Sec. 347. Report on plan to decontaminate sites formerly used by the Department of the Army that have since been transferred to units of local government and are affected by pollutants that are, in whole or in part, a result of activity by the Department of Defense
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Congress finds the following: There are numerous properties that were under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army, such as former Nike missile sites, but that have been transferred to units of local government. Many of these properties may remain polluted because of activity by the Department of Defense. This pollution may inhibit the use of these properties for commercial or residential purposes. The Secretary of the Army shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report— specifying each covered property that may remain polluted because of activity by the Department of Defense; and containing the Secretary’s plan to decontaminate each covered property.
In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives. The term covered property means property that was under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army and was transferred to a unit of local government before the date of the enactment of section 120(h) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, but that would have triggered Federal Government notice or action under that section had the transfer occurred on or after that date.