Official Summaries

This joint resolution nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency rule titled Updates to New Chemicals Regulations Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (89 Fed. Reg. 102773) and published on December 18, 2024. Among other elements, the rule amends the new chemicals procedural regulations and also makes per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals (PBTs) ineligible for certain exemptions under the Toxic Substance Control Act.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 76 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 76

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
    United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental 
 Protection Agency relating to ``Updates to New Chemicals Regulations 
            Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2025

 Mr. Higgins of Louisiana (for himself and Mr. Timmons) 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 ``Updates to New Chemicals Regulations 
            Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)''.

    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 
``Updates to New Chemicals Regulations Under the Toxic Substances 
Control Act (TSCA)'' (89 Fed. Reg. 102773 (December 18, 2024)), and 
such rule shall have no force or effect.
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