Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission, within six months, to: (1) investigate and formally identify all rates charged by transportation carriers subject to its jurisdiction for the transportation of recyclable or recycled materials and, determine whether the rates charged and the terms and conditions of transportation for such materials are fair and reasonable and whether they unjustly discriminate against the movement or shipment in interstate or foreign commerce of recyclable or recycled materials and in favor of competing virgin natural resource materials or commodities; (2) issue appropriate orders in all cases where the rates charged or terms and conditions of transportation applicable to recyclable or recycled materials are found to be unfair, unreasonable, or discriminatory; and (3) file annual and terminal reports with the President and the Congress regarding the results of such investigations and all actions taken to establish fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory rates for cyclable or recycled materials.
Defines "fair, reasonable, and nondiscrininatory rates" for purposes of this Act.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce.
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