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This joint resolution would block a recent Environmental Protection Agency rule on trichloroethylene, also called TCE, under the Toxic Substances Control Act. If Congress approves this resolution, the EPA rule would have no legal effect, meaning the agency’s new TCE regulation would not go into force. In simple terms, the bill is a way for Congress to reject the EPA’s chemical safety rule and stop it from being used as federal policy.
- It targets one specific EPA rule issued in December 2024 about TCE, a chemical used in some industrial processes and known to raise health concerns.
- The resolution uses Congress’s power to overturn a federal agency rule under the Congressional Review Act process.
- If passed by both chambers and signed, or if otherwise allowed to take effect, the EPA rule would be treated as if it never had legal force.
- The bill does not create a new replacement rule; it only отменates the EPA rule it names.
Official Summaries
This joint resolution nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency rule titled Trichloroethylene (TCE); Regulation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (89 Fed. Reg. 102568) and published on December 17, 2024. Among other elements, the rule prohibits the manufacturing, import, processing, and distribution in commerce of trichloroethylene (TCE) for all uses (including consumer uses), and prohibits the industrial and commercial use of TCE.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S.J. Res. 19 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. J. RES. 19
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5,
United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental
Protection Agency relating to ``Trichloroethylene (TCE); Regulation
Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)''.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 13, 2025
Mr. Kennedy introduced the following joint resolution; which was read
twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works
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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 ``Trichloroethylene (TCE); Regulation
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
``Trichloroethylene (TCE); Regulation Under the Toxic Substances
Control Act (TSCA)'' (89 Fed. Reg. 102568 (December 17, 2024)), and
such rule shall have no force or effect.
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