General Duly Clarification Act Reintroduced in the House

摘要

On February 28, U.S. Reps. Mike Pompeo (R-KS), Jim Matheson (D-UT), Billy Long (R-MS), and Bob Latta (R-OH), reintroduced legislation-H.R. 888, the General Duty Clarification Act-which would bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating chemical facility security under the Clean Air Act's general duty clause to mandate installation of inherently safer technologies at chemical facilities. ACA signed onto a letter of support for H.R. 888, along with a group of other trade associations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. ACA and the industry maintain that Congress explicitly assigned jurisdiction over chemical facility security to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2007.