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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 213
115TH CONGRESS SEAT REPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-148
BROWNFIELDS UTILIZATION, INVESTMENT, AND LOCAL
DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2017
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 822]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works to which was
referred the bill (S. 822) 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 with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute and recommends that the bill, as
amended, 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-
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