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Brownfield Revitalization and Remediation Act
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore and expand the expensing of qualified environmental remediation expenditures, and for other purposes.
Summary
The Brownfield Revitalization and Remediation Act amends tax law to restore and expand the ability of property owners to immediately deduct environmental remediation expenditures as business expenses. The bill reinstates the expensing deduction for qualified environmental remediation expenditures from 2025 through 2029, a provision that had previously expired in 2011. It expands the types of qualifying expenses to include assessment, investigation, and monitoring activities related to contaminated sites, and extends tax treatment to brownfield sites specifically. The amendments broaden the definition of what qualifies as a hazardous substance for tax purposes to include pollutants and contaminants as defined under environmental law.
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- Sep 18, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. · house
- Sep 18, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 18, 2025
Mr. Lawler introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore and expand the expensing of qualified environmental remediation expenditures, 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 “Brownfield Revitalization and Remediation Act”.
SEC. 2. RESTORING AND EXPANDING EXPENSING OF QUALIFIED ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION EXPENDITURES.
(a) Restoring Expensing.—Section 198(h) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:
“(h) Termination.—This section shall not apply to expenditures paid or incurred—
“(1) after December 31, 2011, and before January 1, 2025, or
“(2) after December 31, 2029.”.
(b) Expanding Expensing.—
(1) Inclusion of certain assessment, investigation, and monitoring expenses.—Section 198(b)(1)(B) of such Code is amended by inserting “(including reasonable expenditures for the assessment, investigation, and monitoring of such site in connection with such abatement or control)” after “qualified contaminated site”.
(2) Special rule for depreciable property with respect to brownfield sites.—Section 198(b)(2) of such Code is amended by inserting “(other than a brownfield site (as defined in section 101(39) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980))” after “qualified contaminated site”.
(3) Treatment of pollutants and contaminants as hazardous substances.—Section 198(d)(1) of such Code is amended—
(A) by striking “and” at the end of subparagraph
(B),
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D), and
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new subparagraph:
“(C) any substance which is a pollutant or contaminant as defined in section 101(33) of such Act, and”.
(c) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall take effect upon the date of the enactment of this Act. <all>
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