[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2601 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2601

To redesignate the Environmental Protection Agency as the Department of 
                       Environmental Protection.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 1993

 Mr. Conyers introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Government Operations

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                                 A BILL


 
To redesignate the Environmental Protection Agency as the Department of 
                       Environmental Protection.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Department of Environmental 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. REDESIGNATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY AS DEPARTMENT 
              OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

    (a) Redesignation.--The Environmental Protection Agency is 
redesignated as the Department of Environmental Protection, and shall 
be an executive department in the executive branch of the Government.
    (b) Secretary of the Environment.--There shall be at the head of 
the Department a Secretary of the Environment who shall be appointed by 
the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
    (c) Transfer of Function, Powers, and Duties.--The functions, 
powers, and duties of each officer and employee of the Environmental 
Protection Agency are transferred to and vested in the corresponding 
officer or employee of the Department.
    (d) Delegation of Authority.--The Secretary may, consistent with 
other laws--
            (1) delegate any functions, powers, or duties, including 
        with respect to the making of regulations, to such officers and 
        employees of the Department as the Secretary may designate; and
            (2) authorize such successive redelegations of such 
        functions within the Department as the Secretary considers to 
        be necessary or appropriate.

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