Bill Details
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Latest action
2025-01-13 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced Date
2025-01-13
Policy Area
Environmental Protection
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This joint resolution would block a new Environmental Protection Agency rule about drinking water safety for lead and copper. If approved, Congress would cancel the rule so it would have no legal effect.
- The resolution uses Congress’s review power to reject the EPA’s “Lead and Copper: Improvements” drinking water rule.
- The rule being targeted was published in the Federal Register on October 30, 2024.
- If this resolution becomes law, the EPA rule would not go into effect and could not be enforced.
Official Summaries
This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper: Improvements (LCRI), which was submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency on October 30, 2024. The rule modifies the regulations under the Safe Drinking Water Act to further reduce lead in drinking water, including by directing water systems to replace all lead and certain galvanized service lines under their control within 10 years.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 18 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. J. RES. 18
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5,
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental
Protection Agency relating to ``National Primary Drinking Water
Regulations for Lead and Copper: Improvements (LCRI)''.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 13, 2025
Mr. Palmer submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
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JOINT RESOLUTION
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5,
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental
Protection Agency relating to ``National Primary Drinking Water
Regulations for Lead and Copper: Improvements (LCRI)''.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the
rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to
``National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper:
Improvements (LCRI)'' (89 Fed. Reg. 86418 (October 30, 2024)), and such
rule shall have no force or effect.
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