Congress 107 - HR 3886 - Right to Know About Airport Pollution Act of 2002

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Administrative procedure Air bases Air pollution control Air pollution measurement Air quality Air routes Aircraft engines Airlines Airports Armed Forces and National Security Commerce Commercial aircraft Congress Congressional reporting requirements Environmental assessment Environmental Protection Environmental Protection Agency Foreign Trade and International Finance Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Governmental investigations Hazardous waste disposal Hydrocarbons Interstate commerce Law Military aircraft Motor vehicle pollution control Noise Ozone Recycling of waste products Refuse and refuse disposal Standards Transportation and Public Works Water pollution control

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Right to Know About Airport Pollution Act of 2002 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study, and report to Congress on: (1) the feasibility of regulating air, noise, water, and solid waste pollution from all sources in and around airports using airport bubbles; and (2) the feasibility and desirability of strengthening EPA air pollutant emissions standards for airplane engines. Defines an "airport bubble" as an area: (1) in and around an airport (or other facility using aircraft) within which sources of pollution and levels of pollution from those sources are to be identified and reduced; and (2) containing a variety of types of air, noise, water, and solid waste sources of pollution in which the aggregate of each type of pollutant from the respective source is regulated as if the various sources were a single source.

Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring each airport that regularly serves commercial or military jet aircraft to report, under toxic chemical release reporting provisions of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 and source reduction and recycling data collection provisions of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990, releases and other waste management activities associated with the manufacturing, processing, or other use of toxic chemicals listed under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986.

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Mar 13, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
Mar 8, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Mar 6, 2002

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 6, 2002

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