I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3641 
To require that the workforce of the Environmental Protection Agency be 
reduced by 15 percent. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 3, 2013 
Mr. GRIFFITH of Virginia introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Commit-
tees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, 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 require that the workforce of the Environmental 
Protection Agency be reduced by 15 percent. 
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 ‘‘EPA Maximum 
Achievable Contraction of Technocrats Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds as follows: 
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(1) During the Government shutdown of 2013, 
the Environmental Protection Agency deemed 95 
percent of its employees as ‘‘non essential’’. 
(2) The Environmental Protection Agency occu-
pies space in fourteen different buildings in the Dis-
trict of Columbia. 
(3) From 1972 until 2011, the number of Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency employees increased by 
107 percent while the number of total Federal per-
sonnel decreased by 15 percent. 
(4) In 2012, according to one study, complying 
with Environmental Protection Agency regulations 
cost the United States economy $353 billion. 
(5) Since 2008, according to the Federal Reg-
ister, the Environmental Protection Agency has pub-
lished and put into effect 2,313 rules. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; 
(2) the term ‘‘employee’’ has the meaning given 
such term by section 2105 of title 5, United States 
Code; 
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(c) EXTENSION AUTHORITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator may, if 
necessary because timely compliance with subsection 
(a) is impracticable, delay the deadline for compli-
ance for a period not to exceed 1 year. 
(2) NOTIFICATION.—If the authority under 
paragraph (1) is exercised, the Administrator shall 
submit a written report to Congress not later than 
30 days after the date on which such authority is so 
exercised. Such report shall include— 
(A) notification that the authority under 
paragraph (1) has been exercised; 
(B) the reasons why the exercise of author-
ity was necessary; and 
(C) the new deadline for compliance. 
(3) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date referred to in paragraph (2)(C), the 
Administrator shall submit to Congress— 
(A) a written determination of compliance 
with the limitation specified in subsection 
(a)(2), including the total number of employees 
in the Environmental Protection Agency as of 
the date referred to in paragraph (2)(C); or 
(B) a written determination of noncompli-
ance with the limitation specified in subsection 
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(a)(2), including the extent of and the reasons 
for the noncompliance. 
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