An act to provide for liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response for hazardous substances released into the environment and the cleanup of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Hazardous Waste Containment Act of 1980 - Provides that nothing in this Act or in any amendment made to this Act shall apply to oil or other pollution of navigable waters. Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require owners or operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal sites to provide specified information to the relevant State and local officials or to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Authorizes the Administrator or the State in which the site is located to secure such information from such owners or operators, former or subsequent owners or operators of the site, or generators or transporters of hazardous waste, if such owners or operators fail to comply with information requirements or offer inadequate information. Requires States to undertake continuing programs to compile, publish, and submit to the Administrator inventories containing such information for each inactive waste site within the State. Directs the Administrator to: (1) carry out such inventories when there is inadequate State compliance; compile a national inventory of all hazardous waste sites; and (3) report to the appropriate committees of Congress such inventory an…