[CPEO-BIF] Lott Pledge May Kill Superfund Law Changes

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Washington Post
6/30/00

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Lott Pledge May Kill Superfund Law Changes

Unbeknownst to most of his colleagues, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
last year made a secret promise in writing to kill changes this year to the
Superfund hazardous waste cleanup law, one of the major environmental
issues before Congress.

Lott made the deal in order to win passage of a special provision to exempt
scrap metal dealers from having to comply with the Superfund law, which
requires companies to clean up their polluted sites. The Congressional
Budget Office estimates the provision will be worth as
much as $700 million to the scrap metal industry over the next decade.

The majority leader's promise has imperiled one of the few environmental
initiatives with bipartisan support in the Senate, a measure to amend the
Superfund law to ease potential liabilities for developers who buy
abandoned factory sites and inner-city junkyards. Democrats and Republicans
alike favor such "brownfields" legislation because it could limit lawsuits
while speeding the redevelopment of blighted industrial areas.

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