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H.R. 6325, The Packaging Reduction Act of 2008

  • This item is from the 110th Congress (2007-2008) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.

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H.R. 6325 would require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a plan to reduce the total amount of packaging used on consumer products in the United States.

== Detailed Summary ==

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(Log Packaging Reduction Act of 2008 - Establishes a national consumer product packaging reduction goal to reduce the total amount of packaging used on consumer products in the United States to editan amount that is at least 30 percent below the wiki and beamount used on the firstdate of enactment of this Act.

Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
to providedevelop and implement a detailed summaryplan to meet the national packaging reduction goal within 10 years after enactment of this Act that includes methods of meeting the goal and methods of measuring the bill!)plan's effectiveness.
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== Status of the Legislation ==

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(Log inLatest Major Action: 6/19/2008: Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to edit the wikiHouse Committee on Energy and be the first to update the status of the bill!)Commerce.
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