H.R. 3346

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3346 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3346

To abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 13, 2025

Mr. Higgins of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 
the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, 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

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A BILL

To abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes.

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 ``Sovereign State Environmental 
Quality Assurance Act''.

SEC. 2. ABOLISHMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.

(a) Abolishment.--Effective on the termination date under 
subsection (c), the Environmental Protection Agency is abolished.
(b) Abolition of Functions.--All functions, including any duty, 
obligation, power, authority, responsibility, right, privilege, 
activity, or program, that, immediately before the termination date 
under subsection (c), were functions of the Environmental Protection 
Agency are abolished effective on such termination date.
(c) Termination Date.--The termination date under this subsection 
is the date that is 270 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
(d) Wind-Up Activities.--The Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency shall take such actions as may be necessary to wind 
up any outstanding obligations, activities, or affairs of the 
Environmental Protection Agency prior to the termination date under 
subsection (c).
(e) Progress Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency shall submit to Congress a report on the Agency's 
progress in winding up the affairs of the Agency by not later than the 
termination date under subsection (c).
(f) Repeals.--Effective on the termination date under subsection 
(c), any provision of law authorizing or requiring the Environmental 
Protection Agency to perform any function is, to the extent such 
provision of law applies to the Environmental Protection Agency, 
repealed.

SEC. 3. BLOCK GRANTS TO DESIGNATED STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 
DEPARTMENTS.

(a) Allocation of Funds.--
(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of 
the Treasury shall allocate funds made available pursuant to 
paragraph (5) to each covered State in the proportion to which 
the total population of such covered State bears to the total 
population of all the covered States, as determined by the last 
preceding decennial census.
(2) Block grant conditions.--
(A) Designation of state agency or department.--As 
a condition of a covered State receiving an allocation 
of funds under this subsection, the Governor of such 
covered State shall designate the environmental quality 
department or departments of such covered State that 
will use the funds to carry out the programs and 
activities described in paragraph (4).
(B) Audits.--As a condition of a covered State 
receiving an allocation of funds under this subsection, 
the Governor of such covered State shall commit to--
(i) completing audits on the use of funds 
by each environmental quality department 
designated pursuant to subparagraph (A) as the 
Secretary of the Treasury determines 
appropriate; and
(ii) submitting to the Secretary of the 
Treasury the results of such audits at such 
time and in such manner as the Secretary of the 
Treasury determines appropriate.
(3) Misused funds.--If the Secretary of the Treasury finds 
that any funds made available pursuant to this section have 
been misused by a covered State, or any environmental quality 
department thereof designated pursuant to paragraph (2), the 
Secretary of the Treasury may require repayment of the misused 
funds and withhold Federal funds made available pursuant to 
this section until such repayment occurs.
(4) Use of funds.--An environmental quality department 
designated pursuant to paragraph (2) shall use funds made 
available to such environmental quality department pursuant to 
this section to carry out programs and activities relating to 
air quality, water quality (including protection and safety of 
drinking water), management of solid and hazardous waste, 
chemical safety and emergency response, radiation protection, 
and remediation of contaminated sites.
(5) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
to be appropriated to carry out this subsection $4,400,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2029.
(b) Definition of Covered State.--In this section, the term 
``covered State'' means each of the several States, the District of 
Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana 
Islands, and American Samoa.
(c) Authorization for Administration.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary of the Treasury such sums as may be 
necessary for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2029 to--
(1) administer any allocation of funds made available 
pursuant to subsection (a)(5); and
(2) audit the use of funds made available pursuant to 
subsection (a)(5) and report to Congress on the results of any 
such audit.

SEC. 4. ANNUAL GAO STUDY AND REPORT.

(a) Annual Study and Report.--The Comptroller General of the United 
States shall--
(1) annually, for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2029, 
conduct a study on the implementation and effectiveness of this 
Act; and
(2) submit to Congress, not later than 180 days after the 
end of the fiscal year with respect to which a study under 
paragraph (1) is conducted, a report on the results of such 
study.
(b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Comptroller General of the United States to carry 
out this section such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 
2026 through 2029.
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