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| 96-hr-8453 | 96 | hr | 8453 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act. | Environmental Protection | 1980-12-13 | 1980-12-13 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7] | CA | D | M000725 | 0 | Amends the Clean Air Act to revise a required provision for State implementation plans. Permits the construction or modification of a major stationary source in a nonattainment area, even if the emissions from such facility will cause or contribute to concentrations of any pollutant for which a national ambient air quality standard is exceeded in such area, if, at the time of application for a permit, such construction or modification shall result in the reduction of emissions of such pollutant from an existing stationary source. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8453 |
| 96-hr-8411 | 96 | hr | 8411 | Nuclear Powerplant Cost Assurance Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-12-03 | 1980-12-03 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Drinan, Robert F. [D-MA-4] | MA | D | D000499 | 0 | Nuclear Powerplant Cost Assurance Act of 1980 - Title I: Standards and Estimates - Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to promulgate standards for: (1) the management and disposal of radioactive waste and spent fuel from commercial nuclear powerplants; and (2) the decommissioning of such powerplants. Directs the NRC to estimate the full cost of compliance with such standard for each such powerplant in operation, under construction, or for which a construction license application is pending. Title II: Availability of Funds - Directs the NRC to publish and submit to State regulatory agencies each such cost estimate. Requires a licensee, permittee, or applicant for a nuclear powerplant construction permit or operating license to certify to the NRC that sufficient funds for paying estimated costs will be available at the end of the useful life of such powerplant. Prohibits charging consumers as a result of such assurance, when the powerplant is not in operation or under maintenance. Requires notification of consumers of any additional costs incurred through compliance with this Act. Title III: Reports - Directs the NRC to submit to Congress annaul progress reports on its compliance with this Act. | 2025-09-02T13:55:11Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8411 |
| 96-hr-8412 | 96 | hr | 8412 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the payment of claims resulting from a certain discharge of pentachlorophenol into the Mississippi River Gulf outlet. | Environmental Protection | 1980-12-03 | 1980-12-03 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Livingston, Bob [R-LA-1] | LA | R | L000371 | 0 | Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the payment of claims resulting from a certain discharge of pentachlorophenol into the Mississippi River Gulf outlet. Authorizes appropriations up to $10,000,000 for such purpose. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8412 |
| 96-hr-8378 | 96 | hr | 8378 | Nuclear Waste Policy Act | Environmental Protection | 1980-11-21 | 1980-12-03 | Measure laid on table in House, S. 2189 passed in lieu. | House | Rep. Udall, Morris K. [D-AZ-2] | AZ | D | U000001 | 5 | Nuclear Waste Policy Act - Title I: Disposal of Transuranic Waste, High-Level Radioactive Wastes and Spent Nuclear Fuel - Directs the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the United States Geological Survey, to issue guidelines for the recommendation of sites for repositories (any facility for the permanent disposal of transuranic waste, high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, or any combination of such wastes or fuel, whether or not such facility is designated to permit the subsequent recovery of materials placed in the repository). Exempts such guidelines from requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Requires the Secretary, by January 1, 1982, to identify and recommend to the President at least two sites suitable for site characterization (activities to determine the potential of a site as a repository). Requires the Secretary, by February 1, 1985, to identify and recommend to the President at least two additional sites. Requires each recommendation to include a statement of the basis for the recommendation. Directs the Secretary to notify the State Review Board of the State in which the site is located, or any Indian Tribe on whose reservation the site is located, of the recommendation. Requires the Secretary to hold public hearings in the vicinity of any site to be recommended to the President. Requires the President to: (1) review each site recommended; (2) either approve or disapprove the recommendation within 60 days; and (3) transmit his or her decision to the Secretary and the appropriate State Review Board. Provides that Presidential failure to approve or disapprove a site within the 60 day period (or failure to invoke authority as granted to delay the determination) shall be considered as an approval. Directs the Secretary, before sinking shafts at any site, to submit to the Commission and to the appropriate State Review Board, or Indian tribe, for t… | 2025-09-02T13:55:07Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8378 |
| 96-hr-8355 | 96 | hr | 8355 | Nonattainment Area Postponement Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-11-17 | 1980-11-17 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Watkins, Wes [D-OK-3] | OK | D | W000194 | 0 | Nonattainment Area Postponement Act of 1980 - Amends the Clean Air Act to postpone by three years the dates required for: (1) adoption and submission of State implementation plans for areas which have failed to attain national air quality standards; and (2) attainment of such standards. Amends the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 to make conforming amendments. | 2025-09-02T13:55:10Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8355 |
| 96-hr-8256 | 96 | hr | 8256 | State Legislative and Administrative Procedure Protection Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-10-01 | 1980-10-01 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Hansen, George V. [R-ID-2] | ID | R | H000171 | 0 | State Legislative and Administrative Procedure Protection Act of 1980 - Requires any final rule promulgated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency which would nullify any State law or administrative procedure to be transmitted to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives. Prohibits such a rule from becoming effective if either House passes a resolution disapproving it within 30 days of continuous session after it is transmitted to such committees. | 2025-09-02T13:55:05Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8256 |
| 96-hr-8170 | 96 | hr | 8170 | Integrated Environmental Assistance Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-09-19 | 1980-09-19 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1] | NJ | D | F000215 | 0 | Integrated Environmental Assistance Act of 1980 - States that the programs covered by this Act are environmental programs for which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible and which permit or require environmental programs by States, local governments, or interstate agencies under the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Noise Control Act. Authorizes the Administrator to issue regulations permitting a recipient of assistance to develop, for two or more covered programs, an integrated program plan to: (1) increase program management efficiency and environmental effectiveness; (2) reduce program duplication and overlap; and (3) limit the transfer of such recipient's Federal and non-Federal funds to any covered program. Directs the Administrator to assure that such plans further the objectives of this Act and the covered programs. Authorizes appropriations for supplementary assistance for fiscal years 1982-1986. Directs the Administrator to establish criteria for such assistance, and specifies the minimum considerations for such criteria. Prohibits additional EPA support for any activity funded by supplementary assistance. Directs the Administrator to assure that a State's integrated program plan provides Federal or State funding to any local government given responsibility by a State under such plan. Directs States to consult with local governments and the public in developing such plans. Sets forth administrative provisions relating to maintenance of effort and accountability for expenditures. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress with recommendations on the programs set up under this Act. | 2025-09-02T13:55:05Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8170 |
| 96-hr-8172 | 96 | hr | 8172 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to provide that coal fired stationary sources may meet emission requirements through the use of coal having low pollution characteristics, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-09-19 | 1980-09-19 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. McKay, K. Gunn [D-UT-1] | UT | D | M000490 | 0 | Amends the Clean Air Act to make the same standard of performance of allowable emissions apply to any stationary source (currently fossil fuel fired stationary sources are also required to reduce emissions if such fuels are not treated prior to combustion). Removes the requirement that a system of continuous emission reduction be technological. Permits coal-fired stationary sources to substitute coal having low-pollution characteristics for coal having high-pollution characteristics as a means of limiting emissions. Includes the use of coal having low-pollution characteristics as the best available control technology for coal-fired stationary sources. Disapproves any State plan, if not amended, which: (1) prohibits the use of such coal to limit emissions; or (2) does not permit the reduction of any air pollutant which is attributable to the substitution of such fuel for fuel having high-pollution characteristics. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8172 |
| 96-hr-8147 | 96 | hr | 8147 | Comprehensive Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Liability and Compensation Act | Environmental Protection | 1980-09-18 | 1980-09-18 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Clausen, Don H. [R-CA-2] | CA | R | C000475 | 0 | Comprehensive Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Liability and Compensation Act - Title I: Oil Pollution Liability, Compensation, and Fund - Declares that there is in the Treasury of the United States a fund known as the Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability Trust Fund established in title V of this Act. Provides that, in addition to the processing and settlement of claims, the fund is immediately available to pay specified removal costs arising out of or directly resulting from an oil pollution incident. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations designating the person or persons who may obligate available money in the fund for such purposes. Permits claims for damages for economic loss, incurred 180 days or more after the effective date of this Act, to be asserted for: (1) removal costs; (2) injury to, or destruction of, real or personal property; (3) injury to, or destruction of, natural resources; and (4) loss of profits or impairment of earning capacity due to injury or destruction of real or personal property or natural resources to the extent the such damages were sustained during the two-year period beginning on the date the claimant first suffered such loss. Specifies the potential claimants who have standing to assert claims involving each such type of damage. Imposes joint, several, and strict liability on the owners and operators of each pollution source. Specifies liability limits, except in cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct, for ships and other vessels. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish limits on the liability of classes of facilities used for transporting, producing, processing, storing, or transferring oil. Requires owners or operators of vessels over 300 tons (including foreign vessels) and owners or operators of offshore facilities to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility in an amount sufficient to satisfy applicable liability limits. Permits any owner or operator of more than one vessel or offshore facility … | 2025-09-02T13:55:06Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8147 |
| 96-hr-8160 | 96 | hr | 8160 | A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to permit small communities to comply with certain notice provisions by an appropriate means other than through publication in a newspaper of general circulation. | Environmental Protection | 1980-09-18 | 1980-09-18 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Fisher, Joesph L. [D-VA-10] | VA | D | F000151 | 0 | Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency to permit small community-operated public water systems to give notice, in lieu of publication in a newspaper of general circulation, in another appropriate manner, if a system does not meet contaminant level requirements. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8160 |
| 96-hr-8119 | 96 | hr | 8119 | A bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to undertake a study to determine the effects of certain past ocean dumping of radioactive wastes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-09-16 | 1980-09-16 | Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology. | House | Rep. Anderson, Glenn M. [D-CA-32] | CA | D | A000189 | 3 | Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to require the Secretary of Commerce to conduct and submit to Congress a study on the effects of radioactive waste disposal in ocean waters from 1946 to 1970 on: (1) benthic and other marine life; and (2) human health as a result of radioactive contamination of marine life in the food chain. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out such study, to locate and survey specified radioactive waste disposal sites in ocean waters. | 2024-02-07T15:21:41Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8119 |
| 96-hr-8117 | 96 | hr | 8117 | A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-09-15 | 1980-12-05 | Public Law 96-502. | House | Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-24] | CA | D | W000215 | 24 | (Measure passed House, amended) Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to extend by three years the date by which public water systems which have been granted an exemption from contaminant level and treatment technique requirements must meet such requirements. Provides an alternative procedure by which a State with an underground injection control program relating to oil or natural gas production or recovery may receive approval for obtaining primary enforcement responsibility for protecting its underground water sources. Authorizes a State to demonstrate that its underground injection control program meets the minimum requirements of State program regulations and will prevent underground injection which endangers drinking water sources, rather than file an application which meets the regulations established by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection AGency. Authorizes a State which has made such a demonstration to make a similar demonstration with respect to any amended requirement of underground injection rather than file a notice that the State program meets the new requirement. Prohibits the application of requirements to determine whether a State retains primary enforcement responsibility if the State initially acquired the responsibility because of such a demonstration. Authorizes the Administrator to determine, after an opportunity for public hearing, that such a demonstration is no longer valid and to remove primary enforcement responsibility from the State. Permits a State which has primary enforcement responsibility to exempt a public water system from a contaminant level or treatment technique requirement if the system was not in operation at the time the requirement took effect and no reasonable alternative source of drinking water is available. Prohibits underground water source protection grants to any State which has not assumed primary enforcement responsibility within a specified time. Directs the Administrator to make grants to a public water system which is required to meet… | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8117 |
| 96-hr-8101 | 96 | hr | 8101 | Hazardous Waste Containment Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-09-10 | 1980-09-10 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Stockman, David A. [R-MI-4] | MI | R | S000935 | 0 | Hazardous Waste Containment Act of 1980 - States that nothing in this Act shall apply to oil, or other, pollution of navigable waters. Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize a State to submit to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency a plan which includes: (1) an investigation of inactive hazardous waste sites (any site or facility at which hazardous waste is, or has been, stored, treated, or disposed of); (2) an evaluation of any threat to public health and safety from such sites; (3) cleanup and containment priorities for such sites; (4) remedial measures for the release of hazardous waste from such sites; (5) the roles of the Federal, State, and local governments and other entities in implementing such plan; and (6) a program for the recovery from the liable parties of costs incurred in the cleanup and containment of such sites. Directs the Administrator to approve such plan, including any subsequent modifications, unless it fails to comply with this Act or it would not be cost-effective. Makes a State with an approved plan eligible for grants to implement such plan unless the Administrator determines that such State is not implementing such plan in good faith or has misapplied prior grants under this Act. Directs the Administrator to allocate such grants among eligible States on the basis of population and industrial production. Directs the Administrator to promulgate guidelines for making supplemental grants to eligible States. Requires that such grants be made only in emergency situations or to States which have a disproportionate number of inactive hazardous waste sites which pose substantial threats to public health or safety. Directs the Administrator to undertake a research program on hazardous waste management and provide training and technical assistance to States engaged in such management. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to State attorneys general to provide up to 50 percent of the costs of training and technical assistance for State employees engaged in re… | 2025-09-02T13:55:05Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8101 |
| 96-hr-8104 | 96 | hr | 8104 | Toxic Chemical and Hazardous Waste Research and Development Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-09-10 | 1980-09-10 | Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology. | House | Rep. Wydler, John W. [R-NY-5] | NY | R | W000780 | 0 | Toxic Chemical and Hazardous Waste Research and Development Act of 1980 - Amends the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct and promote the coordination of research relating to dumpsites which contain toxic chemical or hazardous wastes sufficient to present a clear danger to public health. Requires the Administrator's management program which coordinates research, development, and demonstration of new technologies to include toxic chemical and hazardous waste research, development, and demonstrations. Directs the Administrator to establish an Office of Remedial Research to undertake a comprehensive study of and report on dumpsites in the United States which contain significant volumes of toxic chemical and hazardous wastes. Requires the report to include: (1) a detailed enumeration of all dumpsites which contain toxic chemical or hazardous waste sufficient to present a clear danger to public health and which were closed before October 30, 1976; (2) an assessment of the technology applied to the disposal of such waste; (3) recommendations as to what technology should be used to clean up the enumerated dumpsites; (4) a description of problems at specific dumpsites requiring research and development for their resolution; (5) a plan for research, development, and demonstration respecting the findings of the study; and (6) legislative recommendations resulting from the study. Directs the Administrator to provide to the appropriate Congressional committees a complete statement of the enumerated dumpsites by April 1, 1982, and to complete the research studies and report by October 1, 1982. Creates an independent Toxic Chemical and Hazardous Waste Advisory Board to review the findings and recommendations in the report. Makes February 1, 1983, the deadline for submission to Congress of both the Administrator's report and the Advisory Board's review of such report. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to carry out the work of … | 2025-09-02T13:55:00Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/8104 |
| 96-hr-7852 | 96 | hr | 7852 | Noise Abatement Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-07-28 | 1980-07-28 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Porter, John Edward [R-IL-10] | IL | R | P000444 | 0 | Noise Abatement Act of 1980 - Repeals specified provisions of the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 1979 concerning exemptions for aircraft from certain aviation noise standards. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to determine and establish for specified aircraft the lowest noise level which could be achieved by retrofitting such aircraft. Prohibits, on and after January 1, 1983, domestic operation of aircraft that do not comply with such noise standards. Directs that, on and after January 1, 1982, specified aircraft that are operated in air transportation by an air carrier or a foreign air carrier shall be in compliance with such noise standards. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to aircraft owners for retrofitting such aircraft. Authorizes appropriations from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for fiscal year 1981 and beyond. | 2025-09-02T13:54:55Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7852 |
| 96-hr-7833 | 96 | hr | 7833 | Used Oil Recycling Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-07-25 | 1980-07-25 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1] | NJ | D | F000215 | 28 | Used Oil Recycling Act of 1980 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require lubricating oil to be labeled with a statement concerning the recycling of used oil. Requires re-refined oil used as lubricating oil to bear a label stating that such oil is a recycled product. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to States with solid waste plans to encourage the use of recycled oil, prohibit hazardous uses of used oil, and establish a program for the collection and disposal of oil in a safe manner. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance to States in removing impediments to the recycling of used oil. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations protecting the public health and environment from the hazards of burning used oil. Requires the Administrator to determine and report to Congress on whether used oil ought to be treated as a hazardous waste. Directs the Administrator to study the collection and demand in the used oil industry, and energy savings associated with re-refining used oil. | 2025-09-02T13:54:54Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7833 |
| 96-hr-7717 | 96 | hr | 7717 | National Ground Water Environmental Research Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-07-01 | 1980-07-01 | Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology. | House | Rep. Ambro, Jerome A. [D-NY-3] | NY | D | A000170 | 14 | National Ground water Environmental Research Act of 1980 - Title I: Ground Water Research and Planning - Directs the President to establish a Commission on Ground Water Research to develop guidelines and coordinate research by the States on identification of major freshwater aquifers in the United States and the extent of ground water pollution. Directs the Commission to make grants to States to conduct the freshwater aquifer research program. Requires the Commission to develop a comprehensive research plan for the prevention of ground water pollution. Authorizes the Commission to provide Federal, State, and local governments with technical advice on the protection of ground water from pollution. Directs the Commission to submit to Congress an annual report with recommendations for legislation on the protection of ground water from pollution. Title II: Institute for Research on Drinking Water Technology - Establishes an Institute for Research on Drinking Water Technology to conduct research and development on purification of drinking water. Stipulates that the Institute shall not conduct research on the health effects of drinking water. Sets forth the authorities of the Institute. Establishes an initial board of directors composed of Federal, State, and local officials and private water supply utilities officials appointed by the President. Authorizes the Institute to: (1) make research and development grants to institutions of higher education; (2) work with other agencies, institutions, and States in carrying out its functions under this title; and (3) assess and collect voluntary contributions from participating water supply agencies. Prohibits the Institute from engaging in lobbying activities. Sets forth the criteria for the operation of the Institute, including: (1) a location at or near a related laboratory or university; (2) establishment of a program for visiting researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and other scholars; and (3) the requirement that the bulk of the Institute's programs be conducte… | 2025-09-02T13:54:54Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7717 |
| 96-hr-7634 | 96 | hr | 7634 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act with respect to noncompliance penalties, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-06-20 | 1980-06-20 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Benjamin, Adam, Jr. [D-IN-1] | IN | D | B000363 | 4 | Amends the Clean Air Act to revise the formula for determining the amount of any noncompliance penalty. Eliminates a specified minimum amount for such penalties. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7634 |
| 96-hr-7537 | 96 | hr | 7537 | A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to provide for financial assistance to municipalities for the closing of open dumps under the Solid Waste Disposal Act and for the construction and operation of sanitary landfills in compliance with the provisions of that Act, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-06-10 | 1980-06-10 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Mitchell, Donald J. [R-NY-31] | NY | R | M000808 | 0 | Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide assistance to municipalities to be used for the closing of open dumps (in accordance with specified requirements relating to the upgrading of open dumps and to plan provisions for such upgrading) and for the construction of sanitary landfills which meet specified criteria. Requires applicants for such financial assistance to comply with specified provisions of such Act. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7537 |
| 96-hr-7508 | 96 | hr | 7508 | A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to exempt rural communities from the prohibition on open dumping of solid waste. | Environmental Protection | 1980-06-05 | 1980-06-05 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Marlenee, Ron [R-MT-2] | MT | R | M000139 | 0 | Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to exempt municipalities with a population of 5,000 or less, or counties with a population of 10,000 or less, or less than 20 persons per square mile and not within a metropolitan area, from specified prohibitions against open dumping of solid waste. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7508 |
| 96-hr-7465 | 96 | hr | 7465 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to encourage owners of coal-fired power plants to utilize new technologies for pollution control and to establish an emissions charges and rebate plan. | Environmental Protection | 1980-05-29 | 1980-05-29 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Pease, Donald J. [D-OH-13] | OH | D | P000170 | 0 | Title I: New Emission Control Technology - Amends the Clean Air Act to allow persons proposing to own or operate coal-fired powerplants to request from the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency one or more waivers of specified air pollution control requirements for such plant or any portion thereof to encourage the use of an innovative technological system or systems of continuous emission reduction. Authorizes the Administrator with the consent of the Governor of the State in which the plant is to be located, to grant such waivers, if the Administrator determines, after notice and opportunity for public hearing, that: (1) the proposed systems have not been adequately demonstrated, will operate effectively, and are reasonably likely to achieve, in comparison with what is required to be achieved by presently available technology under otherwise applicable standards of performance and best available control technology, either significantly greater continuous emission reduction or significantly lower cost with the same or greater continuous emission reduction; (2) the owner or operator of the proposed plant has demonstrated that plant emissions will not prevent attainment and maintenance of any national ambient air quality standards or violate specified requirements, increments, or ceilings; and (3) the number of waivers necessary to ascertain whether a proposed technological system will achieve specified conditions will not be exceeded by the granting of the waiver in question. Sets forth considerations to be taken account of by the Administrator making such determinations. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct tests or to require tests and reports to be made by the owner or operator. Requires the owner or operator to make prompt reports of the emission of any unregulated pollutant from a system if such pollutant was not emitted, or was emitted in significantly lesser amounts without the use of such system. Sets forth terms and conditions on which, and time periods for which, such waivers shall… | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7465 |
| 96-hr-7415 | 96 | hr | 7415 | Victims of Toxic and Hazardous Substances Emergency Relief Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-05-21 | 1980-05-21 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Holtzman, Elizabeth [D-NY-16] | NY | D | H000752 | 16 | Victims of Toxic and Hazardous Substances Emergency Relief Act of 1980 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: (1) to determine promptly, but in no event later than 15 days, whether toxic or hazardous wastes pose a serious and immediate threat to the public health or safety, whenever the Administrator receives evidence that such wastes may pose a threat to the public; and (2) to submit to the President a recommendation that a state of hazardous substances emergency be declared, if the Administrator determines that such wastes pose such threat. Authorizes the President, in the President's discretion and upon recommendation of the Administrator, to declare a state of hazardous substances emergency with such amendments and deletions to the Administrator's recommendations as the President sees fit. Directs the Administrator: (1) after such state of emergency has been declared, to forward recommendations for immediate actions to protect the public health and safety to the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and (2) thereafter, to act promptly to (a) determine the extent of the contamination of air, land, and water (including ground water), and (b) screen and test the population likely to have been exposed to such wastes in a manner or degree capable of causing physical injury (including any poisoning, burn, infection, chromosomal damage, or genetic defect); (c) study crops and livestock in the affected area and identify those unfit for human consumption; and (d) evaluate alternatives to prevent further damage to human life or health. Directs the Administrator to submit initial and supplemental reports and recommendations at specified times to the Director. Requires the Director, on the basis of such reports and recommendations and other relevant information, to undertake promptly, during the first 12 months following the declaration of a state of emergency, actions necessary to protect public health and safety, including: (1) immediate relocation of the physically inj… | 2025-09-02T13:54:45Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7415 |
| 96-hr-7418 | 96 | hr | 7418 | Nuclear Waste Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-05-21 | 1980-09-04 | Reported to House from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, H. Rept. 96-1156 (Part IV). | House | Rep. McCormack, Mike [D-WA-4] | WA | D | M000365 | 29 | (Reported to House from Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 96-1156 (Part III)) Nuclear Waste, Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Energy, within 60 days of the enactment of this Act, to establish a research, development, and demonstration program for the disposal of high level radioactive waste (spent nuclear fuel and the highly radioactive wastes resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, including liquid wastes and dry solid material derived from such liquid waste). Requires the Secretary to identify four potential repository sites located in different geologic media, and to the extent practicable, in different regions of the continental United States. Directs the Secretary to undertake site characterization activities (exploration and study of the geologic conditions of a particular site) to determine the suitability of such sites as demonstration repositories. Requires the Secretary to conduct at such sites tests to provide the data necessary for compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and to report thereon to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Directs the Secretary to make the final site selections as soon as possible and set up the demonstration repositories at such sites. Requires that the first demonstration repository be in operation by the end of fiscal year 1986, the second repository be in operation by the end of fiscal year 1987, and the third and fourth repositories be in operation at a time prescribed by subsequent legislation. Sets forth design requirements for such repositories. Prohibits the disposal of high level radioactive waste in a demonstration repository unless: (1) such waste is owned by the Federal Government and is the result of unlicensed activities; (2) such waste is retrievable; and (3) a place has been identified to receive such waste after the termination of the demonstration program. Prohibits the operation of any demonstration repository beyond the y… | 2025-09-02T13:54:45Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7418 |
| 96-hr-7286 | 96 | hr | 7286 | A bill to extend deadlines in the Clean Air Act applicable to stationary sources, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-05-07 | 1980-05-07 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Gaydos, Joseph M. [D-PA-20] | PA | D | G000105 | 9 | Amends the Clean Air Act and the Clear Air Act Amendments of 1977 to extend specified deadlines applicable to stationary sources (relating to State implementation plans, Federal enforcement, and noncompliance penalties). | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7286 |
| 96-hr-7245 | 96 | hr | 7245 | A bill to amend section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to restrict the jurisdiction of the United States over the discharge of dredged or fill material to discharges into waters which are navigable and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-05-01 | 1980-05-01 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-22] | TX | R | P000583 | 10 | Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct (formerly authorized) 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 (formerly 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 or by reasonable improvement 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. Repeals provisions relating to State programs of permits 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. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7245 |
| 96-hr-7188 | 96 | hr | 7188 | A bill to amend section 206 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to reimbursement for certain publicly owned sewage collection systems. | Environmental Protection | 1980-04-29 | 1980-04-29 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Kemp, Jack [R-NY-38] | NY | R | K000086 | 0 | Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to entitle any competitively bid construction contract for a publicly owned sewage collection system on which construction was initiated after October 18, 1972, but before January, 1976, and which met the requirements for Federal financial assistance under such Act but did not receive such application, to the maximum amount of assistance the system would have received under such Act notwithstanding such State policy. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7188 |
| 96-hr-7189 | 96 | hr | 7189 | A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to extend the period for which variances may be provided in the case of contaminant level and treatment technique requirements of national primary drinking water regulations, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-04-29 | 1980-04-29 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. McClory, Robert [R-IL-13] | IL | R | M000340 | 9 | Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to replace specified references to "exemptions" with references to "interim variances." Permits State-prescribed public water system schedules to require compliance with less stringent contaminant levels or treatment techniques during a period of interim variance. Mandates that such schedules require final compliance with each contaminant level and treatment technique requirement for which such interim variance was granted by a specified date. Sets such date at: (1) the later of January 1, 1988, or seven years after such requirement takes effect; or (2) in cases where the public water system has entered into an enforceable agreement to become part of a regional public water system, the later of January 1, 1992, or nine years after such requirement takes effect. Permits a State with primary enforcement responsibility to determine that the best technology, treatment techniques, or other means need not be constructed and in place before a variance may be granted. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7189 |
| 96-hr-7126 | 96 | hr | 7126 | Toxic Substances Control Act Amendment of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-04-22 | 1980-05-15 | Reported to House from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 96-968. | House | Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-11] | NY | D | S000124 | 1 | (Reported to House from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 96-968) Toxic Substances Control Act Amendment of 1980 - Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of such Act for fiscal years 1981 and 1982. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study, by contract with the Office of Technology Assessment, to determine the adequacy of compensation and other assistance available to persons to mitigate health problems or economic losses caused by hazardous chemical substances, and to issue and submit to appropriate congressional committees a detailed report on the results of such study. Prohibits entering into any contract for such study, except to the extent, or in such amounts, as may be provided in appropriation Acts. Declares that the Office of Technology Assessment is not required to conduct such study unless sufficient funds are made available for such purpose. Authorizes the appropriation of $2,000,000 for such study. Directs the Administrator to provide for the monitoring of emissions at facilities used to incinerate polychlorinated biphenyls ("PCBs") and to hold briefings for the general public to report the results of such monitoring. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7126 |
| 96-hr-7128 | 96 | hr | 7128 | Soft Drink Interbrand Competition and Reuse and Recycling Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1980-04-22 | 1980-04-22 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-9] | CA | D | S000810 | 1 | Soft Drink Interbrand Competition and Reuse and Recycling Act of 1979 - Declares that territorial provisions in licenses to manufacture, distribute, and sell trademarked soft drink products are lawful under antitrust laws after the date of enactment of this Act under the following circumstances: (1) such product and the licensee are in effective competition with other products and licensees of the same class within the geographic area; (2) the licensor retains control over such product in accordance with the Trademark Act of 1946; and (3) the licensee sells such product only in refundable beverage containers, the retailer pays consumers for the return of such containers in the amount stated on the container, and the licensee reimburses retailers for the return of such containers. Directs the General Accounting Office, in consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to monitor the rate of reuse and recycling of beverage containers and to report to Congress on the impact of provisions of this Act on the industry, environmental effects, and the economy. Directs the Administrator of EPA to provide technical assistance and information to licensees, retailers, consumers, and manufacturers to assist in complying with provisions of this Act concerning refundable beverage containers. Declares that the provisions of this Act shall apply to contracts or agreements already in effect and those entered into subsequent to its enactment. | 2025-09-02T13:54:37Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7128 |
| 96-hr-7099 | 96 | hr | 7099 | Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1981 | Environmental Protection | 1980-04-21 | 1980-12-01 | Measure laid on table in House, S. 2726 passed in lieu. | House | Rep. Ambro, Jerome A. [D-NY-3] | NY | D | A000170 | 3 | (Measure passed House, amended) Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1981 - Authorizes appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for environmental research, development, and demonstration activities for fiscal year 1981. Specifies amounts authorized for programs concerning air quality, water quality, water supply, pesticides, solid waste, toxic substances, radiation, energy, program management and support, and interdisciplinary activities. Authorizes the Administrator of the EPA to utilize such funds for appropriate scientific and professional review of research and development grant, contract, and cooperative agreement applications, when such use is in the public interest. Prohibits the transfer of funds, above a specified amount, without prior written approval by the appropriate Congressional committees or the lapse of 30 legislative days after the transmittal to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the President of the Senate of a written report containing a full and complete statement concerning the nature and reason of the transfer. Directs the Administrator to establish a separately identifiable long-term environmental research and development program to be funded by a percentage of funds appropriated under this Act. Directs the Science Advisory Board to provide such scientific advice to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, or the Committees or Subcommittees of the Congress, upon request (in addition to the EPA). | 2025-09-02T13:54:38Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7099 |
| 96-hr-7050 | 96 | hr | 7050 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to revise the standard for the application of title I of the Act to modifications of facilities which emit or may emit any air pollutant. | Environmental Protection | 1980-04-15 | 1980-04-15 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Mollohan, Robert H. [D-WV-1] | WV | D | M000845 | 16 | Amends the Clean Air Act to revise the definition of "modification" of a source or facility, for purposes of the provisions of such Act concerning the prevention of significant deterioration of air quality, to mean any physical change in, or change in the operation of, a stationary source which increases the net amount of any pollutant emitted by such stationary source by either 100 tons per year or more for a major emitting facility, or by 250 tons per year or more for any other stationary source. Revises the definitions of "modifications" and "modified", for purposes of the provisions of such Act concerning plan requirements for nonattainment areas, to mean any physical change in (including a complete replacement), or a change in the method of operation of, a stationary source which increases the net amount of any air pollutant emitted by such stationary source, or which results in the emission of any air pollutant not previously emitted by such stationary source by 100 tons per year or more. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7050 |
| 96-hr-7018 | 96 | hr | 7018 | An act to extend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, until September 30, 1981, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-04-02 | 1980-12-17 | Public Law 96-539. | House | Rep. de la Garza, E. [D-TX-15] | TX | D | D000203 | 1 | (Conference report filed in House, H. Rept. 96-1480) Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to permit the subpanels of the scientific advisory panel appointed by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to be composed of scientists other than members of such panel when necessary for the evaluation of scientific studies relied upon by the Administrator in assessing the impact of a proposed action on health and the environment. Requires the Administrator to submit to such panel for comment on the impact on health and the environment any suspended registration of any pesticide because of an imminent hazard. Requires the Administrator to establish procedures for peer review with respect to the design, protocols, and conduct of major scientific studies to be conducted pursuant to such Act and for actions that may be taken relating to the change in classification, suspension, or cancellation of a pesticide. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such Act for fiscal years 1980 and 1981. Subjects rules and regulations issued pursuant to such Act to Congressional review and approval. Sets forth judicial review procedures. | 2024-02-05T11:45:06Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7018 |
| 96-hr-7020 | 96 | hr | 7020 | An act to provide for liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response for hazardous substances released into the environment and the cleanup of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites. | Environmental Protection | 1980-04-02 | 1980-12-11 | Public Law 96-510. | House | Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1] | NJ | D | F000215 | 0 | (Measure passed Senate, amended, in lieu of S. 1480) Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 - =Title I: Hazardous Substances Releases, Liability, Compensation= - Sets forth definitions for purposes of this title. Defines "environment" to mean: (1) the navigable waters, the waters of the contiguous zone, and the ocean waters of which the natural resources are under the exclusive management authority of the United States under the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976; and (2) any other surface water, groundwater, drinking water supply, land surface or subsurface strata, or ambient air within the United States or under the jurisdiction of the United States. Excludes any consumer product in consumer use or any vessel from the definition of "facility" (but includes "vessels" for specific coverage). Defines "hazardous substance" as: (1) any hazardous substance so designated by specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (2) any substance or mixture designated as a hazardous substance by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, pursuant to this Act; (3) any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified under or listed pursuant to specified provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (but not including any waste the regulation of which under such Act has been suspended by an Act of Congress); (4) any toxic pollutant listed under specified provisions of the Federal Pollution Control Water Act; (5) any hazardous air pollutant listed under specified provisions of the Clean Air Act; and (6) any imminently hazardous chemical substance or mixture as defined by specified provisions of the Toxic Substances Control Act. Excludes from such term: (1) petroleum, including crude oil and fractions thereof which are not otherwise specifically listed or designated as hazardous substances under the definition of such term in this Act; and (2) natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic gas usable for fuel (or m… | 2024-02-07T16:32:33Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7020 |
| 96-hr-6995 | 96 | hr | 6995 | A bill to extend certain provisions of the Toxic Substances Control Act for three years. | Environmental Protection | 1980-04-01 | 1980-04-01 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Ottinger, Richard L. [D-NY-24] | NY | D | O000134 | 0 | Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to extend the authorization of appropriations to the Environmental Protection Agency through fiscal year 1982. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6995 |
| 96-hr-7003 | 96 | hr | 7003 | Toxic Substances Control Act Amendments of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-04-01 | 1980-04-01 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-11] | NY | D | S000124 | 0 | Toxic Substances Control Act Amendments of 1980 - Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of such Act for fiscal years 1981 and 1982. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate rules within 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act to eliminate the use of polychlorinated biphenyls in concentrations exceeding 50 parts per million, or as otherwise determined under such Act, in dielectric fluids in transformers and large capacitors used at food-related facilities, unless: (1) such concentrations do not present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment; and (2) the imposition of such requirements would pose significant economic hardships on food facility owners and operators. Directs the Administrator to review any rules promulgated within one year after the date of enactment of this Act: (1) by the Secretary of Agriculture restricting the use of polychlorinated biphenyls in facilities regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or the Egg Products Inspection Act; and (2) by the Secretary of Health and Human Services restricting such use under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study, by contract with the National Academy of Sciences, to determine the adequacy of compensation and other assistance available to persons to mitigate health problems or economic losses caused by hazardous chemical substances, and to issue and submit to appropriate congressional committees a detailed report on the results of such study. Authorizes the appropriations for such study. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of: (1) requiring the elimination of polychlorinated biphenyls in specified concentrations from transformers and large capacitors used in food-related facilities; and (2) establishing a polychlorinated biphenyl contamination prevention program. Requires the preparation of a report on the results… | 2025-09-02T13:54:32Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/7003 |
| 96-hr-6977 | 96 | hr | 6977 | A bill to amend the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to establish labeling requirements applicable to substances which cause chronic health side effects, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-03-31 | 1980-03-31 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Richmond, Frederick W. [D-NY-14] | NY | D | R000232 | 32 | Amends the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to establish labeling requirements for substances which cause chronic health side effects. Authorizes the Consumer Product Safety Commission to determine which substances or mixture of substances possess chronic toxicity and are capable of being ingested, inhaled, or absorbed into the human body through any customary or reasonably foreseeable handling, use, or misuse. Sets forth criteria for the determination of toxicity. Sets forth labeling requirements for such substances, including: (1) a statement which describes the nature of a side effect and an explanation of procedures to be followed to counteract such side effect; and (2) a warning where a substance has been determined to possess chronic toxicity that such substance has been shown to cause cancer in animals or in humans. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6977 |
| 96-hr-6963 | 96 | hr | 6963 | A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to issue guarantees with respect to the payment of the principal and interest of bonds to be issued by the Suffolk County Sewer Authority, in Suffolk County, New York, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-03-28 | 1980-03-28 | Referred to House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs. | House | Rep. Downey, Thomas J. [D-NY-2] | NY | D | D000471 | 0 | Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, beginning in fiscal year 1981, to issue guarantees with respect to the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued by the Suffolk County Sewer Authority, in Suffolk County, New York. Limits the issuance of guarantees to amounts provided in advance by appropriation Acts. | 2024-02-06T19:38:08Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6963 |
| 96-hr-6931 | 96 | hr | 6931 | Hazardous Waste Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-03-26 | 1980-03-26 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Eckhardt, Bob [D-TX-8] | TX | D | E000035 | 0 | Hazardous Waste Act of 1980 - Requires owners or operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal sites to provide specified information to the relevant State and local officials and to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Authorizes the Administrator, or the State in which the site is located, to secure such information from such owners or operators, former or subsequent owners or operators of the site, or generators or transporters of hazardous waste, if such owners or operators fail to comply with information requirements or offer inadequate information. Prohibits such information received from any person, and information derived therefrom, from being used against such person in any criminal proceeding except a prosecution for perjury or for knowingly making a false statement or representation. Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require each generator of hazardous waste to submit a report to the Administrator and to the State agencies setting forth the quantities and characteristics of hazardous waste generated by such generator in the year preceding the date of enactment of this Act. Allows regulations requiring each generator of hazardous waste to submit annual reports to the Administrator and to the State agencies setting forth the quantities and characteristics of hazardous waste expected to be generated in the year during which the report is filed. Subjects such information to specified confidentiality requirements. Requires that each State establish priorities among the inactive hazardous waste sites in that State which present, or may present, a substantial threat to public health or the environment. Requires that such priorities be: (1) established according to regulations promulgated by the Administrator; and (2) consistent with the National Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site Response Plan ("the Plan"). Directs the Administrator to establish and annually revise national priorities, based upon the relative danger to public health and the environment, among th… | 2025-09-02T13:54:33Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6931 |
| 96-hr-6898 | 96 | hr | 6898 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring motor vehicle inspection and maintenance until such time as each new motor vehicle is required to be separately tested for compliance with emission standards before its sale by the manufacturer, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-03-24 | 1980-03-24 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Gaydos, Joseph M. [D-PA-20] | PA | D | G000105 | 0 | 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, unless the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency establishes separate inspection and testing of each new motor vehicle before the vehicle is sold by the manufacturer. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6898 |
| 96-hr-6865 | 96 | hr | 6865 | West Valley Demonstration Project Act | Environmental Protection | 1980-03-19 | 1980-09-15 | Measure laid on table in House, S. 2443 passed in lieu. | House | Rep. Lundine, Stanley N. [D-NY-39] | NY | D | L000516 | 0 | (Reported to House from Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce with amendment, H. Rept. 96-1100 (Part II)) West Valley Demonstration Project Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out a high level radioactive waste management demonstration project at the Western New York Service Center (the Center) in West Valley, New York, to demonstrate solidification techniques for preparing high level radioactive waste for disposal. Directs the Secretary to: (1) solidify such waste at the Center into a form suitable for transportation and disposal by vitrification or by such other technology as the Secretary may prescribe; (2) develop containers for the permanent disposal of such solidified waste; (3) transport, in accordance with applicable provisions of law, such solidified waste to an appropriate Federal repository for permanent disposal; (4) dispose of low level radioactive waste and transuranic waste produced by the solidification of high level radioactive waste under such project; and (5) decontaminate and decommission facilities, material, and hardware used in connection with such project. Requires that prior to starting such project, the Secretary shall: (1) hold public hearings to inform residents near the Center of such project and receive their comments; (2) consider the various solidification technologies available; (3) undertake engineering and cost estimates; (4) prepare a plan for the safe removal of high level radioactive waste; (5) conduct safety analyses; and (6) prepare required environmental impact analyses. Directs the Secretary to enter into a cooperative agreement with the State of New York, in accordance with the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977, under which: (1) the State shall make available the facilities and the high level radioactive waste at the Center; (2) the Secretary shall provide technical assistance in securing required license amendments; and (3) the State shall pay ten percent of the costs of such project. Requires the Secretary and the Nuclear Regulato… | 2025-09-02T13:54:33Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6865 |
| 96-hr-6866 | 96 | hr | 6866 | A bill to amend the Federal Clean Air Act with respect to requirements which adversely affect employment. | Environmental Protection | 1980-03-19 | 1980-03-19 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. McKay, K. Gunn [D-UT-1] | UT | D | M000490 | 7 | Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, States, and local governments to modify or withdraw imposed or proposed requirements under such Act which have adverse effects on employment. Directs the Administrator to approve a State implementation plan revision which establishes less stringent emission limitations applicable to an existing source in an attainment or nonattainment area and which, in the case of a nonattainment area, demonstrate reasonable further progress toward attainment and maintenance of ambient air quality standards, if the Governor of such State proposes such revision because the requirements of such Act threaten shutdown of such source. Declares that such revision will be deemed approved if the Administrator has not acted on the proposed revision within 90 days of receipt. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6866 |
| 96-hr-6867 | 96 | hr | 6867 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to requirements which adversely affect employment. | Environmental Protection | 1980-03-19 | 1980-03-19 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. McKay, K. Gunn [D-UT-1] | UT | D | M000490 | 7 | Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to implement his or her recommendations, upon finding an adverse effect on employment, by modifying a limitation or order issued under such Act. Directs the Administrator to modify or withdraw any effluent limitation or order, if the Governor of any State advises the Administrator that such limitation or order threatens closing of a plant or facility. Declares that such requested modification or withdrawal shall be deemed approved if the Administrator has not acted upon it within 90 days of receipt. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6867 |
| 96-hr-6840 | 96 | hr | 6840 | Asbestos Control Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-03-18 | 1980-03-18 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Beard, Edward [D-RI-2] | RI | D | B000279 | 0 | Asbestos Control Act of 1980 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate rules to: (1) prohibit the release into the environment of asbestos fibers and fibers from asbestos substitutes, such as fibrous glass, which the Administrator determines would present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or to the environment; (2) require asbestos, asbestos substitutes and materials containing asbestos or asbestos substitutes to be marked with clear and adequate warnings and instructions with respect to their manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, use, or disposal, or any combination thereof; and (3) require asbestos substitutes to be employed in place of asbestos in all applications and processes where feasible and practicable, provided that such substitutes present no new hazard. | 2025-09-02T13:54:27Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6840 |
| 96-hr-6832 | 96 | hr | 6832 | A bill to amend the Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require that environmental impact statements be prepared with respect to interstate pipelines before Federal rights-of-way or permits may be issued. | Environmental Protection | 1980-03-17 | 1980-03-17 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Tauke, Thomas Joseph [R-IA-2] | IA | R | T000053 | 0 | Amends the Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require that environmental impact statements be prepared with respect to interstate pipelines before Federal rights-of-way or permits may be issued. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6832 |
| 96-hr-6759 | 96 | hr | 6759 | A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to strengthen the authority to ban the importation of agricultural commodities bearing or containing unsafe pesticide chemicals and the importation of foods derived from such commodities, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-03-10 | 1980-03-10 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Hance, Kent R. [D-TX-19] | TX | D | H000144 | 23 | Amends the Federal, Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem as misbranded and adulterated specified imported agricultural commodities grown with unacceptable pesticides. Requires that personnel of the Department of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare) examine samples of commodities to be imported. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish laboratories on the border between the United States and Mexico to determine if raw agricultural commodities imported from Mexico bear or contain such pesticides. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6759 |
| 96-hr-6675 | 96 | hr | 6675 | Cigarette Safety Act | Environmental Protection | 1980-03-03 | 1980-03-03 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Moakley, John Joseph [D-MA-9] | MA | D | M000834 | 30 | Cigarette Safety Act - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate, within 24 months, final performance standards for cigarettes and little cigars ensuring a minimum capacity for igniting smoldering upholstered furniture and mattress fires. Authorizes the Commission to prohibit manufacturers from stockpiling such products to which such standard applies. Provides for judicial review of such standard in an appropriate U.S. court of appeals. Declares such cigarette safety standards to be subject to all remedial and penalty provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Act. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act for the first three fiscal years beginning after its enactment. | 2025-09-02T13:54:21Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6675 |
| 96-hr-6665 | 96 | hr | 6665 | Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships | Environmental Protection | 1980-02-28 | 1980-10-21 | Public Law 96-478. | House | Rep. Murphy, John M. [D-NY-17] | NY | D | M001098 | 5 | (House agreed to certain Senate amendment with amendment) Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships - Implements the Protocol of 1978 Relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 (MARPOL Protocol). Applies this Act to ships of United States registry or nationality or of a country party to the MARPOL Protocol and ships registered in or of the nationality of a country not a party to the MARPOL Protocol traveling in all waters subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Exempts: (1) warships, naval auxiliaries, or other ships owned by the United States while engaged in noncommercial service, subject to standards prescribed by the appropriate Federal departments and agencies; and (2) other ships specifically excluded by the MARPOL Protocol. Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to administer, enforce, and prescribe regulations to carry out the provisions of the MARPOL Protocol and this Act, utilizing other Federal departments and agencies as necessary. Authorizes the Secretary to designate persons to issue certificates required by the MARPOL Protocol. Directs that: (1) certificates shall not be issued to ships of countries not a party to the MARPOL Protocol; and (2) certificates issued by a participating country of the MARPOL Protocol shall be honored. Subjects to inspection any ship required to carry a valid certificate. Directs the Secretary to detain any ship required to have a certificate which either does not have one on board or has a condition in disagreement with the certificate until such ship can proceed to sea without presenting an unreasonable threat of harm to the marine environment. Allows any person whose ship is detained to petition the Secretary. Permits compensation for any loss or damage suffered by a ship unreasonably detained or delayed. Directs the Secretary, after consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to establish regulations for determining the adequacy … | 2025-09-02T13:54:28Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6665 |
| 96-hr-6667 | 96 | hr | 6667 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to authorization extensions and industrial cost recovery. | Environmental Protection | 1980-02-28 | 1980-05-15 | Reported to House from the Committee on Public Works and Transportation with amendment, H. Rept. 96-983. | House | Rep. Roberts, Ray [D-TX-4] | TX | D | R000312 | 2 | (Reported to House from the Committee on Public Works and Transportation with amendment, H. Rept. 96-983) Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to extend through fiscal years 1981 and 1982 authorizations for: (1) pilot programs of manpower development, training, and retraining for the operation and maintenance of treatment works and related activities; (2) a system for forecasting and publishing the supply of and demand for professions and other occupations for regional, State, or area pollution prevention, reduction, and elimination; (3) grants for pollution control programs; (4) training grants and contracts and scholarships; (5) grants for developing and operating a continuing areawide waste treatment management planning process; (6) a program, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, to install and maintain measures incorporating best management practices to control nonpoint source pollution in specified areas; (7) grants to States for Clean Lakes programs; and (8) a general authorization for specified programs under such Act. Repeals specified limitations and conditions on grants under such Act for the construction of treatment works which required that: (1) the applicant make provision for receiving payment from industrial users of the treatment works for that portion of the Federal share of the construction cost of such works allocable to industrial wastes treatment; (2) the grantee retain a specified portion of such revenues; and (3) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency be authorized to exempt certain industrial users from such payments. Repeals provisions of the Clean Water Act of 1977 which provided for a moratorium on such payments for treatment works by industrial users. Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to repeal provisions for such payments for treatment works by industrial users to the United States in the case of privately owned treatment works. Makes other technical and conforming amendments to such Act. Extends from July 1, 1983 to July 1… | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6667 |
| 96-hr-6615 | 96 | hr | 6615 | An act to amend the National Ocean Pollution Research and Development and Monitoring Planning Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations to carry out the provisions of such Act for fiscal years 1981 and 1982, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-02-26 | 1980-05-30 | Public Law 96-255. | House | Rep. Murphy, John M. [D-NY-17] | NY | D | M001098 | 10 | (Measure passed House, amended) Amends the National Ocean Pollution Research and Development and Monitoring Planning Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration not to exceed $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1981, and $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1982. Changes the title of such Act to the "National Ocean Pollution Planning Act". Changes the date on which the biennial five-year plan report is due to September 15 of each odd-numbered year. | 2024-02-07T15:21:41Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6615 |
| 96-hr-6616 | 96 | hr | 6616 | A bill to amend the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations to carry out the provisions of such Act for fiscal year 1981, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-02-26 | 1980-05-13 | Measure laid on table in House, S. 1148, S. 1123, and S. 1140 passed in lieu. | House | Rep. Murphy, John M. [D-NY-17] | NY | D | M001098 | 13 | (Measure passed House, amended, roll call #229 (372-24)) Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1981 to carry out the provisions of such Act. Amends such Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) conduct research, training, and demonstrations for the purpose of determining means of minimizing or ending ocean dumping and developing disposal methods as alternatives to such dumping; and (2) provide for the coordination of such research among appropriate Federal, State, local, or interstate public authorities, agencies, and institutions and provide financial and other assistance to such entities. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 through 1982 for research programs authorized under such Act. Redefines "State", for specified purposes of such Act, to include any of the several States or any territory or possession of the United States which has a popularly elected Governor. Renders the designation of a marine sanctuary, or any terms included therein, by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to such Act ineffective upon: (1) certification to the Secretary by the Governor of any State in which such designation is made that such designation or any of its terms are unacceptable to such State; or (2) adoption of a concurrent resolution by both Houses of Congress disapproving such designation or any of its terms. Sets forth terms to be included in such designations and authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to implement such terms and control the activities permitted under such designation. Directs the Secretary to conduct research to carry out the purposes of such Act. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to conduct enforcement activities to carry out the purposes of such Act. Requires the Secretary to transmit to the Congress a marine sanctuary designation at the time of its publication. Authorizes appropriations for fis… | 2024-02-07T15:21:41Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6616 |
| 96-hr-6570 | 96 | hr | 6570 | Low Level Radioactive Waste Burial Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-02-21 | 1980-02-21 | Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology. | House | Rep. Wydler, John W. [R-NY-5] | NY | R | W000780 | 0 | Low-Level Radioactive Waste Burial Act of 1980 - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to provide Federal assistance for the establishment of low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities to be operated by the individual States. Directs the Secretary of Energy to permit Federal low-level radioactive waste burial facilities to be used for burial of civilian low-level wastes from specified geographical areas for an 18-month period beginning on the date of the Secretary's approval of a State Governor's signed statement declaring the State's intention to develop and operate within its borders a low-level waste facility for burial of future waste from such areas. Permits such use of Federal facilities only upon the Secretary's determination that the State has been unable to acquire a commitment for disposal of such wastes at existing commercial or State-operated facilities in the same geographical areas as the source of such wastes. Sets forth criteria for granting extensions of the period during which States may use Federal facilities. States that Congress consents to any interstate compacts or agreements entered into between States in any region for the burial of such wastes at a facility located in that region. Authorizes the Secretary: (1) to conduct research and development designed to assist States in selecting sites for such facilities and performing related engineering and testing activities; (2) to provide on-site assistance to States in site evaluation, site development, and related demonstrations; (3) to conduct research on such wastes and provide each State with information derived therefrom; and (4) to take any other actions as necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary to accelerate research and development and related activities concerning the compacting and immobilization of such wastes to aid States in planning and related activities under this Act. States that the planning activities related to the selection of a low-level waste facility site shall n… | 2025-09-02T13:54:22Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6570 |
| 96-hr-6532 | 96 | hr | 6532 | Acid Rain and National Atmospheric Fallout Act of 1980 | Environmental Protection | 1980-02-19 | 1980-02-19 | Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology. | House | Rep. Jeffords, James M. [R-VT-At Large] | VT | R | J000072 | 0 | Acid Rain and National Atmospheric Fallout Act of 1980 - Title I: Objectives - States findings concerning atmospheric fallout and acid rain caused by industrial processes, fossil fuel plants, electrical generating plants, home heating, motorized vehicles, municipal waste disposal, and certain intensive agriculture and forestry operations. Declares it to be the policy of the United States that programs of national research, emission source identification, monitoring, and other specified activities, studies, and plans be established to study and solve the problems of atmospheric fallout from the operations described above. Title II: Interagency Committee - Establishes the Interagency Committee on Atmospheric Fallout to perform specified duties to minimize or eliminate the harmful effects of atmospheric fallout. Sets forth membership requirements for such Committee and other requirements relating to staffing. Directs the Committee to review plans and reports on atmospheric fallout made by other bodies, including the Council on Environmental Quality, and to develop a plan to provide for the amelioration of the harmful effects of atmospheric fallout. Sets forth the elements of such plan and requires that it provide for a coordinated monitoring, management, and research program. Requires the submission of such plan to Congress and to the President no later than twelve months after the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the Committee to submit annual reports to Congress and to the President on publicly and privately supported atmospheric fallout activities, and on progress in implementing the Committee's plan for atmospheric fallout control. Requires that such reports be submitted annually for ten years. Title III: National Advisory Council - Establishes the National Advisory Council on Atmospheric Fallout to review the decisions and actions of the Committee and to increase cooperation and coordination among Federal and State public and private organizations and agencies involved in controlling atmospheric fall… | 2025-09-02T13:54:22Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6532 |
| 96-hr-6472 | 96 | hr | 6472 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring motor vehicle inspection and maintenance until such time as each new motor vehicle is required to be separately tested for compliance with emission standards before its sale by the manufacturer, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-02-11 | 1980-02-11 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Atkinson, Eugene V. [D-PA-25] | PA | D | A000329 | 13 | 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, unless the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency establishes separate inspection and testing of each new motor vehicle before the vehicle is sold by the manufacturer. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6472 |
| 96-hr-6456 | 96 | hr | 6456 | A bill to amend section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to permits for dredged or fill material. | Environmental Protection | 1980-02-07 | 1980-02-07 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Badham, Robert E. [R-CA-40] | CA | R | B000024 | 0 | Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to permit the discharge of dredged or fill materials into navigable waters in connection with the construction of improvements to currently serviceable structures and flood control projects. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6456 |
| 96-hr-6466 | 96 | hr | 6466 | 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 | 1980-02-07 | 1980-02-07 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Satterfield, David E., III [D-VA-3] | VA | D | S000070 | 69 | 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. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6466 |
| 96-hr-6361 | 96 | hr | 6361 | A bill to amend the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 in order to suspend temporarily the use of bioaccumulation and biomagnification testing in the evaluation of applications relating to ocean dumping of dredged material, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1980-01-30 | 1980-01-30 | Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. | House | Rep. Peyser, Peter A. [D-NY-23] | NY | D | P000280 | 3 | Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to suspend bioaccumulation and biomagnification testing until December 31, 1982 in evaluating permit applications for ocean dumping of dredged material. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of the Army, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and other appropriate Federal officers, to conduct a study on the validity of such testing. Requires the findings and conclusions of such study to be reported to the Congress by January 1, 1982. | 2021-06-14T19:39:37Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6361 |
| 96-hr-6240 | 96 | hr | 6240 | A bill to amend title XIV of the Public Health Service Act relating to safe drinking water to extend the date by which certain exempt public water systems will be required to meet contaminant level and treatment technique requirements. | Environmental Protection | 1980-01-22 | 1980-01-22 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Bedell, Berkley W. [D-IA-6] | IA | D | B000298 | 5 | Amends title XIV of the Public Health Service Act (Safety of Public Water Systems) to extend the date by which public water systems which have been granted an exemption from contaminant level and treatment technique requirements must meet such requirements. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6240 |
| 96-hr-6200 | 96 | hr | 6200 | A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act. | Environmental Protection | 1979-12-20 | 1979-12-20 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Devine, Samuel L. [R-OH-12] | OH | R | D000279 | 3 | Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt the underground injection of natural gas for storage purposes from being regulated under such Act. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6200 |
| 96-hr-6212 | 96 | hr | 6212 | A bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require each State to provide for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within that State, to authorize States to enter into agreements or compacts with other States for the establishment of regional disposal sites for low-level radioactive waste, and to provide financial assistance to the States in which such sites are located, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-12-20 | 1979-12-20 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Lujan, Manuel, Jr. [R-NM-1] | NM | R | L000506 | 8 | States that no license or permit issued under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 for any facility or activity which generates low-level radioactive waste may remain in effect, and no new licenses or permits for such activities may be issued or renewed unless the State in which the licensee or permittee is located has provided for the safe storage and disposal of all low-level radioactive waste generated in such State. Authorizes States to enter into agreements and compacts with other States for the establishment of facilities for the disposal of such wastes. Authorizes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to provide financial assistance to each State having such a facility to reimburse such State for costs incurred in the preconstruction activities involved in establishing such a facility. Requires that such facilities collect a fee for the receipt of such wastes set at a level necessary to amortize the full costs of construction and operation of the facility over its useful life. | 2024-02-07T13:32:55Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6212 |
| 96-hr-6196 | 96 | hr | 6196 | A bill to implement the recommendations for Federal action by the Interagency Task Force on Mono Lake, California. | Environmental Protection | 1979-12-19 | 1979-12-19 | Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. | House | Rep. Shumway, Norman D. [R-CA-14] | CA | R | S000393 | 3 | Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management, and with the California Department of Fish and Game, to conduct a research program on the environmental effects on the Mono Basin, California and Nevada, of activities recommended by the Interagency Task Force on Mono Lake. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay one-third of the costs of Los Angeles, until September 30, 1985, for purchasing water to replace water formerly obtained from Mono Lake. | 2024-02-07T13:32:55Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6196 |
| 96-hr-6125 | 96 | hr | 6125 | A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act. | Environmental Protection | 1979-12-13 | 1979-12-13 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Devine, Samuel L. [R-OH-12] | OH | R | D000279 | 0 | Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt the underground injection of natural gas for storage purposes from being regulated under such Act. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6125 |
| 96-hr-6139 | 96 | hr | 6139 | A bill to amend title XIV of the Public Health Service Act to authorize States with primary enforcement responsibility for drinking water standards to grant variances from turbidity requirements for certain public water systems. | Environmental Protection | 1979-12-13 | 1979-12-13 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Traxler, Bob [D-MI-8] | MI | D | T000356 | 0 | Amends the drinking water provisions of the Public Health Service Act to authorize a State with primary enforcement responsibility for drinking water standards to grant variances from turbidity requirements to public water systems within their jurisdictions upon a finding that due to compelling factors, including economic factors, the public system is unable to comply with such requirements with respect to not more than one percent of the users of such system and the granting of such variance will not result in an unreasonable risk to health. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6139 |
| 96-hr-6116 | 96 | hr | 6116 | A bill to amend section 202 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to provide for the licensing of facilities for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel, transuranic wastes, and high-level radioactive wastes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-12-12 | 1979-12-12 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Udall, Morris K. [D-AZ-2] | AZ | D | U000001 | 0 | Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to provide for the licensing of storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel, transuranic wastes, and high-level radioactive wastes. | 2024-02-07T13:32:55Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6116 |
| 96-hr-6090 | 96 | hr | 6090 | A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-12-11 | 1979-12-11 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Gramm, Phil [D-TX-6] | TX | D | G000365 | 0 | Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt from applicable Federal regulations any State having in effect a law, rule, or regulation applicable to underground injection control related to the production or recovery of oil or natural gas unless the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency finds that such law, rule, or regulation fails to protect underground sources of drinking water. Provides that any State for which such finding is made may amend its law, rule, or regulation in order to benefit from such exemption where approved by the Administrator. Exempts from the Federal underground injection well permit requirements any State having in effect such law, rule, or regulation approved by the Administrator. Amends the definition of "underground injection" to exclude the underground injection of natural gas for purposes of storage. Exempts from the administrative procedure and judicial review requirements of the United States Code any action relating to national interim primary drinking water regulations, revised national primary drinking water regulations, and regulations for State underground injection control programs, except as expressly provided by this Act. Directs the Administrator to establish a docket for such actions, and sets forth notice and public and agency commenting requirements for any proposed rulemaking. Sets forth procedures and other requirements for promulgating rules concerning drinking water regulations, and establishes procedures for judicial review of such actions. Amends the definition of "primary drinking water regulation" to revise the standard for the promulgation of such regulations, and makes conforming amendments as necessary. Amends such definition to delete the provision calling for the specification of treatment techniques for those contaminants for which it is not feasible to establish maximum levels, and deletes subsequent references to treatment technique requirements. Requires any State having primary enforcement responsibility to submit notice to the Admini… | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6090 |
| 96-hr-6094 | 96 | hr | 6094 | A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide that the underground injection of natural gas for purposes of storage will not be regulated by the Act. | Environmental Protection | 1979-12-11 | 1979-12-11 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Luken, Thomas A. [D-OH-2] | OH | D | L000508 | 53 | Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to exempt the underground injection of natural gas for storage purposes from regulation under such Act. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6094 |
| 96-hr-6013 | 96 | hr | 6013 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to revise the allotment formula for grants for construction of treatment works. | Environmental Protection | 1979-12-04 | 1979-12-04 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Beard, Edward [D-RI-2] | RI | D | B000279 | 1 | Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to revise the allotment formula for grants to States for treatment works construction for fiscal years 1980 and 1981. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6013 |
| 96-hr-5923 | 96 | hr | 5923 | A bill to amend the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require the Secretary of Energy or the Secretary of Defense to notify State legislatures whenever construction of a radioactive waste storage facility in a State is proposed and to permit a State legislature to disapprove of the use of any site within the jurisdiction of the State for radioactive waste storage. | Environmental Protection | 1979-11-16 | 1979-11-16 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Carr, Bob [D-MI-6] | MI | D | C000178 | 1 | Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of the 1974 and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require the Secretaries of Energy and Defense to notify State legislatures whenever construction of of a radioactive waste storage facility in a State is proposed, and to permit such State legislatures to disapprove of the use of any such site within the jurisdiction of such State. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit the issuance of a permit or license for the construction of a radioactive waste disposal facility at a site in a State if the State legislature of such State has disapproved of the use of such site for that purpose. Prohibits the issuance of a license or permit to the Secretaries of Energy and Defense for the construction of a radioactive waste storage facility unless the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has complied with the notification requirements described above. | 2025-06-06T14:17:56Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5923 |
| 96-hr-5849 | 96 | hr | 5849 | A bill to amend title I of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize a demonstration project for the reclamation of the Hudson River. | Environmental Protection | 1979-11-08 | 1979-11-08 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Stratton, Samuel S. [D-NY-28] | NY | D | S000997 | 4 | Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to enter into agreements with the State of New York for a demonstration project for the removal of polychlorinated biphenyls from the Hudson River and storing such toxic substances in secure landfills. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to the State for 75 percent of the costs of such project. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5849 |
| 96-hr-5809 | 96 | hr | 5809 | A bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to authorize States to enter into agreements or compacts with other States for the establishment of regional disposal sites for low-level radioactive waste, to establish certain rules respecting the ownership of low-level radioactive waste, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-11-07 | 1979-11-07 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Derrick, Butler C. [D-SC-3] | SC | D | D000267 | 12 | Authorizes States to enter into agreements or compacts with other States for the establishment of a system of regional disposal sites to be used for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within such region. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to direct the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue rules concerning the ownership of low-level radioactive waste. | 2024-02-07T13:32:55Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5809 |
| 96-hr-5819 | 96 | hr | 5819 | Low Level Radioactive Waste Storage and Technology Demonstration Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-11-07 | 1979-11-07 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. McCormack, Mike [D-WA-4] | WA | D | M000365 | 6 | Low-Level Radioactive Waste Storage and Technology Demonstration Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish, operate, and maintain at least nine but no more than 14 low-level radioactive waste repositories located at appropriate sites in the continental United States; (2) recover the costs of operating and maintaining the repositories from fees charged for disposing of low-level radioactive wastes in or by such repositories; and (3) establish a research and development program associated with new and improved methods for the concentration, solidification, and safe storage of low-level radioactive wastes and their residues. | 2025-09-02T13:54:01Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5819 |
| 96-hr-5790 | 96 | hr | 5790 | Hazardous Waste Response Fund Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-11-02 | 1979-11-02 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1] | NJ | D | F000215 | 42 | Hazardous Waste Response Fund Act of 1979 - States that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to oil or other pollution of navigable waters. Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to establish a hazardous waste response program for dealing with emergencies involving the release or threat of release of hazardous waste into the environment from sites now regulated under Federal law. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to take such emergency response actions as determined to be immediately necessary to prevent or minimize any harm to public health or the environment when any hazardous waste is released or is threatened to be released into the environment. Stipulates that where the Administrator determines that the owner or operator of such site, the generator of such waste, any other person responsible for such release or threatened release, or the State or local government concerned, will take such emergency actions, the Administrator shall not exercise such emergency response authority. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, State or local governments to undertake such emergency actions where it is determined that such entities have the capability to carry out those actions. Sets forth the types of emergency actions which are authorized. Authorizes the Administrator to remove, contain, and clean up hazardous waste at or associated with any hazardous waste site which may present a danger to public health or the environment. Directs the Administrator not to exercise such authority if he determines that the owner or operator of such site, the generator of waste treated, stored or disposed of at such site, any other person responsible for such site, or the State or local government concerned, will take the action referred to in this paragraph. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, State or local governments to undertake such actions where it is determine… | 2025-09-02T13:54:00Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5790 |
| 96-hr-5749 | 96 | hr | 5749 | Hazardous Waste Response Fund Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-10-31 | 1979-10-31 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Florio, James J. [D-NJ-1] | NJ | D | F000215 | 1 | Hazardous Waste Response Fund Act of 1979 - States that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to oil or other pollution of navigable waters. Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to establish a hazardous waste response program for dealing with emergencies involving the release or threat of release of hazardous waste into the environment from sites now regulated under Federal law. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to take such emergency response actions as determined to be immediately necessary to prevent or minimize any harm to public health or the environment when any hazardous waste is released or threatened to be released into the environment. Stipulates that where the Administrator determines that the owner or operator of such site, the generator of such waste, any other person responsible for such release or threatened release, or the State or local government concerned, will take such emergency actions, the Administrator shall not exercise such emergency response authority. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, State or local governments to undertake such emergency actions where such entities have the capability to carry out those actions. Sets forth the types of authorized emergency actions. Authorizes the Administrator to remove, contain, and clean up hazardous waste at or associated with any hazardous waste site which may present a danger to public health or the environment. Directs the Administrator not to exercise such authority if he determines that the owner or operator of such site, the generator of waste treated, stored or disposed of at such site, any other person responsible for such site, or the State or local government concerned, will take action referred to in this paragraph. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with, State or local governments to undertake such actions where such entities have the capability to carry out those ac… | 2025-09-02T13:54:01Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5749 |
| 96-hr-5764 | 96 | hr | 5764 | Acid Precipitation Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-10-31 | 1979-10-31 | Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology. | House | Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-36] | NY | D | L000556 | 11 | Acid Precipitation Act of 1979 - Establishes an Acid Precipitation Task Force to prepare a comprehensive plan of action to ameliorate the harmful effects of acid precipitation within ten years. Requires such plan to focus the combined efforts of the private and public sectors on such problem. Sets forth the composition of such Force, including representatives from specified Federal agencies. Sets forth the elements of such plan, including programs for: (1) establishing and operating a nationwide monitoring network; (2) identifying and measuring the sources of such precipitation; (3) understanding the airborne chemistry responsible for such precipitation; (4) assessing economic, social, health, and environmental impacts; (5) effecting scientific interchanges with appropriate foreign countries; (6) documenting all current Federal activities relevant to the problem; (7) considering various regulatory and nonregulatory solutions; (8) establishing performance evaluations standards; (9) describing a role for affected and contributing states. Makes such plan the basis for determining goals and establishing diplomatic initiatives and bilateral treaties with other countries involved in acid precipitation programs. Requires the submission of such plan to Congress one year after the enactment and annually thereafter. Authorizes appropriations for the implementation of this Act for ten fiscal years. Stipulates that such funds be appropriated and administered through the Environmental Protection Agency. | 2025-09-02T13:54:00Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5764 |
| 96-hr-5767 | 96 | hr | 5767 | A bill to amend title I of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize a demonstration project for the reclamation of the Hudson River. | Environmental Protection | 1979-10-31 | 1979-10-31 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Stratton, Samuel S. [D-NY-28] | NY | D | S000997 | 1 | Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to enter into agreements with the State of New York for a demonstration project for the removal of polychlorinated biphenyls from the Hudson River and storing such toxic substances in secure landfills. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to the State for 75 percent of the costs of such project. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5767 |
| 96-hr-5675 | 96 | hr | 5675 | A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to change the requirements for establishing national primary drinking water regulations, to require the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study of the health effects of barium and radium in drinking water, to suspend the standards for barium and radium pending the completion of the study, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-10-23 | 1979-10-23 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. McClory, Robert [R-IL-13] | IL | R | M000340 | 2 | Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to change the criteria for establishing national primary drinking water regulations from requiring that such regulations specify contaminants "which pose a substantial health hazard." Makes such amendment applicable only to primary drinking water regulations promulgated or amended after November 1, 1979. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study of any health effects which result from exposure to barium, barium ion, radium, or any combination thereof, in concentrations greater than the maximum level specified in the interim regulations. Requires that a report of such study be submitted to Congress. Directs the Administrator to promulgate a revised national primary drinking water regulation for such substances following completion of such study. Exempts from the application of such regulation any drinking water system which serves an area in which barium, barium ion, or radium from natural sources exceeds the maximum contaminant level specified in such regulation. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5675 |
| 96-hr-5676 | 96 | hr | 5676 | A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide for a study of the health effects of barium and radium in drinking water and to suspend the national interim primary drinking water standards for such contaminants pending the completion of such study and the promulgation of new standards for such contaminants. | Environmental Protection | 1979-10-23 | 1979-10-23 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. McClory, Robert [R-IL-13] | IL | R | M000340 | 2 | Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study of any health effects which result from exposure to barium, barium ion, radium, or any combination thereof, in concentrations greater than the maximum level specified in the interim regulations. Requires that a report of such study be submitted to Congress. Directs the Administrator to promulgate a revised national primary drinking water regulation for such substances following completion of such study. Exempts from the application of such regulation any drinking water system which serves an area in which barium, barium ion, or radium from natural sources exceeds the maximum contaminant level specified in such regulation. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5676 |
| 96-hr-5679 | 96 | hr | 5679 | A bill to provide for additional authorization for appropriations for the Tinicum National Environmental Center. | Environmental Protection | 1979-10-23 | 1980-05-19 | Measure laid on table in House, S. 2382 passed in lieu. | House | Rep. Murphy, John M. [D-NY-17] | NY | D | M001098 | 4 | (Measure passed House, amended) Amends the Act establishing the Tinicum National Environmental Center in Pennsylvania to authorize additional appropriations for such Center. | 2021-06-14T19:37:05Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5679 |
| 96-hr-5668 | 96 | hr | 5668 | A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to engage in feasibility studies of certain potential water resource and water quality developments in Contra Costa County, California, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-10-22 | 1979-10-22 | Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. | House | Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7] | CA | D | M000725 | 0 | Authorizes feasibility studies by the Secretary of the Interior of the following projects in California: (1) the relocation of the intake of the Contra Costa County Water District canal; (2) pump-generating plant at the Los Vaqueros Dam; and (3) revisions in the study of the Kellogg Unit. Requires the Secretary to make recommendations to Congress to assure the nondeterioration of the water quality and ecology of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta or the San Francisco Bay estuarine system as a result of such projects. | 2024-02-07T13:32:55Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5668 |
| 96-hr-5617 | 96 | hr | 5617 | Hazardous Waste Disposal Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-10-17 | 1979-10-17 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Findley, Paul [R-IL-20] | IL | R | F000123 | 0 | Hazardous Waste Disposal Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to set forth criteria upon which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is to base performance standards for owners and operators of hazardous waste facilities, including: (1) the utilization of recycling, where feasible; (2) the detoxification and use of other techniques for making hazardous wastes environmentally acceptable where recycling is not feasible; and (3) the incineration of such wastes or its storage and disposal in a landfill only when treatment or disposal would not be environmentally acceptable and where recycling would not be feasible. Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to add provisions requiring States to prepare an inventory of each site within each State at which hazardous waste has been stored or disposed of. Requires that such inventories contain descriptions of the locations of such sites; information relating to the amount, nature and toxicity of the waste at such sites; the name and address or corporate headquarters of the owners of each such site; an identification of the treatment techniques used; and information as to the current status of the site. Authorizes the States conducting such inventories to inspect such sites and to have the same rights of access as States having an authorized hazardous waste program. Sets forth requirements for the establishment of standards relating to the location of hazardous waste facilities, including the prohibition against locating such facilities in close proximity to inhabited areas. Directs the Administrator to develop a site classification system to reflect the suitability of various different types of sites for storage, treatment, or disposal of hazardous waste classified according to specified characteristics. Requires that after the effective date of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, each hazardous waste facility be located on Federally-owned lands or on State-owned lands in the case of a State having an authorized program, which meets the standards established … | 2025-09-02T13:53:56Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5617 |
| 96-hr-5618 | 96 | hr | 5618 | A bill to insure the minimum degree of economic disturbance in the agricultural sector of the economy consistent with protection of the public health and welfare, by clarifying the administrative standards to be used in determining when secondary ambient air quality standards have been met in areas with rural fugitive dust. | Environmental Protection | 1979-10-17 | 1979-10-17 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA-3] | IA | R | G000386 | 0 | Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit including concentrations of rural fugitive dust when determining whether or not an implementation plan meets the requirements of the Act with respect to national secondary ambient air quality standards for total suspended particulates. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5618 |
| 96-hr-5577 | 96 | hr | 5577 | Ixtoc I Oil Pollution Compensation Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-10-12 | 1979-10-12 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Wyatt, Joe, Jr. [D-TX-14] | TX | D | W000777 | 16 | Ixtoc I Oil Pollution Compensation Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to compensate U.S. claimants for economic losses resulting from oil pollution from the blowout of Ixtoc I in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico. Sets forth the procedure for making such claims or settling such claims. Permits a claimant, whose claim is denied or not settled within 60 days of presentation, to commence a district court action against the Secretary in lieu of resubmitting such claim to the Secretary for a decision. Prohibits claimants receiving compensation from recovering under any other Federal or State law for the same injury. Permits States to impose additional requirements or liability. Directs the Secretary to make a grant to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for the construction and operation of a saltwater fish hatchery. Stipulates that the amount of compensation payable to Texas shall be reduced by the amount of such grant. | 2025-09-02T13:53:56Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5577 |
| 96-hr-5504 | 96 | hr | 5504 | Cigarette Safety Act | Environmental Protection | 1979-10-05 | 1979-10-05 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Moakley, John Joseph [D-MA-9] | MA | D | M000834 | 19 | Cigarette Safety Act - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission to prescribe regulations to ensure that any cigarette or little cigar will stop burning within five minutes if it is not smoked during that time, effective January 1, 1981. Prohibits the manufacture of cigarettes or little cigars which are not in accord with such regulations. Sets forth criminal penalties for violations. Gives jurisdiction to U.S. district courts to restrain such violations. Exempts from such regulations cigarettes and little cigars manufactured for export or for consumption beyond the jurisdiction of internal revenue laws (except for those manufactured for sale or distribution to the U.S. Armed Forces). | 2025-09-02T13:53:55Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5504 |
| 96-hr-5390 | 96 | hr | 5390 | Pacific Southwest Water Yield and Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-09-25 | 1979-09-25 | Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. | House | Rep. Udall, Morris K. [D-AZ-2] | AZ | D | U000001 | 0 | Pacific Southwest Water Yield and Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1979 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make loans to persons and local organizations for the implementation of water yield improvement plans on lands located in the Colorado River Basin. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to tribal organizations for the implementation of such plans on reservation lands located in the Colorado River Basin and owned or controlled by such organizations. Sets forth requirements for applying for such assistance and the terms and conditions thereof. Describes the necessary components of water yield improvement plans. Conditions the making of loans or grants above specified limits upon the submission by the Secretary to appropriate Federal, State, and local government agencies and to the public of an environmental evaluation equivalent to an environmental impact statement as required by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Sets forth the manner of distribution of funds for loans and grants authorized by this Act. Requires that the administration of this Act and plans for and execution of water yield improvement practices hereunder shall be as consistent as is practicable with the provisions of the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954, the National Forest Management Act of 1976, the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, and other land management laws. | 2025-09-02T13:53:51Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5390 |
| 96-hr-5356 | 96 | hr | 5356 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the payment of claims resulting from the oil spill at Ixtoc I, Bay of Campeche, Mexico, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-09-20 | 1979-09-20 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Wyatt, Joe, Jr. [D-TX-14] | TX | D | W000777 | 0 | Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to entitle U.S. claimants to recover specified damages caused by the oil spill in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, from the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating. Permits such claimants to file an action to recover damages if the Secretary denies their damages. Increases the authorization of appropriations to the revolving fund established to carry out the clean up provisions. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5356 |
| 96-hr-5338 | 96 | hr | 5338 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the payment of claims resulting from the oil spill at Ixtoc I, Bay of Campeche, Mexico, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-09-19 | 1980-06-17 | Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. | House | Rep. Roberts, Ray [D-TX-4] | TX | D | R000312 | 2 | (Measure passed House, amended) Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to entitle U.S. claimants to recover specified damages caused by the oil spill in the Bay of Campeche, Mexico, from the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating. Permits such claimants to file an action to recover damages if the Secretary denies their damages. | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5338 |
| 96-hr-5290 | 96 | hr | 5290 | Environmental Emergency Response Act | Environmental Protection | 1979-09-14 | 1979-09-14 | Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. | House | Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-36] | NY | D | L000556 | 0 | Environmental Emergency Response Act - Defines containment as the onsite actions taken in the event of a discharge or release or significant threat of discharge or release of a hazardous substance from a hazardous substance disposal site to prevent or minimize such discharge or release. Defines hazardous substance as: (1) any hazardous substance so designated by the Clean Water Act; (2) any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified under or listed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (3) any toxic pollutant listed under the Clean Water Act; (4) any hazardous air pollutant listed under the Clean Air Act; (5) any imminently hazardous chemical substance or mixture as defined by the Toxic Substances Control Act; (6) any substance or mixture designated as a hazardous substance by the President pursuant to this Act; or (7) any element, substance, compound, or mixture which after release into the environment and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation or assimilation into any organism, directly or indirectly, will or may reasonably be anticipated to cause death, physical or behavioral malfunction or disease. Directs the President to promulgate and revise regulations designating as hazardous substances, in addition to those defined above, such elements and compounds which, if released in a determined quantity into the environment, may present substantial danger to the public health or environment. Prohibits the discharge of any hazardous substance in violation of the Clean Water Act or the release or disposal of such substances which may affect the natural resources belonging to, appertaining to, or under the exclusive management authority of the United States. Directs any person in charge of any vessel or onshore or offshore facility which is discharging, releasing, or disposing of a hazarous substance to immediately notify the appropriate agency of the United States Government of such discharge, release, or disposal. Establishes criminal penalties for failing to provide such notice. Requires any person s… | 2025-09-02T13:53:47Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5290 |
| 96-hr-5291 | 96 | hr | 5291 | Hazardous Waste Control and Toxic Tort Act of l979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-09-14 | 1979-09-14 | Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary. | House | Rep. LaFalce, John J. [D-NY-36] | NY | D | L000556 | 0 | Hazardous Waste Control and Toxic Tort Act of 1979 - Title I: Establishment of Monitoring and Reclamation Program - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to identify and monitor specified hazardous waste disposal sites. Authorizes States to establish and submit for the Administrator's approval programs for the maintenance and reclamation of such sites, including plans for the removal and disposal of in-place toxic pollutants presenting an imminent hazard to the environment or to human health. Sets forth criteria for such State programs based on the nature of the current use of such sites and the existence of applicable regulations already in effect. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to States having programs approved by the Administrator. Authorizes States, pursuant to approved State programs, to enter, study, and acquire any land adversely affected by hazardous waste at abandoned hazardous waste disposal sites and to do all things necessary to restore, reclaim, abate, control, or prevent such adverse effects if such action is required in the public interest. Specifies conditions under which a State may acquire such lands. Authorizes the sale of such acquired lands after restoration and reclamation has been accomplished where such lands are deemed to be suitable for specified uses. Directs a State to record a lien against lands not acquired by the State for moneys expended to restore, reclaim or prevent adverse effects of hazardous waste disposal on such lands. Authorizes the Administrator to establish and implement programs for maintenance and reclamation of such sites in the event a State fails to receive program approval within one year of enactment of this Act. Stipulates that such Federal programs that such Federal programs shall remain in effect until the approval of a State program. Authorizes the Administrator to provide assistance in specified emergencies caused by the release into the environment of any… | 2025-09-02T13:53:49Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5291 |
| 96-hr-5206 | 96 | hr | 5206 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to make certain modifications in provisions relating to automobile emission control devices and fuel additives, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-09-07 | 1979-09-07 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Abdnor, James [R-SD-2] | SD | R | A000009 | 3 | Amends the Clean Air Act to stipulate that no motor vehicle emission standard promulgated under such Act shall apply to any motor vehicle which will be used predominantly in an area in which the reduction of motor vehicle emissions is not necessary to meet national ambient air quality standards. Stipulates that the Administration of the Environmental Protection Agency may not control or prohibit the sale of any fuel, class of fuels, or fuel additive if the Administrator determines that: (1) such product will be predominantly used in an area in which the reduction of motor vehicle emissions is not necessary in order to meet national ambient air quality standards; and (2) the use of such a product will not significantly impair the performance of any emission control device in the motor vehicle in which the product will be used. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5206 |
| 96-hr-5074 | 96 | hr | 5074 | Toxic Substance Pollution Victim Compensation Act | Environmental Protection | 1979-08-02 | 1979-08-02 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Brodhead, William [D-MI-17] | MI | D | B000862 | 0 | Toxic Substance Pollution Victim Compensation Act - Establishes, as an independent agency of the Federal Government, the Administrative Board for Compensation of Victims of Toxic Substance Pollution (hereinafter referred to as the ABC). Sets forth the powers and duties of the ABC regarding the compilation and dissemination of data on deaths, diseases, and injuries related to toxic substances, the designation of toxic substances and diseases related thereto, the procedure for compensating victims of toxic substance pollution, and the promulgation of rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Establishes the Office of the Ombudsman for Compensation of Victims of Toxic Substance Pollution. Sets forth the powers and duties of the Ombudsman regarding complaint procedures, compulsory process, investigations, and recommendations to the ABC concerning its rules, regulations, findings, and compensation awards. Directs the Internal Revenue Service to collect a pollution charge from each manufacturer of a toxic substance to be used to defray the costs of operating the ABC and the Office of the Ombudsman. Directs the ABC to establish risk levels for each toxic substance and to correlate a graduated pollution levy to the established risk categories. Exempts Federal agencies and the United States Armed Forces from such pollution levels. Entitles victims of toxic substance pollution, or the survivors of such victims, to specified compensation, medical benefits, rehabilitation services, and disability or death benefits. Directs the ABC to authorize specific physicians in every State to report cases of toxic substance poisoning, maintain certain records, post a list of toxic substance related diseases, and participate in specialized training and conferences. Imposes strict liability on manufacturers of toxic substances for injuries resulting from toxic substance pollution. Requires the ABC to promulgate, through rules and regulations, forms and procedures for the filing of claims regarding symptoms rel… | 2025-09-02T13:53:42Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5074 |
| 96-hr-4979 | 96 | hr | 4979 | A bill to establish minimum periods of time for the issuance of permits under section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to drilling for oil or gas, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-07-26 | 1979-07-26 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Treen, David C. [R-LA-3] | LA | R | T000362 | 0 | Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to expand the time for the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to comment upon permit applications received by a State for the discharge of dredged or fill material at specified sites. Establishes time periods within which the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, must act upon permits relating to drilling for oil or gas. Makes this Act retroactive for applications submitted, but not yet acted upon, before the date of enactment. | 2024-02-07T16:02:17Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4979 |
| 96-hr-4944 | 96 | hr | 4944 | Home Health and Safety Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-07-24 | 1979-07-24 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Jacobs, Andrew, Jr. [D-IN-11] | IN | D | J000033 | 1 | Home Health and Safety Act of 1979 - Prohibits manufacturers of cigarettes or little cigars for sale or distribution in commerce from adding substances which permit the continued burning of such cigarettes or little cigars if left unattended. Sets a fine of not more than $10,000 for a violation of this Act. Grants district courts jurisdiction to restrain such violations upon application by the Attorney General. | 2025-09-02T13:53:41Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4944 |
| 96-hr-4841 | 96 | hr | 4841 | Endangered Species Act Amendments of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-07-18 | 1979-07-18 | Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. | House | Rep. Beard, Robin [R-TN-6] | TN | R | B000280 | 0 | Endangered Species Act Amendments of 1979 - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to redefine the term irresolvable conflict to mean, with respect to any action authorized, funded, or carried out by a Federal agency, a set of circumstances under which completion of such action is likely to jeopardize the continued existence of an endangered or threatened species. Extends from 120 days to 225 days the period of time following the date of publication of any emergency regulation, set forth by the Secretary of Interior to carry out the purpose of this Act, that such regulation shall have force and effect unless the rulemaking procedures which apply to such regulation are complied with. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to rescind an emergency regulation during the 225-day period if it is determined on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data available that substantial evidence does not exist to warrant the continuation of such regulation. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, within 90 days after it is determined that any Federal agency action is likely to jeopardize the existence of a species for which a regulation has been proposed recommending the listing of such species as an endangered species or if such action is likely to adversely modify such species habitat, to: (1) publish in the Federal Register a final regulation adding such species or critical habitat to the endangered species list; or (2) withdraw the proposed regulation recommending such listing. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish guidelines to ensure that such action is administered as efficiently and effectively as possible; and (2) submit an annual report to Congress on the development and operation of such guidelines. Requires any Federal agency which desires to obtain a permanent exemption, from the provisions of the Act, to conduct a biological assessment for the purposes of identifying any listed or proposed endangered or threatened species which is likely to be affected by such action. | 2025-09-02T13:53:40Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4841 |
| 96-hr-4818 | 96 | hr | 4818 | Nuclear Waste Terminal Storage and Technology Demonstration Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-07-17 | 1979-07-17 | Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology. | House | Rep. Dannemeyer, William E. [R-CA-39] | CA | R | D000044 | 10 | Nuclear Waste Terminal Storage and Technology Demonstration Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Energy, after consultation with the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies and after reporting to Congress, to select a site from within three specified candidate areas to serve as the site for a Federal Technology Demonstration Repository for the disposal of nuclear waste. Directs the Secretary to authorize the design, site-specific geologic survey and subsequent construction of the repository. Sets forth procedures for the delivery of nuclear waste to such repository. | 2025-09-02T13:53:36Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4818 |
| 96-hr-4731 | 96 | hr | 4731 | 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, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-07-10 | 1979-07-10 | Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs. | House | Rep. White, Richard C. [D-TX-16] | TX | D | W000390 | 2 | Amends the Clean Air Act to direct the President to enter into treaties or other agreements with countries contiguous to the United States for the purpose of air pollution control in border areas. Directs the Secretary of State to take appropriate diplomatic actions to reduce or eliminate air pollution adversely affecting any area of the United States and originating in another country. 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. | 2024-02-07T11:38:03Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4731 |
| 96-hr-4658 | 96 | hr | 4658 | A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act with respect to certain utility waste, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-06-28 | 1979-06-28 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Findley, Paul [R-IL-20] | IL | R | F000123 | 0 | Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to study and report on the adverse effects; if any, on human health and the environment of the disposal and utilization of fly ash waste, bottom ash waste, slag waste, flue gas emission control waste, and other byproducts of the combustion of coal or other fossil fuels. Sets forth a number of items to be included in the required analysis. Requires the Administrator to consult other Federal and State agencies in connection with the analysis in order to avoid duplication of effort. Extends until six months after completion of the required study the time for the promulgation pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, of regulations identifying the hazardous characteristics of those waste products which are the subject of this Act. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4658 |
| 96-hr-4557 | 96 | hr | 4557 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to provide for certain temporary emergency suspensions of applicable implementation plan provisions for periods of five years in the case of certain fuel burning stationary sources, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-06-21 | 1979-06-21 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Applegate, Douglas [D-OH-18] | OH | D | A000214 | 1 | Amends the Clean Air Act, with regard to State implementation plans for national primary ambient air quality standards, to authorize the President, as well as the Governor of a State, 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 imports can be reduced by the emergency suspension. Requires such suspension to remain in effect for a maximum of five years, or longer as the owner or operator of such source may persuade the suspension issuer as reasonable. 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. Limits any suspension for violation of any national ambient air quality standard to not more than four months. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4557 |
| 96-hr-4566 | 96 | hr | 4566 | Oil, Hazardous Substances, and Hazardous Waste Response, Liability, and Compensation Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-06-21 | 1979-06-21 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Johnson, Harold T. [D-CA-1] | CA | D | J000135 | 2 | Oil, Hazardous Substances, and Hazardous Waste Response, Liability, and Compensation Act of 1979 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to grant subpoena power to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Attorney General for purposes of administering or enforcing the hazardous waste management provisions of such Act. Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to add a new title VI, Oil, Hazardous Substances, and Hazardous Response, Liability, Compensation, and Fund. Directs the Administrator to revise and promulgate regulations which designate certain substances as hazardous. Directs the Administrator to determine the quantities of oil and any hazardous substance which would be harmful to the public health or safety, or the environment if released. Prohibits the release of such substances in such quantities except: (1) where permitted under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil or other international agreements; or (2) where permitted by regulation. Requires any person in charge of a vessel or facility who has knowledge of any release of oil or hazardous substance from such vessel or facility to notify the United States Government immediately. Establishes criminal penalties for failure to provide notice of a release of such substances. Requires any person who may be subject to liability for an uncontrolled hazardous waste disposal site to notify the Administrator of the location and risk of release of hazardous substances from such site within a specified time period. Eliminates the limitation of liability otherwise provided in this title for persons who fail to provide such notice. Empowers the Administrator, in the event of a release, to deduct reasonable costs from the liability of any person who acts to remove, mitigate, or lessen the likelihood of a release. Prohibits the destruction or concealment by anyone subject to the notification provisions of this section of any records relating to an uncontrolled hazardous waste disposal site. Subjec… | 2025-09-02T13:53:30Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4566 |
| 96-hr-4571 | 96 | hr | 4571 | Oil, Hazardous Substances, and Hazardous Waste Response, Liability, and Compensation Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-06-21 | 1979-06-21 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. | House | Rep. Staggers, Harley O. [D-WV-2] | WV | D | S000778 | 1 | Oil, Hazardous Substances, and Hazardous Waste Response, Liability, and Compensation Act of 1979 - Title I: Amendments to the Solid Waste Disposal Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to grant subpoena power to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Attorney General for purposes of administering or enforcing the hazardous waste management provisions of such Act. Title II: Oil, Hazardous Substance, and Hazardous Waste Response, Liability Compensation, and Fund - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to add a new title VI, Oil, Hazardous Substances, and Hazardous Response, Liability, Compensation and Fund. Directs the Administrator to revise and promulgate regulations which designate certain substances as hazardous. Directs the Administrator to determine the quantities of oil and any hazardous substance which would be harmful to the public health or safety, or to the environment if released. Prohibits the release of such substances in such quantities except: (1) where permitted under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil or other international agreements; or (2) where permitted by regulation. Requires any person in charge of a vessel or facility who has knowledge of any release of oil or hazardous substance from such vessel or facility to notify the United States Government immediately. Establishes criminal penalties for failure to provide notice of a release of such substances. Requires any person who may be subject to liability for an uncontrolled hazardous waste disposal site to notify the Administrator of the location and risk of release of hazardous substances from such site within a specified time-period. Eliminates the limitation of liability otherwise provided in this title for persons who fail to provide such notice. Empowers the Administrator, in the event of a release, to deduct reasonable costs from the liability of any person who acts to remove, mitigate, or lessen the likelihood of a release. Prohibits the destruction … | 2025-09-02T13:53:30Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4571 |
| 96-hr-4548 | 96 | hr | 4548 | Solid Waste Hazard Removal Act of 1979 | Environmental Protection | 1979-06-20 | 1979-06-20 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA-3] | IA | R | G000386 | 6 | Solid Waste Hazard Removal Act of 1979 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require the payment of a fee by a generator of any hazardous waste identified or listed under such Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue regulations identifying toxicity levels of each hazardous waste identified or listed under such Act and establishing fee scales payable by generators of such wastes. Terminates the fee payment provisions of this Act six years after the effective date of such regulations. Directs the Administrator to issue regulations requiring former and present owners and operators of specified hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facilities to file with the Administrator notification of the facility location, a description of the activity at such facility, and the identity and amount of each hazardous waste handled at such facility. Imposes criminal penalties for failure to file such notification. Authorizes the Administrator to inspect any facility for which notification is required and examine the facility's records to determine the existence of any hazardous waste presenting a substantial endangerment to life. Directs the Administrator to submit to the Hazardous Waste Response Board a report of such determination and directs such Board to prepare and submit to the Administrator for implementation a plan for the removal of the endangerment to life presented by such waste. Establishes the Hazardous Waste Response Board in the executive branch. Authorizes the Administrator to detail EPA personnel to assist such Board upon request. Sets forth the functions of such Board, and authorizes the Board to issue subpenas for the purposes of conducting and hearings held by the Board. Establishes in the United States Treasury a revolving fund into which fees collected pursuant to this Act shall be paid and authorizes the Administrator to use such fees to implement hazardous waste removal plans submitted by the Board. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for imple… | 2025-09-02T13:53:29Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4548 |
| 96-hr-4524 | 96 | hr | 4524 | A bill to require foreign ships carrying nuclear waste material which enter ports in the United States to provide prior notification to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1979-06-19 | 1979-06-19 | Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. | House | Rep. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI-2] | HI | D | A000069 | 0 | Amends the Ports and Waterways Safety Act to direct the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to promulgate regulations which require foreign vessels carrying nuclear waste material to notify the Commission prior to entry into a port in the United States. Directs the Commission to promptly transmit such notice to the Governor of the State in which such port is located. | 2021-06-14T19:32:32Z | https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/4524 |
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