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H.R. 2000: CLEANER Act of 2017

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H.R. 2000: CLEANER Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-04-06 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-04-06 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

CLEANER Act of 2017

Plain summary

CLEANER Act of 2017 or the Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act of 2017 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.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

CLEANER Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17] · 73 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Jared Huffman (D-CA), William R. Keating (D-MA), Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Adam Smith (D-WA), Mark Takano (D-CA), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and 13 more.

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Words on this page, explained (4)
Appropriation
Money a legislature sets aside by law for a specific purpose. Government agencies may spend public money only as it has been appropriated.
Bill
A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
Exemption
A rule that removes certain people, property or activities from a tax or requirement.
Rulemaking
The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr2000 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115