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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR PROVISIONS OF THE SUPERFUND AMENDMENTS AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1986 WHICH DID NOT AMEND EXISTING LAWS 1

TITLE I-PROVISIONS RELATING PRIMARILY TO RESPONSE AND

Sec. 118. Miscellaneous provisions.

Sec. 120. Federal facilities.

Sec. 121. Cleanup standards.

LIABILITY

Sec. 126. Worker protection standards.

TITLE II-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Sec. 205. Cleanup of petroleum from leaking underground storage tanks.

Sec. 209. Research, development, and demonstration.

Sec. 211. Department of Defense environmental restoration program.
Sec. 213. Love Canal property acquisition.

TITLE III-EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW Sec. 300. Short title; table of contents.

Subtitle A-Emergency Planning and Notification

Sec. 301. Establishment of State commissions, planning districts, and local committees.

Sec. 302. Substances and facilities covered and notification.

Sec. 303. Comprehensive emergency response plans.

Sec. 304. Emergency notification.

Sec. 305. Emergency training and review of emergency systems.

Subtitle B-Reporting Requirements

Sec. 311. Material safety data sheets.

Sec. 312. Emergency and hazardous chemical inventory forms.

Sec. 313. Toxic chemical release forms.

Subtitle C-General Provisions

Sec. 321. Relationship to other law.

Sec. 322. Trade secrets.

Sec. 323. Provision of information to health professionals, doctors, and nurses.
Sec. 324. Public availability of plans, data sheets, forms, and followup notices.
Sec. 325. Enforcement.

Sec. 326. Civil actions.

Sec. 327. Exemption.

Sec. 328. Regulations.

Sec. 329. Definitions.

Sec. 330. Authorization of appropriations.

TITLE IV-RADON GAS AND INDOOR AIR QUALITY RESEARCH

Sec. 401. Short title.

Sec. 402. Findings.

Sec. 403. Radon gas and indoor air quality research program.

Sec. 404. Construction of title.

Sec. 405. Authorizations.

This table of contents shows only those provisions included in this publication. For the complete table of contents for the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, see Public Law 99-499 (Oct. 17, 1986; 100 Stat. 1613).

TITLE V-AMENDMENTS OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986 Sec. 501. Short title.

PART I-SUPERFUND AND ITS REVENUE SOURCES

Sec. 511. Extension of environmental taxes.

Sec. 512. Increase in tax on petroleum.

Sec. 513. Changes relating to tax on certain chemicals.

Sec. 514. Repeal of post-closure tax and trust fund.

Sec. 515. Tax on certain imported substances derived from taxable chemicals.
Sec. 516. Environmental tax.

Sec. 517. Hazardous Substance Superfund.

PART II-LEAKING UNDERGROUND Storage TANK TRUST FUND AND ITS REVENUE

SOURCES

Sec. 521. Additional taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, special motor fuels, fuels used in aviation, and fuels used in commercial transportation on inland water

ways.

Sec. 522. Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund.

PART III-COORDINATION WITH OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT

Sec. 531. Coordination.

PROVISIONS OF THE SUPERFUND AMENDMENTS AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1986 WHICH DID NOT AMEND EXISTING LAWS

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.

This Act may be cited as the "Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986".

TITLE I-PROVISIONS RELATING PRIMARILY TO RESPONSE AND LIABILITY

SEC. 118. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

(a) PRIORITY FOR DRINKING WATER SUPPLIES.-[See section 118 of CERCLA.]

(b) REMOVAL AND TEMPORARY STORAGE OF CONTAINERS OF RADON CONTAMINATED SOIL.-Not later than 90 days after the enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall make a grant of $7,500,000 to the State of New Jersey for transportation from residential areas in the State of New Jersey and temporary storage of approximately 14,000 containers of radon contaminated soil which is the subject of a remedial action for which a remedial investigation and feasibility study has been initiated before such date. Such containers shall be transported to and temporarily stored at any site in the State of New Jersey designated by the Governor of such State. For purposes of section 111(a) of CERCLA, the grant under this subsection for transportation and storage of such containers shall be treated as payment of governmental response cost incurred pursuant to section 104 of CERCLA.

(c) UNCONSOLIDAATED QUATERNARY AQUIFER.-Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person may

(1) locate or authorize the location of a landfill, surface impoundment, waste pile, injection well, or land treatment facility over the Unconsolidated Quaternary Aquifer, or the recharge zone or streamflow source zone of such aquifer, in the Rockaway River Basin, New Jersey (as such aquifer and zones are described in the Federal Register, January 24, 1984, pages 2946-2948); or

(2) place or authorize the placement of solid waste in a landfill, surface impoundment, waste pile, injection well, or land treatment facility over such aquifer or zone.

This subsection may be enforced under sections 309 (a) and (b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. For purposes of section 309(c) of such Act, a violation of this subsection shall be considered a violation of section 301 of such Act.

(d) STUDY OF SHORTAGES OF SKILLED PERSONNEL.-The Comptroller General shall study the problem of shortages of skilled personnel in the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out response actions under CERCLA. In particular the Comptroller General shall study

(1) the types of skilled personnel needed for response actions for which there are shortages in the Environmental Protection Agency,

(2) the extent of such shortages,

(3) pay differential between the public and private sectors for the skilled positions involved in reponse actions,

(4) the extent to which skilled personnel of Federal and State governments involved in response actions are leaving their positions for employment in the private sector,

(5) the success of programs of the Department of Defense and the Office of Personnel Management in retaining skilled personnel, and

(6) the types of training required to improve the skills of employees carrying out response actions.

The Comptroller General shall complete the study required by this subsection and submit a report on the results thereof to Congress not later than July 1, 1987.

(e) STATE REQUIREMENTS NOT APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN TRANSFERS.-No State or local requirement shall apply to the transfer and disposal of any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant from a facility at which a release or threatened release has occurred to a facility for which a final permit under section 3005(a) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is in effect if the following conditions apply

(1) Such permit was issued after January 1, 1983, and before November 1, 1984.

(2) The transfer and disposal is carried out pursuant to a cooperative agreement between the Administrator and the State. (3) The facility at which the release or threatened release has occurred is identified as the McColl Site in Fullerton, California.

The terms used in this section shall have the same meaning as when used in title I of CERCLA.

(f) STUDY OF LEAD POISONING IN CHILDREN.-The Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry shall, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and other officials as appropriate, not later than March 1, 1987, submit to the Congress, a report on the nature and extent of lead poisoning in children from environmental sources. Such report shall include, at a minimum, the following information

(A) an estimate of the total number of children, arrayed according to Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area or other appropriate geographic unit, exposed to environmental sources of lead at concentrations sufficient to cause adverse health effects;

(B) an estimate of the total number of children exposed to environmental sources of lead arrayed according to source or source types;

(C) a statement of the long-term consequences for public health of unabated exposures to environmental sources of lead and including but not limited to, diminution in intelligence, increases in morbidity and mortality; and

(D) methods and alternatives available for reducing exposures of children to environmental sources of lead.

(2) Such report shall also score and evaluate specific sites at which children are known to be exposed to environmental sources of lead due to releases, utilizing the Hazard Ranking system of the National Priorities List.

(3) The costs of preparing and submitting the report required by this section shall be borne by the Hazardous Substance Superfund established under subchapter A of chapter 98 of Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

(g) FEDERALLY LICENSED DAM.-For purposes of CERCLA in the case of the Milltown Dam in the State of Montana licensed under part 1 of the Federal Power Act and designated as FERC license number 2543-004, if a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant

(1) has been released into the environmental upstream of the dam, and

(2) has subsequently come to be located in the reservoir created by such dam

notwithstanding section 101(20) of such Act, the term "owner or operator" does not include the owner or operator of the dam unless such owner or operator is a person who would otherwise be liable for such release or threatened release under section 107 of such Act.

(h) COMMUNITY RELOCATION AT TIMES BEACH SITE.-For purposes of any Missouri dioxin site at which a temporary or permanent relocation decision has been made, or is under active consideration, by the Administrator as of the enactment of this Act, the terms "remove" and "removal" as used in CERCLA shall be deemed to include the costs of permanent relocation of residents where it is determined that such permanent relocation is cost effective or may be necessary to protect health or welfare. In the case of a business located in an area of evacuation or relocation at such facility, such terms may also include the payment of those installments of principal and interest on business debt which accrue between the date of evacuation or temporary relocation and 30 days following the date that permanent relocation is actually accomplished or, if permanent relocation is formally rejected as the appropriate response, the date on which evacuation or temporary relocation ceases. In the case of an individual unemployed as a result of such evacuation or relocation, such terms may also include the provision of assistance identical to that authorized by sections 407, 408, and 409 of the Disaster Relief Act of 1974; except that the costs of such assistance shall be paid from the Trust Fund established under amendments made to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by this Act. Sec

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