A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Review of Final Rule Reclassification of Major Sources as Area Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act".

This joint resolution nullifies an Environmental Protection Agency rule that requires industrial sources handling persistent and bioaccumulative hazardous air pollutants to maintain certain emission control standards when they reclassify from major sources to area sources. Under the EPA rule being eliminated, sources seeking to make this reclassification must continue using the stricter emission control methods that applied when they were classified as major sources, ensuring emissions do not increase beyond those previous major source standards.

By removing this rule, sources would no longer be required to implement or maintain those specific control methods during the reclassification process. Industrial facilities that transition from major source to area source status would instead be subject only to the less stringent emission standards applicable to area sources, potentially allowing emissions of hazardous air pollutants to increase beyond what the previous major source requirements would have permitted.