Chemical Disaster Prevention Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Chemical Disaster Prevention Act creates a moratorium protecting the March 11, 2024 EPA final rule titled Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act; Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention. From enactment until January 20, 2029, EPA may not propose, finalize, or implement any action to reconsider, revise, or replace that rule, notwithstanding any other law. The result is to lock in the 2024 chemical accident prevention requirements through the end of the covered period unless Congress changes the law again.
Who Benefits and How
Communities near covered chemical facilities benefit because the 2024 risk-management requirements remain in force without EPA rollback or replacement during the moratorium. Workers, emergency responders, and local governments may benefit from continued accident-prevention planning, safer-technology review, emergency coordination, and public safety measures embedded in the rule. Environmental and public-health advocates benefit from statutory protection for the 2024 rule.
Who Bears the Burden and How
EPA officials are barred from using ordinary rulemaking authority to reconsider, revise, or replace the 2024 rule through January 20, 2029. Chemical facilities remain subject to compliance duties under the existing risk-management rule and cannot rely on EPA to weaken or delay those requirements during the moratorium. Regulated companies may continue bearing costs for hazard assessment, prevention programs, emergency response coordination, audits, and compliance documentation required by the 2024 rule.
Key Provisions
- Prohibits EPA from proposing, finalizing, or implementing any action to reconsider, revise, or replace the 2024 Clean Air Act Risk Management Program rule.
- Keeps the moratorium in place from enactment until January 20, 2029.
- Preserves the 2024 Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention rule during the moratorium period.
- Requires regulated chemical facilities to continue complying with the existing 2024 accident-prevention framework.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Prevents EPA from reconsidering, revising, replacing, proposing, finalizing, or implementing changes to the 2024 Clean Air Act Risk Management Program rule until January 20, 2029.
Key Policy Areas
Environment, Manufacturing, Public Safety, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Prevents EPA from reconsidering, revising, replacing, proposing, finalizing, or implementing changes to the 2024 Clean Air Act Risk Management Program rule until January 20, 2029.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Nearby communities
- Emergency responders
- Workers
Identified Costs
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Chemical facilities
- Manufacturers
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Barragán introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "Administrator"
- → Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
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