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Natural Resources committee reviews draft H.319 changes to preserve federal references, tweak paint EPR and fee timing
Summary
Members of the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee discussed draft language in H.319 to preserve federal regulations incorporated by reference, tweak paint extended-producer-responsibility (EPR) language, and to clarify fee-reporting and timing provisions; no formal votes were taken.
Committee members and staff reviewed multiple technical and policy provisions in a new draft of H.319, focusing on a provision designed to prevent state programs from being left without enforceable standards if certain federal regulations are repealed, and on refinements to the recovered household hazardous products and paint EPR language.
The committee heard that the bill "provides that any federal regulation incorporated by reference into an ANR rule as of 01/01/2025 shall continue with that as an agency rule until 01/01/2028 when the agency rules next amended, whichever is sooner," and that ANR would be required to post incorporated federal regulations on its website, Michael Grama, committee counsel, said. Grama added that section text clarifies ANR "shall…
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