Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 2022

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Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. President, I feel like the Senator from West Virginia right now.

I am very glad that we are going to be passing these two recycling bills.

I will just briefly say I am the cosponsor of the bipartisan Recycling and Infrastructure Accessibility Act. Sometimes the simplest things that we can do have such great impacts, and I think that is what we are going to see here today.

In rural America, we don't have the accessibility to recycling and the infrastructure that we need, and that is the point of my bill. It helps us, obviously, protect our environment, supports jobs, and it helps our municipalities and others be able to sustain these.

This is a pilot program that would give Federal support for recycling infrastructure projects, such as transfer stations and dropoff facilities. That is the difficulty; you can't have one in every small town. You need to have a spoke-and-hub sort of system, and that is what this is looking at.

I will speed it up here. I want to thank all the different organizations and groups that have helped: The National Water Resources Association, the Plastics Industry Association, the American Beverage Association, our associated staffs, and particularly the chair of the full committee. He has been just a champion here in working on the recycling bills. He is the main sponsor of the Recycling Composting Accountability Act, of which I am also a cosponsor.

These will fill great and important data gaps. These are recycling bills that were reported out by voice votes so we have unanimous consent by our committee. I am glad that our colleagues have agreed to pass them. S. 3742

So I will move on and say, as if in legislative session, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 357, S. 3742.
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Mrs. CAPITO. Thank you.

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