# 119-hr-7523: Spent Petroleum Catalyst Recycling and Critical Minerals and Metals Recovery Exemption Act

119-hr-7523, Spent Petroleum Catalyst Recycling and Critical Minerals and Metals Recovery Exemption Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Balderson, Troy [R-OH-12] (R-OH); status introduced (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-7523
- Congress: 119
- Title: Spent Petroleum Catalyst Recycling and Critical Minerals and Metals Recovery Exemption Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-02-12
- Sponsor: Rep. Balderson, Troy [R-OH-12] (R-OH)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Energy
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Domestic vanadium recovery**. This bill would exempt certain recycling units that process spent petroleum catalyst from hazardous-waste furnace rules to speed recovery of vanadium and other metals and strengthen U.S. supplies for steel, energy, and defense. - Manufacturers, infrastructure, and defense: Would make it easier to get vanadium domestically by promoting recycling of spent hydrotreating and hydrorefining catalyst for use in steel, energy storage, and defense applications. - Recyclers and refineries: Would clarify that roasters, furnaces, and hydrometallurgical units reclaiming metals from spent petroleum catalyst (K171 and K172) are excluded from Boiler and Industrial Furnace requirements and can use the transfer-based exclusion at 40 C.F.R. 261.4(a)(24). - Environmental regulators: Directs the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a final rule revising Solid Waste Disposal Act subtitle C regulations, lets that rule take effect on publication, and allows the agency to proceed without the standard notice-and-comment process.

## Provisions PRIA read

- Easier recycling rules for refiners: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would tell the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a final rule quickly. The rule would exempt units that reclaim valuable metals from spent petroleum hydrotreating and hydrorefining catalyst (K171 and K172) from Boilers and Industrial Furnaces requirements. It would cover…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025
- 119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7613: ALERT Act
- 119-hr-8413: SECURE Data Act
- 119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
- 119-hr-2902: SOAR Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-7523 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7523)

## Related
- [119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4669)
- [119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2725)
- [119-hr-7613: ALERT Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7613)
- [119-hr-8413: SECURE Data Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8413)
- [119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4206)
- [119-hr-2902: SOAR Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2902)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7523 (as of 2026-04-21).