Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing".

This law disapproves and nullifies an EPA rule titled "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing," which was published on November 29, 2024. Using the Congressional Review Act procedure under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, Congress voted to revoke the rule, meaning it has no force or effect. The underlying EPA rule had set emissions standards for the rubber processing subcategory of the rubber tire manufacturing industry, responding to a 2020 D.C. Circuit court decision requiring EPA to regulate all hazardous air pollutant emissions from that source category. The joint resolution itself does not create a replacement standard or direct EPA to issue a new rule; it simply eliminates the disapproved rule. Under the Congressional Review Act, EPA is also barred from reissuing a substantially similar rule unless specifically authorized by a later law.

Rubber tire manufacturers, particularly the rubber processing subcategory, that would have been subject to the nullified emissions standards; the Environmental Protection Agency, which loses the rule and its ability to reissue a similar one; and communities near rubber tire manufacturing facilities affected by hazardous air pollutant emissions.

Tire manufacturers avoid the compliance costs and operational changes the nullified rule would have imposed to limit hazardous air pollutants like benzene and other toxics. Communities near affected plants may see fewer emissions controls than the rule would have required, and EPA cannot easily re-regulate the same pollutants from this industry subcategory without new legislation.

As a Congressional Review Act disapproval resolution, this law is self-executing: once enacted, the targeted EPA rule immediately has no force or effect, with no agency rulemaking or phase-in required. The Congressional Review Act also prohibits EPA from issuing a new rule that is "substantially the same" as the disapproved one unless a future law specifically authorizes it, so any renewed regulatory effort on rubber tire manufacturing emissions would require new congressional action or a materially different rule.