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PUBLIC LAW 99-499—OCT. 17, 1986 (4) HAZARDOUS WASTE RESEARCH AT THE HANFORD SITE.—
(A) INTERAGENCY AGREEMENTS.—The Administrator and the Secretary of Energy are authorized to enter into interagency agreements with one another for the purpose of providing for research, evaluation, testing, development, and demonstration into alternative or innovative technologies to characterize and assess the nature and extent of hazardous waste (including radioactive mixed waste) contamination at the Hanford site, in the State of Washington.
- (B) FUNDING.—There is authorized to be appropriated to
' •' the Secretary of Energy for purposes of carrying out this paragraph for fiscal years beginning after September 30, •-' •' 1986, not more than $5,000,000. All sums appropriated under this subparagraph shall be provided to the Adminis'-. trator by the Secretary of Energy, pursuant to the interagency agreement entered into under subparagraph (A), for the purpose of the Administrator entering into contracts and cooperative agreements with, and making grants to, 0 the Center in order to carry out the research, evaluation, testing, development, and demonstration described in paragraph (1). (5) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator for purposes of carrying out this subsection (other than paragraph (4)) for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1986, not more than $5,000,000. (p) SILVER CREEK TAILINGS.—Effective with the date of enactment of this Act, the facility listed in Group 7 in EPA National Priorities List Update # 4 (50 Federal Register 37956, September 18, 1985), the site in Park City, Utah, which is located on tailings from noncoal mining operations, shall be deemed removed from the list of sites recommended for inclusion on the National Priorities List, unless the President determines upon site specific data not used in the proposed listing of such facility, that the facility meets requirements of the Hazard Ranking System or any revised Hazard Ranking System. SEC. 1 9 RESPONSE ACTION CONTRACTORS. 1. Title I of CERCLA is amended by adding the following new section after section 118: "SEC. 119. RESPONSE ACTION CONTRACTORS. "(a) LIABILITY OF RESPONSE ACTION CONTRACTORS.— "(1) RESPONSE ACTION CONTRACTORS.—A person
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who is a response action contractor with respect to any release or threatened release of a hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant from a vessel or facility shall not be liable under this title or under any other Federal law to any person for injuries, costs, damages, expenses, or other liability (including but not limited to claims for indemnification or contribution and claims by third parties for death, personal injury, illness or loss of or damage to property or economic loss) which results from such release or threatened release. "(2) NEGLIGENCE, ETC.—Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of a release that is caused by conduct of the response action contractor which is negligent, grossly negligent, or which constitutes intentional misconduct.
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