Environmental Closure Workers Assistance Act

Summary

Environmental Closure Workers Assistance Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide benefits for dislocated workers out of monies received as penalties for violations of the environmental laws by such workers' employers if such employers' operations were terminated or curtailed as a result of such violations. Authorizes the Administrator to credit violators for any environmentally beneficial projects when negotiating consent decrees. Includes job training, basic and adult education, relocation expenses, unemployment benefits, and other educational assistance whose basic purpose is to train such dislocated workers among the allowable benefits which may be paid out of employment offices established under the Wagner Peyser Act and the private industry councils established under the Job Training Partnership Act.

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Timeline

1. 21 January 1987

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 21 January 1987

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 21 January 1987

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Sen. DeConcini, Dennis [D-AZ] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] · R · Sponsor
• · ssev00 · Standing

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