Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
The bill directs the EPA to study the feasibility of creating a standardized national database to track recyclable materials, recycling and waste facility locations and capacities, recovery outcomes, landfill diversion, access gaps, and extended producer responsibility program performance. The EPA must complete the study and deliver a report to Congress within 18 months, and if the agency finds the database feasible and recommends it, the EPA must establish and maintain a public online database within one year of the report.
Left emphasizes environmental justice and strong data granularity
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-scoped study/reporting mandate with clear objectives, enumerated study tasks, named responsible entity, and concrete deadlines.
The bill directs the EPA to study the feasibility of creating a standardized national database to track recyclable materials, recycling and waste facility locations and capacities, recovery outcomes, landfill diversion, access gaps, and extended producer responsibility program performance.
The EPA must complete the study and deliver a report to Congress within 18 months, and if the agency finds the database feasible and recommends it, the EPA must establish and maintain a public online database within one year of the report.
The study must catalog facilities (threshold specified as 25,000 annual tons or another EPA-determined threshold), analyze permitting and economic barriers, and identify underserved geographic areas needing more recycling capacity.
Low-controversy, technical bill with modest costs; success depends on legislative calendar and willingness to include in a vehicle.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-scoped study/reporting mandate with clear objectives, enumerated study tasks, named responsible entity, and concrete deadlines. It includes a conditional, time-certain requirement to establish a publicly accessible national database if the Administrator finds it feasible and recommends it.
Left emphasizes environmental justice and strong data granularity
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Left emphasizes environmental justice and strong data granularity
Likely broadly supportive: the study could reveal environmental justice gaps and data needed to expand recycling and EPR programs.
They will view a publicly accessible database as a useful planning and accountability tool, while wishing the bill went further to fund infrastructure or mandate EPR.
They may press EPA to set a low throughput threshold and include community-level access metrics.
Generally favorable but pragmatic: supports better national data to improve planning while seeking clarity on costs, duplication with state systems, and privacy or proprietary concerns.
Wants clear cost estimates, timeline adherence, and coordination with states and private sector.
Would likely back the study if paired with budget discipline and intergovernmental collaboration.
Skeptical: views the bill as another expansion of federal data collection and potential prelude to new regulation or EPR mandates.
Support may be limited because it increases EPA responsibilities and could impose reporting burdens on businesses.
However, some may accept the study element if constrained by cost limits and strict limits on regulatory use of the data.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Low-controversy, technical bill with modest costs; success depends on legislative calendar and willingness to include in a vehicle.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Left emphasizes environmental justice and strong data granularity
Low-controversy, technical bill with modest costs; success depends on legislative calendar and willingness to include in a vehicle.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-scoped study/reporting mandate with clear objectives, enumerated study tasks, named responsible entity, and concrete deadlines. It includes a conditional, t…
Go beyond the headline summary with full stakeholder mapping, legislative design analysis, passage barriers, and lens-by-lens tradeoff breakdowns.