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EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011

Floor Speech

Date: Oct. 6, 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Business and Consumers Environment

Mr. OLSON. I thank the chairman of the subcommittee.

Mr. Chairman, President Obama's regulatory agenda, being led by the EPA, is going to kill the American pulp and paper industry. My father spent his entire career in the pulp and paper industry, so I know firsthand that if the misguided Boiler MACT rules are allowed to be implemented, 36 mills across this country will close and more than 80,000 jobs will be lost. These jobs will be lost because of the EPA's failure to understand the basics of how this industry works.

The industry does not--does not--impose reasonable regulations. They are just asking to have regulations based on sound science, which can be achieved with technology that is currently available here in the real world.

Mr. Chairman, we need to stop exporting American manufacturing jobs. I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on H.R. 2250, the EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011, to create an immediate positive impact on American jobs and the recovery of our economy.


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