Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 100 Part 2.djvu/566

 100 STAT. 1668



PUBLIC LAW 99-499—OCT. 17, 1986

"(d) ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION.—Not later than 18 months after the enactment of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, the Administrator shall take steps to assure that a preliminary assessment is conducted for each facility on the docket. Following such preliminary assessment, the Administrator shall, where appropriate— "(1) evaluate such facilities in accordance with the criteria established in accordance with section 105 under the National Contingency Plan for determining priorities among releases; and "(2) include such facilities on the National Priorities List maintained under such plan if the facility meets such criteria. Such criteria shall be applied in the same manner as the criteria are applied to facilities which are owned or operated by other persons. Evaluation and listing under this subsection shall be completed not later than 30 months after such date of enactment. Upon the receipt of a petition from the Governor of any State, the Administrator shall make such an evaluation of any facility included in the docket. "(e) REQUIRED ACTION BY DEPARTMENT.—

"(1) RI/FS.—Not later than 6 months after the inclusion of any facility on the National Priorities List, the department, o agency, or instrumentality which owns or operates such facility shall, in consultation with the Administrator and appropriate >' State authorities, commence a remedial investigation and feasibility study for such facility. In the case of any facility which is listed on such list before the date of the enactment of this
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section, the department, agency, or instrumentality which owns or operates such facility shall, in consultation with the Administrator and appropriate State authorities, commence such an investigation and study for such facility within one year after State and local such date of enactment. The Administrator and appropriate governments. State authorities shall publish a timetable and deadlines for expeditious completion of such investigation and study. "(2)

COMMENCEMENT OF REMEDIAL ACTION; INTERAGENCY

b AGREEMENT.—The Administrator shall review the results of 3 each investigation and study conducted as provided in paragraph (1). Within 180 days thereafter, the head of the department, agency, or instrumentality concerned shall enter into an interagency agreement with the Administrator for the expeditious completion by such department, agency, or instrumentality of all necessary remedial action at such facility. Substantial •to continuous physical onsite remedial action shall be commenced at each facility not later than 15 months after completion of the •.'':• investigation and study. All such interagency agreements, vf r - - including review of alternative remedial action plans and selec» tion of remedial action, shall comply with the public participation requirements of section 117. "(3) COMPLETION OF REMEDIAL ACTIONS.—Remedial actions at facilities subject to interagency agreements under this section shall be completed as expeditiously as practicable. Each agency shall include in its annual budget submissions to the Congress a review of alternative agency funding which could be used to provide for the costs of remedial action. The budget submission shall also include a statement of the hazard posed by the facility to human health, welfare, and the environment and identify the •r specific consequences of failure to begin and complete remedial action.

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