Recycle America's Land Act of 2001
Latest action · May 1, 2001 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E689)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 31, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Absolves of liability under CERCLA: (1) certain owners or operators, including heirs, specified treatment works, and owners or operators of rights-of-way; (2) certain non-owner/operators, including small businesses, landfills, de micromis contributors, and recyclers; and (4) contiguous property owners.
Limits the right to seek contribution from other parties in certain circumstances.
Revises provisions regarding settlements.
Establishes a liability allocation process for NPL facilities.
Reauthorizes appropriations to the Hazardous Substance Superfund through FY 2007.
Cosponsors 14
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 29, 2001 to Oct 2, 2001.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Calvin M. Dooley | Mar 29, 2001 | |
| D-MI | James A. Barcia | Mar 29, 2001 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Mar 29, 2001 | |
| R-WI | Thomas E. Petri | Mar 29, 2001 | |
| R-MI | Vernon J. Ehlers | Mar 29, 2001 | |
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Apr 4, 2001 | |
| R-NY | John M. McHugh | Apr 4, 2001 | |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | May 16, 2001 | |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | May 16, 2001 | |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | May 16, 2001 | |
| R-NY | Felix J. Grucci Jr. | May 16, 2001 | |
| R-NH | John E. Sununu | Jun 26, 2001 | |
| R-IL | Mark Kirk | Jun 26, 2001 | |
| R-IL | Judy Biggert | Oct 2, 2001 |
Withdrew 1 Nathan Deal R-GA Jun 14, 2001
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jan 31, 2001 |
| Environment and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee | Referred Feb 14, 2001 | |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Jan 31, 2001 |
| Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee | Referred Feb 1, 2001 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jan 31, 2001 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 1, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E689)
- Feb 14, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
- Feb 1, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Jan 31, 2001Introduced in House
- Jan 31, 2001Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means, 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.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to promote brownfields redevelopment, to reauthorize and reform the Superfund program, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Recycle America's Land Act of 2001
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Agriculture and Food
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Animal diseases
- Animals
- Auditing
- Authorization
- Battery recycling
- Brownfields
- Business records
- Buy American
- Cadmium
- Chemicals
- Citizen participation
- Civil actions and liability
- Claims
- Collection of accounts
- Commerce
- Community development
- Community organization
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Conservation of natural resources
- Construction industries
- Cost accounting
- Cost effectiveness
- Damages
- Data banks
- Decision making in public administration
- Department of Energy
- Depressed areas
- District courts
- Easements
- Economic development
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ecosystem management
- Electronic government information
- Emergency Management
- Endangered species
- Energy
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental health
- Environmental law enforcement
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental risk assessment
- Environmental technology
- Epidemiology
- Evidence (Law)
- Excise tax
- Executive Office of the President
- Executive reorganization
- Explosions
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal aid to medical research
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Federal installations
- Federal-city relations
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Feedstock
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Financial statements
- Fines (Penalties)
- Fire prevention
- Fires
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fraud
- Gifts
- Glass recycling
- Government contractors
- Government liability
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government statistics
- Government trust funds
- Grants-in-aid
- Groundwater
- Groundwater pollution
- Hazardous waste disposal
- Hazardous waste site remediation
- Hazardous wastes
- Health
- Health education
- Household hazardous wastes
- Housing and Community Development
- Indemnity
- Indian lands
- Indian medical care
- Infrastructure
- Injunctions
- Insect control
- Interest
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Judicial review of administrative acts
- Jurisdiction
- Labor and Employment
- Land transfers
- Land use
- Landfills
- Law
- Lead
- Legal fees
- Liability for environmental damages
- Liability for oil pollution
- Liability for toxic substances pollution damages
- Licenses
- Liens
- Limitation of actions
- Livestock
- Loans
- Local laws
- Medical records
- Medical statistics
- Mine wastes
- Minorities
- Minority employment
- Municipal finance
- Municipal politics and government
- Municipal solid waste
- Negligence
- Nickel
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nuclear facilities
- Ombudsman
- Paper recycling
- Pest control
- Pesticides
- Petroleum
- Petroleum recycling
- Plant protection
- Plastics recycling
- Pollution taxes
- Potable water
- Preventive medicine
- Public health
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public meetings of administrative bodies
- Public records
- Punitive damages
- Radioactive wastes
- Railroads
- Raw materials
- Recreation areas
- Recycling of waste products
- Research grants
- Revolving funds
- Right-of-way
- Rubber
- Rural health
- Safety measures
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scrap metals
- Service stations
- Settlement costs
- Sewage sludge
- Sewage treatment
- Sewage treatment plants
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- Sports and Recreation
- Standards
- State laws
- Surveys
- Tax rates
- Tax-exempt organizations
- Taxation
- Technological innovations
- Textile fabrics
- Toxicology
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation of hazardous substances
- Urban affairs
- Water pollution control
- Water quality
- Water Resources Development
- Water use
- Wells
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 31, 2001Introduced in House
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