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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3751 
To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 
enforcing a rule or regulation that restricts certain operations of certain 
electric generating units, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 5, 2025 
Mr. BURLISON (for himself, Mr. GILL of Texas, and Ms. HAGEMAN) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce 
A BILL 
To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency from enforcing a rule or regulation that 
restricts certain operations of certain electric generating 
units, 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 ‘‘Reliable Grid Act’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) reliable, affordable electricity is a funda-
mental prerequisite for a healthy human environ-
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ment and must be a central consideration in all reg-
ulations; 
(2) the Administrator should prioritize the reli-
ability of the electric grid when considering new reg-
ulations and avoid imposing any regulations that 
may compromise such reliability by prematurely re-
tiring essential electric generating units; 
(3) NERC has already identified the threats of 
‘‘insufficient dispatchable resources’’ and ‘‘low ca-
pacity reserves’’ across the United States, at the 
same time as demand increases from electrification, 
including the forced adoption of electric vehicles and 
the decline of reliable capacity such as natural gas, 
coal, petroleum, nuclear, and geothermal energy in 
favor of unreliable solar and wind capacity; 
(4) the operators of major regional power grids 
in the United States notified former Administrator 
Regan in August 2023, in response to proposed rule-
making, that energy and environmental policies 
‘‘could well exacerbate the disturbing trends and 
growing risk wherein the pace of retirements of gen-
eration with attributes needed to ensure grid reli-
ability is rapidly exceeding the commercialization of 
new resources capable of providing those reliability 
attributes’’; 
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(5) administrators under the Biden administra-
tion and certain administrations preceding the Biden 
administration imposed regulations that forced the 
premature retirement of reliable power generation 
capacity, which was not replaced with adequate new 
reliable capacity, primarily from coal and natural 
gas electric generating units, causing increased 
shortages of electricity and challenges to the reliable 
operation of the power grid; 
(6) such regulations included the— 
(A) ‘‘New Source Performance Standards 
for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, 
Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired 
Electric Generating Units; Emission Guidelines 
for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Existing 
Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units; 
and Repeal of the Affordable Clean Energy 
Rule’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 39798 (May 9, 2024)); 
(B) ‘‘National Emission Standards for 
Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired 
Electric Utility Steam Generating Units Review 
of the Residual Risk and Technology Review’’ 
(89 Fed. Reg. 38508 (May 7, 2024)); and 
(C) ‘‘Supplemental Effluent Limitations 
Guidelines and Standards for the Steam Elec-
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tric Power Generating Point Source Category’’ 
(89 Fed. Reg. 40198 (May 9, 2024)); 
(7) such regulations have led to the retirement 
of reliable electric generating units and major capac-
ity inadequacies in Texas, California, and other 
areas across the United States, and regulations con-
tinue to threaten the reliability of the grid in the 
United States; 
(8) jeopardizing the reliability of the electric 
grid through regulations that have the potential to 
prematurely retire reliable electric generating units 
immediately endangers the human environment, 
health, and life of all individuals in the United 
States; 
(9) such jeopardization runs counter to the mis-
sion of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
‘‘protect human health and the environment’’; 
(10) the desire of former Administrator Regan 
to rapidly retire reliable coal and natural gas electric 
generating units in favor of unreliable solar and 
wind electric generating units has exacerbated the 
shortfall of reliable capacity beyond the alarming 
projections noted by industry in 2023; 
(11) the desire of former Administrator Regan 
to electrify many energy uses, from cooking and 
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heating to transportation, across the United States 
has exacerbated the threat of capacity inadequacy 
and reduced the reliability of the electric grid during 
peak demand periods; 
(12) the Administrator should, in coordination 
with public utilities and operators of electric gener-
ating units— 
(A) identify the electric generating units in 
danger of premature retirement because of ex-
isting regulations; and 
(B) provide waivers, to the extent possible, 
to prevent the premature shutdown of such 
electric generating units due to such regulations 
and support the supply of reliable electricity, es-
pecially given the warnings from Chairman 
Christie of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission that the United States is ‘‘heading 
for a reliability crisis’’; 
(13) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commis-
sion should coordinate with NERC to develop new 
standards relating to the reliability of the grid in the 
United States that acknowledge that unreliable solar 
and wind electric generating units can perform at 
near-zero capacity during peak demand and under 
extreme weather conditions; 
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