On behalf of the 500 members of the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA), I write to express our gratitude for the much-needed oversight hearing titled Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Implementation Post-Sackett Decision: Experiences and Perspectives on September 11, 2024. Your attention to this matter is crucial and greatly appreciated. NSSGA represents the aggregates and industrial sand industry, and the companies that manufacture equipment and provide services.

On behalf of the 450 members of the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA), I write to express our strong support for The Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 and urge the Senate to pass it expeditiously. Specifically, we are encouraged to see the legislation restores immediate expensing of domestic research and development expenditures, extends 100 percent bonus depreciation, and extends enhanced interest deductibility.

I write on behalf of the over 450 members of the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) to express our support for your amendment, Palmer #80, to H.R. 8998, the Department of the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025. This amendment, which prohibits funds from being used to implement, administer or enforce the final rule, "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP): Lime Manufacturing Plants Technology Review," would benefit our industry and we urge the House of Representatives to pass it.

Ahead of the Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee’s July 9th Hearing entitled “An Examination of the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) In Use Locomotive Regulation” we write on behalf of the members of the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) and California Construction and Industrial Materials Association (CalCIMA), to express our concerns over the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) request for EPA authorization of its In-Use Locomotive Regulation. The CARB rule would ban most locomotives that are more than 23 years old starting in 2030.

Thank you for holding today’s hearing, “Cutting Competition in Contracting: The Administration’s Pricey Project Labor Agreement Mandate.” As you know, on Dec. 22, the Biden administration published a final rule, Federal Acquisition Regulation: Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects, implementing President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14063, which requires federal construction contracts of $35 million or more to be subjected to anti-competitive and inflationary project labor agreements.

On behalf of the over 450 members of the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA), I am writing to express our support for the Water Resources and Development Act of 2024. NSSGA represents aggregates producers and those who manufacture equipment and services that support the construction industry. Our members are essential to the work of this country, and we represent more than 90 percent of the crushed stone and 70 percent of the sand and gravel produced annually in the United States.

We encourage you to co-sponsor H.R. 8204, the Regulatory Early Notice and Engagement Act. This bipartisan legislation would reform the federal regulatory process to make it more transparent, accountable, and responsive to the public. The end result will be better regulation.

On Dec. 22, the Biden administration published a final rule, Federal Acquisition Regulation: Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects, implementing President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14063, which requires federal construction contracts of $35 million or more to be subjected to anti-competitive and inflationary project labor agreements.

The Coalition for Workplace Safety (CWS) and the 58 undersigned organizations urge your support for Representative Mary Miller’s Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to nullify the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Final Rule, “Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process,” published in the Federal Register on April 1, 2024, which would allow third parties looking to harm employers to accompany OSHA safety and health officers during facility inspections.

I am writing to express our steadfast support for your initiative to introduce a bipartisan, bicameral Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the NEPA Phase II Final Rule. Your leadership in seeking to correct this regulatory misstep is crucial for ensuring that infrastructure development can proceed efficiently and equitably.