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Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025 (S-347) · Congress.wiki

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February 5, 2025

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January 30, 2025

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Organizational business meeting to consider committee rules, an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 119th Congress, S.347, to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to reauthorize brownfields revitalization funding, and S.351, to establish a pilot grant program to improve recycling accessibility, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out certain activities to collect and disseminate data on recycling and composting programs in the United States.

Committee on Environment and Public WorksDirksen Senate Office Building, 406Feb 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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January 30, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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United StatesSenate Bill 347S 347

Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025

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Introduced January 30, 2025 by Shelley Moore Capito · Last progress January 30, 2025

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Updates federal brownfield/CERCLA grant and state response program rules to strengthen community engagement, change per-site funding language, authorize multi-year appropriations for 2025–2030, add certain Alaska Native corporate recipients, and require EPA to review and simplify the grant ranking and application guidance within one year. The bill directs EPA to report to Congress on ranking and approval practices, identify confusing application elements and common point deductions, and recommend ways to boost applications from small and disadvantaged communities.

The proposal also amends language governing state response programs to require implementation and provides an explicit authorization of appropriations for multiple years. One funding provision in the draft appears to have a malformed dollar amount and would need clarification to determine the exact per-site cap change.