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Creates a new EPA pilot grant program to expand recycling access in communities with limited service, with funding authorized for fiscal years 2025–2029, program rules for eligible applicants, allowable uses, grant sizes, and federal cost‑sharing. Requires the EPA to set up the program and report to Congress after grants begin.
Directs the EPA and other federal partners to collect, inventory, and publish data on recycling and composting systems, facilities, rates, and markets, to study materials lost from the circular economy, and to protect specified confidential information; it authorizes funding for those data and study activities and forbids imposing unfunded mandates on States, local governments, and Indian Tribes.
Received in the House.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
Introduced January 30, 2025 by Shelley Moore Capito · Last progress November 20, 2025
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