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S. Rept. 114-276 1 (2016-06-14)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxsib0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP Calendar No. 518 114TH CONGRESS REPORT 2d Session SENATE 114-276 BROWNFIELDS UTILIZATION, INVESTMENT, AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2015 JUNE 14, 2016.-Ordered to be printed Mr. INHOFE, from the Committee on Environment and Public Works, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 1479] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Environment and Public Works to which was referred the bill (S. 1479) to amend the Comprehensive Environ- mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to mod- ify provisions relating to grants, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. GENERAL STATEMENTS AND BACKGROUND The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) (also known as the Super- fund law) was enacted to provide broad Federal authority to re- spond to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment, including provisions to help clean up the nation's worst contaminated sites and require responsible parties to pay for the cleanups. Currently, more than 1,300 contaminated sites are on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund program's National Priorities List. Brownfields are properties where the presence, or potential presence, of a hazardous substance complicates the expansion or redevelopment of the property. EPA estimates there are more than 450,000 brownfield sites across the country. Concern over CERCLA's strict joint and several liability provisions is one factor that inhibited cleanup at brownfield sites where the extent of con- tamination may have been unknown and where there was no viable 59-010

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