Reauthorization of and Possible Amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (superfund): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Water Resources of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5640 ... May 15, 16, June 13, 1984

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Page 654 - who otherwise knowingly fails or refuses to comply with any requirement in effect under this Section, shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not more than $50,000, or to imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to limit or exclude any other penalty
Page 639 - Code - Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this title an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Internal Revenue Code of
Page 359 - excess real estate" as real estate under the control of any Federal agency which is not required for its needs and the discharge of its responsibilities, as determined by the head thereof.
Page 270 - and inflexible import of the terms, and the manifest intention of the legislature.' " (quoting Union Pacific R. Co. v. Laramie Stock Yards, Co., 231 US 190, 199 (1913). Despite the presumption against retroactivity and the ambiguity presently existing under the Superfund Act, several district courts
Page 272 - The demands of due process do not require a hearing at the initial stage or at any particular point or at more than one point in an administrative proceeding!,], so long as the requisite hearing is held before the final order becomes effective.
Page 373 - that the property has no commercial value or that the estimated cost of its continued care and handling would exceed the estimated proceeds from its sale or that abandonment or destruction is required by military necessity or by
Page 388 - authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to expand and maintain a National Register of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects significant in American history, architecture, archeology, and culture; and
Page 362 - (1) Destruction or alteration of all or part of a property. (2) Isolation from or alteration of its surrounding environment. (3) Introduction of visual, audible, or atmospheric elements that are out of character with the property and its setting
Page 270 - [T]he first rule of construction is that legislation must be considered as addressed to the future, not to the past . . . [and] a retrospective operation will not be given to a statute which interferes with antecedent rights . . . unless such be 'the
Page 272 - the company and its officers from resorting to the courts to test the validity of the legislation, the result is the same as if the law in terms prohibited the company from seeking judicial construction of

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