US SB1203 | 2017-2018 | 115th Congress
Status
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on May 23 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-05-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Pending: Senate Environment And Public Works Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on May 23 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-05-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Pending: Senate Environment And Public Works Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program under which the Administrator shall defer the designation of an area as a nonattainment area for purposes of the 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard if the area achieves and maintains certain standards under a voluntary early action compact plan. This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish an Early Action Compact Program, which allows an area that is not attaining the eight-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) to obtain a deferment of a nonattainment designation upon the relevant state, local, and tribal government voluntarily developing an early action compact plan. The eight-hour ozone NAAQS measures ozone levels over eight-hour periods to determine the amount of ground-level ozone (i.e., smog) in the environment. The EPA: (1) must issue a decision on each early action compact plan no later than one year after it is submitted, and (2) may not designate an area as a nonattainment area until it has issued a decision to approve or deny a plan. The EPA must establish separate requirements relating to winter ozone levels for each early action compact plan.
Title
A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program under which the Administrator shall defer the designation of an area as a nonattainment area for purposes of the 8-hour ozone national ambient air quality standard if the area achieves and maintains certain standards under a voluntary early action compact plan.
Sponsors
Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT] | Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO] | Sen. Joe Donnelly [D-IN] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2017-05-23 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. |
Subjects
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Air quality
Environmental protection
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
Air quality
Environmental protection
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Intergovernmental relations
State and local government operations
US Congress State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1203/all-info |
Text | https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s1203/BILLS-115s1203is.pdf |