The $1.1 trillion spending bill will let us use lead bullets

[Ozzieman]

Spending bill extras sneak in approval,,, lead bullets
In the paper tonight
Part of the government spending
Hunting and fishing: Prohibits the EPA from regulating lead in ammunition or fishing tackle.
Republicans stopped it, there reasoning was that the EPA regulations were an overreach and just the threat would make it hard to find bullets.
Then again it increased the amount a donor could give to political parties from $194,400 to 1.6 million$$$

 

[Aguila Blanca]

Then again it increased the amount a donor could give to political parties from $194,400 to 1.6 million$$$

A cynical person might wonder what that has to do with "spending."

I really wish the Congress would adopt rules that absolutely prohibit sticking things into bills that are unrelated to the purported subject of the bill.

 

[SSA]

Did the EPA ever regulate, or attempt to regulate, lead bullets?

 

[thallub]

Did the EPA ever regulate, or attempt to regulate, lead bullets?

The EPA has never had the authority to ban lead bullets.

The Environmental Protection Agency has denied a petition by five environmental groups to ban lead in hunting ammunition, saying the issue is not within the agency's jurisdiction. The EPA said Friday it did not have the authority to enact the ban, aimed at protecting wildlife, under the Toxic Substances Control Act, as the groups had requested.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/hunting/2010/08/epa-rejects-lead-ammunition-ban

 

[45_auto]

We lost a local shooting range because of potential EPA personal responsibility concerns regarding lead cleanup.

The SEALS took it over about 10 years ago and have been hosing it down since then with about a million times as much lead in a week as the club did in 20 years.

1.2.3 Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act (CERCLA)

The Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA),
imposes liability on past and present owners or
operators of properties where a release of a
hazardous substance into the environment
exists. CERCLA is used to ensure that an
owner/operator cleans a contaminated site or to
seek reimbursement from past owners/operators
or disposers (potentially responsible parties or
PRPs) when a party, either the government or
private party, has cleaned up the contamination.
Under CERCLA, lead is considered a hazardous
substance.
EPA has the authority to order a PRP to clean up
a site or conduct the cleanup and recover its
costs from the PRP under CERCLA.
Responsible parties may be held liable for all
cleanup costs, which can be substantial. Under
CERCLA, shooting ranges may be liable for
government costs incurred during the cleanup
of ranges, natural resources damages, and
health assessments and/or health effects
studies. The following two examples illustrate
how shooting ranges (including one operated by
the federal government) can be affected by
CERCLA.

http://www.epa.gov/region2/waste/leadshot/epa_bmp.pdf

 

[4V50 Gary]

Considering that the FDIC is in a position to assume trillions (if not quadrillions) of derivative debts from the Too Big To Jail, this budget is not in the interest of We The People.

 

[thallub]

Considering that the FDIC is in a position to assume trillions (if not quadrillions) of derivative debts from the Too Big To Jail, this budget is not in the interest of We The People.

In this budget deal congress allowed the big banks to deal in another type of "swap".