HR7523-119

In Committee

Spent Petroleum Catalyst Recycling and Critical Minerals and Metals Recovery Exemption Act

119th Congress Introduced Feb 12, 2026

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Spent Petroleum Catalyst Recycling and Critical Minerals and Metals Recovery Exemption Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Defense, Foreign Policy.

Who Benefits and How

environmental regulators and natural-resource users may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section HC7839DB7024446D6904688643A897287: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Spent Petroleum Catalyst Recycling and Critical Minerals and Metals Recovery Exemption Act.
  • Section H3CBA57E36D9F495AADE5461E59DB7A04: 2. Findings Congress finds the following: In accordance with Executive Order 14272 (90 Fed. Reg. 16437; relating to ensuring national security and economic...
  • Section H680C59BF7620494C8FC1F1F6A3A52EEA: 3. Regulations As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall promulgate a...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Spent Petroleum Catalyst Recycling and Critical Minerals and Metals Recovery Exemption Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Key Policy Areas

Environment, Defense, Foreign Policy

Primary Purpose

This bill, Spent Petroleum Catalyst Recycling and Critical Minerals and Metals Recovery Exemption Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Policy Domains

Environment Defense Foreign Policy

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Feb 12, 2026

Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Feb 12, 2026

Introduced in House

Feb 12, 2026

Mr. Balderson introduced the following bill; which was referred to …

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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Environment Defense Foreign Policy
Actor Mappings
"administrator_of_epa"
→ Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

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