text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Superfund Research, Development, and 
  Demonstration Act of 1999''.
  
  SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
  
      The Congress finds the following:
              (1) The Superfund Innovative Treatment and Evaluation 
          (SITE) program carried out under the authority of section 
          311(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
          Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 has helped private 
          sector developers to market innovative Superfund clean-up 
          treatment technologies for more than 10 years.
              (2) Technologies demonstrated and evaluated through the 
          SITE program have been successfully deployed at many Superfund 
          and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act sites, resulting in 
          significant cost savings and faster remediation of those sites.
              (3) The Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory 
          Board has found that SITE program accomplishments have been 
          ``impressive'' and that ``the need for improved technology to 
          prevent, reduce, or remediate environmental contamination 
          remains a national priority''.
              (4) The University Hazardous Substance Research Centers 
          authorized under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
          Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 have played an 
          important role in conducting basic research, developing 
          innovative clean-up technologies, and providing invaluable 
          technical assistance to communities.
              (5) The SITE program and related hazardous substance 
          research program should be reauthorized with an emphasis on 
          meeting the emerging technical and scientific challenges 
          presented by the use of remediated sites (including 
          brownfields), developing technologies to address remediation at 
          remaining sites with complex contamination characteristics, and 
          transferring technology and technical capabilities to a wider 
          variety of remediation needs.
  
  SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS.
  
      (a) Section 111(n) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
  Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9611(n)) is 
  amended--
              (1) in paragraph (1) by striking ``1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 
          1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994'' and inserting ``2000, 2001, 2002, 
          2003, and 2004'';
              (2) by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:
              ``(2) Section 311(a).--For each of the fiscal years 2000, 
          2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004, not more than $35,000,000 of the 
          amounts available in the Fund may be used for the purposes of 
          section 311(a). Not more than 10 percent of such amounts may be 
          used for training under section 311(a) in any fiscal year.''; 
          and
              (3) in paragraph (3) by striking ``1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 
          1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994'' and inserting ``2000, 2001, 2002, 
          2003, and 2004''.
      (b) Section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
  Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(a)) is amended 
  by striking paragraph (6).
      (c) Section 311(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
  Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(b) is amended--
              (1) in paragraph (4) by striking ``Each such project'' and 
          inserting ``The Administrator may enter into agreements with 
          persons, public entities (including the Department of Defense, 
          the Department of Energy, and other Federal agencies), and 
          nonprofit private entities, to arrange for the use of other 
          sites appropriate for carrying out hazardous substances 
          research, testing, evaluation, development, and demonstration 
          projects. Each project under this paragraph'';
              (2) in paragraph (5)(B) by inserting ``or other appropriate 
          sites'' after ``section 104'';
              (3) in paragraph (5)(E) by striking ``10 sites at which a 
          response may be undertaken under section 104'' and insert in 
          lieu thereof ``suitable sites'';
              (4) by striking paragraph (6); and
              (5) in paragraph (8)--
                      (A) by inserting after the first sentence the 
                  following: ``As part of such technology transfer 
                  program, the Administrator shall strive to enter into 
                  agreements with the Department of Defense, the 
                  Department of Energy, and other Federal agencies to 
                  ensure the effective transfer to those agencies and 
                  their contractors of technologies potentially 
                  applicable to remediation or containment of hazardous 
                  substances at sites owned or operated by such 
                  agencies.''; and
                      (B) by striking ``for such information'' and 
                  inserting ``for information collected under this 
                  paragraph''.
      (d) Section 311(d) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
  Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(d)) is 
  amended--
              (1) by striking the last sentence of paragraph (1);
              (2) by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:
              ``(2) Responsibilities of centers.--The responsibilities of 
          each hazardous substance research center established under this 
          subsection shall include, but not be limited to, the conduct of 
          research and training, and the provision of technical 
          assistance and technology transfer to local, State, and 
          regional entities, relating to the manufacture, use, 
          transportation, disposal, treatment, effects, detection, 
          characterization, and management of hazardous substances, and 
          publication and dissemination of information related 
          thereto.'';
              (3) in paragraph (7) by inserting ``or the acquisition, 
          expansion, remodeling, or alteration of an existing building 
          (including site grading and improvement and architect fees)'' 
          after ``any building''; and
              (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
              ``(11) Funding levels.--Subject to the availability of 
          appropriations, the Administrator shall maintain funding for 
          each hazardous substance research center established under this 
          subsection at a level not less than that funded in fiscal year 
          1999 until such time as the Administrator completes the next 
          competitive selection process for the centers.''.
target: Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to enter into agreements to arrange for the use of other sites appropriate for carrying out hazardous substances research, testing, evaluation, development, and demonstration projects.
feat_title: Superfund Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1999