Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020
Latest action · Jul 29, 2020 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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.
- IntroducedJul 29, 2020
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement policies, programs, and regulations related to air quality monitoring.
Specifically, the EPA must implement a program using specified methods and technologies to administer or conduct the best available form of fenceline monitoring (i.e., monitoring of ambient air concentration using technology at a site's property line) of specified stationary sources of hazardous air pollutants. The stationary sources to be monitored must include the 25 high-priority facilities named in the EPA Inspector General report (#20-N-0128) from March 31, 2020, and at least another 25 major sources or synthetic area sources.
Among other requirements, the EPA must also
- determine whether whether to add fenceline monitoring for any additional stationary sources,
- complete an evaluation and promulgate a determination on whether any existing emission factors must be updated to better reflect or account for the results of fenceline monitoring data collected under the established program,
- promulgate regulations establishing emission standards for specified source categories,
- require an additional 80 National Core multi-pollutant monitoring stations, and
- deploy at least 1,000 air quality sensors to monitor specified pollutants in census tracts or counties with per capita death rates from COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) that are at least 10% higher than the national average.
Finally, the Department of Health and Human Services and the EPA must carry out a Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research grant program to establish and support at least 10 research centers.
Cosponsors 7
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 29, 2020 to Nov 18, 2020; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-VA | A. Donald McEachin | Original | Jul 29, 2020 |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | Jul 29, 2020 |
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | Original | Jul 29, 2020 |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Original | Jul 29, 2020 |
| D-NM | Debra A. Haaland | Oct 1, 2020 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Oct 1, 2020 | |
| D-IL | Lauren Underwood | Nov 18, 2020 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jul 29, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 29, 2020Introduced in House
- Jul 29, 2020Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 166, no. 134, July 29, 2020, page H3981.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R46684 | Clean Air Act Issues in the 117th Congress Archived | Report | Nov 23, 2021 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 4369 | Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020 | Identical bill | Jul 29, 2020 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To protect clean air and public health by expanding fenceline and ambient air monitoring and access to air quality information for communities affected by air pollution; to require immediate toxic air monitoring at the fenceline of facilities with pollution linked to local health threats; to ensure the Environmental Protection Agency promulgates rules that require fenceline air monitoring in communities with air polluting industrial source categories; to expand and strengthen the national ambient air quality monitoring network; to deploy air sensors in communities affected by air pollution, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Accidents
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Air quality
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Child health
- Congressional oversight
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmental regulatory procedures
- Environmental technology
- Government information and archives
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Industrial facilities
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Pollution liability
- Public contracts and procurement
- Public participation and lobbying
- Research administration and funding
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 29, 2020Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
