredient is involved.",2025-01-14T16:41:20Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2621
97-s-2590,97,s,2590,"An original bill to amend and extend the Clean Water Act, as amended, for one year, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1982-05-27,1982-05-27,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 629.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,0,"Amends the Clean Water Act (also known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act) to extend through FY 1983:  (1) authorizations of appropriations for specified programs, including programs of investigations and information, operator training, State program grants, student training, and clean lakes grants;  and (2) the general authorization of appropriations to carry out such Act.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2590
97-s-2591,97,s,2591,"An original bill to extend Titles I and II of the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, as amended.",Environmental Protection,1982-05-27,1982-05-27,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 630.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,0,"Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act to authorize appropriations for regulation of ocean dumping for FY 1983.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2591
97-s-2594,97,s,2594,Acid Deposition Control Act,Environmental Protection,1982-05-27,1982-05-27,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Danforth, John C. [R-MO]",MO,R,D000030,0,"Acid Deposition Control Act - Amends title I of the Clean Air Act (Air Pollution Prevention and Control) to establish a new program (Interstate Transport and Acid Precursor Reduction) to:  (1) regulate the long-range transport of pollutants and their transformation products; and (2) reduce acid compounds, and their precursors, in the atmosphere. Establishes a long-range transport corridor, the ""acid deposition impact region,"" consisting of 22 States (east of or bordering the Mississippi River) and the District of Columbia. Establishes a ""secondary acid deposition impact region"" consisting of the nine other States east of or bordering the Mississippi River. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to include such group of States in the acid deposition impact region upon determination, based on study results, that such inclusion will better serve the purposes of this Act. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) conduct a study of air pollution problems associated with the long-range transport of pollutants in the portions of the continental United States not included in the acid deposition impact region; and (2) report the results to Congress within two years. Prohibits annual emissions of sulfur dioxide and of oxides of nitrogen from stationary sources in the acid deposition impact region from exceeding the total actual emissions in such region for calendar year 1980.  Prohibits any major stationary source in the region from significantly increasing such emissions, unless a not otherwise required net reduction of such regional pollution, in excess of the proposed increase, has been identified. Requires a ten-year phased reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide in the region of 7,500,000 tons from the total 1980 level (or 10,000,000 tons if the States in the secondary region are included).  Requires each State to achieve reductions in annual sulfur dioxide emissions according to a formula based on each State's share of utility emissions in the region.   Permits State Governors to agree to reallot the required reductions. Requires each State in the region to adopt, within two years, enforcement measures to achieve such reduction. Directs the Administrator to approve such measures within four months if specified criteria are met. Sets forth a uniform sulfur dioxide emission limit for fossil-fuel-burning electric generating facilities (which are major stationary sources not subject to new performance standards) in any State that has not adopted, or has not had approved, such enforcement measures by such deadlines. Requires that owners or operators of such sources: (1) submit an approvable reduction plan and schedule within three years of enactment of this Act; (2) comply with such plan and schedule; and (3) achieve the required emission reduction at the earliest practicable date, but no later than ten years after enactment of this Act. Specifies methods or programs for enforceable net emission reduction that may be used by a State or the owner or operator of a source.  Permits a State or owner or operator to substitute reduction in emissions of oxides of nitrogen for required sulfur dioxide emissions reductions, at a specified rate. Directs the Administrator to make grants from an Acid Deposition Reduction Trust Fund to states in the acid deposition impact region to assist utilities in meeting the emission reduction requirements imposed by this Act.  Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such grants based on the actual net after tax expenses incurred by utilities in each State in meeting such requirements. Establishes the Acid Deposition Reduction Trust Fund in the Treasury. Appropriates amounts to the Fund equal to the total amount of acid deposition reduction fees received under this Act. Imposes such a fee on every utility which sells electricity in any State in the acid deposition impact region, based on the amount of electricity sold. Adds to State implementation plan requirements a prohibition of stationary source air pollutant emissions in amounts that will contribute to atmospheric loadings of pollutants or their transformation products so as to adversely affect public health or welfare or the environment in any other State or foreign country.",2025-08-29T19:51:39Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2594
97-s-2576,97,s,2576,"An original bill to extend the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, for one year.",Environmental Protection,1982-05-26,1982-05-26,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 609.,Senate,"Sen. Gorton, Slade [R-WA]",WA,R,G000333,0,"Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise specified provisions under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Provides that certifications of need or orders issued to assure availability of adequate supplies of chemicals necessary for water treatment may remain in effect until September 30, 1983 (currently September 30, 1982) or for one year after issuance, whichever occurs first. Extends through FY 1983 the authorizations of appropriations under the Safe Drinking Water Act for research, technical assistance, information, training of personnel, and grants to State programs of public water system supervision and of underground water source protection. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 for matching grants to States for the development of groundwater protection plans for sole source aquifer regions.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2576
97-s-2577,97,s,2577,"Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1983",Environmental Protection,1982-05-26,1982-11-30,Veto message Indefinitely Postponed in the Senate by Unanimous Consent.,Senate,"Sen. Gorton, Slade [R-WA]",WA,R,G000333,0,"(Senate agreed to House amendments with an amendment) Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of l983 - Authorizes appropriations to the Environmental Protecton Agency (EPA) for FY 1983 and 1984 for activities authorized under the:  (1) Clean Air Act; (2) Federal Water Pollution Act; (3) Safe Drinking Water Act; (4) Solid Waste Disposal Act; (5) Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; (6) Public Health Service Act (radiation activities); (7) interdisciplinary activities provisions; (8) Toxic Substances Control Act; and (9) energy research programs relating to control technology, health effects, ecological effects, monitoring, and acid rain.  Authorizes appropriations to the EPA Office of Research and Development for FY 1983 and 1984 for program management and support. Sets forth permissible uses of such funds.  Provides for congressional oversight of transfers of funds between categories. Requires at least 20 percent of specified funds authorized under this Act for FY 1984 to be obligated and expended for long-term research and development.  Directs the Administrator of the EPA to report annually on the performance of such long-term research and development programs to the appropriate congressional committees at the time the President's budget is submitted to the Congress. Directs the Administrator, at least 30 days prior to issuing any general notice of major reduction in force in any fiscal year, to inform the appropriate congressional committees of the reasons for the reduction and its impact on carrying out this Act. Requires that certain amounts of specified funds authorized under this Act for FY 1983 and 1984 be authorized for environmental monitoring activities which are authorized under Federal environmental statutes and which support development of a continuing national environmental monitoring program. Directs the Administrator, in consultation and in cooperation with specified Federal and State officials, to:  (1) ensure that the national environmental monitoring program, called for under this Act, is comprehensive and national in scope; (2) develop a national monitoring program for air quality and apply its features, where appropriate, to programs for other media; and (3) prepare a plan for the design and implementation of the national monitoring program, with specified inclusions, to be reviewed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and submitted to the appropriate congressional committees one year after enactment of this Act, and thereafter biannually, following plan review and update by program participants, the NAS, and the EPA.  Directs the Administrator, on the last day of FY 1984, and of each subsequent fiscal year, to report on the state of, and factors affecting air quality based on data gathered through the monitoring program.  Requires that data for such monitoring programs be subjected to validated quality assurance procedures. Requires that appropriations authorized for energy research under this Act for FY 1983 and 1984 be used for environmental research associated with:  (1) synthetic fuels production; (2) coal, oil, natural gas, and other fossil fuel extraction, processing, transportation, and combustion; and (3) other energy development activities and related problems posing threats to public health and the environment (including indoor air pollution). Directs the Administrator to:  (1) establish and maintain a long-term health and ecological effects research program on energy-related pollutants; (2) coordinate such program with related Federal research programs; (3) establish and maintain an energy-related pollutants monitoring program; and (4) include in the air quality report a report on the emission and dispersion of energy-related air pollutants based on data from such monitoring program. Directs the Administrator to continue to conduct development and demonstration of energy-related pollution control technologies as required by pertinent pollution control statutes.  Prohibits:  (1) administrative transfer of energy-related environmental research projects authorized to be administered by the EPA under this Act to any other Federal or State agency; or (2) the reduction of such programs through budget amendment. Directs the Administrator to carry out a research program with respect to indoor air quality. Requires that such program be designed to:  (1) gather data and information on all aspects of indoor air quality in order to contribute to the understanding of health problems associated with the existence of air pollutants in the indoor environment; and (2) coordinate Federal, State, local and private research, development, and demonstration efforts relating to the improvement of indoor air quality. Authorizes the Administrator to establish committees of representatives of appropriate Federal agencies, and advisory groups of representatives of the scientific community, industry, and public interest organizations, as may be necessary to assist in carrying out such indoor air quality research program.  Directs the Administrator to consult and coordinate with State and local officials and other interested parties having concerns related to such program. Requires the indoor air quality research program to include research concerning:  (1) monitoring of pollution sources and levels; (2) effects of indoor air pollution on human health; (3) control technologies; and (4) information dissemination to assure public availability of research findings. Directs the Administrator to submit to the Congress:  (1) an indoor air quality research implementation plan within one year after enactment of this Act; (2) a progress report within 36 months of such enactment; and (3) a final report within 54 months of such enactment.  Requires that the progress report and final report be submitted to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) within a reasonable period before submittal to the Congress and contain any NAS comments when submitted. Reserves specified amounts to carry out such program from funds appropriated pursuant to authorization under this Act for FY 1983 and 1984. Directs the Administrator to develop a Senior Environmental Assistance Program to aid Federal, State, and local environmental agencies in carrying out programs under this Act. Requires, to the fullest extent possible, the utilization of existing older American programs in providing such assistance. Permits a specified amount of the funds appropriated from the Hazardous Substances Response Trust Fund for FY 1983 and 1984 to be expended for research and development activities.  Expresses the sense of the Congress that the costs of those research and development activities associated with or necessitated by the actual or threatened release of hazardous substances be paid for out of the fund created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1970. Amends the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978 to revise provisions relating to the membership of the Science Advisory Board. Requires that the Board be composed of members appointed by the Administrator from a list recommended by a nominating committee.  Requires that the nominating committee's representation include the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation, National Academy of Sciences, and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).  Directs the NIEHS, in consultation with the Administrator, to establish, chair, and manage the nominating committee.  Directs the nominating committee to solicit candidates for nomination to the Board from the general public through notice in the Federal Register.  Authorizes the Administrator to obtain necessary information from nominees.  Directs the Administrator to publish the name, address, and professional affiliation of each nominee in the Federal Register. Directs the Administrator to ensure that Board membership is fairly balanced in terms of points of view represented and functions to be performed.  Requires that Board membership represent States, industry, labor, academia, consumers, and the general public.  Directs the nominating committee to make certain such requirement is met in recommending nominees. Requires that the terms of Board members be one to three years and be staggered so that the terms of no more than one-third of the total membership of the Board and its committees expire within a single fiscal year.  Requires that each member of the Board serve a full term unless such member is unable, for involuntary reason, to discharge Board duties or has violated conflict of interest regulations. Requires, if a vacancy on the Board is not filled by the Administrator within 90 days, the nominating committee to meet and appoint, within 60 days, a member to fill such vacancy from its list of recommended nominees. Directs the Administrator, within 120 days after enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations regarding conflict of interest with respect to Board members. Requires that the Board's advice and comments be included in the record with respect to any proposed rule and published in the Federal Register in accordance with the requirements of the environmental statutes and the authority of the Administrator. Provides that such provisions relating to the qualifications, appointments, and terms of members of the Board shall take effect upon the expiration of the terms of members serving on the Board as of the date of enactment of this Act.",2025-08-29T19:51:39Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2577
97-s-2477,97,s,2477,Clean Air Act Amendments of 1982,Environmental Protection,1982-05-04,1982-05-04,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Garn, E. J. (Jake) [R-UT]",UT,R,G000072,6,"Clean Air Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Clean Air Act (""the Act"") to revise stationary source provisions for State implementation plans (SIPs), new source performance standards (NSPS), primary nonferrous smelter orders, prevention of significant deterioration (PSD), and best available control technology (BACT). State Implementation Plans (SIPs) - Permits major stationary source construction or modification in a nonattainment area, even if such source emissions will cause or contribute to concentrations of a pollutant in excess of a national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS), if:  (1) the SIP revision permitting such construction or modification has not been affirmatively disapproved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); or (2) the State determines that such construction or modification is in the public interest and that NAAQS attainment would be achieved with a reasonable extension of the attainment deadline. Prohibits findings by the Administrator related to procedural or technical defects in permit applications from serving as the basis for a moratorium on stationary source construction or modification in nonattainment areas. Requires States to provide the Administrator:  (1) notice and copies of proposed SIP revisions; and (2) notice of SIP revisions adopted and brief summaries of written objections or comments concerning such revisions and of State actions with respect to such objections or comments. Directs the Administrator to submit to the State technical and legal comments, and any recommended changes, on proposed SIP revisions.  Directs the Administrator to publish notice in the Federal Register within 30 days of receipt of notice of State adoption of an SIP revision and to provide a period of no less than 30 days and no more than 70 days for public comment. Provides that SIP revisions shall be deemed approved by the Administrator and become effective 90 days after publication in the Federal Register, unless the Administrator has disapproved the revision for failure to satisfy specified requirements.  Directs the Administrator to publish a notice in the Federal Register of each approval or disapproval of an SIP revision. Authorizes the Administrator to extend such public comment period and effective date of an SIP revision for up to 60 days and to hold public hearings on SIP revisions. Prohibits an SIP revision from becoming effective unless the Administrator publishes a finding that the State's response to a timely objection, based on the Act or any regulation under the Act, was not arbitrary or capricious.  Describes the materials that shall constitute the record for purposes of judicial review of approvals or findings of the Administrator with respect to SIP revisions. Repeals the requirement that SIPs must provide, to the extent necessary and practicable, for periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles to enforce compliance with applicable emission standards.  Prohibits the Administrator from requiring such an inspection and testing program as a condition of SIP approval, except under specified conditions relating to extensions of attainment dates for NAAQS for photochemical oxidants or carbon monoxide. Permits States to suspend or revoke indirect source review programs without regard to specified SIP approval requirements. Provides that such a State suspension or revocation shall constitute a SIP revision, of which the State must notify the Administrator and the Administrator must publish notice in the Federal Register. Removes the requirement that the system of continuous emission reduction be ""technological,"" for purposes of permit requirements for new or modified stationary sources. Establishes a ten-year ""grandfather"" period from the date of completion of construction or modification of any major emitting facility issued a permit under PSD area or nonattainment area provisions.  Provides that during such period such facility shall not be required to comply with an emission limitation or standard more stringent than the emission reduction required under such permit, unless the limitation or standard:  (1) applies to an air pollutant for which an NAAQS is established after permit issuance; or (2) is required under provisions for nonattainment areas or national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs) or emergency conditions. New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) - Repeals the requirement that new fossil fuel fired stationary sources of air pollution comply with a standard of performance which requires a percentage reduction in air pollutant emissions. Redefines ""standard of performance,"" for NSPS purposes, to require emissions limitations achievable through the application of a system of continuous emission reduction which the Administrator (or the State, for specified categories of stationary sources) determines is adequate for that category or a similar category of new stationary sources, taking into consideration the cost of achievement, energy impact, and environmental effects unrelated to air quality. Redefines ""new source"" to include stationary sources commencing planning or design (as well as those commencing construction or modification) after publication of final applicable NSPS and to exclude any stationary source for which planning, designing, construction, or modification commenced after September 18, 1978, but prior to June 11, 1979. Removes the requirement that the system of continuous emission reduction under NSPS be a ""technological"" system or process.  Includes in the definition of such system or process the use of inherently low-polluting fuels or raw materials. Permits application of such amended requirements to fossil fuel fired electric utility steam generating units which were constructed or modified after September 18, 1978, and before the publication of regulations reflecting the amendments made by this Act. Primary Nonferrous Smelter Orders - Permits primary nonferrous smelters to use intermittent emissions curtailment for not more than five percent of any calendar year to assure attainment and maintenance of the NAAQS for sulfur oxides. Directs the Administrator to promulgate new regulations for a standard of good engineering practice with respect to stack heights which will allow, in the case of primary nonferrous smelters, a credit for such stack height as may be necesssary to reduce plume impaction on terrain obstacles in mountainous regions where no other reasonable plant siting option is available. Extends by five years the deadlines for compliance with primary nonferrous smelter orders. Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) - Revises a purpose of PSD provisions. Makes a Class II areas (areas where air quality deterioration is permitted to a greater degree than in Class I areas which include international and national parks and wilderness areas in existence on August 7, 1977) areas which exceed 10,000 acres in size and which are established after passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 as national monuments, primitive areas, preserves, recreation areas, wild and scenic rivers, wildlife refuges, lakeshores or seashores, and parks or wilderness areas.  Provides that such areas may only be redesignated as class I or class II.  Directs the Administrator to consult with the Federal land manager in each State and publish a list of such areas located within specified nonattainment areas.  Exempts such areas for classification as class II areas upon certification to the Administrator by the States in which such areas are located that such a designation is unreasonable or impractical.  Prohibits the Administrator from overruling the State, unless the Administrator demonstrates that the State has been arbitrary or capricious in exempting such areas from classification as class II areas. Provides that current non-mandatory class II areas which are not established as class I areas or mandatory class II areas or redesignated shall be class II areas until December 31, 1983, but shall be unclassified thereafter, unless redesignated. Eliminates the Class III area classification. Repeals Class I and Class II area short-term ""increment"" requirements (maximum allowable increases over baseline concentrations of a pollutant) for:  (1) 24-hour periods for particulate matter; and (2) 24-hour and three-hour periods for sulfur dioxide (thus retaining only annual ""increment"" limitations for such pollutants in such areas). Repeals all Class III area ""increment"" requirements. Excludes pollution attributable to fugitive dust and other naturally occurring background particulate matter from consideration in determining concentrations of pollutant for purposes of PSD increment requirements.  Authorizes (and requires upon petition of the Governor) the Administrator to provide notice, conduct a public hearing, and, with the Governor's concurrence, promulgate rules for determining compliance with increment requirements in States where the Administrator is the PSD permitting authority. Eliminates the Class III area classification. Permits States to designate or redesignate specified national areas established after the passage of this Act and exceeding 10,000 acres in size as class I, class II, or unclassified.  Requires that such redesignation be specifically approved by the Governor after consultation with the legislature (unless State law requires State legislation) and local governments of the redesignated area.  Exempts such areas which are redesignated unclassified from PSD increment requirements. Eliminates requirements that specified descriptions, analyses, and plans relating to area redesignations be prepared and made available for public inspection. Eliminates provisions relating to preconstruction requirements for Class III areas. Retains the one-year (after filing date) deadline for granting or denying completed permit applications for facilities which will emit 500 tons or more per year of pollutant, but provides a six-month deadline in the case of facilities emitting less than 500 tons.  Requires that the permit applicant be notified whether the application is complete, within two months after filing. Requires States, for PSD preconstruction review purposes, to transmit to the Administrator copies of permit applications for major emitting facilities only if such a facility will emit: (1) 500 tons or more per year of total suspended particulate matter or 1,000 tons or more of sulfur dioxide; or (2) pollution affecting air quality in any class I area or other specified national areas.  Requires States to provide notice to the Administrator of only the final action taken on such permit. Requires protection of air quality related values within a Class I area only ""from significant adverse impacts.""  Provides that the affirmative responsibility of the Federal Land Manger and the Federal official charged with direct responsibility for management of lands within a class I area shall not extend to protection of integral vistas or views of specific landmarks or panoramic views located outside the boundaries of Federal Class I areas. Requires inclusion of information constituting its basis in the filing of an allegation that a proposed facility may cause or contribute to a significant adverse impact in air quality. Requires State concurrence, taking into consideration the health, environmental, economic, and energy effects of a facility, with the Federal Land Manager's demonstration that a proposed facility will have such an impact. Repeals the requirement that the owner or operator demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Federal Land Manager that a proposed facility will not have an adverse impact on air-quality related values.  Requires, instead, that the owner or operator file a notice with the Federal Land Manager that such facility will have no significant adverse impact, and gives the Federal Land Manager 45 days to concur or disagree. Repeals short-term ""increment"" limitations for PSD construction permit purposes. Authorizes the Governor, after consideration of the Federal Land Manager's recommendation, to grant a variance from the annual increment limitation for sulfur dioxide in Class I areas.  Requires, in the case of Federal mandatory Class I areas, that such a variance not have a significant adverse effect on air quality related values and be in the public interest. Requires that continuous air quality monitoring data be included in an analysis for PSD preconstruction review purposes only to the extent required in the discretion of the permitting authority.  Repeals the requirement that such data be gathered over a one-year period. Establishes a ten-year ""grandfather"" period for facilities issued PSD construction permits. Excludes naturally occurring background particulates or fugitive dust analysis or control from specified demonstrations required of owners or operators seeking PSD construction permits. Deletes the requirement that the Administrator's PSD regulations for specified other pollutants be at least as effective as the increment requirements already established. Revises the definition of ""major emitting facility"" for PSD purposes to provide consideration of the net effect on air pollution emissions of modifications of specified types of stationary sources. Revises provisions for visibility protection for Federal Class I areas to cover only ""significant"" impairments of visibility.  Excludes from the definition of ""visibility impairment"" an integral vista or view of a specific landmark or panoramic view located outside the boundary of a Class I Federal area which can be viewed from a point within the boundaries of a Class I area. Best Available Control Technology (BACT) - Revises the definition of ""best available control technology"" (BACT) to include designs or work practice standards.  Allows the permitting authority to provide that for stationary sources which do not emit more than 500 tons per year of a particular air pollutant BACT may be equivalent to the applicable new source performance standard (NSPS), under specified circumstances.",2025-08-29T19:51:39Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2477
97-s-2431,97,s,2431,"A bill to amend and extend the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, for two years.",Environmental Protection,1982-04-22,1982-04-26,Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,0,"Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to extend the authorization of appropriations through FY 1984 for general administration of such Act. Repeals the requirement that at least 20 percent of the appropriations authorized under such Act for general administration be used for Resource Recovery and Conservation Panels and at least 25 percent be used for State and local support. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1984 for assisting States in the development and implementation of authorized States hazardous waste programs. Repeals the program of assistance to States for discretionary programs relating to recycled oil. Eliminates the authorization of appropriations for the programs of the Resource Conservation Committee. Eliminates the authorization of appropriations for a study on the adverse effects of drilling fluids, produced waters, and other wastes associated with the exploration, development, or production of crude oil or natural gas or geothermal energy.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2431
97-s-2432,97,s,2432,"A bill to amend and extend the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, for two years.",Environmental Protection,1982-04-22,1982-05-27,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 631.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,3,"(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Environment and Public Works with amendment, S. Rept. 97-445) Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to extend the authorization of appropriations through FY 1984 for general administration and for assistance to States in the development and implementation of authorized State hazardous waste programs. Requires that a specified amount of the sums authorized to the Environmental Protection Agency for FY 1983 be made available to the National Academy of Sciences to conduct the following studies: (1) an assessment of the procedures for estimating the relative risks to human health and welfare and natural resources, of releases, spills and leaks from disposal sites of hazardous wastes; (2) a review of the current knowledge of the effects of hazardous chemical and waste management procedures on ground water systems and supplies; and (3) an assessment of the institutional factors inhibiting the development and siting of facilities for treatment and disposal of hazardous waste. Requires  such studies to be completed within 12 months after the completion of contractual arrangements and reports submitted to specified Congressional committees.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2432
97-s-2307,97,s,2307,Clean Air Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1982,Environmental Protection,1982-03-30,1982-03-30,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Riegle, Donald W., Jr. [D-MI]",MI,D,R000249,1,"Clean Air Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1982 - Title II:  Mobile Source Amendments - Amends title II (Emission Standards for Moving Sources) of the Clean Air Act (""the Act""). Requires that any more stringent new standard for New Motor Vehicle or New Motor Vehicle Engines not become effective for at least:  (1) 48 months after prescription or revision, in the case of heavy-duty vehicles or engines; and (2) 36 months after prescription or revision, in the case of all other new motor vehicles or engines. Provides that any more stringent new standards must reflect the degree of emission reduction the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determines to be reasonably achievable through application of technology adequately demonstrated to be available for the appropriate model year.  Directs the Administrator, in making such determination, to consider costs, applicability to gasoline or diesel-fueled vehicles or engines, impact on fuel economy, effect on level of all emissions from such vehicles or engines, safety, commercial use, and other appropriate factors. Authorizes the Administrator to arrange with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to review the technical feasibility of such proposed new standards and to submit written reports which shall be available to the public. Revises provisions relating to regulations applicable to emissions of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, oxides of nitrogen, and particulate matter from classes or categories of heavy- duty vehicles or engines.  Directs the Administrator to prescribe such regulations within one year of the enactment of this Act. Provides that the standards prescribed in such emissions regulations shall apply for a minimum period of four model years unless less stringent standards are prescribed for any model year during that period.  Requires that standards applicable to emissions of oxides of nitrogen and particulate matter be prescribed at the same time. Directs the Administrator to arrange with NAS for a technological feasibility report with respect to any proposed standard for particulate matter to be prescribed for heavy-duty vehicles and engines. Repeals provisions setting forth criteria for the revision of emission standards for new motor vehicles or engines and requiring a report to Congress on any such revised standard. Revises provisions for a continuing pollutant specific study to require that such study concern the effects of air pollutant emissions of light duty as well as heavy duty vehicles or engines. Revises deadlines for such study (making the next deadlines January 1, 1983, and before January 1 of each fourth year thereafter).  Directs the Administrator:  (1) after considering the results of such study reported to the Congress, to revise the standards prescribed for heavy-duty vehicles or engines; or (2) upon determination that such revision is not necessary, to publish such determination in the Federal Register. Requires notice and opportunity for public comment before the Administrator determines that the operation or function of an emission control device, system, or element of design will cause or contribute to an unreasonable risk to public health, welfare, or safety.  Adds to the factors the Administrator must consider in making such determination any information obtained from any manufacturer under specified compliance testing provisions. Revises standards for regulation of emissions from light-duty vehicles and engines manufactured during and after model year 1982 to require that pollutant grams per vehicle mile (gpm) not exceed: (1) .41 gpm of hydrocarbons; (2) seven gpm of carbon monxide; and (3) two gpm of oxides of nitrogen.  Authorizes the Administrator to revise any such standard for any model year after model year 1986.  Prohibits any revised standard from being:  (1) more stringent than the standard applicable (without regard to any waiver) to light-duty vehicles and engines manufactured in the 1981 model year; or (2) less stringent than the 1982 model year standards. Revises provisions for waivers of such emission standards.  Directs the Administrator, after notice and opportunity for public hearing, to waive an emission standard for any model of vehicles or vehicle engines for up to four model years upon petition and demonstration by the manufacturer that such waiver is necessary for the use of an innovative power train technology, innovative emission control device or system, or alternative fuel or powersource. Adds ""the potential to conserve energy"" to factors to be considered in granting such waivers. Revises the maximum number of vehicles or engines per manufacturer to which such waivers may apply. Sets such maximum at 200,000 vehicles or engines per year of such waiver, but not more than 500,000 for a four model years waiver. Prohibits extension or renewal of four model years waivers.  Requires that such waivers include appropriate emissions standards to: (1) ensure, in the Administrator's judgment, no significant adverse impact on achieving applicable ambient air quality standards; and (2) encourage development and production of such model. Limits (to one-half the average original actual life for each class or category of motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine) the period of use which the Administrator is authorized to determine as appropriate for specified provisions relating to the ""useful life"" of such vehicles or engines. Provides that future regulations affecting the manufacture, distribution, or sale of motor vehicles or engines for high altitude areas of the United States:  (1) shall include the exemptions provided in regulations for model year 1982; and (2) may provide specified high-altitude performance adjustments. Prohibits any regulation requiring a percentage of reduction in emissions from high altitude motor vehicles greater than that required for non-high altitude motor vehicles.  Prohibits regulations applying a numerical standard for determination of such percentage reduction for high altitude vehicles more stringent than that for non-high altitude vehicles. Requires that such regulations provide for a percentage reduction in emissions for high-altitude vehicles or engines that is determined by comparing any proposed high-altitude emission standard to high-altitude emissions from vehicles manufactured during model year 1970, but prohibits such regulations from containing standards less stringent than 11 gpm of carbon monoxide from light-duty high-altitude vehicles and engines manufactured during or after model year 1982. Prohibits regulations requiring that any emission control device or element of design needed to meet the applicable emissions standards under high altitude conditions also be installed on motor vehicles or engines intended for principal use in non-high altitude locations. Includes among prohibited acts the failure or refusal by any manufacturer to comply with EPA requests for information for a study relating to the availability and distribution to motor vehicle dealers located at high altitudes of models of new light-duty motor vehicles. Revises provisions for compliance testing and conformity certification to direct the Administrator to reliably evaluate or require reliable evaluation of (but not necessarily to test or require testing of):  (1) any new motor vehicle or new motor vehicle engine submitted by a manufacturer; and (2) any emission control system incorporated in a vehicle or engine submitted by any person. Repeals a one-year maximum limit on the period which a certificate of conformity may cover. Directs the Administrator to establish an acceptable quality level for all new motor vehicles equivalent to the level applicable to 1981 model year light-duty vehicles. Repeals a requirement that a all light-duty vehicles manufactured during and after model year 1984 comply with specified emission standards regardless of the altitude at which they are sold. Prohibits the Administrator, in administering compliance testing and certification provisions, from requiring a manufacturer to test or to assume the cost of testing any motor vehicle if:  (1) the projected sales for the model year will not exceed 500; and (2) such vehicle incorporates an engine and emission control system which have been used in a motor vehicle for which a certificate of conformity has been issued. Revises provisions for compliance by vehicles and engines in actual use to base determinations of nonconformity with regulations by any class or category of vehicles and engines manufactured after a specified date upon the average performance in testing a representative sample.  Permits manufacturers to elect to take other actions, in lieu of remedying such nonconformity, with respect to those or other vehicles or engines, consistent with the purposes of title II of the Act.  Prohibits manufacturers from including together in the same such actions:  (1) both gasoline and diesel-fueled vehicles or engines; or (2) both light-duty and heavy-duty vehicles or engines. Directs the Administrator to consider the effects on competition, in approving a manufacturer's plan to remedy or take other actions with respect to such nonconformity. Repeals a requirement that dealers furnish purchasers of new light-duty motor vehicles certificates of conformity with applicable emission standards, including notice of purchaser warranty rights. Provides that, in the case of any new motor vehicle or engine designed to comply with State emission control standards for which a waiver of Federal standards has been granted, compliance with such States standards shall be treated as compliance with applicable Federal standards. Repeals a provision requiring that there be a State-instituted motor vehicle inspection and maintenance (I and M ) program in nonattainment areas of a State before authority relating to high-altitude performance adjustments may be available to such State. Provides that specified foregoing amendments made by this title shall take effect with respect to vehicles and engines manufactured in model years beginning more than 60 days after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to initiate a study and related proceedings, including appropriate informal public hearings, to:  (1) develop alternative and practicable approaches to emission control of any air pollutant, subject to such regulation, from new motor vehicles or engines; and (2) evaluate the existing control program. Sets forth the factors to be considered by the Administrator concerning such alternative approach.  Requires that a report of such study, including public comments, be submitted to the appropriate committees of the Congress within one year.  Sets forth criteria for proposed regulations under any such alternative approach.  Prohibits promulgation of such regulations except after final rulemaking as required by this Act and pursuant to legislation reported from the appropriate committees of Congress and enacted either after the date of submission of the report of the study or after the date of submittal of the regulations to the Congress. Repeals a requirement that manufacturers warrant that new motor vehicles or engines are:  (1) designed, built, and equipped so as to conform with emissions standards at the time of sale; and (2) free from defects in materials and workmanship which cause failure to conform during the period of useful life.  Requires, instead, a production warranty that the vehicle or engine is:  (1) equipped with emission control components designed to enable such vehicle or engine to conform at the time of sale with emissions standards; and (2) free from defects in materials and workmanship which cause failure to conform for the first 24 months or the first 24,000 miles, whichever occurs first. Repeals provisions for motor vehicle or engine parts certifications by manufacturers or rebuilders for compliance with emissions standards. Limits a free replacement obligation of manufacturers to emissions control components installed for the sole (currently, sole or primary) purpose of reducing vehicle emissions. Limits specified peformance warranties to:  (1) the first 24 months or 24,000 miles; and (2) certain components installed for the sole purpose of emissions control. Revises provisions for manufacturers' instructions for the maintenance, replacement, and repair of emission control parts or components to eliminate requirements that:  (1) such instructions correspond to regulations promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and (2) the replacement parts be certified.  Eliminates provisions for waivers of a prohibition against including conditions on the purchaser's using components for services unconnected with the manufacturer. Prohibits States from establishing or enforcing a warranty or prescribed maintenance requirement for new motor vehicles or engines unless such warranty or requirement is identical to the corresponding Federal warranty or prescribed maintenance requirement. Permits a person to remove, disconnect, alter, or render inoperative an emission control part on a motor vehicle if the part is replaced with a part which performs the same function or if such action is temporarily necessary for the repair or maintenance of such part or vehicle. Prohibits the sale or offer of sale, of any part or component principally used to render inoperative or alter emission control parts or components of motor vehicles or engines so as to cause the vehicle or engine to exceed applicable emission standards. Expresses the intent of the Congress that the Administrator:  (1) not rely on letters and internal memoranda for guidance to those affected by such tampering prohibitions; and (2) promulgate regulations or a general policy statement to provide guidance to those affected and to ensure uniform compliance. Exempts communications regarding any part, component, system, or service provided without charge under the terms of the purchase agreement from specified prohibitions against manufacturer's communications conditioning warranty coverage on use of certain products or services. Prohibits State new motor vehicle emission standards in nonattainment areas from including any provision similar to the production or performance warranty provisions under the Act. Sets forth provisions for the control of marine vessel emissions as mobile source emissions. Directs the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretaries of Commerce, State, Defense, Transportation, and the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating, and with the States, to study and investigate air pollutant emissions from marine vessels to determine:  (1) the extent to which such emissions affect air quality; and (2) the technological feasibility of controlling such emissions.  Requires that the results of the study be available for public comment at least 90 days prior to publication and that publication be within 12 months after enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator, in consultation with the States and the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is located, to issue proposed emission standards for any class or classes of vessels causing or contributing to air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.  Directs the Administrator to hold public hearings with respect to such proposed standards and to promulgate regulations establishing such standards, with appropriate modifications.  Authorizes revision of such standards.  Requires that such regulations take effect after a period necessary to permit development and application of requisite technology, with appropriate consideration given to the cost of compliance.  Provides that any such regulation shall not apply if disapproved by the President on the basis of a finding, after notice and opportunity for public hearing, by the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating that such regulation would create a hazard to vessel safety. Directs the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating:  (1) after consultation with the Administrator and the Secretary of Defense, to prescribe regulations to insure compliance with emission standards for marine vessels; and (2) to insure that all necesary inspections are accomplished. Prohibits State or local government enforcement of standards for control of marine vessel air pollutant emissions unless such standards are identical to those applicable under the marine vessel emissions provisions of this Act. Directs the Administrator, upon the request of any national association of motor vehicle dealers with a membership which includes a majority of U.S. retail franchisers selling imported and domestic new light-duty motor vehicles, to compile data relating to the availability and distribution to dealers located at high altitudes of all models of such vehicles manufactured by any specified manufacturer in a specified model year. Authorizes the Administrator to utilize specified information and to require manufacturers to submit relevant information (except information identifying shipments to individual dealers).  Directs the Administrator, within 180 days after such a request is made, to submit to the Congress and publish in the Federal Register a report setting forth the data so compiled, including specified information. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) accelerate ongoing studies of performance of methanol and other low-emission fueled vehicles; (2) evaluate and monitor ongoing experiments by other entities; (3) assess the cost effectiveness of such alternatives to gasoline; and (4) determine emission characteristics in methanol and other low-emission fueled engines.  Directs the Administrator,if such study results are favorable, to develop a policy to encourage conversion of commercial and governmental vehicle fleets to low-emission fuels. Directs the Administrator to report the results of such studies to the appropriate committees of the Congress.",2025-08-29T19:51:34Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2307
97-s-2309,97,s,2309,Endangered Species Act Amendments of 1982,Environmental Protection,1982-03-30,1982-06-09,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,17,"(Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H.R. 6133 passed in lieu) Endangered Species Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to add the term ""experimental population"" to the definitions in such Act. Defines such term as a population of an endangered or threatened species that:  (1) has been transported and released outside of the current range of the species to further its conservation; and (2) is wholly separate geographically from nonexperimental populations of the species.  Deletes the term ""irresolvable conflict"" from the definitions of such Act.  Provides that the term ""Secretary"" means the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to the enforcement of provisions of such Act and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora which pertain to the import or export of any plants.  (Currently, the term ""Secretary"" means the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to provisions pertaining to the import or export of terrestrial plants.) Provides for the treatment of experimental populations as threatened species. Requires the Secretary (either the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce, as program responsibilities are vested) to issue regulations to provide for the identification and conservation of such populations. Authorizes the Secretary to issue a permit for the enhancement of survival of an endangered species which authorizes the incidental taking of individuals of the affected species if:  (1) there is a long term conservation plan for the species; and (2) adequate funding is provided by the permittee and the Secretary is assured the conservation plan will be fully implemented. Increases the limit on the Federal share of costs of conservation programs for endangered and threatened species developed by States pursuant to cooperative agreements between the States and the Secretary. Requires the Secretary, to the maximum extent prudent and determinable, to designate the critical habitat of any endangered or threatened species concurrent with the determination of the status and the listing of the species. Requires that the Secretary, in determining whether species are endangered or threatened, give full consideration to species which have been:  (1) designated as requiring protection from unrestricted commerce by any foreign country or pursuant to an international agreement; or (2) identified as in danger of extinction or likely to become so in the near future by a conservation agency of a State or foreign nation. Provides that upon receipt of a petition to add a species to, or remove a species from, the endangered or threatened species list, the Secretary shall determine and publish a finding whether the petition presents substantial scientific information that such addition or removal is warranted, in addition to conducting and publishing a review of the status of the species as required under the current law.  Requires the Secretary to publish a decision on the petition within 12 months of receiving it. Revises the notice requirements with respect to the proposal by the Secretary of regulations relating to the determination of the status and listing of endangered or threatened species.  Requires the Secretary to publish a final determination with respect to any proposed listing within one year after such proposal is published. (Currently, a final regulation adding a species to the endangered or threatened species list must be published within two years after notice of the proposed regulation is published.)  Permits a six-month extension of such one-year period if the Secretary finds there is substantial disagreement regarding the sufficiency or accuracy of the available scientific and commercial data on which the determination will be based. Provides that if a State agency having jurisdiction over the area in which a species affected by a proposed regulation is located files comments disagreeing with the regulation or files a petition to add a species to, or remove a species from, the endangered or threatened species list, the Secretary must submit to the State agency a written justification for failure to adopt regulations consistent with the agency's comments or petition. Authorizes civil actions against the Secretary for failure to perform acts or duties required under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Eliminates the review board established to consider Federal agency and permit or license applicants' applications for exemptions for agency actions likely to jeopardize endangered or threatened species or their habitats.  Provides for the Secretary to review, and report to the Endangered Species Committee on, such exemption applications in place of the review board. Reduces from 60 days to 20 days the time available to make the initial determination concerning the exemption applicant's eligibility for the exemption.  Reduces from 180 days to 150 days the time period within which the Secretary must complete a report on:  (1) the availability of alternatives to the agency action involved; (2) evidence as to whether the action is in the public interest or is of national or regional significance; (3) appropriate reasonable mitigation and enhancement measures which should be considered; and (4) whether the Federal agency involved and the exemption applicant refrained from making irreversible or irretrievable commitments of resources prohibited by the Endangered Species Act of 1973.  Reduces from 90 days to 30 days the time within which the Committee must determine whether to grant an exemption after receiving the Secretary's report.  Prohibits the Committee from granting an exemption for an agency action if the Federal agency or the exemption applicant made an irreversible or irretrievable commitment of resources prohibited by such Act. Prohibits the extension of the 90-day consultation period between a Federal agency and the Secretary, for the determination of whether an agency action is likely to jeopardize an endangered or threatened species or its habitat, for more than 60 additional days without the permission of any permit or license applicant involved.  Requires the Secretary to specify the information required to complete the consultation and the date on which the biological opinion will be completed whenever the consultation period is extended by agreement. Provides that if the agency action will not jeopardize an endangered or threatened species or its habitat, or if reasonable and prudent alternatives can be taken by the agency or the permit or license applicant in implementing the agency action, the Secretary must provide the agency or applicant concerned with a statement specifying:  (1) the extent of take of any endangered or threatened species incidental to the agency action which will not jeopardize the species or its habitat; and (2) those reasonable and prudent measures which will minimize the taking of the species.  States that an action which is in compliance with such reasonable and prudent measures shall not be considered a taking of the species which is the subject of the biological opinion. Requires the Secretary to determine on the basis of the best available biological information derived from professionally accepted wildlife management practices:  (1) whether the export or introduction from the sea of any specimen of a species included in appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora will be detrimental to the survival of that species; and (2) whether the export of such specimens should be limited.  Provides that the Secretary shall not be required to use population estimates in making such determinations when such estimates are not the best available biological information derived from professionally accepted wildlife management practices. Authorizes the Attorney General to seek to enjoin any person alleged to be in violation of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Permits noncommercial shipments of fish and wildlife into the United States under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 if: (1) the fish or wildlife was taken and exported lawfully from the country of origin and any country of reexport; (2) the fish or wildlife is in transit through any place subject to U.S. jurisdiction en route to a country where such fish or wildlife may be lawfully imported or received; (3) the circumstances leading to the transshipment of the fish or wildlife through any place subject to U.S. jurisdiction were beyond the exporter's or owner's control; (4) Convention requirements have been satisfied; and (5) the shipment is not made in the course of commercial activity. Exempts from the prohibition on the import or export of, and from the prohibition on violations of regulations pertaining to, endangered or threatened species of fish or wildlife held in captivity or in a controlled environment, but not for commercial purposes, on:  (1) December 28, 1973; or (2) the date of the publication of the final regulation adding such fish or wildlife to the endangered or threatened species list.  Provides for a rebuttable presumption that the fish or wildlife involved in a prohibited act is not entitled to such exemption if the act occurs 180 days or more after December 28, 1973, or the date of such publication. Declares it to be congressional policy that Federal agencies shall cooperate with State and local agencies to resolve water resources issues in concert with conservation of endangered species. Prohibits the removal and reduction to possession of endangered plants on Federal lands.  (Currently, there are prohibitions on importing, exporting, selling, or dealing in interstate or foreign commerce with endangered plants and on violating regulations pertaining to such plants.) Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985 to carry out the Endangered Species Act of 1973.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2309
97-s-2310,97,s,2310,"A bill to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1983 and 1984, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1982-03-30,1982-03-30,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,0,Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations to the Department of Commerce for FY 1983 and 1984 to carry out such Act.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2310
97-s-2266,97,s,2266,Clean Air Reauthorization and Acid Precipitation Study Act of 1982,Environmental Protection,1982-03-24,1982-03-24,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Byrd, Robert C. [D-WV]",WV,D,B001210,2,"Clean Air Reauthorization and Acid Precipitation Study Act of 1982 - Amends the Clean Air Act (""the Act""). Title I: Implementation Plans and Enforcement - State Implementation Plans (SIPs) and the SIP revision Process - Revises required State Implementation plans (SIPs) provisions. Directs a State to notify the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of proposed and adopted revisions to its SIP and of any comments or objections filed concerning such revisions.  Directs the Administrator to: (1) submit to the State comments on the technical and legal sufficiency of any proposed revision; (2) publish notice of a revision in the Federal Register within 30 days of receipt of notice of State adoption of the revision; and (3) provide a period of 30 to 70 days for public comment. Provides that any SIP revision shall be deemed approved and become effective 90 days after publication in the Federal Register, unless the Administrator, upon considering the State's administrative proceeding record and public comments, disapproves on the basis of failure to satisfy specified requirements. Directs the Administrator to publish notice of such approval or disapproval. Permits the Administrator to: (1) extend the periods for public comment and for approval, by up to 60 days; and (2) hold public hearings on SIP revisions. Provides that an SIP approval shall not be effective unless the Administrator finds, and publishes, that the State's response to any objection filed both during the State's proceedings and the Administrator's public comment period was not arbitrary or capricious. Repeals the requirement that SIPs provide for periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles to enforce compliance with applicable emission standards. Prohibits the Administrator from requiring, as a condition of SIP approval, any indirect source review program or, except as specified in provisions for nonattainment areas, any program of periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles.  Permits States to include, and the Administrator to approve, such programs in SIPs. New Source Performance Standards - Limits the applicability of the percentage reduction requirement for new fossil fuel fired stationary sources to those categories of stationary sources to which such requirement were applied under regulations in effect as of December 31, 1981. Provides that NSPS apply only to stationary source construction or modification commenced after NSPS regulations are promulgated (currently, proposed). Enforcement - Provides a one-year period for compliance after issuance of specified Federal enforcement orders (not including Federal orders relating to violations of national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants or State enforcement orders).  Repeals a requirement that the Administrator seek an injunction or assess a civil penalty in the case of any major stationary source not in compliance within 30 days of such a Federal enforcement order. Provides discretionary authority for the Administrator to seek injunctions or assess penalties any case of noncompliance which last beyond 30 days enforcement orders (and continues such discretionary authority in cases not involving major stationary sources). Directs the Administrator to carry out specified enforcement authorities through the use of full-time Federal officers or employees.  States that contractors should be used only as necessary to provide technical support for such enforcement. Prohibits the Administrator from contracting with anyone other than a full-time Federal officer or employee to provide legal assistance for such enforcement. Revises enforcement provisions relating to major stationary sources which burn petroleum products or natural gas to cover such sources which voluntarily convert to an alternate fuel.  Includes other alternate fuels under the enforcement provisions which currently cover conversion to coal by such sources. Requires (currently allows) each State to develop and submit to the Administrator a plan for carrying out noncompliance penalty provisions in such State. Repeals the authority of the Administrator to carry out noncompliance penalty provisions in a State under certain conditions.  Authorizes (currently requires) the State, or the Administrator if the State has not received a delegation, to carry out penalty provisions to assess and collect a noncompliance penalty in specified circumstances.  Authorizes the State to grant exemptions from penalties in cases of minor noncompliance (and continues the authority of the Administrator, when appropriate, to do so).  Repeals a requirement that the Administrator send notices of noncompliance to specified persons, in the event the State fails to send such notices. Requires persons receiving such notices to submit a calculation of the amount of penalty owed and a schedule of payments within a reasonable period prescribed by the Administrator or the State (currently requires such submission within 45 days of notice issuance or petition denial).  Makes a similar change in the deadline for submissions of  petitions challenging such notice or alleging entitlement to an exemption.  Provides that public hearings on such petitions be conducted by the Administrator or the State, as appropriate, and that decisions on such petitions be made within a reasonable time (currently requires the Administrator to hold such hearings unless the State agrees to do so and currently requires a decision within 90 days after receipt of the petition). Repeals provisions authorizing the Administrator to review State decisions on such petitions and requiring such review under certain conditions.  Authorizes the State or the Administrator, as appropriate, to adjust or compromise any penalty assessment if the source is in compliance.  Repeals provisions for:  (1) final adjustments of penalties after compliance; and (2) Administrator objections to, and substitutions for, State noncompliance penalties. Revises requirements for noncompliance penalty assessed amount determinations and payment schedules. Authorizes the Administrator, after notice and public hearing, to revoke or suspend any delegation under noncompliance penalty provisions upon determination that a State is not complying with such provisions. Attainment Date Extensions - Permits States to receive up to five-year extensions beyond the December 31, 1982, national primary ambient air quality standard (""primary NAAQS"") attainment date for pollutants in nonattainment areas (currently the Act permits such extensions for carbon monoxide and photochemical oxidants). Requires, in order to receive such extensions, that a State:  (1) certify to the Administrator that attainment is not possible before December 31, 1982, despite implementation of all reasonably available measures; and (2) commit itself to not modifying State nonattainment plan provisions so as to adversely affect reasonable further progress.  Directs the Administrator to publish notice of such certification and afford an opportunity of not more than 60 days for public comment, including a hearing where appropriate.  Directs to Administrator, if satisfied that such attainment is not possible, to extend the deadline to a date providing for attainment as expeditiously as possible, but not later than December 31, 1987. Grants the Administrator discretionary authority, upon State application and after notice and public hearing, to provide an additional extension of an attainment date for any NAAQS, for up to six years beyond the December 31, 1987 extension.  Conditions such additional extensions on a State demonstration that: (1) the State has made good faith efforts to make reasonable further progress toward attainment during the previous extension period and has achieved annual incremental reductions in emissions of the air pollutant concerned; (2) all applicable SIP provisions, including those relating to legislative and funding actions and reasonably available control technology (or alternative measures that achieve equal or greater reductions in emissions) are being adequately implemented; (3) air quality problems are so severe and persistent, for identified reasons, that the previous extended deadline cannot be attained; and (4) in the case of requests for additional extensions for carbon monoxide or photochemical oxidants, the State has adopted and will implement in a cost- effective manner a program of motor vehicle inspection and maintenance not inconsistent with the purposes and requirements of title II (Emissions Standards for Moving Sources) of the Act.  Directs the Administrator to promulgate guidelines for SIP revisions, including guidelines respecting the terms of such additional extensions. Authorizes the Administrator to prohibit issuance of a construction or modification permit for any major stationary source which emits a pollutant for which a NAAQS has not been attained by the appropriate deadline.  Permits case-by-case waivers of such prohibition for the construction of any new stationary source to replace an existing stationary source, upon determination by the permitting authority that emissions from the new source of each air pollutant for which the area is designated a nonattainment area will be less than such emissions from the existing source.  Directs the Administrator to: (1) enforce such permit requirements by issuing an order or bringing a civil action; and (2) seek an injunction or assess a civil penalty for violations of such prohibitions against construction or modification. Nonattainment (other amendments) - Revises other part D provisions for permit requirements in nonattainment areas to require that proposed new or modified major stationary sources comply with the best available control technology (BACT) standard, in the case of permits issued on or after the enactment date of this Act (compliance with the lowest achievable emission rate (LAER) standard is thus required only for permits issued before such date). Repeals a requirement that SIP provisions for nonattainment areas establish a specific schedule for implementation of a vehicle emission control inspection and maintenance (I/M) program in order to qualify for a deadline extension in meeting the primary NAAQS for photochemical oxidants or carbon monoxide. Requires that SIP nonattainment provisions for urban areas with greater that 500,000 population, in which the 1981 photochemical oxidants and/or carbon monoxide level exceeded the respective primary NAAQS by 50 percent or more, must contain a cost-effective program applicable to in-use motor vehicle emissions and not inconsistent with title II (Emission Standards for Moving Sources) of the Act. Requires that such program include an I/M program, if the State deems this appropriate.  Allows a State to decide that the I/M program will apply first to motor vehicle fleets and commercial operators and then, when the State determines necessary for attainment, to other vehicles.  Permits any State to:  (1) continue an I/M program for any nonattainment area which does not fall under the new requirements concerning urban areas with the above-mentioned population and pollution areas; or (2) submit revisions to modify or eliminate such program. Makes specified emissions level requirements for construction and operation in nonattainment areas inapplicable in the case of any SIP under which:  (1) the construction or modification of specified stationary sources is required to comply with the best available control technology (BACT) standard; (2) an adequate emissions inventory is maintained; (3) all existing major stationary sources will be in compliance with emission limitations based upon reasonably available control technology (RACT) not later than 1987 (or earlier, as appropriate); (4) notwithstanding the construction of new major stationary sources, there is a program for obtaining such annual reductions in emissions as represent reasonable further progress; and (5) annual increased emissions resulting from source construction or modification shall not exceed one percent of the inventoried emissions of the applicable pollutant in the nonattainment area. Provides that the Administrator shall apply on a gradual or partial basis the authority to withhold Federal grant funds for sewage treatment and highways in cases of noncompliance with the Act as appropriate to the severity of such violations. Prevention of Significant Deterioration - Revises provisions for Prevention of Significant Deterioration of Air Quality (PSD). (PSD provisions currently specify allowable short-term and long-term ""increments"" of emissions of sulfur oxide and particulate matter - regulations for other pollutants are not yet final - in areas with cleaner air than that required by NAAQS.  (Currently the smallest increments are allowed in ""class I"" areas, which include ""statutorily designated"" large national parks and wilderness areas, with larger increments in ""class II"" areas, and the largest increments in ""class III"" areas.) Repeals the ""increment"" limitations (specified ""maximum allowable increases over baseline concentrations"") for class II and class III areas. Eliminates the short-term increment limitations for class I areas. Permits State Governors to rule that concentrations of particulate matter attributable to fugitive dust from specified sources shall not be taken into account in determining compliance with maximum allowable increases in ambient concentrations. Eliminates provisions for PSD area redesignations as class III areas. Provides that PSD preconstruction requirements shall only apply to physical or operational changes resulting in a significant net increase in source emissions of any air pollutant regulated under provisions for NAAQS, NSPS, or NESHAPs.  Sets a de minimis amount for such increase at 100 tons per year (1,000 tons per year of carbon monoxide) for any air pollutant for which a NAAQS is established (except lead) and 18 tons per year for fluorides. Revises PSD preconstruction review analysis requirements to grant discretion to the permitting authority in determining whether continuous air quality monitoring data is necessary to determine whether emissions from a facility will exceed maximum allowable increases (class I area increments) or maximum allowable concentrations (primary and secondary NAAQS). Requires PSD preconstruction permit programs to: (1) notify applicants within two months after receipt as to whether or not the application is complete and in what respects an incomplete application should be modified; and (2) issue or deny the permit within seven months after a completed application is received. Authorizes any officer or employee of a permitting agency to communicate and meet with any applicant, prior to submission of an application, to clarify PSD preconstruction permit requirements. Eliminates the requirement that PSD regulations for hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, photochemical oxidants, and nitrogen oxides contain measures at least as effective as the ""increment"" limitations for sulfur oxides and particulate matter. Provides that the Administrator shall promulgate PSD regulations, as appropriate, for any such pollutant (thus repealing a specific deadline for such regulations).  Deletes the requirement that the specific measures included in such regulations to evaluate permit applications be ""numerical."" Eliminates the special definition of ""best available control technology"" (BACT) for purposes of PSD provisions.  Defines BACT for purposes of the Act to mean the applicable New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) (the EPA-set technology-based standards for categories of industries), along with applicable national emission limitation standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs).  Retains determination of the BACT by the permitting authority on a case-by-case basis where no NSPS exists for a stationary source in a particular category.  Allows State and local governments to adopt or enforce standards or limitations more stringent than the BACT standard. Visibility Protection - Limits the applicability of specified visibility protection provisions to:  (1) ""significant"" impairments of visibility within mandatory class I Federal areas; and (2) ""significant"" adverse impacts on air quality related values (including visibility) on lands within class I areas. Operation and Maintenance - Requires that SIPs include a program for periodic audits of major stationary sources to insure the proper operation and maintenance of pollution control equipment used to comply with emission limitations.  Requires that the results of such audits be available to the public. Sets a deadline, six months after enactment of this Act, for submission of SIP revisions taking account of such requirements. Emergency Variances - Revises provisions for emergency variances from any SIP requirement applicable to a stationary source. Authorizes the President to issue such variances. Permits such variances to be issued when foreign imports of fuels used by a stationary source have reached an excessive level and such imports can be reduced by the emergency suspension.  Increases the maximum period for such temporary emergency suspensions to two years (currently four months), but prohibits any such suspension remaining in effect for more than four months if it results in a violation of any NAAQS.  Requires the person (a State Governor or the President) issuing any suspension for a period of more than four months to revoke such suspension upon determination that the stationary source did not change to an alternative fuel. Administrative Review - Revises provisions relating to international air pollution.  Directs the Administrator to:  (1) publish notice in the Federal Register upon receipt of specified information or allegations about such pollution originating in the United States; (2) receive public comments and conduct an investigation including public hearings respecting such pollution; and (3) make a finding as to whether any air pollutant emitted in the United States causes or contributes to air pollution in a foreign country. Provides that any finding that U.S. emissions cause or contribute to air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare in a foreign country shall be deemed to be a finding which requires an SIP revision. Regulatory Stability - Sets forth regulatory stability provisions establishing a ten-year ""grandfather"" period, commencing with construction or modification, during which a stationary source (unless subsequently modified) shall not be subject to more stringent requirements if the construction or modification is subject to NSPS, obtains a permit or approval, and meets all permit or approval requirements. Excludes from such ""grandfather"" provision any emission limitation or standard imposed on any stationary source with respect to:  (1) hazardous pollutants designated under NESHAP provisions; (2) pollutants with no NAAQS in effect at commencement of the construction; or (3) any other air pollutant, if the Administrator judges that the public health or welfare may be endangered. Effective Data and Transitional Rules - Sets forth an effective date and transitional rules for the amendments relating to Nonattainment provisions and to PSD provisions. Title II: Ozone Protection - Revises ozone protection provisions of the Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to continue ozone protection studies and research while increasing actual measurements of stratosphere ozone and improving methods of monitoring potential trends in such measurements. Directs the Administrator to contract annually with the National Academy of Sciences to:  (1) continue review and research; (2) determine the extent, nature, and causes of changes in stratospheric ozone concentration (with particular attention to the effects of chlorofluorocarbons); (3) investigate unreasonable effects on health and the environment; and (4) report all findings and associated uncertainties. Directs the National Academy of Sciences, in consultation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to report, within two years and annually therafter until such time as the theory of ozone depletion by chlorofluorocarbons has has been validated, all findings concerning actual or potential alteration of the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere, its causes, and associated implications and uncertainties. Requires that such report be made to the Administrator and to the Congress, with copies available to the public. Requires that continuing research and monitoring programs be expanded to determine the extent, nature, causes, effects, and associated uncertainties of stratospheric ozone concentration changes. Directs the President, within two years from the date of enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, to report to the Congress and the public on efforts to reach international agreements among the major free-world producing countries of chlorofluorocarbons as to the nature, extent, and implications of any threat to the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere and as to the appropriate regulatory action to be taken. Prohibits the Administrator from proposing further regulations for the control in the United States of any chlorofluorocarbon under the Act or the Toxic Substance Control Act until:  (1) the Administrator determines that depletion of the stratospheric ozone by chlorofluorocarbons at a rate determined to be eventually harmful to human health and the environment is actually detected; or (2) the President reports that international agreement has been reached as to the nature, extent, and implications of any threat to the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere and as to the appropriate regulatory action to be taken. Provides that this Act shall not affect:  (1) the validity of regulations concerning aerosol propellants containing chlorofluorocarbons promulgated by the Administrator before the effective date of this Act; or (2) the Administrator's obligation to comply with other applicable requirements in adopting regulations for the control of chlorofluorocarbons. Prohibits States or local governments from adopting or attempting to enforce any regulation (except ones controlling halocarbon use as an aerosol propellant) respecting the control of chlorofluorocarbons to protect the stratosphere or stratospheric ozone until the Administrator has promulgated regulations for such control in the United States. Title III:  Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for FY 1983 through FY 1987. Provides for sums necessary for:  (1) the Administrator and the States to effectively carry out the Act's provisions, including training of State and local personnel, enforcement, abatement, and control, consideration of SIPs and revisions, and audits; and (2) sufficient funding for personnel for the Administrator to carry out the Act, particularly its regulatory functions, without undue reliance on contractors. Requires that such authorization not be less than the appropriations authorized in fiscal year 1981 to carry out the Act (except provisions relating to the National Commission on Air Quality). Prohibits the Administrator from using any funds appropriated under the Act for any payment for a reduction-in-force in any fiscal year.  Directs the Administrator to inform the appropriate committees of the Congress of the reasons for such reduction, its impact on carrying out the Act, and other detailed or pertinent information, at least 30 days prior to issuing any general notice of such reduction. Declares that nothing in this title shall authorize appropriations for any research and development activities under the Act. Title IV:  Acid Precipitation Study - Amends the Energy Security Act (title VII provisions also known as the ""Acid Precipitation Act of 1980"") to reduce the period covered by a comprehensive research plan from ten years to five years. Makes conforming amendments relating to implementation of, and authorization of appropriations for, the comprehensive research plan. Directs the Acid Precipitation Task Force to submit a final report, with detailed recommendations, within five years of enactment of the Energy Security Act. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to submit recommendations, to accompany the final report of the Task Force, for specific changes in law supported by scientific findings of the Taks Force. Prohibits the Administrator from proposing or promulgating any rule to control sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxide emissions if such rule would expand the Administrator's existing regulatory authority, before the final report is transmitted. Directs the Task Force to:  (1) study fuel precombustion treatment and low-polluting combustion processes for reduction of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions; and (2) solicit information from State agencies conducting acid deposition research.",2025-08-29T19:51:28Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2266
97-s-2280,97,s,2280,A bill to amend the Clean Water Act of 1977.,Environmental Protection,1982-03-24,1982-07-29,Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Murkowski, Frank H. [R-AK]",AK,R,M001085,11,"Amends the Clean Water Act to declare that ""discharge of a pollutant or pollutants"" does not include effects upon water quality resulting solely from the impoundment of waters, or the release of impounded waters, or the methods of such release.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2280
97-s-2245,97,s,2245,"A bill to amend and extend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended, for two years.",Environmental Protection,1982-03-22,1982-06-22,Committee on Agriculture. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Helms, Jesse [R-NC]",NC,R,H000463,0,"Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to: (1) extend the duration of the scientific advisory panel through FY 1984; and (2) authorize specified appropriations through FY 1984.",2025-01-14T16:41:20Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2245
97-s-2090,97,s,2090,A bill to amend the application of the Clean Air Act to the Northern Mariana Islands.,Environmental Protection,1982-02-09,1982-09-13,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. McClure, James A. [R-ID]",ID,R,M000346,0,Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to exempt the Northern Mariana Islands from the application of such Act upon a finding by the Governor of the Islands that the benefits of compliance are significantly outweighed by the costs of compliance.,2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2090
97-s-2027,97,s,2027,Acid Precipitation Accelerated Review and Reporting Act,Environmental Protection,1982-01-28,1982-01-28,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Byrd, Robert C. [D-WV]",WV,D,B001210,13,"Acid Precipitation Accelerated Review and Reporting Act - Amends the Energy Security Act (title VII provisions also known as the ""Acid Precipitation Act of 1980"") to reduce the period covered by a comprehensive research plan from ten years to five years.  Makes conforming amendments relating to implementation of, and authorization of appropriations for, the comprehensive research plan. Directs the Acid Precipitation Task Force to submit a final report, with detailed recommendations, within five years of enactment of the Energy Security Act. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to submit recommendations, to accompany the final report of the Task Force, for specific changes in law supported by scientific findings of the Task Force. Prohibits the Administrator from proposing or promulgating any rule to control sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxide emissions if such rule would expand the Administrator's existing regulatory authority, before the final report is transmitted. Directs the Task Force to:  (1) study fuel precombustion treatment and low-polluting combustion processes for reduction of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions; and (2) solicit information from State agencies conducting acid deposition research.",2025-08-29T19:51:22Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/2027
97-s-1973,97,s,1973,Great Lakes Protection Act of 1981,Environmental Protection,1981-12-15,1981-12-15,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Riegle, Donald W., Jr. [D-MI]",MI,D,R000249,0,"Great Lakes Protection Act of 1981 - Amends the National Ocean Pollution Planning Act of 1978 to redesignate specified provisions and to revise definitions under such Act. Establishes a Great Lakes Protection program under such Act. Directs the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish within NOAA a Great Lakes Research Office, to be directed by an Executive Director appointed by the Administrator. Requires the Executive Director to compile, within one year of the date of enactment of this Act, an inventory of all major actions of the Federal, State, and local governments since 1977 which have significantly affected (or may so affect) the Great Lakes.  Requires that such inventory be submitted to the Congress and the President and be updated at least once every three months. Requires that, within one year of the date of enactment of this Act, the Executive Director report to the President and the Congress, together with recommendations for improvement and coordination, on: (1) the current state of Federal efforts to improve the Great Lakes' environmental quality; and (2) the degree of coordination among the States to preserve and protect such quality. Sets forth other responsibilities of the Executive Director. Requires that all Federal agencies prepare Great Lakes environmental impact analyses in their recommendations or reports for major Federal actions significantly affecting the Great Lakes. Sets forth provisions relating to such analyses, including a requirement that copies be available to the President and to the public. Directs that, to the fullest extent practicable: (1) U.S. policies, regulations, and public laws be interpreted and administered in accordance with the policies of protection for the Great Lakes set forth in this Act; and (2) any major Federal action significantly affecting the Great Lakes be modified to accommodate such policies and include all possible planning to minimize harm to the Great Lakes. Revises provisions relating to interagency cooperation, dissemination of information, and effect on other laws. Extends through fiscal year 1984 the authorization of appropriations to carry out the National Ocean Pollution Planning Act of 1978.  Reserves a specified amount of such appropriations to be obligated and expended on the Great Lakes Research Office in each fiscal year ending after September 30, 1981.",2025-08-29T19:51:22Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1973
97-s-1915,97,s,1915,A bill granting the consent of Congress to the compact between the States of New Hampshire and Vermont concerning solid waste.,Environmental Protection,1981-12-04,1981-12-04,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary by unanimous consent with instructions that when the bill is reported it be referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works for not to exceed thirty days.,Senate,"Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT]",VT,R,S000776,3,Interstate Compact - Grants the consent of Congress to the cooperative agreement between the States of New Hampshire and Vermont for the construction and operation of facilities for the processing or disposal of solid waste.,2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1915
97-s-1771,97,s,1771,"Global Resources, Environment, and Population Act of 1981",Environmental Protection,1981-10-26,1982-03-23,Committee on Governmental Affairs requested executive comment from Environmental Protection Agency; Council on Environmental Quality; Commerce Department; State Department.,Senate,"Sen. Hatfield, Mark O. [R-OR]",OR,R,H000343,10,"Global Resources, Environment, and Population Act of 1981 - Declares it to be the public policy to:  (1) promote national population stabilization; (2) encourage other nations to achieve population stabilization; and (3) coordinate research and national planning concerning global trends in population characteristics, the availability of natural resources, and environmental change. Directs all Federal agencies to:  (1) use reliable demographic research in planning and decisionmaking which affect national and global population characteristics; and (2) develop procedures to insure the consideration of population characteristics, population stabilization, and environmental, economic, and natural resource aspects in agency planning and decisionmaking.  Directs each agency head to:  (1) review the agency's statutory authority, policies, and regulations to determine whether there are any impediments to complying with this Act; and (2) recommend the necessary administrative or legislative actions to eliminate such impediments. Establishes an interagency Council on Global Resources, the Environment, and Population to:  (1) coordinate research, conduct studies, and report to the President and Congress on trends in population characteristics; (2) assess the impact of such trends on population stabilization, the environment, and the availability of natural resources; (3) recommend legislative and administrative actions to modify or eliminate Federal programs, laws, and regulations which limit the achievement of the policies of this Act; and (4) recommend to Congress and the President a national population policy and policies to encourage global population stabilization at a level which maintains the highest possible standard of living and does not deplete the world's natural resources or degrade the global environment. Requires the President to submit to Congress, annually, a national population change and planning report which includes:  (1) an evaluation of the impact that national and global trends in population characteristics, the availability of natural resources, and environmental change will have on the nation's economy and national security; and (2) recommendations for necessary legislative actions.",2025-08-29T19:51:17Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1771
97-s-1716,97,s,1716,Clean Water Act Amendments of 1981,Environmental Protection,1981-10-07,1981-10-29,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Voice Vote.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,0,"(Measure passed Senate, amended) Clean Water Act Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Clean Water Act (also known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act) to revise provisions for Grants for Construction of Treatment Works (title II). Prohibits Federal grants, after October 1, 1981, which provide assistance only for facility plans, or plans, specifications, and estimates for any proposed construction of treatment works. Provides that non-Federal funds expended during the facility planning and advanced engineering and design phase shall be reimbursed at the prevailing Federal share, if the proposed project later receives a Federal grant for construction. Authorizes each State to use up to ten percent of allotted funds to establish a revolving fund for advancing facility planning costs to potential grant applicants otherwise unable to prepare construction cost grant requests. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make a specified sewage treatment grant to the State of California. Lowers the Federal share for treatment works grants (from 75 percent in fiscal year 1981) to 65 percent for fiscal years 1982 through 1984 and to 55 percent thereafter, for specified grants. Requires that treatment works grants be made only for: (1) secondary treatment or more stringent treatment, or any cost effective alternative; and (2) new interceptors and appurtenances. Revises formulas for determining the amount of any grant, made after September 30, 1978, for treatment works using innovative or alternative wastewater treatment processes and techniques. Sets such amount at a percentage rate of the construction costs 20 percent greater than the rate established for other treatment works grants or the modified uniform percentage rate, up to 85 percent of such costs. Extends the definition of the term ""eligible treatment works"" to cover those which can be fully funded by States in fiscal years beyond fiscal year 1981 (and which meet specified other requirements). Authorizes the Administrator, upon the request of the Governor of an affected State, to use funds from State allotments to assist new sewage collection systems in existing communities and to address storm water and sanitary sewer overflow problems, under specified circumstances. Makes available to the Administrator, beginning in fiscal year 1983, specified additional funds per fiscal year to be used to address water quality problems of bays and estuaries due to discharges from combined storm water and sanitary sewer overflows, not otherwise eligible for Federal payments for treatment works.  Authorizes the use of such funds upon the request of and demonstration of water quality benefits by the Governor of an affected State. Raises the total estimated cost limit for treatment works for which single grants may be awarded to cover the combined Federal share of plan preparation costs and construction costs.  Repeals a provision that allows a higher (than the current) limit in cases of unusually high construction costs. Revises conditions on treatment works grants to prohibit grants to construct that portion of the treatment works providing reserve capacity (except for specified planning and preparation grants).  Directs the Administrator to base determinations of size and capacity of eligible treatment works upon 1980 population statistics.  Permits the total eligible design flow capacity of a treatment works to include existing industrial flows. Prohibits publicly owned treatment works grants made after November 15, 1981, from being used to treat, store, or convey flows from industrial users in excess of existing flows. Revises provisions relating to ""brand name or equal"" descriptions for technical requirements by grantees. Requires that treatment works construction grants provide that the engineers or firms providing architect engineering or supervisory services during construction shall: (1) continue their relationship to the grant applicant for one year after the completion of construction and initial operation; (2) supervise operation and train operating personnel during such year; and (3) certify whether the treatment works meet specifications. Requires that failures to meet specifications be corrected in a timely manner at other than Federal expense. Sets forth formulas, schedules, and procedures for the allotment of funds for treatment works grants in fiscal years 1982 through 1985. Extends a formula for specified State and territorial allotments, as well as an authorization of appropriations for such allotments, through fiscal year 1985. Sets forth a formula for reserving specified funds from each State's allotment for fiscal year 1982 and thereafter.  Authorizes the Administrator to reserve an additional amount from State allotments to be available to States, local governments, or multijurisdictional agencies for: (1) water quality management decision-making as to treatment works construction; and (2) implementing provisions for water quality standards and implementation plans. Extends through fiscal year 1985 requirements that specified minimum amounts be expended from State allotments in order to increase the Federal share of grants for construction of treatment works utilizing innovative processes and techniques.  Revises formulas for determining such amounts. Lowers the amount authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1982 for treatment works construction grants.  Authorizes appropriations, in such lowered amount, for fiscal years 1983 through 1985 for such purpose. Eliminates provisions for project priority that relate to: (1) specified categories of projects; (2) required allocation of funds; and (3) the authority to remove a project from a State's priority list. Provides that the determination of priority shall be made by the State in which the projects are to be constructed, consistent with the treatment works grants provisions of such Act.  Limits projects included on a State's priority list to those eligible for funding under specified provisions.  Directs a State to give highest priority to projects which demonstrate that significant public health or water quality benefits will be achieved, and in particular to projects having the greatest effect on water quality improvement. Requires that the review, revision, adoption, or promulgation of revised or new water quality standards, pursuant to specified provisions of such Act, be completed three years after the enactment of this Act. Requires that, to the extent practicable, the establishment of total maximum daily loads of pollutants, pursuant to specified provisions, also be completed by such date. Prohibits the making of grants for a project after such date until water quality standards are reviewed and revised and total maximum daily loads of pollutants are established for the waters affected by the project, except where the Administrator has not approved or disapproved good faith State submissions within 120 days of receipt. Extends to July 1, 1988, the period during which the Administrator may issue or modify permits to extend compliance deadlines for specified effluent limitations, in cases where reductions in the amount of financial assistance under such Act or changed conditions affecting the rate of construction beyond the control of the owner or operator will make it impossible to complete construction by July 1, 1983. Repeals a provision that all publicly owned treatment works must comply by a certain date with specified requirements for study and evaluation of alternative waste management techniques and for application of best practicable waste treatment technology. Expresses the sense of Congress that courts take judicial notice of specified amendments made by this Act of reduced authorization levels, and of final compliance date extensions, in considering modifications of court ordered deadlines and schedules. Provides that, for purposes of specified information and guidelines provisions, certain biological treatment facilities shall be deemed the equivalent of secondary treatment upon a showing satisfactory to the Administrator by the owner or operator that water quality will not be adversely affected. Directs the Administrator, in cooperation with the States, to submit to Congress, within 18 months, a report: (1) identifying those publicly owned treatment works needed to comply with specified requirements and standards; and (2) taking into account all actions of the Administrator pursuant to specified provisions, estimating the total cost and the Federal share necessary for the construction of such works. Declares that this Act shall not be construed to restrict, affect, or modify the obligations or liabilities of any person, or the right to seek abatement or damages, under other Federal, State, or common law.",2025-08-29T19:51:16Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1716
97-s-1718,97,s,1718,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to interstate pollution abatement.,Environmental Protection,1981-10-07,1981-10-29,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]",CT,D,D000388,1,"Amends the Clean Air Act to revise provisions relating to interstate pollution abatement. Extends required State implementation plan prohibitions against interstate pollution to cover emissions:  (1) from any source (currently, stationary sources) within a State; (2) interfering with (currently, preventing) another State's attaining or maintaining) national air quality standards; and (3) contributing to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare in another State. Mandates that State implementation plans require each major proposed new (or modified) source that may significantly contribute to violations of such prohibitions to provide written notice to all possibly affected nearby States at least 60 days prior to the date on which opportunity for public comment on the construction or modification permit commences (currently, prior to commencement of construction).  Requires implementation plans, not later than July 1, 1982, to:  (1) identify areas of emissions from all sources (in addition to all major existing stationary sources) that may have such an interstate pollution impact; and (2) notify all nearby States of the location and level of pollutants from (in addition to the identity of) such sources and areas. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make a finding or deny a State or local government petition for a finding that any source violates such interstate pollution prohibitions within 120 days after receipt of such petition (currently, 60 days after receipt and after public hearing).  Requires a public hearing to be held during such 120-day period.  Prohibits the Administrator, in considering such petitions, from requiring the petitioner to rely solely on modeling or other previously approved methodologies for estimating interstate air pollution.  Directs the Administrator to also consider:  (1) total emissions of a pollutant in each State; (2) reasonable estimates of outside contributions to air quality problems in the petitioning State; (3) meteorological factors; (4) comparative economic impact; and (5) other factors established by regulation. Permits the petitioning State to apply for a court order directing the Administrator to act, if the Administrator has not made a ruling on such petition within 120 days of receipt.  Permits the petitioning State to apply for such order without regard to a normal 60-day notice requirement. Directs the court, on finding that the Administrator has failed to act within the 120 days, to issue such order, award costs to the petitioning State, and assess a $100,000 civil penalty against the United States, to be paid to the petitioning State. Requires that State implementation plan procedures for review of new source locations provide an opportunity for public comment, to extend for at least 60 days, prior to issuance of a permit to commence construction or modification.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1718
97-s-1706,97,s,1706,Acid Deposition Control Act,Environmental Protection,1981-10-06,1981-10-29,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,19,"Acid Deposition Control Act - Amends title I of the Clean Air Act (Air Pollution Prevention and Control) to establish a new program (Interstate Transport and Acid Precursor Reduction) to:  (1) regulate the long-range transport of pollutants and their transformation products; and (2) reduce acid compounds, and their precursors, in the atmosphere. Establishes a long-range transport corridor, the ""acid deposition impact region,"" consisting of 31 States (east of or bordering the Mississippi River) and the District of Columbia. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to:  (1) conduct a study of air pollution problems associated with the long-range transport of pollutants in the portions of the continental United States not included in the acid deposition impact region; and (2) report the results to Congress within two years. Prohibits the increase of emissions of sulfur dioxide and of oxides of nitrogen from stationary sources in the acid deposition impact region over such total actual emissions there as of January 1, 1981.  Prohibits any major stationary source in the region from significantly increasing such emissions, unless a not otherwise required net reduction of such regional pollution, in excess of the proposed increase, has been identified.  Requires a ten-year phased reduction in annual emissions of sulfur dioxide in the region of 10,000,000 tons from the total 1980 level.  Requires each State to achieve reductions in annual sulfur dioxide emissions according to a formula based on each State's share of utility emissions in the region.  Permits State Governors to agree to reallot the required reductions. Requires each State in the region to adopt, within two years, enforcement measures to achieve such reduction. Directs the Administrator to approve such measures within four months if specified criteria are met. Sets forth a uniform sulfur dioxide emission limit for fossil-fuel-burning electric generating facilities (which are major stationary sources not subject to new performance standards) in any State that has not adopted, or has not had approved, such enforcement measures by such deadlines. Requires that owners or operators of such sources:  (1) submit an approvable reduction plan and schedule within three years of enactment of this Act; (2) comply with such plan and schedule; and (3) achieve the required emission reduction at the earliest practicable date, but no later than ten years after enactment of this Act. Specifies methods or programs for enforceable net emission reduction that may be used by a State or the owner or operator of a source.  Permits a State or owner or operator to substitute reduction in emissions of oxides of nitrogen for required sulfur dioxide emissions reductions, at a specified rate. Adds to State implementation plan requirements a prohibition of stationary source air pollutant emissions in amounts that will contribute to atmospheric loadings of pollutants or their transformation products so as to adversely affect public health or welfare or the environment in any other State or foreign country.",2025-08-29T19:51:16Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1706
97-s-1709,97,s,1709,Acid Precipitation Control Act of 1981,Environmental Protection,1981-10-06,1981-10-29,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]",NY,D,M001054,0,"Acid Precipitation Control Act of 1981 - Amends title I of the Clean Air Act (Air Pollution Prevention and Control) to establish a new program (Acid Precipitation Control) to:  (1) regulate acid precipitation precursor emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide; and (2) reduce the transport of air pollutants across international boundaries. Establishes an ""acid precipitation mitigation region"" consisting of 31 States (east of or bordering the Mississippi River) and the District of Columbia. Requires States in the region to reduce, prior to December 31, 1991, sulfur dioxide emissions from all major stationary sources by an amount equal to 85 percent of the actual 1980 sulfur dioxide emissions from all major emitting powerplants (fossil-fuel-fired electric powerplants with specified emissions levels) within such States.  Disregards, for purposes of determining such reduction, any emissions from a separate generating unit or units of such powerplants that are subject to new source performance standards.  Sets forth formulas for determining the maximum required reduction for any state, based on annual statewide utility sulfur dioxide emission rates. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) determine such rates within 60 days; (2) establish a reduction requirement for each State in the region within 90 days; and (3) notify each State of such requirement within 120 days. Requires that, within one year, each applicable State implementation plan be amended to contain enforceable measures for meeting the sulfur dioxide emissions reduction requirement by December 31, 1991.  Permits States to substitute a reduction in nitrogen oxide emissions for a reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions, at a specified rate.  Prohibits States, in meeting the requirement deadline, from including emissions reductions representing compliance with Federal emission standards other than those imposed under this Act by sources in operation before December 31, 1980.  Permits for sources not in operation before such date, inclusion of emissions reductions in excess of those required under such other Federal standards. Directs the Administrator to:  (1) review State implementation plan amendments within 90 days of submission; (2) approve plan amendments that will insure that the emissions reduction requirement will be met by December 31, 1991; (3) revise plan amendments where necessary to meet the requirement deadline; (4) periodically review such plans; (5) take actions necessary to insure compliance with the requirement deadline; and (6) apply additional sanctions or limitations on emissions with respect to any major emitting powerplant, if necessary to insure such compliance.",2025-08-29T19:51:16Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1709
97-s-1662,97,s,1662,National Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982,Environmental Protection,1981-09-24,1982-04-29,Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 69-9. Record Vote No: 93.,Senate,"Sen. McClure, James A. [R-ID]",ID,R,M000346,4,"(Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #93 (69-9)) National Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 - Title I: Findings and Purpose - Declares the purpose of this Act to be the establishment of a Federal policy for the acquisition and interim storage of spent fuel and the long-term storage and disposal of high-level radioactive waste generated by civilian nuclear activities. Title II: Definitions and General Provisions - Defines the terms used in this Act. Sets forth the applicability of certain provisions in this Act to atomic energy defense activities of the Department of Energy. Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to:  (1) develop a program of inplant drills for nuclear powerplant operators, to be conducted by civilian nuclear powerplant licensees; and (2) promulgate regulations for training and qualifications of civilian nuclear powerplant operating personnel.  Requires the NRC to report to Congress within one year of enactment of this Act on its efforts to comply with these requirements. Title III: Interim Storage of Spent Fuel From Civilian Nuclear Powerplants - Directs the Secretary of Energy to enter into contracts with owners of civilian nuclear powerplants which cannot provide adequate spent fuel storage capacity at the powerplant site.  Requires that under such contracts the Government agree to take title to any spent fuel which cannot be stored onsite and transport it to, and store it in, federally owned and operated interim storage facilities, pending further processing, storage, or disposal. Prohibits contracts for spent fuel in amounts in excess of available storage capacity.  States that this Act does not authorize contracts with respect to spent fuel from a nuclear powerplant located outside the United States.  Sets forth contract requirements with respect to: (1) a one-time payment by the owner of the spent fuel to cover transportation, storage, and disposal costs; (2) the owner's right to the value of the remaining fuel resource; (3) the transfer of title to the spent fuel; and (4) the effective date of the contract.  Requires the Secretary to publish notice of intent to enter into such contracts and the one-time payment charge in the Federal Register. Directs the Secretary to construct or acquire one or more interim storage facilities for such spent fuel. Limits the total storage capacity at all such facilities. Directs the Secretary to contract with private industry for the transportation of spent fuel.  Authorizes the use of Federal transportation services if private industry cannot or will not provide such services at a reasonable cost. Directs the Secretary to make annual impact assistance payments to State and local governments to mitigate Social and economic impacts caused by the construction and subsequent operation of any interim away-from-reactor storage facilities within such governments' jurisdictions. Subjects such payments to certain terms and restrictions. Makes funds funds available for the establishment of the interim storage facilities. Requires the Secretary to inform the Governor and the legislature and the eligible Indian tribes of any State in which a potential site for an interim storage facility is located of the investigation and selection of such site for such facility.  Requires the Secretary to enter into negotiations with the State and any eligible Indian tribes at the time of site selection to establish a cooperative agreement under which the State and Indian tribes shall have the right to participate in a process of consultation  and concurrence, based on public health and safety and environmental concerns, in all stages of the development, operation, and closure of an interim storage facility.  Directs the Secretary to report periodically to Congress on the status of such negotiations. Requires the Secretary to:  (1) suspend work on a facility if the Governor of a State or an eligible Indian tribe objects; and (2) transmit such objections, with recommendations, to the President. Directs the Secretary to terminate such work unless the President, within 90 days of being notified by the Secretary, determines such facility is essential to the national interest. Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to provide that the NRC shall have licensing and related regulatory authority over storage facilities for high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel from foreign reactors whose transfer is authorized under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Subjects the transportation of spent fuel under this Act to licensing and regulation by the NRC as provided under existing law. Requires the Secretary, the NRC, and Federal officials to encourage and expedite the effective use of existing storage facilities and the addition of needed new storage capacity at civilian nuclear powerplant sites. Directs the Secretary to establish a cooperative program to assist private development of alternate technologies for spent fuel storage which can be licensed by the NRC on a generic basis for use at all civilian nuclear powerplant sites. Declares it to be the policy of the United States to cooperate with, and provide technical assistance to, non-nuclear weapon states in the field of spent fuel storage and disposal. Requires the Secretary and the NRC to publish a joint notice of such policy in the Federal Register.  Requires the joint notice to be updated and reissued annually for five succeeding years.  Directs the Secretary of State to:  (1) inform the governments of non-nuclear weapon states and, where feasible, organizations operating nuclear powerplants in such states of the U.S. policy; and (2) solicit their expressions of interest in participating in expanded U.S. cooperation and technical assistance programs in these fields.  Requires the President to include funding requests for such programs in the budget presentation for the Department of Energy and the NRC for FY 1984 through 1989. Permits an applicant for a license or license amendment to expand the spent fuel storage capacity at a civilian nuclear powerplant site to petition the NRC for an interim license or license amendment prior to a required hearing on the application.  Authorizes the NRC to issue an interim license or license amendment if: (1) all legal requirements other than a required hearing are met;  (2) there will be adequate protection of the public health and safety and the environment during the interim period;  and (3) refusal to grant the petition will prevent the petitioner from maintaining a full core reserve storage capability at the powerplant site.  Prohibits the NRC from issuing an interim license or license amendment for the first application to expand onsite spent fuel storage capacity by a new technology not previously approved for use at a nuclear powerplant. Sets forth administrative review requirements with respect to an application for a license or license amendment to expand spent fuel storage capacity at a civilian nuclear powerplant site.  Prohibits the NRC from considering spent fuel storage in away-from-reactor facilities as spent fuel storage alternatives. Title IV: Disposal of Solidified High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to propose standards for offsite releases of radionuclides from repositories for solidified high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel. Requires the NRC to promulgate technical criteria for review of applications for: (1) authority to construct repositories; and (2) licenses to emplace such waste and spent fuel in repositories. Directs the Secretary to issue guidelines for repository site recommendations. Requires the Secretary to make repository site characterization recommendations to the President according to a specified time schedule. Requires the Secretary to notify the Governor of the State in which a site is located and affected Indian tribes and to hold public meetings in the vicinity of the site before making a site characterization recommendation to the President. Provides for Presidential approval or disapproval of a site characterization recommendation within 60 days after submission of the recommendation.  Authorizes the President to delay a decision for six months if there is insufficient information to make a decision.  States that the site shall be considered approved if the President fails to act within the required time periods. Requires the Secretary to submit to the NRC, the Governor of the affected State, and affected Indian tribes for review: (1) an environmental assessment of the impacts of the site characterization activities planned for an approved site and alternatives to avoid such impacts; (2) a general plan for site characterization activities; and (3) proposals for the packaging of the waste and spent fuel to be emplaced in the repository.  Requires the Secretary to consider fully any comments received and conduct site characterization activities so as to minimize any significant adverse environmental impacts identified in the environmental assessment.  Directs the Secretary to report to the NRC, the Governor, and the Indian tribes during site characterization activities.  Requires the Secretary to conduct, and report to them on, tests to provide data for a construction authorization application for a repository at the site and for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.  Restricts the Secretary's use of radioactive materials during site characterization activities. Requires the Secretary to recommend for Presidential approval characterized sites for the development of repositories according to a specified schedule.  Requires the Secretary to hold public meetings in the vicinity of a site to receive area residents' comments before recommending the site for Presidential approval.  Requires that a final environmental impact statement accompany each site recommendation. Provides for Presidential approval or disapproval of a site recommendation within 60 days after its submission.  Requires the Secretary to make another recommendation within 60 days in the event of Presidential disapproval of a recommendation. Directs the Secretary to apply to the NRC for authorization to construct a repository at a site selected by the President.  Requires the NRC to report to Congress on the application proceedings.  Requires that the NRC issue a final decision on the first such application by December 31, 1989, and on the second such application by December 31, 1992.  Directs the Secretary, the NRC, and Federal officials to achieve operational status of a repository licensed under this Act as soon as possible. Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress a proposal for at least one test and evaluation facility for developing the packaging, handling, and emplacement technology for solidified high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel.  Requires that an environmental assessment accompany such proposal.  Makes the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 applicable when Congress authorizes construction of the facility. States that the facility shall not be subject to an NRC license but that the Secretary shall obtain the concurrence of the NRC in the establishment of the facility.  Requires the Secretary to provide for the participation of any affected State and any affected Indian tribe in a process of consultation and concurrence in all stages of development, operation, and closure of such a facility. Requires the Secretary and the U.S. Geological Survey to conduct a national site survey program to be used for identifying and recommending sites for site characterization. Directs the Secretary to accelerate a research and development program on alternate technologies for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste from civilian nuclear activities, atomic energy defense activities of the Secretary, and Federal research and development activities. Prohibits the issuance of any license or other approval by the Government or the President for the disposal of low-level nuclear waste, including contaminated materials in the oceans:  (1) until the EPA reports on a comparison of the adverse effects of such disposal on the marine environment with the adverse effects of land disposal and Congress authorizes such disposal; or (2) unless the proposed disposal is only for purposes of research on the effects of low-level radiation on the marine environment. Requires the Secretary to contract with civilian nuclear powerplant owners and operators and owners of spent fuel or high- level radioactive waste generated by civilian nuclear powerplants for Federal storage or disposal of their spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste.  Permits any person, with whom the Secretary has contracted, to bring an action for damages for any breach of contract by the Government, unless the Government shows that its breach of contract occurred because of safety considerations and not Government delay. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress by January 1, 1983, a detailed management plan for the actions required by this title.  Requires the President to submit with such plan an evaluation of a plan to establish an independent establishment in the executive branch to manage repositories and temporary storage sites. Title V: Long-Term Storage of Solidified High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel From Civilian Nuclear Activities - Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress a proposal for the consideration of monitored, retrievable storage facilities for spent fuel and solidified high-level radioactive waste. Requires that an environmental assessment accompany such proposal.  Makes requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 applicable when Congress authorizes the construction of the initial facility.  Subjects any such facility authorized under this Act to a license under the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. Requires the Secretary to make annual impact aid payments to local governments in order to mitigate social and economic impacts caused by the construction and subsequent operation of any monitored, retrievable storage facilities within such governments' jurisdictions.  Subjects such payments to certain terms and restrictions. Title VI: Financial Arrangements - Establishes in the Treasury a separate account for the operation of the storage and disposal program under this Act. Permits the Secretary to borrow money from the Treasury in amounts provided in appropriations Acts. Imposes a mandatory fee on electricity generated and sold by civilian nuclear powerplants 90 days or more after enactment of this Act, in order to cover the costs of the storage and disposal of solidified high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel.  Requires the persons owning and operating such powerplants to collect such fees and pay them to the Treasury for deposit in the separate account. Provides for the establishment of a one time fee for electricity generated from spent fuel or solidified high-level radioactive waste which was removed from a civilian nuclear powerplant before the enactment of this Act and delivered to the Federal Government for long-term storage and permanent disposal. Requires that the fee be paid by the persons delivering the spent fuel and waste to the Treasury for deposit in the separate account. Makes the funds resulting from the fee collection available for the construction and operating costs of away-from-reactor facilities. Title VII: State Participation in the Development of Repositories and Monitored, Retrievable Storage Facilities For Solidified High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel - Directs the Secretary to notify the Governor, the State legislature, and affected Indian tribes of States with potentially acceptable repository or storage facility sites.  Requires the Secretary to establish a cooperative agreement with each State and Indian tribe notified under which the State or Indian tribe shall have the right to participate in all stages of the establishment of a repository or a retrievable, monitored storage facility.  Authorizes such participation once site approval for a repository or site designation for a retrievable, monitored storage facility has occurred, or upon written request of the State or Indian tribe, whichever of these three events occurs first.  Specifies the provisions which a cooperative agreement must include. Directs the Secretary to notify the Governor, the State legislature, and affected Indian tribes of an affected State at least 90 days before applying to the NRC for construction authorization for a repository or storage facility.  Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress, within 90 days after receipt of such notice: (1) objections made by the Governor or an Indian tribe; and (2) recommendations concerning such objections.  Requires suspension of work on the proposed repository or storage facility if either the House of Representatives or the Senate passes a resolution disapproving the proposal for the repository or storage facility within 60 days after submission of such objections to Congress. Title VIII:  Permanent Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste From Atomic Energy Defense Activities - Requires the President to evaluate the use of the repositories developed, pursuant to title IV of this Act, for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste from atomic energy defense activities in the report on permanent disposal plans for such waste required by the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1982.  Directs the Secretary to arrange for the use of one or more of the repositories developed pursuant to this Act for the permanent disposal of such waste, with costs to be paid by the Government, unless the President determines that national security needs require the development of separate repositories for such waste.  Requires that any such separate repository comply with requirements under this Act and licensing and NRC requirements.",2025-04-23T11:41:33Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1662
97-s-1486,97,s,1486,Environmental Poisoning Compensation Act,Environmental Protection,1981-07-15,1981-07-15,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,3,"Environmental Poisoning Compensation Act - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (the ""Superfund Act"") to extend the liability of specified owners, operators, or other responsible persons under such Act to cover any out-of-pocket medical expenses for personal injury resulting from a release of hazardous substances. Excludes liability for such medical expenses from the limitations on the amounts of liability set forth in such Act. Provides that such claims for medical expenses may be asserted against the Hazardous Substance Response Fund. Includes damages for personal injury under the definition of damages. Lowers (from 85 percent) to 66 2/3 percent the amount of the money credited to the Fund which is to be available only for certain purposes relating to governmental and other persons' response costs and to other specified governmental costs. Raises (from $1,380,000,000) to $3,000,000,000 the sum of the amounts received in the Fund which must be reached for the authority to collect environmental taxes (on petroleum and certain chemicals) to be terminated before September 30, 1985.",2025-08-29T19:51:11Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1486
97-s-1381,97,s,1381,A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to permit the discharge of alum and alum sludge under such Act.,Environmental Protection,1981-06-17,1981-06-17,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. D'Amato, Alfonse [R-NY]",NY,R,D000018,0,Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from establishing any effluent limitation with regard to the discharge of alum or alum sludge.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1381
97-s-1328,97,s,1328,"A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to delete the limitation on the use of public treatment works grants for treating, storing, or conveying the flow of industrial users into treatment works.",Environmental Protection,1981-06-04,1981-06-04,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]",NY,D,M001054,9,"Repeals a specified provision of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act thereby deleting limits on the use of public treatment works grants for treating, storing, or conveying the flow of industrial users into treatment works.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1328
97-s-1274,97,s,1274,Clean Water Act Amendments of 1981,Environmental Protection,1981-05-21,1981-09-23,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered favorably reported an original bill (S.1716) in lieu of this bill.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,3,"Clean Water Act Amendments of 1981 - Amends the Clean Water Act (also known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act) to revise provisions for Grants for Construction of Treatment Works (title II). Prohibits Federal grants, after October 1, 1981, which provide assistance only for facility plans, or plans, specifications, and estimates for any proposed construction of treatment works.  Provides that non-Federal funds expended during the facility planning and advanced engineering and design phase shall be reimbursed at the prevailing Federal share, if the proposed project later receives a Federal grant for construction. Prohibits grant approval until the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State have reviewed and approved plans, specifications, estimates, compliance with specific Federal laws, and a grant payment schedule. Lowers the Federal share for treatment works grants (from 75 percent in fiscal year 1981) to 65 percent for fiscal years 1982 through 1984 and to 55 percent thereafter. Requires that treatment works grants be made only for: (1) secondary treatment or more stringent treatment, or any cost-effective alternative; and (2) new interceptors and appurtenances. Revises formulas for determining the amount of any grant, made after September 30, 1978, for treatment works using innovative or alternative wastewater treatment processes. Extends the definition of the term ""eligible treatment works"" to cover those that can be fully funded by States in fiscal years beyond fiscal year 1981 (and which meet specified other requirements). Makes available to the Administrator specified additional funds per fiscal year to be used to address water quality problems of bays and estuaries due to discharges from combined storm water and sanitary sewer overflows, not otherwise eligible for Federal payments for treatment works.  Authorizes the use of such funds upon the request of and demonstration of water quality benefits by the Governor of an affected State. Revises conditions on treatment works grants to prohibit grants to construct that portion of the treatment works providing reserve capacity (except for specified planning and preparation grants).  Directs the Administrator to base determination of size and capacity of the eligible treatment works upon 1980 population statistics. Requires grant applicants to identify the engineer or firm responsible for architect-engineering or supervisory services for treatment works construction. Requires such engineer or firm to acknowledge such responsibility in writing and to give a two-year warranty of performance of such works according to specifications. Provides for resolution by binding arbitration of disputes about the nature of the responsibility of the engineer or firm. Sets forth formulas, schedules, and procedures for the allotment of funds for treatment works grants in fiscal years 1982 through 1985. Extends a formula for specified State and territorial allotments, as well as an authorization of appropriations for such allotments, through fiscal year 1985. Sets forth a formula for reserving specified funds from each State's allotment for fiscal year 1982 and thereafter. Authorizes the Administrator to reserve an additional amount from State allotments to be available to States, local governments, or multijurisdictional agencies for: (1) water quality management decision-making as to treatment works construction; and (2) implementing provisions for water quality standards and implementation plans. Extends through fiscal year 1985 requirements that specified minimum amounts be expended from State allotments to increase the Federal share of grants for construction of treatment works utilizing innovative processes and techniques.  Revises formulas for determining such amounts. Lowers the amount authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1982 for treatment works construction grants. Authorizes appropriations, in such lowered amount, for fiscal years 1983 through 1985 for such purpose. Eliminates provisions for project priority that relate to:  (1) specified categories of projects; (2) required allocation of funds; and (3) the authority to remove a project from a State's priority list. Provides that the determination of priority shall be made by the State in which the projects are to be constructed, consistent with the treatment works grants provisions of such Act. Limits projects included on a State's priority list to those eligible for funding under specified provisions. Directs a State to give highest priority to projects which demonstrate that significant public health or water quality benefits will be achieved, and in particular to projects having the greatest effect on water quality improvement. Requires that the review, revision, adoption or promulgation of revised or new water quality standards, pursuant to specified provisions of such Act, be completed two years after the enactment of this Act.  Requires that, to the extent practicable, the establishment of total maximum daily loads of pollutants, pursuant to specified provisions, also be completed by such date. Extends to July 1, 1988, the period for which the Administrator may issue or modify permits to extend compliance deadlines for specified effluent limitations, in cases where reductions in the amount of financial assistance or changed construction conditions beyond the control of the owner or operator will make it impossible to complete construction by July 1, 1983.  Repeals a provision that all publicly owned treatment works must comply by a certain date with specified requirements for study and evaluation of alternative waste management techniques and for application of best practicable waste treatment technology. Provides that, for purposes of specified information and guidelines provisions, certain types of facilities shall be deemed the equivalent of secondary treatment upon a showing satisfactory to the Administrator that water quality will not be adversely affected. Directs the Administrator, in cooperation with the States, to submit to the Congress, within 18 months, a report: (1) identifying those publicly owned treatment works needed to comply with specified requirements and standards; and (2) taking into account all actions of the Administrator pursuant to specified provisions, estimating the total cost and the Federal share necessary for the construction of such works.",2025-08-29T19:51:04Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1274
97-s-1204,97,s,1204,Quiet Communities Act,Environmental Protection,1981-05-15,1982-02-25,"Senate disagreed to House amendments, requested a conference and appointed conferees. Stafford; Gorton; Simpson; Randolph; Baucus.",Senate,"Sen. Gorton, Slade [R-WA]",WA,R,G000333,0,"(Measure passed House, amended, in lieu of H. R. 3071) Quiet Communities Act - Amends the Noise Control Act of 1972 to retitle such Act the ""Quiet Communities Act."" Replaces a finding that Federal action is necessary to control major noise sources in commerce with a finding that Federal action must assure uniform treatment of certain carriers engaged in interstate commerce and certain transportation equipment distributed in interstate commerce which are major noise sources. Limits the authority of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish noise emission standards.  Provides that such Federal regulations shall apply only to transportation equipment and to motors or engines designed for use in transportation equipment. Repeals provisions for: (1) EPA noise control regulations pertaining to product labeling; and (2) prohibitions relating to such regulations. Authorizes States to bring civil actions in U.S. district courts to impose penalties against violators of prohibitions under such Act. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 and 1983.",2025-08-29T19:51:03Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1204
97-s-1205,97,s,1205,"Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1982",Environmental Protection,1981-05-15,1982-06-15,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.,Senate,"Sen. Gorton, Slade [R-WA]",WA,R,G000333,0,"Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1982 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to the Environmental Protection Agency for specified environmental research, development, and demonstration activities relating to air quality, water quality, water supply, solid and hazardous wastes, pesticides, radiation, interdisciplinary activities, toxic substances, and energy. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development for program management and support. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to utilize funds authorized under this Act for appropriate scientific and professional review of research and development grant, contract, and cooperative agreement applications. Permits transfers of funds of up to ten percent between categories of activities authorized under this Act, as well as transfers of more than ten percent if the Congress is notified and the appropriate committees do not object. Requires that at least 15 percent of funds appropriated for each activity be obligated and expended for long-term environmental research and development programs. Reduces the total amount of appropriations authorized under this Act by $1,000,000 (such reduction to be apportioned among the supported activities at the discretion of the Administrator).",2025-08-29T19:51:04Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1205
97-s-1206,97,s,1206,An original bill to authorize appropriations for the Clean Air Act for fiscal year 1982.,Environmental Protection,1981-05-15,1982-12-02,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.,Senate,"Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT]",VT,R,S000776,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to carry out the provisions of such Act (other than research, development, and demonstration activities).",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1206
97-s-1210,97,s,1210,"An act to authorize appropriations for the operations of the Office of Environmental Quality and the Council on Environmental Quality during fiscal years 1982, 1983, and 1984, and withdraw certain lands within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest from leasing under mineral and geothermal leasing laws.",Environmental Protection,1981-05-15,1982-10-18,Became Public Law No: 97-350.,Senate,"Sen. Gorton, Slade [R-WA]",WA,R,G000333,0,"(House agreed to Senate amendment with an amendment) Amends the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 to authorize appropriations for the Office of Environmental Quality and the Council on Environmental Quality, for FY 1982 through 1984. Withdraws from mining and mineral leasing certain public lands in the Mount Baker- Snoqualmie National Forest in the State of Washington.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1210
97-s-1211,97,s,1211,An act to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983.,Environmental Protection,1981-05-15,1981-12-29,Became Public Law No: 97-129.,Senate,"Sen. Gorton, Slade [R-WA]",WA,R,G000333,0,"(Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 97-373) Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for grants to State programs and for other provisions of such Act.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1211
97-s-1213,97,s,1213,"An original bill to amend Title I of the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, as amended.",Environmental Protection,1981-05-15,1981-06-23,Became Public Law No: 97-16.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,0,"Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act to authorize appropriations for regulation of ocean dumping for fiscal year 1982.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1213
97-s-1036,97,s,1036,"A bill to extend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended for two years, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1981-04-29,1982-06-10,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.,Senate,"Sen. Helms, Jesse [R-NC]",NC,R,H000463,0,"(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry with amendment, S. Rept. 97-75) Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to: (1) extend the duration of the scientific advisory panel through fiscal year 1983; and (2) authorize specified appropriations for fiscal year 1982.",2025-01-14T16:41:20Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/1036
97-s-975,97,s,975,"A bill to revise and extend certain provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, for one year, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1981-04-09,1981-09-23,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered favorably reported an original bill (S.1716) in lieu of this bill.,Senate,"Sen. Chafee, John H. [R-RI]",RI,R,C000269,2,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to extend, through fiscal year 1982, the authorization of appropriations to carry out all but specified provisions of such Act.  Requires that the sums authorized for fiscal year 1982 be allotted to each State based on such State's needs as a percentage of the total national needs. Extends through fiscal year 1982 the program under such Act which provides grants to States for eligible treatment works.  Permits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, at the request of the Governor of a State, to set aside from funds authorized under such Act for fiscal year 1982 not more than three percent of funds allotted to such State for such grants to be available only for increasing grants for construction of treatment works from 75 percent to 85 percent, and to set aside not more than four percent of such funds to be available only for alternatives to conventional sewage treatment works for municipalities having a population of 3,500 or less, or for the highly dispersed sections of larger municipalities, as defined by the Administrator. Limits such grants for treatment works to the following categories of projects:  (1) secondary treatment or more stringent treatment, or any cost-effective alternative thereof; and (2) new interceptors and appurtenances. Authorizes the Administrator, from sums authorized for each fiscal year beginning on or after October 1, 1981, to reserve from the allotment for each State for each such fiscal year an amount not to exceed one percent of the sum of the unexpended obligations and the unobligated allotment available to such State as of the first day of such fiscal year, or $400,000, whichever is greater. Repeals the provision under which the Administrator is authorized to pay the Federal share of the cost of advanced construction on publicly owned treatment works in cases where a State allotment has been obligated under specified provisions.  Permits the Administrator to retain the authority to pay such eligible obligations in such amounts as the Administrator considers appropriate. Prohibits any grant, other than for facility planning and the preparation of construction plans and specifications, to be made under such Act to construct that portion of the treatment works providing reserve capacity.  Makes the Administrator responsible for determining the size and capacity of the treatment works eligible for a grant under such Act. States that the determination of the priority to be given projects within each State shall be made by that State. Requires each State, in determining such priority, to give highest priority to projects which:  (1) demonstrate that significant public health or water quality benefits will be achieved; and (2) will directly benefit communities having urban-industrial concentrations.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/975
97-s-977,97,s,977,"A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to allow temporary emergency suspensions of implementation plan provisions when coal is burned instead of foreign oil, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1981-04-09,1981-04-09,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Pell, Claiborne [D-RI]",RI,D,P000193,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act to include among the circumstances in which a Governor of a State may issue a temporary emergency suspension for a fuel burning stationary source of any part of a State implementation plan for a national primary ambient air quality standard:  (1) when such temporary suspension is essential to the State's economic welfare; or (2) when foreign imports of fuel used by such source have reached an excessive level and such imports can be reduced by the emergency suspension, e.g. allowing coal rather than foreign oil to be burned. Increases the maximum period for which such temporary emergency suspensions may be issued by a Governor or by the President to one year (currently four months). Prohibits such suspensions from remaining in effect if in violation of any national ambient air quality standard results.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/977
97-s-777,97,s,777,"A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to restrict the jurisdiction of the United States over the discharge of dredged or fill material to those discharges which are into navigable waters, and for other purposes.",Environmental Protection,1981-03-24,1982-07-29,Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Tower, John G. [R-TX]",TX,R,T000322,11,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct (currently authorizes) the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to issue permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material into navigable waters at a disposal site or sites specified by the applicant (currently specified by the Secretary), unless the Secretary determines that such site cannot be specified through the application of certain guidelines or other considerations. Limits the definition of ""navigable waters"" for purposes of such permits to mean all waters which are presently used or are susceptible to use in their natural condition as a means to transport interstate or foreign commerce shoreward to their ordinary high water mark, including all waters which are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide shoreward to their mean high water mark. Declares that the discharge of dredged or fill material in waters other than navigable waters (as limited by such definition) is not prohibited by or otherwise subject to regulation under any Act of Congress. Revises procedures for application of the provisions of this Act by a State requesting Federal jurisdiction over nonnavigable waters. Repeals provisions relating to State permit programs for the discharge of dredged or fill material into other types of navigable waters. Eliminates the qualifying phrase ""to the maximum extent practicable"" in the requirement that specified agreements between Federal agencies assure that decisions on permit applications be made within 90 days of published notice.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/777
97-s-789,97,s,789,"A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide that the limitation on the use of grants for publicly owned treatment works for treatment, storage, or conveyance of flows of industrial users shall not take effect until November 15, 1984.",Environmental Protection,1981-03-24,1981-09-22,Committee on Environment and Public Works. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.,Senate,"Sen. D'Amato, Alfonse [R-NY]",NY,R,D000018,3,"Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide that the limitation on the use of grants for publicly owned treatment works for treatment, storage, or conveyance of flows of industrial users shall not take effect until November 15, 1984 (rather than 1981).",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/789
97-s-723,97,s,723,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to the prevention and control of air pollution in border areas of the United States and countries contiguous to the United States.,Environmental Protection,1981-03-17,1981-03-17,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.,Senate,"Sen. Tower, John G. [R-TX]",TX,R,T000322,1,"Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the President, acting through the Secretary of State, to enter into negotiations with countries contiguous to the United States to:  (1) prevent and control air pollution in U.S. border areas; and (2) reduce or eliminate air pollution which originates in such other countries and affects any U.S. area.  Declares it to be the sense of the Congress that such goals should be achieved as soon as feasible through treaties or other appropriated international agreements and diplomatic actions. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to determine the percentage of air pollutants in border areas resulting from foreign sources and to eliminate such percentage in determining compliance with ambient air quality standards by such region.",2025-01-14T19:00:46Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/723
97-s-709,97,s,709,Beverage Container Reuse and Recycling Act,Environmental Protection,1981-03-12,1981-11-05,Committee on Commerce. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Hatfield, Mark O. [R-OR]",OR,R,H000343,7,"Beverage Container Reuse and Recycling Act - Prohibits the sale of carbonated beverages in containers unless such containers carry a refund value of not less than five cents.  Requires that retailers and distributors pay the amount of the affixed refund value on brands of beverages bought and sold by such retailers or distributors. Preempts inconsistent State and local law. Prohibits States from imposing any tax on the collection or return of refund values established by this Act. Prohibits distributors and retailers from selling beverages in metal beverage containers with detachable openings. Imposes penalties of up to $1,000 for violation of the provisions of this Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to monitor the rate of reuse and recycling of beverage containers. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress at specified intervals on the impact of this Act on:  (1) conservation of energy and material resources; (2) resource recovery and the reduction of solid waste and litter; and (3) the economy. Directs the Administrator to consult with the Secretary of Labor on assisting individuals whose employment may be adversely affected by this Act.",2025-08-29T19:50:53Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/709
97-s-681,97,s,681,Oil Spill Liability and Compensation Act of 1981,Environmental Protection,1981-03-10,1981-03-26,Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Stafford, Robert T. [R-VT]",VT,R,S000776,6,"Oil Spill Liability and Compensation Act of 1981 - Title I:  Oil Spill Liability and Compensation - Subjects the owner or operator of a vessel or facility to liability for oil discharged in violation of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (unless the discharge was caused as an act of God, war, or by a third party).  Causes such owners and operators to be liable for:  (1) all actual costs of removal incurred by the United States or a State under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Intervention on the High Seas Act, or the Deepwater Port Act of 1974; (2) any removal costs incurred by any person, as removal is defined under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; and (3) specified damages for economic loss or loss of natural resources resulting from such a discharge. Limits such liability, but stipulates than an owner or operator shall be liable for all damages and removal costs in the case of:  (1) willful misconduct or negligence; (2) violation of applicable safety, construction, or operating standards or regulations; (within the knowledge or privity of the owner or operator); or (3) a refusal to provide reasonable cooperation and assistance requested by a responsible official. Provides that owners or operators subject to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act shall bear all costs of removal. Authorizes the President to establish additional limitations on liability for certain facilities; and, from time to time, to increase established limitations to reflect specified factors. Provides for third party liability. Directs that money in the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund (established in title II of this Act) be used for, among other things:  (1) payment of removal costs; and (2) related research. Sets forth procedures for asserting claims against the Fund.  Requires any claimant, prior to asserting a claim, to present the claim to the owner, operator, or guarantor of the vessel or facility from which the oil was discharged.  Directs the President to:  (1) prescribe forms and procedures for filing claims; and (2) attempt to arrange a settlement. Authorizes the President to establish and to pay a claim or to submit a claim to a Board of Arbitrators. Permits a claimant, dissatisfied with an award, to appeal to the Board of Arbitrators. Requires the owner and operator of any offshore vessel and/or facility to establish and maintain stated levels of financial responsibility sufficient to satisfy claims. Title II:  Trust Fund Establishment and Collections - Establishes the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.  Provides that the Fund shall consist of: (1) amounts derived from an additional petroleum tax of 1.3 cents per barrel, imposed by an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code; (2) amounts recovered under title I of this Act; (3) penalties imposed under title I of this Act or under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and other unobligated funds available under such Act; (4) all assets of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Liability Fund; (5) all assets of the Deepwater Port Liability Fund; and (6) all assets of the Offshore Oil Pollution Compensation Fund established under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978. Establishes a minimum amount of $30,000,000 to be maintained in the Trust Fund.  Establishes the order in which unpaid claims are to be paid.  Limits the liability of the United States to the amount in the Trust Fund.  Provides for Trust Fund borrowing, as repayable advances, from the General Fund of the Treasury. Title III:  Miscellaneous Provisions - Sets forth effective dates and conforming amendments. Directs the President, in cooperation with the Comptroller General, to study possible incentives for safer operation of vessels and facilities to prevent oil discharges, and to report to the Congress by July 1, 1983.",2025-08-29T19:50:53Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/681
97-s-622,97,s,622,Export of Hazardous Wastes Control Act of 1981,Environmental Protection,1981-03-05,1981-07-30,Committee on Banking received executive comment from State Department. Unfavorable.,Senate,"Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]",HI,D,I000025,12,"Export of Hazardous Wastes Control Act of 1981 - Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to permit the export of hazardous wastes from the United States only pursuant to a validated export license.  Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to issue a license only:  (1) after consultation with specified Federal officials; and (2) if the Secretary is satisfied that the importing country's government has been fully informed about, and agrees to, the shipment.  Makes such conditions applicable to all exports of hazardous wastes.  Directs the Secretary to list annually for Congress:  (1) hazardous wastes for which validated export licenses are required; (2) the number and type of applications received for the export of such wastes; and (3) hazardous wastes for which export licenses were granted.",2025-08-29T19:50:47Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/622
97-s-637,97,s,637,Nuclear Waste Policy Act,Environmental Protection,1981-03-05,1981-10-21,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1662 ordered to be reported.,Senate,"Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA]",LA,D,J000189,1,"Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Title I:  Findings and Purposes - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to:  (1) assume Federal responsibility for the acquisition and interim storage of spent fuel and the disposal of high-level radioactive waste from civilian nuclear activities; (2) establish a Federal policy for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste from civilian nuclear activities; (3) authorize the Secretary of Energy to acquire or construct nuclear waste storage and disposal facilities; (4) examine alternative nuclear waste disposal technologies; and (5) provide for consultation and cooperation between the Federal Government and States and Indian tribes with regard to nuclear waste storage facility and repository siting. Title II:  Definitions - Defines the terms used in this Act. Title III:  Interim Storage of Spent Fuel From Civilian Nuclear Powerplants - Directs the Secretary to enter into contracts providing that the Federal Government will:  (1) take title to spent fuel from civilian nuclear powerplants; (2) transport and store such spent fuel in Federal facilities; and (3) dispose of waste products associated with such spent fuel. Provides for a one-time payment by the owner of such spent fuel in an amount adequate to cover the proportionate costs of such transportation, storage, and disposal. Directs the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register notice of intent to enter into such contracts and of the one-time payment charged to owners of spent fuel. Directs the Secretary to construct or acquire one or more facilities for interim storage of spent fuel.  Directs the Secretary to enter into contracts with private industry for the transportation of spent fuel to such facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to use Federal transportation services if private industry is unable or unwilling to provide such transportation at a reasonable cost.  Makes funds available for the establishment of such facilities. Directs the Secretary to inform the Governor and the legislature of any State in which a potential facility site or an existing facility is located of the investigation and selection of such site or facility for interim storage of spent fuel.  Requires that the Secretary suspend work on such facility upon receipt of objections by the Governor and transmit such objections with recommendations to the President.  Directs the Secretary to terminate such work unless, within 90 days after receipt of the Secretary's transmission, the President determines such facility is essential to the national interest. Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to provide that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) shall have licensing and related regulatory authority over storage facilities for spent fuel under specified circumstances. Title IV:  Disposal of High- Level Radioactive Waste Resulting from Civilian Nuclear Activities - Directs the Secretary to transmit to Congress within one year from enactment of this Act a proposal for the construction of one or more safe repositories for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste from civilian nuclear activities.  Requires the preparation of an environmental assessment on such proposal based on information regarding alternative waste disposal technologies. Makes any facility authorized by Congress subject to the licensing authority of the NRC, but prohibits the NRC from considering any design criteria for such facility other than those required by this Act. Directs the Secretary to make annual impact aid payments to the local governments of areas in Alaska where:  (1) such repositories are located and have a substantial impact on the governments; (2) the construction or modification of such repositories is completed after the date of this Act; and (3) a modification substantially increases the repository's capacity. Directs the Secretary to continue a program of research, development, and investigation of alternative technologies for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive waste from civilian nuclear activities, atomic energy defense activities, and Federal research and development activities and report annually to Congress on such programs. Title V:  Financial Arrangements - Establishes in the U.S. Treasury a separate account for the operation of the storage and disposal program. Permits the Secretary to borrow from the Treasury such amounts as may be provided in appropriation Acts, but not to exceed $300,000,000.  Sets forth the terms and repayments of such loans.  Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982. Title VI:  State Role in Nuclear Waste Repository Siting - States that this title shall not apply to the transportation, management, or disposal of spent fuel or radioactive waste from atomic energy defense activities of the Secretary or Federal research and development activities. Directs the Secretary to establish with each State and Indian tribe affected by repository siting under this Act a cooperative agreement under which the State and Indian tribe shall have the right to participate in a process of consultation and concurrence, based on public health and safety concerns, in all stages of the planning, siting, construction, and operation of a repository.  Requires such agreement to provide procedures for resolving objections of the State and Indian tribe at any stage in the repository siting process. Directs the Secretary to inform the Governor, the legislature, and any affected Indian tribe of a State if a repository for the permanent disposal of spent fuel and high-level radioactive waste is to be located in such State.  Requires that they be notified at least 90 days prior to formal application by the Secretary to the NRC for a construction permit. Requires the Secretary to suspend work on a repository site upon receipt of objections by the Governor or an Indian tribe within such 90-day period and transmit such objections with recommendations to Congress and the President. Directs the President to inform Congress in writing upon a determination that such repository is essential to the national interest and the concerns of the State and the Indian tribe have been addressed sufficiently. Authorizes the Secretary to continue work on such site on the sixtieth day after submission of such statement unless one House of Congress enacts a disapproval resolution.",2025-08-29T19:50:54Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/637
97-s-540,97,s,540,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to provide that the voluntary conversion from oil or gas to an alternate fuel by a stationary source shall be treated in the same manner as a conversion ordered under the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974 or the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978.,Environmental Protection,1981-02-24,1981-02-24,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Huddleston, Walter (Dee) [D-KY]",KY,D,H000905,5,"Amends the Clean Air Act to provide coequal treatment, under Federal law, for a stationary source voluntarily converting from oil or natural gas to an alternate fuel and a stationary source mandated to convert.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/540
97-s-541,97,s,541,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to temporary emergency suspensions of implementation plan provisions.,Environmental Protection,1981-02-24,1981-02-24,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Huddleston, Walter (Dee) [D-KY]",KY,D,H000905,3,"Amends the Clean Air Act, with regard to State implementation plans for a national primary ambient air quality standard, to authorize the President, as well as a Governor, to issue a temporary emergency suspension of any part of such plan applicable to a fuel burning stationary source.  Requires either the President or the Governor to issue such an emergency suspension if either finds that foreign imports of fuels used by such source have reached an excessive level and that such imports can be reduced by the emergency suspension. Requires such suspension to be effective for a maximum of five years, or longer if reasonable; except suspensions violating a national ambient air quality standard are limited to not more than four months. Allows the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in a disapproval order to require a lesser period if the suspension is issued by a Governor. Allows for revocation of a suspension if after four months the fuel burning stationary source in question has not changed to an alternate fuel.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/541
97-s-542,97,s,542,A bill to provide that major stationary sources complying with all applicable emission limitations and standards of performance established pursuant to the Clean Air Act shall not be subject to any more stringent limitations or standards for a period of ten years.,Environmental Protection,1981-02-24,1981-02-24,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Huddleston, Walter (Dee) [D-KY]",KY,D,H000905,3,"Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit, for ten-years, the application of a more stringent emission limitation or standard of performance to: (1) any existing major stationary source which comes into compliance with all emission limitations in the applicable implementation plan; or (2) any new or modified major stationary source the construction or modification of which meets all applicable emission limitations and standards of performance.  Sets such ten-year period to run from the date of completion of compliance, construction, or modification, or during the period of depreciation or amortization of such facility (for Internal Revenue Code purposes), whichever period ends first. Exempts from the application of this Act any source to which a substantial imminent threat to public health can be attributed, as determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/542
97-s-517,97,s,517,Ozone Depletion Validation Act of 1981,Environmental Protection,1981-02-20,1981-02-20,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Bentsen, Lloyd M. [D-TX]",TX,D,B000401,18,"Ozone Depletion Validation Act of 1981 - Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to continue ozone protection studies and research while increasing actual measurements of stratosphere ozone and improving methods of monitoring potential trends in such measurements. Directs the Administrator to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to: (1) continue review and research; (2) determine the extent, nature, and causes of changes in stratospheric ozone concentration (with particular attention to the effects of chlorofluorocarbons); (3) investigate unreasonable effects on health and the environment; and (4) report all findings and associated uncertainties. Prohibits the Administrator from proposing further regulations for the control in the United States of any chlorofluorocarbon: (1) until an international agreement or agreements among major free-world producing countries of chlorofluorocarbons are reached as to the nature, extent, and implications of any threat to the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere and as to the appropriate regulatory action to be taken; or (2) until depletion of the stratospheric ozone by chlorofluorocarbons at a rate determined to be eventually harmful to human health and the environment is actually detected.  Provides that any such final regulation not take effect until at least 90 days after its promulgation and not until the expiration of the period provided for adoption of a resolution of disapproval. Requires that continuing research and monitoring programs be expanded to determine the extent, nature, causes, effects, and associated uncertainties of stratospheric ozone concentration changes. Directs the National Academy of Sciences, in consultation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to report, within two years and annually thereafter until such time as the theory of ozone depletion by chlorofluorocarbons has been validated, all findings concerning actual or potential alteration of the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere, its causes, and associated implications and uncertainties.  Requires that such report be made to the Administrator and to the Congress, with copies available to the public. Directs the President, within two years from the date of enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, to report to the Congress and the public on efforts to reach international agreements among the major free-world producing countries of chlorofluorocarbons as to the nature, extent, and implications of any threat to the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere and as to the appropriate regulatory action to be taken. Prohibits States or local governments from adopting or attempting to enforce any regulation (except ones controlling halocarbon use as an aerosol propellant) respecting the control of chlorofluorocarbons to protect the stratosphere or stratospheric ozone until the Administrator has promulgated such regulations for such control in the United States. Provides that this Act shall not affect: (1) the validity of regulations concerning aerosol propellants containing chlorofluorocarbons promulgated by the Administrator before the effective date of this Act; or (2) the Administrator's obligation to comply with other applicable requirements in adopting regulations for the control of chlorofluorocarbons consistent with international agreements or after actual detection of eventually harmful depletion. Requires that such final regulations be submitted to the Congress and only take effect if both Houses of Congress do not adopt a concurrent resolution of disapproval within a specified period.  Sets forth procedures and other provisions relating to such resolutions.",2025-08-29T19:50:46Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/517
97-s-249,97,s,249,A bill to provide that certain industrial parks shall be classified as class III areas for purposes of part C of title I of the Clean Air Act.,Environmental Protection,1981-01-23,1981-01-23,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Heflin, Howell [D-AL]",AL,D,H000445,0,"Amends the Clean Air Act to classify as a class III area, for purposes of provisions relating to air quality nondegradation, any area of more than 5,000 acres zoned as an industrial park, if a State determines that such classification will enhance industrial and employment expansion.",2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/249
97-s-169,97,s,169,A bill to amend sections 169 and 103 of the Internal revenue Code with respect to tax treatment of pollution control facilities.,Environmental Protection,1981-01-20,1981-06-26,Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Heinz, John [R-PA]",PA,R,H000456,5,"Title I:  Tax Treatment of Industrial Development Bonds Issued to Finance Pollution Control of Waste Disposal Facilities - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to define ""air or water pollution control facilities,"" for purposes of the income tax exclusion of interest on industrial development bonds, to include depreciable equipment which is installed to control pollution through specified process changes in such pollution control facilities.  Requires such equipment to meet Federal or State certification requirements in order to qualify for preferential tax treatment.  Disallows an income tax exclusion for that portion of the bond proceeds which exceed the amount by which the acquisition and construction costs exceed the net profit reasonably expected to be derived through the recovery of wastes or by the operation of the pollution control facility over its useful life. Places specified dollar limits on the face amounts of obligations issued for air or water pollution control facilities at any new manufacturing or processing plant. Defines ""hazardous waste or solid waste disposal facilities,"" for purposes of the exclusion of interest on industrial development bonds, to include depreciable property installed solely to comply with hazardous or solid waste management requirements imposed by the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Title II:  Current Expensing of Amounts Paid or Incurred in Connection with the Construction or Erection of Pollution Control Facilities - Allows a taxpayer to elect to treat amounts paid or incurred in connection with the acquisition or construction of a certified pollution control facility as a currently deductible expense (amortizable over a period of 60 months under existing law).  Revises the definition of ""certified pollution control facility"" to include treatment facilities made operational after January 1, 1976.",2025-01-03T20:54:05Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/169
97-s-95,97,s,95,Nuclear Waste Management Reorganization Act of 1981,Environmental Protection,1981-01-15,1981-01-22,Referred to Subcommittee on Energy and Government Processes.,Senate,"Sen. Percy, Charles H. [R-IL]",IL,R,P000222,2,"Nuclear Waste Management Reorganization Act of 1981 - Title I:  Findings, Purposes, and Definitions - States the findings of Congress that Federal nuclear waste disposal programs have been ineffective. Title II:  Establishment, Membership, and Functions of Nuclear Waste Management Planning Council - Establishes a Nuclear Waste Management Planning Council as an independent instrumentality of the Executive branch, the functions of which shall include:  (1) providing representatives to the Nuclear Waste Coordinating Committee; (2) advising Federal agencies and departments having membership on the Committee; and (3) providing views on the annual Nuclear Waste Management Plan to the President. Title III:  Establishment, Membership, and Functions of Nuclear Waste Coordinating Committee - Establishes a Nuclear Waste Coordinating Committee as an independent instrumentality in the Executive branch. Charges the Committee with coordinating Federal activities with respect to nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel management and preparing an annual Nuclear Waste Management Plan for fiscal years 1983 through 1987. Requires the Committee to notify the Governor of any State in which the Committee has decided to undertake a study. Requires the Committee to prepare for submission to Congress a nuclear waste Repository Development Report when any Federal agency has made application for a license to construct the main shaft of a nuclear waste repository. Prohibits the undertaking of site preparation work until such Report has been submitted. Requires that Congress pass a concurrent resolution permitting such construction when the Chairman of a State Review Panel (see title IV) formally objects to such Report.  Provides that such Report shall be considered rejected unless Congress passes a concurrent resolution of approval within 60 days of continuous session. Prohibits any Federal agency from emplacing significant quantities of nuclear waste into a repository unless the Committee submits to Congress, at the earliest feasible time, a Repository Loading Report. Title IV:  Establishment, Membership, and Functions of Nuclear Waste Repository Review Panels - Authorizes the Governor of any State receiving notification of the intention of the Committee to prepare a Repository Development Report to establish a Nuclear Waste Repository Review Panel to facilitate State and local participation in the planning and development of such repository. Requires a Panel to review regularly current and planned federal actions with respect to the siting, construction, and operation of the proposed nuclear waste repository.  Authorizes the Chairman of the Panel to submit to the Committee formal objections which state that the Repository Development Report does not adequately provide for the protection of State and local interests.",2025-08-29T19:50:37Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/95
97-s-52,97,s,52,A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to repeal the requirement that State implementation plans provide for periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles.,Environmental Protection,1981-01-06,1981-01-06,Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.,Senate,"Sen. Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye [R-CA]",CA,R,H000384,4,Amends the Clean Air Act to repeal the requirement that State implementation plans for meeting the national primary ambient air quality standard provide for periodic inspection and testing of motor vehicles.,2025-01-14T17:12:38Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/52
97-s-63,97,s,63,Steel Industry Compliance Extension Act of 1981,Environmental Protection,1981-01-06,1981-06-11,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Voice Vote.,Senate,"Sen. Randolph, Jennings [D-WV]",WV,D,R000046,24,"(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Environment and Public Works with amendment, S. Rept. 97-133) Steel Industry Compliance Extension Act of 1981 - Amends the Clean Air Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to extend the date for compliance with emission limitation requirements by owners or operators of a stationary source in an iron- and steel-producing operation if:  (1) the compliance date extension is necessary to allow the applicant to make capital investments in its operations to improve efficiency and productivity; (2) the funds freed by such extension will be used within two years for additional capital investments in the applicant's operations; (3) the Administrator and the applicant agree to a phased compliance program for each of the applicant's stationary sources; (4) the applicant has sufficient funds to comply with such program; (5) the applicant is in compliance with any existing Federal decrees applicable to its operations; (6) the compliance date extension will not result in the degradation of air quality during the extension term; and (7) the State in which the source is located does not object to such schedule for compliance. Provides that if such an extension will result in a modification of the proposed means of compliance involving a significant reduction in employment, then additional capital investments shall be made at iron- and steel-producing operations in the same community or labor market in which the reduction in employment would occur. Prohibits the imposition of a noncompliance penalty under the Clean Air Act upon an owner or operator with a compliance date extension only if their stationary source remains in compliance with all the requirements of such extension. Makes available to the public all information obtained by the Administrator under this Act, subject to a specified exception. Directs the Administrator to publish notice of receipt of an application for extension of time in the Federal Register and to notify the appropriate State and local officials. Provides that the State or local government in which the source is located, or any other person, has the right to intervene in any judicial proceeding to establish such compliance schedule. Provides that Federal judicial decrees or implementation plans under such Act may not be modified to extend beyond 1985 a schedule of compliance for any source which receives such an extension under this Act. States that revision of a State implementation plan is not required because a compliance date extension has been granted if such plan would have met Clean Air Act requirements prior to the granting of such extension.",2025-08-29T19:50:36Z,https://www.congress.gov/bill/97th-congress/senate-bill/63