Background and Issues Relating to House Bills for Reauthorization and Financing of the Superfund: Scheduled for a Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means on May 9, 1985 |
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5640 as passed Administration proposal amended amount Antimony trioxide apply ardous waste Barium sulfide bill cents per barrel CERCLA Clean Water Act cleanup costs credit or refund crude oil Cuprous oxide disposal of hazardous excise tax exemption Federal feedstock chemicals financing hazardous waste disposal hazardous waste management hazardous waste received interim status land treatment land treatment units landfill Liability Trust Fund ment million National Priorities List ocean disposal Oil Pollution ous waste oxide paid percent permit petroleum tax Post-closure Liability Trust post-closure tax present law producer price index qualified hazardous waste RCRA regulations release repeal responsible parties September 30 specified storage subject to tax sulfuric acid Superfund program Superfund revenues surface impoundment SWDA tax on chemical tax on hazardous tax rates taxable hazardous waste taxable substances tion trust fund provisions waste management tax waste management unit waste pile waste-end tax xylene
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Page 53 - Commissioner in pursuance of law, unless it is shown that such failure is due to reasonable cause and not due to willful neglect, the addition to the tax shall not be less than $10.
Page 66 - disposal' means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters. "(4) The term 'Federal agency...
Page 17 - Control Act and those designated under CERCLA. Hazardous substances do not include petroleum (unless specifically designated as hazardous under these laws), or natural or synthetic gases. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is authorized to designate additional substances as hazardous if they present substantial danger to the public health or welfare or to the environment. CERCLA required the Federal government to develop a national list of sites (the National Priorities List) which are serious...
Page 15 - ... to demonstrate that there is no substantial likelihood that any migration offsite or release from confinement of any hazardous substance or other risk to public health or welfare will occur.
Page 12 - Except as provided in subsection (b), the term 'taxable chemical' means any substance — "(A) which is listed in the table under section 4661(b), and "(B) which is manufactured or produced in the United States or entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing. "(2) UNITED STATES. — The term 'United States' has the meaning given such term by section 4612(aX4).
Page 50 - Hazardous waste management unit is a contiguous area of land on or in which hazardous waste is placed, or the largest area in which there is significant likelihood of mixing hazardous waste constituents in the same area.
Page 68 - Act, the President shall, after notice and opportunity for public comments, revise and republish the national contingency plan for the removal of oil and hazardous substances...
Page 15 - ... purposes of judicial review. A request for additional information shall state in specific terms the data required. (3) In addition to the assumption of liability of owners and operators under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Post-closure Liability Fund established by section...
Page 43 - A bill to provide a comprehensive system of liability and compensation for oil spill damage and removal costs.
Page 11 - United States' means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico...