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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3346 
To abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 13, 2025 
Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Com-
mittees 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 
A BILL 
To abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Sovereign State Envi-
ronmental Quality Assurance Act’’. 
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(f) REPEALS.—Effective on the termination date 
under subsection (c), any provision of law authorizing or 
requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to per-
form any function is, to the extent such provision of law 
applies to the Environmental Protection Agency, repealed. 
SEC. 3. BLOCK GRANTS TO DESIGNATED STATE ENVIRON-
MENTAL QUALITY DEPARTMENTS. 
(a) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall allocate funds 
made available pursuant to paragraph (5) to each 
covered State in the proportion to which the total 
population of such covered State bears to the total 
population of all the covered States, as determined 
by the last preceding decennial census. 
(2) BLOCK GRANT CONDITIONS.— 
(A) DESIGNATION OF STATE AGENCY OR 
DEPARTMENT.—As a condition of a covered 
State receiving an allocation of funds under this 
subsection, the Governor of such covered State 
shall designate the environmental quality de-
partment or departments of such covered State 
that will use the funds to carry out the pro-
grams and activities described in paragraph (4). 
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(B) AUDITS.—As a condition of a covered 
State receiving an allocation of funds under this 
subsection, the Governor of such covered State 
shall commit to— 
(i) completing audits on the use of 
funds by each environmental quality de-
partment designated pursuant to subpara-
graph (A) as the Secretary of the Treasury 
determines appropriate; and 
(ii) submitting to the Secretary of the 
Treasury the results of such audits at such 
time and in such manner as the Secretary 
of the Treasury determines appropriate. 
(3) MISUSED FUNDS.—If the Secretary of the 
Treasury finds that any funds made available pursu-
ant to this section have been misused by a covered 
State, or any environmental quality department 
thereof designated pursuant to paragraph (2), the 
Secretary of the Treasury may require repayment of 
the misused funds and withhold Federal funds made 
available pursuant to this section until such repay-
ment occurs. 
(4) USE OF FUNDS.—An environmental quality 
department designated pursuant to paragraph (2) 
shall use funds made available to such environ-
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mental quality department pursuant to this section 
to carry out programs and activities relating to air 
quality, water quality (including protection and safe-
ty of drinking water), management of solid and haz-
ardous waste, chemical safety and emergency re-
sponse, radiation protection, and remediation of con-
taminated sites. 
(5) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subsection $4,400,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2026 through 2029. 
(b) DEFINITION OF COVERED STATE.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘covered State’’ means each of the several 
States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin 
Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Amer-
ican Samoa. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION FOR ADMINISTRATION.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the 
Treasury such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal 
years 2026 through 2029 to— 
(1) administer any allocation of funds made 
available pursuant to subsection (a)(5); and 
(2) audit the use of funds made available pur-
suant to subsection (a)(5) and report to Congress on 
the results of any such audit. 
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SEC. 4. ANNUAL GAO STUDY AND REPORT. 
(a) ANNUAL STUDY AND REPORT.—The Comptroller 
General of the United States shall— 
(1) annually, for each of fiscal years 2026 
through 2029, conduct a study on the implementa-
tion and effectiveness of this Act; and 
(2) submit to Congress, not later than 180 days 
after the end of the fiscal year with respect to which 
a study under paragraph (1) is conducted, a report 
on the results of such study. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Comptroller General 
of the United States to carry out this section such sums 
as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2026 through 
2029. 
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