EPA Maximum Achievable Contraction of Technocrats Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-3641
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Griffith, H. Morgan [R-VA-9]
Introduced: 2013-12-03
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Congressional oversight

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Executive agency funding and structure

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Latest action: action_date: 2013-12-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-12-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>EPA Maximum Achievable Contraction of Technocrats Act of 2013 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take actions necessary to ensure that the total number of EPA employees 3 years after the last day of the second month beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act does not exceed the total number of employees on that earlier date, reduced by 15%.</p> <p>Sets forth reporting requirements concerning compliance with such reductions, including extensions of deadlines, if any.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3641 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 Committees 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the EPA Maximum Achievable Contraction of Technocrats Act of 2013 . 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (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 occupies space in fourteen different buildings in the District of Columbia. (3) From 1972 until 2011, the number of Environmental Protection Agency employees increased by 107 percent while the number of total Federal personnel 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 Register, the Environmental Protection Agency has published and put into effect 2,313 rules. 3. Definitions For purposes of this Act— (1) the term Administrator means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; (2) the term employee has the meaning given such term by section 2105 of title 5, United States Code; (3) the term baseline date means the last day of the second month beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act; and (4) the term workforce reduction target date means the date occurring 3 years after the baseline date. 4. Mandatory workforce reduction (a) In general The Administrator shall take such actions as may be necessary to ensure that— (1) the total number of employees in the Environmental Protection Agency on the workforce reduction target date does not exceed (2) the total number of employees in the Environmental Protection Agency on the baseline date, reduced by 15 percent. (b) Reporting requirements In order to carry out this Act, the Administrator shall submit to Congress a written determination of— (1) the total number of employees in the Environmental Protection Agency on the baseline date, not later than 30 days after such date; and (2) the total number of employees in the Environmental Protection Agency on the workforce reduction target date, not later than 30 days after such date. (c) Extension authority (1) In general The Administrator may, if necessary because timely compliance with subsection (a) is impracticable, delay the deadline for compliance 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 authority 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 noncompliance with the limitation specified in subsection (a)(2), including the extent of and the reasons for the noncompliance.