[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4149 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4149

 To prohibit the closure, consolidation, or elimination of offices of 
                  the Environmental Protection Agency.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 2, 2019

Mrs. Dingell (for herself and Ms. Tlaib) introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in 
     addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and 
Infrastructure, and Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the closure, consolidation, or elimination of offices of 
                  the Environmental Protection Agency.

    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 ``Recognizing the Environmental Gains 
In Overcoming Negligence Act'' or the ``REGION Act''.

SEC. 2. REGIONAL AND PROGRAM OFFICES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
              AGENCY.

    No office of the Environmental Protection Agency, including any 
region, regional office, or program office, shall be closed, 
consolidated, or eliminated using funds made available in any 
appropriations Act for any fiscal year.
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