Bill Details
Status
Latest action
2025-02-12 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced Date
2025-02-12
Policy Area
Environmental Protection
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This bill would cancel an Environmental Protection Agency rule about lead dust safety standards. If it passes, the EPA rule on dust-lead hazard levels and the cleanup standards used after lead removal work would have no legal effect. In simple terms, Congress is saying it does not approve of the EPA’s updated lead dust rules and wants the earlier situation to remain in place instead of the new rule going into effect.
- The resolution targets an EPA rule titled “Reconsideration of the Dust-Lead Hazard Standards and Dust-Lead Post-Abatement Clearance Levels.”
- It uses Congress’s authority to reject a federal rule under the law that allows lawmakers to block new agency regulations.
- If adopted, the EPA rule published in November 2024 would be treated as though it never took effect.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 45 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. J. RES. 45
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5,
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental
Protection Agency relating to ``Reconsideration of the Dust-Lead Hazard
Standards and Dust-Lead Post-Abatement Clearance Levels''.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 12, 2025
Mr. Clyde 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 ``Reconsideration of the Dust-Lead Hazard
Standards and Dust-Lead Post-Abatement Clearance Levels''.
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
``Reconsideration of the Dust-Lead Hazard Standards and Dust-Lead Post-
Abatement Clearance Levels'' (89 Fed. Reg. 89416 (November 12, 2024)),
and such rule shall have no force or effect.
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