Official Summaries

This joint resolution nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency final rule titled Review of Final Rule Reclassification of Major Sources as Area Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act (89 Fed. Reg. 73293) and published on September 10, 2024. Among other elements, the rule requires sources of persistent and bioaccumulative hazardous air pollutants to continue to comply with certain major source emission standards under the Clean Air Act even if the sources reclassify as area sources.

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 79 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 79

  Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, 
    United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental 
 Protection Agency relating to ``Review of Final Rule Reclassification 
  of Major Sources as Area Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air 
                                 Act''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 24, 2025

Ms. Fedorchak (for herself, Mr. Balderson, and Mr. Allen) 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 ``Review of Final Rule Reclassification 
  of Major Sources as Area Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air 
                                 Act''.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the 
final rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to 
``Review of Final Rule Reclassification of Major Sources as Area 
Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act'' (89 Fed. Reg. 73293 
(September 10, 2024)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.
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