US Congress House Bill 2000 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 74-0)
Status: Introduced on April 6 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-04-07 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Environment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

CLEANER Act of 2017 Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2017 This bill amends the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act to eliminate the exemption for waste derived from the exploration, development, or production of crude oil, natural gas, or geothermal energy from regulations governing the disposal of hazardous waste. Within a year of this bill's enactment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must: determine whether waste associated with oil, gas, or geothermal energy activities meet the criteria promulgated for the identification or listing of hazardous waste; identify or list as hazardous waste any of those wastes if they meet the identification or listing criteria; and promulgate regulations regarding standards applicable to generators, transporters, and owners and operators of facilities for the treatment, storage, or disposal of those wastes. The EPA may modify the regulation of those standards to consider the special characteristics of those wastes so long as the modified regulations protect human health and the environment. Within a year of this bill's enactment, the EPA must promulgate revisions of certain criteria concerning landfills and waste management practices of open dumping for facilities that may receive wastes that are: (1) associated with those activities, and (2) not identified or listed as hazardous waste. Those revisions must: protect human health and the environment, while allowing consideration of the practicable capability of such facilities; and require groundwater monitoring as necessary to detect contamination; establish criteria for the acceptable location of new or existing facilities; and provide for corrective action and financial assurance as appropriate.

CLEANER Act of 2017 Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2017

Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]
Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]
Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA]	Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. William Keating [D-MA]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]
Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]
Rep. John Sarbanes [D-MD]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]
Rep. Louise Slaughter [D-NY]	Rep. Adam Smith [D-WA]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]
Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY]
Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]	Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]
Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA]	Sen. Peter Welch [D-VT]	Rep. Nanette Barragan [D-CA]	Rep. Dwight Evans [D-PA]
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Pete Aguilar [D-CA]	Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]
Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]	Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]
Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]
Rep. John Larson [D-CT]	Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]
Rep. John Yarmuth [D-KY]	Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA]	Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]
Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-04-07	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
2017-04-06	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2017-04-06	House	Introduced in House

HB6768 (Related) 2018-09-19 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2000/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr2000/BILLS-115hr2000ih.pdf