Title: EPA Special Hiring Authority Transparency Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
EPA Special Hiring Authority Transparency Act
This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Amendments of 1977 to revise the special hiring authority given to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to appoint up to 30 personnel for positions without regard to the civil service laws. This bill requires the Administrator to notify Congress within 30 days of appointment of personnel under the special hiring authority. The notification must include the appointee's name, title, salary, and a detailed justification explaining why the Administrator determined the appointment was necessary.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2869 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2869

  To amend the Safe Drinking Water Amendments of 1977 to require the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to report certain 
            hiring to carry out the Safe Drinking Water Act.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 16, 2018

  Ms. Duckworth (for herself and Mr. Carper) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Safe Drinking Water Amendments of 1977 to require the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to report certain 
            hiring to carry out the Safe Drinking Water Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``EPA Special Hiring Authority 
Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO REPORT HIRING TO CARRY OUT THE SAFE DRINKING 
              WATER ACT.

    Section 11(b) of the Safe Drinking Water Amendments of 1977 (42 
U.S.C. 300j-10) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(b) To the extent'' and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(b) Appointment of Personnel.--
            ``(1) In general.--To the extent''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Reporting of hiring required.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not later than 30 days after an 
                appointment is made under this subsection, the 
                Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
                shall provide notification of the appointment to--
                            ``(i) the Committee on Environment and 
                        Public Works of the Senate;
                            ``(ii) the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs of the Senate;
                            ``(iii) the Committee on Energy and 
                        Commerce of the House of Representatives; and
                            ``(iv) the Committee on Oversight and 
                        Government Reform of the House of 
                        Representatives.
                    ``(B) Notification requirements.--The notification 
                required under subparagraph (A) shall include the 
                following information about the appointment that was 
                made under this subsection:
                            ``(i) The name of the appointee.
                            ``(ii) The title of the appointee.
                            ``(iii) The salary of the appointee.
                            ``(iv) A detailed justification explaining 
                        why the Administrator of the Environmental 
                        Protection Agency deemed the appointment 
                        necessary to appropriately discharge the 
                        functions of the Administrator under the Safe 
                        Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.) and 
                        other provisions of law.''.
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