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S. 347119th CongressEnvironmental Protection
Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025
Sponsored by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) · 1 active : 1 Democrat
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 6.
Where it standsBefore the Senate10 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govBrownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025
This bill extends through FY2030 and modifies the Brownfields Program under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA). The Brownfields Program is administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide grants and technical assistance to states, communities, tribes, and other entities to assess, clean up, and reuse contaminated properties.
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First, the bill expands eligibility for Brownfields Program resources to tax-exempt organizations defined under section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code, which are organizations that are not organized for profit and do not provide net earnings to private shareholders or individuals (e.g., chambers of commerce).
Additionally, the bill
increases to $1 million the maximum grant amount that the EPA may provide for brownfield remediation per site,
removes the 5% cap that a grant recipient may use for administrative costs,
reduces the cost-sharing requirement for grant recipients from 20% to 10%,
requires the EPA to waive cost-sharing requirements for grant recipients located in small communities or disadvantaged areas,
authorizes the use of grants by a state or Indian tribe for the implementation of a response program,
modifies the criteria used to rank grant applications by requiring the consideration of whether the applicant has a plan to engage a diverse set of local groups and organizations that represent the views of the local community directly affected by the proposed brownfield project, and
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
- Congressional oversight
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Land use and conservation
- Rural conditions and development
- State and local government operations
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the House breaks down
- 73Swing 70–100
- 208Middle 30–70
- 152Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 433 representatives have enough data to score. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Key players in the House
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, House
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Cosponsors
1 activeShow all 1 cosponsors
- Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
