[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 98 (Thursday, June 18, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E931]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       CODIFICATION OF TITLE 55, UNITED STATES CODE, ENVIRONMENT

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                            HON. TOM MARINO

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 18, 2015

  Mr. MARINO. Mr. Speaker, I am introducing a bill to enact certain 
laws relating to the environment as title 55, United States Code, 
``Environment''. The bill restates the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969, Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970, and the Clean Air Act, 
along with related provisions in other Acts, as a new positive law 
title of the United States Code. The new positive law title replaces 
the existing provisions, which are repealed by the bill.
  The bill was prepared by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of 
the House of Representatives as part of its ongoing responsibility 
under 2 U.S.C. Sec. 285b to prepare, and submit to the Committee on the 
Judiciary one title at a time, a complete compilation, restatement, and 
revision of the general and permanent laws of the United States.
  All changes in existing law made by the bill are purely technical in 
nature. The bill was prepared in accordance with the statutory standard 
for codification legislation, which is that the restatement of existing 
law shall conform to the understood policy, intent, and purpose of 
Congress in the original enactments, with such amendments and 
corrections as will remove ambiguities, contradictions, and other 
imperfections.
  The bill is not intended to make any substantive changes in the law. 
As is typical with the codification process, a number of non-
substantive revisions are made, including the reorganization of 
sections into a more coherent overall structure, but these changes are 
not intended to have any substantive effect.
  The bill, along with a detailed section-by-section explanation of the 
bill, can be found on the Law Revision Counsel Internet site at http://
uscode.house.gov/codification/t55/index.html. Interested parties are 
invited to submit comments, not later than 30 days after today's date, 
to Tim Trushel, Senior Counsel, Office of the Law Revision Counsel, 
U.S. House of Representatives.

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