[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7121]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          COSPONSOR H.R. 5177

  (Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. REHBERG. For thousands of Montana small businesses, Earth Day was 
just one more example of how out of touch Washington bureaucrats can 
be. The EPA chose Earth Day as the deadline for its new rule, the lead 
rule. Every contractor in Montana needed to take a training course from 
an EPA-certified instructor in order to work on any older building that 
contained lead. The trouble is Montana only has one teacher for all of 
our 147,000 square miles, and the EPA gave us less than 1 year to do 
it.
  Everyone wants to make sure that lead is handled safely. But at a 
time when contractors are hurting from an economic downturn, we don't 
need to add Federal bungling to the list of challenges.
  I introduced H.R. 5177 to extend the EPA deadline and give these 
small businesses room to breathe. Please join me in cosponsoring this 
bill. Our contractors are already suffering without the EPA coming 
after them.

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