Title: Eliminate EPA Excess Act of 2017
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Eliminate EPA Excess Act of 2017
This bill requires the Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to submit reports to Congress evey five years on: (1) a survey of excess print and storage supplies held by the EPA's federal storage management facilities and recommendations for recycling and repurposing any excess printed inventory and addressing potential safety hazards associated with excess printed inventory, and (2) a survey of excess storage facility property held by the EPA and recommendations for reducing such excess property that is funded by the federal government.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2522 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2522

To require the Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency 
to submit reports to Congress on paper and property inventory, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 2017

Mr. Banks of Indiana introduced the following bill; which was referred 
    to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the 
   Committees 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency 
to submit reports to Congress on paper and property inventory, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``Eliminate EPA Excess Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. EPA IG REPORTS REQUIRED.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 2 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every 5 years thereafter, the Inspector 
General of the Environmental Protection Agency shall submit to Congress 
reports on the following:
            (1) Excess print and storage supplies report.--A survey of 
        excess print and storage supplies (in quantity of copies and 
        weight) held by the Federal storage management facilities of 
        the Environmental Protection Agency and recommendations for 
        recycling and repurposing any printed inventory determined to 
        be in excess, and addressing potential safety hazards 
        associated with excess printed inventory.
            (2) Excess storage property report.--A survey of excess 
        storage facility property held by the Environmental Protection 
        Agency and recommendations for reducing excess property held by 
        the Environmental Protection Agency and funded by the Federal 
        Government.
    (b) Excess Property Defined.--In this section, the term ``excess 
property'' has the meaning given that term in section 102 of title 40, 
United States Code.
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