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Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2017
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency or a state from requiring a permit under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) for a discharge of a pesticide from a point source into navigable waters if the discharge is approved under FIFRA. Point source pollution is waste discharged from a distinct place, such as a pipe, channel, or tunnel.
(Sec. 3) NPDES permits are required for: (1) a discharge resulting from the application of a pesticide in violation of FIFRA that is relevant to protecting water quality, if the discharge would not have occurred but for the violation or the amount of pesticide or pesticide residue contained in the discharge is greater than would have occurred without the violation; (2) stormwater discharges regulated under NPDES; and (3) discharges regulated under NPDES of manufacturing or industrial effluent or treatment works effluent and discharges incidental to the normal operation of a vessel, including a discharge resulting from operations concerning ballast water held in ships to increase stability or vessel biofouling prevention.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 953 as passed House amended on May 24, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
May 24, 2017Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMay 24, 2017
House May 24, 2017 · the primary vote
Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act
Passed
256 Yea 165 Nay 9 not voting
Party-line vote 26 of 421 voting members broke with their own party: 25 Democrats, 1 Republican.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
430 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 953 and vote against it. 23 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 953 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
154 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.