HR 4215 · 114th Congress 2015–2017, ended

CLEANER Act of 2015

Introduced Dec 10, 2015 Originated House Sponsor Matt Cartwright D-PA

Latest action · Dec 11, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.

Progress

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IntroducedDec 10, 2015
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

CLEANER Act of 2015 or the Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2015

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.

Cosponsors 101

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 10, 2015 to May 16, 2016; 100 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-WA	Adam Smith	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-FL	Alan Grayson	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NJ	Albio Sires	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Brad Sherman	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Brian Higgins	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-PA	Chaka Fattah	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-ME	Chellie Pingree	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-FL	Corrine Brown	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NC	David E. Price	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-IA	David Loebsack	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-WA	Denny Heck	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-WA	Derek Kilmer	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CO	Diana DeGette	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-VA	Donald S. Beyer, Jr.	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Eric Swalwell	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Grace Meng	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Jackie Speier	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-RI	James R. Langevin	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Jared Huffman	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CO	Jared Polis	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CT	John B. Larson	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MD	John P. Sarbanes	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MA	Joseph P. Kennedy III	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Juan Vargas	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Judy Chu	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Karen Bass	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MA	Katherine M. Clark	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Kathleen M. Rice	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-FL	Kathy Castor	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MN	Keith Ellison	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Lois Capps	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-WI	Mark Pocan	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-HI	Mark Takai	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Mark Takano	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Maxine Waters	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Michael M. Honda	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-IL	Mike Quigley	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Mike Thompson	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MA	Niki Tsongas	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Paul Tonko	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-VT	Peter Welch	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MA	Richard E. Neal	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MN	Richard M. Nolan	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-WA	Rick Larsen	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-PA	Robert A. Brady	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MA	Seth Moulton	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Susan A. Davis	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-WA	Suzan K. DelBene	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Ted Lieu	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-MA	William R. Keating	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	Dec 10, 2015
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		May 16, 2016

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Dec 10, 2015
	Environment Subcommittee	Referred Dec 11, 2015

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

Dec 11, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
Dec 10, 2015Introduced in House
Dec 10, 2015Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 (relating to the power of Congress to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.)

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 179, December 10, 2015, page H9271.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 2000	CLEANER Act of 2017	Reintroduced Bill	Apr 7, 2017

Titles 3

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To require regulation of wastes associated with the exploration, development, or production of crude oil, natural gas, or geothermal energy under the Solid Waste Disposal Act, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2015; CLEANER Act of 2015

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Dec 10, 2015Introduced in House

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