Omnibus Mercury Emission Reduction Act of 2003
Latest action · Feb 27, 2003 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 27, 2003
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Requires the Administrator to authorize methods of emissions control.
Establishes mercury emission baselines for electric utility and coal- and oil-fired boiler units.
Requires the regulations to ensure that recovered mercury is disposed of in a manner that ensures that: (1) mercury hazards are not transferred between environmental media; and (2) there is no release of mercury into the environment.
Directs the Administrator to establish a program of long-term disposal research and publicize emission data for each facility.
Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to direct the Administrator to publish a list of mercury-containing items to be separated and removed from the waste streams that feed solid waste facilities.
Requires mercury-content labeling by manufacturers.
Requires persons that transfer solid waste that may contain a listed mercury-containing item to submit separation and removal plans.
Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations concerning measurement of mercury emissions from solid waste combustion flue gases.
Requires permits for solid waste incineration units to specify inspection, entry, monitoring, compliance certification, and reporting requirements. Directs the Administrator to require incineration units that exceed the maximum emission rate to install measures that will result, within three years, in a rate below the specified maximum.
Prohibits, three years after this Act's enactment, the sale of mercury-containing products unless the manufacturer has been granted an exemption.
Requires reports on reductions of mercury emissions from medical and hazardous waste incinerators, military uses of mercury, the sources and extent of emissions in North America, sedimentation trends in water bodies of concern, and fish consumption advisories.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Administrator to establish an advisory committee to report on the progress made in complying with this Act's amendments.
Requires a study of mercury stockpiles and retirement. Increases funding for the National Atmospheric Deposition Program Mercury Deposition Network.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Feb 27, 2003.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-ME | Olympia J. Snowe | Original | Feb 27, 2003 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 27, 2003Introduced in Senate
- Feb 27, 2003Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- Feb 27, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2941-2942)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative procedure
- Agriculture and Food
- Air pollution control
- Animals
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Building materials
- Canada
- Chemicals
- Chesapeake Bay
- Child health
- Coal
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Drugs
- Electric appliances
- Electric batteries
- Electric power production
- Electric utilities
- Emissions trading
- Energy
- Environmental health
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental research
- Environmental technology
- Estuaries
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Fetus
- Fishes
- Fishing
- Florida
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Great Lakes
- Groundwater
- Hazardous wastes
- Health
- Health surveys
- Health warnings
- Incineration
- Industrial pollution
- International Affairs
- International environmental cooperation
- Labeling
- Lakes
- Latin America
- Law
- Licenses
- Lighting
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Maternal health services
- Medical supplies
- Medical wastes
- Mercury
- Mexico
- Military bases
- Municipal solid waste
- New York State
- North America
- Packaging
- Petroleum
- Pregnant women
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Recycling of waste products
- Rivers
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific instruments and apparatus
- Sedimentation
- Soil pollution
- Sports and Recreation
- Standards
- Transboundary pollution
- Vermont
- Water pollution control
- Water Resources Development
- Watersheds
- Women
- Women's health
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