Community Environmental Response Facilitation Act

Community Environmental Response Facilitation Act - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to require Federal agencies that plan to terminate operations on real property owned by the United States or on property on which the United States plans to close or realign military operations to identify property on which neither hazardous substances nor petroleum products or derivatives were stored for one year or more, released, or disposed. Requires the identification to be based on an investigation of the property to determine the presence of hazardous substances or petroleum products. Sets forth minimum requirements for the identification. Requires identifications to be made: (1) at least six months before the termination of operations on the property (18 months after this Act's enactment date for real property on which operations have been closed or realigned pursuant to a base closure law or 18 months after disposition of a resolution of disapproval for property scheduled for closure or realignment after this Act's enactment date); and (2) with the concurrence of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the appropriate State official. Provides that, in the case of the sale or transfer of an identified property, the deed entered into for the sale or transfer of the property by the United States to any other per…

Congressional Research Service · 1992-10-03