HR 872 · 112th Congress · Environmental Protection
Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011
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EnactedLatest: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 78.(2011-06-21)
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Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act [CWA]) to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or a state from requiring a permit under the CWA for a discharge from a point source into navigable waters of a pesticide registered under FIFRA, or the residue of such a pesticide, resulting from the application of such pesticide. Exempts from such prohibition the following discharges containing a pesticide or pesticide residue: (1) a discharge resulting from the application of a pesticide in violation of FIFRA that is relevant to protecting water quality, if the discharge would not have occurred but for the violation or the amount of pesticide or pesticide residue contained in the discharge is greater than would have occurred without the violation; (2) stormwater discharges regulated under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES); and (3) municipal or industrial discharges regulated under NPDES, including manufacturing or industrial effluent, treatment works effluent, and discharges incid…
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CBO Cost Estimate
Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 872, Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011
Mar 11, 2011Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Agriculture on March 9, 2011
Full CBO report ↗H.R. 872, Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011
Mar 21, 2011Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on March 16, 2011
Full CBO report ↗H.R. 872, Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011
Jun 23, 2011Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on June 21, 2011
Full CBO report ↗Official non-partisan budget analysis by the Congressional Budget Office
Cosponsors (20)
9 Democrats11 Republicans