Gold King Mine Spill Compensation Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 1315 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1315 To authorize compensation to individuals, organizations, and companies impacted by the Gold King Mine wastewater spill of 2015, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 13, 2025 Mr. Hurd of Colorado introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To authorize compensation to individuals, organizations, and companies impacted by the Gold King Mine wastewater spill of 2015, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Gold King Mine Spill Compensation Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (2) BPMD contamination.--The term ``BPMD contamination'' means a release or threatened release of hazardous substances that occurred or is occurring on or before the date of enactment of this Act at or from mining-related sources within the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund Site in San Juan County, Colorado, Environmental Protection Agency Docket ID No. EPA HQ-OLEM2016-0152, as published in the final rule of the Environmental Protection Agency entitled ``National Priorities List'' (81 Fed. Reg. 62397 (September 9, 2016)), including all areas of that site that the Environmental Protection Agency has ever defined or described for purposes