S 347
· 119th Congress
· Environmental Protection
Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 6.
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Feb 05, 2025
committee
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Environment and Public Works Committee
Feb 05, 2025
committee
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Capito without amendment. Without written report.
Environment and Public Works Committee
Feb 05, 2025
other
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 6.
Jan 30, 2025
introduced
Introduced in Senate
Jan 30, 2025
introduced
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Environment and Public Works Committee
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Introduced in Senate
Jan 30, 2025
Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025
This bill extends through FY2030 and modifies the Brownfields Program under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). The Brownfields Program is administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide grants and technical assistance to states, communities, tribes, and other entities to assess, clean up, and reuse contaminated properties.
First, the bill expands eligibility for Brownfields Program resources to tax-exempt organizations defined under section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code, which are organizations that are not organized for profit and do not provide net earnings to private shareholders or individuals (e.g., chambers of commerce).
Additionally, the bill
increases to $1 million the maximum grant amount that the EPA may provide for brownfield remediation per site,
removes the 5% cap that a grant recipient may use for administrative costs,
reduces the cost-sharing requirement for grant recipients from 20% to 10%,
requires the EPA to waive cost-sharing requirements for grant recipients located in small communities or disadvantaged areas,
authorizes the use of grants by a state or Indian tribe for the implementation of a response program,
modifies the criteria used to rank grant applications by requiring the consideration of whether the applicant has a plan to engage a diverse set of local groups and organizations that represent the views of the local community directly affected by the proposed brownfield project, and
requires the EPA to report on and update application ranking criteria and the approval process.
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-[S. 347 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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+Calendar No. 6
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 347
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Mrs. Capito (for herself and Ms. Blunt Rochester) introduced the
following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on
Environment and Public Works
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+February 5, 2025
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+Reported by Mrs. Capito, without amendment
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Corporation (as those terms are defined in section 3 of
the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C.
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+Calendar No. 6
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+119th CONGRESS
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+1st Session
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+S. 347
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+_______________________________________________________________________
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+A BILL
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+To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
+Liability Act of 1980 to reauthorize brownfields revitalization
+funding, and for other purposes.
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+_______________________________________________________________________
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+February 5, 2025
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+Reported without amendment
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