Clean Air Planning Act of 2003
Latest action · Apr 9, 2003 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5077-5083)
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.
- IntroducedApr 9, 2003
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Establishes national pollutant tonnage limitations for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, and carbon dioxide.
Provides for review and revision of annual tonnage limitations.
Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish trading programs for nitrogen oxide and mercury allowances.
Directs the Administrator to establish reserves of nitrogen oxide and mercury allowances as set asides for new units.
Establishes a nitrogen oxide and mercury allowance transfer system.
Directs the Administrator to establish a carbon dioxide allowance trading program.
Makes allowances available to projects certified by a newly established independent review board. Permits the trading of allowances under any U.S. or internationally recognized carbon dioxide reduction program.
Establishes a carbon dioxide allowance transfer system.
Revises the new source review program to cover unit changes after 2008 and to permit the lowest achievable emission rate standard to take cost into account.
Revises the sulfur dioxide allowance program to establish an allowance reserve for new units and to establish maximum emissions for states in the Western Regional Air Partnership.
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) a program to provide region-oriented forecasts and warnings regarding air quality for certain regions of the United States, using existing Federal programs to the degree possible.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 9, 2003 to Jul 14, 2003, with 2 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NH | Judd Gregg | Original | Apr 9, 2003 |
| R-RI | Lincoln Chafee | Original | Apr 9, 2003 |
| R-TN | Lamar Alexander | Jul 14, 2003 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 9, 2003Introduced in Senate
- Apr 9, 2003Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5077-5083)
- Apr 9, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5076-5077)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative procedure
- Air pollution control
- Biomass energy
- Carbon cycle
- Carbon dioxide
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Electric power production
- Electric utilities
- Emissions trading
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental technology
- Executive reorganization
- Federal advisory bodies
- Fines (Penalties)
- Fossil fuels
- Fuel cells
- Geothermal resources
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Hydroelectric power
- International Affairs
- International environmental cooperation
- Law
- Licenses
- Mercury
- Nitrogen oxides
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Renewable natural resources
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Solar energy
- Standards
- Sulphur dioxide
- Water Resources Development
- West (U.S.)
- Wind power
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