On the recordMay 24, 2016
I do rise in support of the amendments to H.R. 2576, and I congratulate Chairman Shimkus on the wonderful job he has done. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Shimkus) for the purpose of a brief colloquy to clarify one important element of the legislation. Mr. Chairman, it is my understanding that this bill reemphasizes Congress' intent to avoid duplicative regulation through the TSCA law. It does so by carrying over two important EPA constraints in section 9 of the existing law while adding a new, important provision that would be found as new section, 9(b)(2). It is my understanding that, as a unified whole, this language, old and new, limits the EPA's ability to promulgate a rule under section 6 of TSCA to restrict or eliminate the use of a chemical when the Agency either already regulates that chemical through a different statute under its own control and that authority sufficiently protects against a risk of injury to human health or the environment, or a different agency already regulates that chemical in a manner that also sufficiently protects against the risk identified by EPA. Would the chairman please confirm my understanding of section 9?
