To amend title IX the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to make the development of brownfield sites eligible for assistance.

Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to permit financial assistance authorized under such Act to be used for the development of brownfield sites (land containing abandoned or underused commercial or industrial facilities the expansion or redevelopment of which is complicated by the presence or potential presence of hazardous substances).

[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[H.R. 3746 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3746

 To amend title IX of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 
     1965 to make the development of brownfield sites eligible for 
                              assistance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 1996

   Mr. Kennedy of Massachusetts (for himself, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. 
Olver, Mr. Kennedy of Rhode Island, Mr. Barrett of Wisconsin, Mr. Gene 
 Green of Texas, Mr. Mascara, and Mr. Stark) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
    Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Banking and 
 Financial Services, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title IX of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 
     1965 to make the development of brownfield sites eligible for 
                              assistance.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 903 of the 
Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3243) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1) by inserting after ``business 
        development,'' the following: ``development of brownfield 
        sites,''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Brownfield Site Defined.--In this section, the term 
`brownfield site' means a parcel of land that contains or contained 
abandoned or under-used commercial or industrial facilities the 
expansion or redevelopment of which is complicated by the presence or 
potential presence of hazardous substances.''.
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