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.

Summary

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.

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Timeline

1. 24 September 2015

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 24 September 2015

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 22 June 2016

   Committee

   Committee on Environment and Public Works Senate Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 114-363.

   Source: Committee

Votes

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Versions

• Introduced in Senate · 24 September 2015 · Official file

Documents

3 official files

• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 24 September 2015

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• Introduced in Senate (PDF)

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 24 September 2015

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Sponsors

• Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · R · Sponsor
• Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] · D · Sponsor
• John Boozman · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN] · D · Cosponsor
• Mike Lee · R · Cosponsor
• · ssev00 · Standing

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