# H.R. 6398 (119th): Reducing and Eliminating Duplicative Environmental Regulations Act or the RED Tape Act

Reducing and Eliminating Duplicative Environmental Regulations Act or the RED Tape Act This bill removes the requirement under the Clean Air Act that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) review and comment on newly authorized federal construction projects and other major federal agency actions that already require review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and proposed federal regulations.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: clean_air_act. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: environmental_regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: nepa. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulatory_reform. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 117: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 118: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a generic regulatory-process measure that removes a layer of duplicative environmental review. It plausibly serves prudent governance by reducing overlap, but it also raises real concerns about weakening an independent check on air-quality and environmental impacts. Those are prudential and environmental-policy tradeoffs rather than a direct advancement or restraint of a named moral harm, so the classification is mixed.
Theological note: Scripture calls rulers to act justly, to protect the vulnerable, and to care for creation as a trust, while also honoring sound stewardship and orderly, non-redundant governance. This measure touches how environmental review is divided among agencies. Its relevance lies in whether it preserves adequate protection of neighbors and the land or only removes duplicative procedure, which the summary does not settle.

## Recorded votes

Roll 117: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 213 · Nay 216 · Other 2.
Roll 118: On Passage. Yea 222 · Nay 205 · Other 4.

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