H.R. 3641, Introduced in House on Dec 3, 2013 by Rep. H. Griffith (R-VA)
EPA MAXIMUM ACHIEVABLE CONTRACTION OF TECHNOCRATS ACT OF 2013
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113th CONGRESS
H. R. 3641 - To require that the workforce of the Environmental Protection Agency be reduced by 15 percent.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
December 3, 2013
Mr. Griffith of Virginia introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To require that the workforce of the Environmental Protection Agency be reduced by 15 percent.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the "EPA Maximum Achievable Contraction of Technocrats Act of 2013".
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds as follows:
(1) During the Government shutdown of 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency deemed 95 percent of its employees as "non essential".
(2) The Environmental Protection Agency occupies space in fourteen different buildings in the District of Columbia.
(3) From 1972 until 2011, the number of Environmental Protection Agency employees increased by 107 percent while the number of total Federal personnel decreased by 15 percent.
(4) In 2012, according to one study, complying with Environmental Protection Agency regulations cost the United States economy $353 billion.
(5) Since 2008, according to the Federal Register, the Environmental Protection Agency has published and put into effect 2,313 rules.
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