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, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Jun 25, 2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Progress
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- IntroducedJun 25, 2019
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish the 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.
Under the bill, the EPA must establish separate requirements relating to winter ozone levels for each early action compact plan.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jun 25, 2019.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-UT | Mitt Romney | Original | Jun 25, 2019 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 25, 2019Introduced in Senate
- Jun 25, 2019Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 25, 2019Introduced in Senate
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