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To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to limit the portion of the Superfund expended for administration, oversight, support, studies, design,…

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To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to limit the portion of the Superfund expended for administration, oversight, support, studies, design, investigations, monitoring, assessment, and evaluation, and enforcement activities.

Introduced: June 26, 1997 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 14, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials.
Jul 10, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Jun 26, 1997
Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
Jun 26, 1997
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jun 26, 1997
Referred to House Commerce
Jun 26, 1997
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to limit the amount of Hazardous Substance Superfund expenditures for administration, oversight, support, studies, design, investigations, monitoring, assessment, evaluation, and enforcement activities to: (1) 25 percent of total Superfund monies in FY 1998 through 2000; and (2) 20 percent of such total in FY 2001 and thereafter.

Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to report to the Congress on any regulatory or statutory relief required to operate under such funding limitations.

What's happening now July 14, 1997

Referred to the Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1
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Graham, Lindsey
South Carolina · Jun 26, 1997
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2086: To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to limit the portion of the Superfund expended for administration, oversight, support, studies, design, investigations, monitoring, assessment, and evaluation, and enforcement activities.. 105th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-2086/
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"H.R. 2086: To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to limit the portion of the Superfund expended for administration, oversight, support, studies, design, investigations, monitoring, assessment, and evaluation, and enforcement activities.." 105th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-2086/.
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H.R. 2086, 105th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-2086/.
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