Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to the "California State Nonroad Engine Pollution Control Standards; Commercial Harbor Craft Regulations; Notice of Decision".

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HJRES 213 is a constitutional use of congressional oversight to nullify an EPA authorization for added California harbor-craft emission rules. It stays within enumerated legislative power, infringes no rights, reduces burdens on individuals, returns decision-making toward the states, and involves no taking or due-process denial.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Congress acts within explicit authority. Article I, Section 1 vests legislative power in Congress. Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 supports regulation of interstate commerce affected by harbor craft, and Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 supports laws necessary and proper for overseeing executive agencies. Review and disapproval of agency rules under chapter 8 of title 5 is a legislative check on del…
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  HJRES 213 does not restrict speech, religion, press, assembly, arms, privacy against search, or other protections in the first ten Amendments. It removes a federal authorization for added emission rules, thereby reducing regulatory burden rather than imposing a rights restriction. No provision of the First through Tenth Amendments is infringed.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The bill imposes no new mandate on persons, vessels, labor, belief, or speech. It revokes partial EPA authorization for CARB commercial harbor craft amendments, including expanded vessel coverage and compliance dates. The burden on owners and operators of commercial fishing boats and other craft is therefore reduced, leaving greater control over property and labor with individuals under the Ninth …
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  This resolution moves authority downward. (1) Individuals cannot set vessel emission standards alone, so individual handling is false. (2) Local ports alone cannot manage interstate harbor and vessel pollution, so local handling is false. (3) States can set nonroad standards under the Clean Air Act waiver process, so state handling is true. (4) It does not consolidate upward; it nullifies a federa…
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  The resolution does not seize property, impose fines, create criminal liability, or bypass notice and hearing. Under the Fifth Amendment Due Process and Takings Clauses, no property is taken and no proceeding is short-circuited. It uses the public legislative process under Article I, Section 1 and chapter 8 of title 5, preserving procedural regularity.

Sources: Congress.gov: HJRES 213 summary