Official Summaries

This joint resolution nullifies the Environmental Protection Agency 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.

Current Full Text

[119th Congress Public Law 20]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



[[Page 139 STAT. 71]]

Public Law 119-20
119th Congress

                            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''. <<NOTE: June 20, 2025 -  [S.J. Res. 31]>> 

    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 
``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.

    Approved June 20, 2025.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S.J. Res. 31:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 171 (2025):
            Apr. 30, May 1, considered and passed Senate.
            May 21, considered and passed House.

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