I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 352 
To rescind funds made available to the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency if the Administrator fails to meet certain deadlines. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 14, 2015 
Mr. DUFFY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agri-
culture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Appropriations, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To rescind funds made available to the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency if the Adminis-
trator fails to meet certain deadlines. 
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 ‘‘Environmental Protec-
tion Agency Accountability Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF ADMINISTRATOR. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
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SEC. 3. INTERIM ASSESSMENT OF REGULATORY REQUIRE-
MENTS AND APPLICABLE PENALTIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall en-
sure that the requirements described in subsection (b) are 
satisfied. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—The Administrator shall sat-
isfy— 
(1) section 4 of Executive Order 12866 (5 
U.S.C. 601 note) (relating to regulatory planning 
and review) and Executive Order 13563 (5 U.S.C. 
601 note) (relating to improving regulation and reg-
ulatory review) (or any successor Executive order es-
tablishing requirements applicable to the uniform re-
porting of regulatory and deregulatory agendas); 
(2) section 602 of title 5, United States Code; 
(3) section 8 of Executive Order 13132 (5 
U.S.C. 601 note) (relating to federalism); and 
(4) section 202(a) of the Unfunded Mandates 
Reform Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1532(a)). 
(c) FINANCIAL PENALTY PROVISIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), if 
the Comptroller General of the United States deter-
mines that the Administrator fails to satisfy any re-
quirement described in subsection (b), an amount of 
funding equal to $20,000 per week shall be re-
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scinded from the Office of the Administrator, and 
once each week thereafter until all the requirements 
are satisfied. 
(2) LIMITATIONS.— 
(A) 1-DAY GRACE PERIOD.—Paragraph (1) 
shall not apply if each requirement listed in 
subsection (b) is satisfied not later than 1 day 
after the deadline for the requirement. 
(B) MAXIMUM
AMOUNT
OF
RESCINDED 
FUNDS.—No rescission of funds under para-
graph (1) shall exceed, in any fiscal year, an 
amount equal to 7 percent of the funds made 
available to the Office of the Administrator. 
(3) AUDITS.—In any fiscal year in which any 
funds are rescinded from the Administrator pursu-
ant to this Act, the Inspector General of the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency shall— 
(A) conduct an audit to assess compliance 
with the requirements of this paragraph; and 
(B) not later than 120 days after the end 
of the fiscal year during which any funds are 
rescinded under paragraph (1), submit to the 
Committee on Environment and Public Works 
of the Senate, the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure of the House of Representa-
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tives, the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate, and the Committee on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives a report de-
scribing the reasons why the funds were re-
scinded, including allocations of resources. 
(4) EFFECT OF PARAGRAPH.—Nothing in this 
paragraph affects or limits the application of, or ob-
ligation to comply with, any Federal, State, local, or 
tribal law. 
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