3.0.0 3564 2022-02-03T05:09:00Z 2022-02-03T05:09:00Z Senate S S 2008-09-24 110 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Reported original measure 2008-09-25T00:13:52Z Markup by 2008-09-17T22:16:18Z S. Rept. 110-499 Restoring the Value of Every American in Environmental Decisions Act 110 3494 S 2008-09-16 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Related bill CRS 2008-09-24 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1077. Calendars 2008-09-24 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Boxer. With written report No. 110-499. Minority views filed. Committee 2008-09-24 Committee on Environment and Public Works. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Boxer. With written report No. 110-499. Minority views filed. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee 2008-09-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress 2008-09-17 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ordered to be reported an original measure. Committee B000711 Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] BARBARA BOXER D CA N Environmental Protection Administrative procedure Congress Congressional reporting requirements Decision making Economics and Public Finance Environmental Protection Agency Environmental health Families Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Government statistics Health Income Infants Labor statistics Law Pollution Pregnant women Risk Social Welfare Valuation Women Environmental Protection 00 2008-09-24 Introduced in Senate 2009-01-08T20:42:17Z Restoring the Value of Every American in Environmental Decisions Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), when using in decisionmaking any value of statistical life, including the life of pregnant women, infants, children, and the elderly, to: (1) not reduce that value below the highest value of statistical life used in a decisionmaking before the enactment of this Act; and (2) increase that value at least once each year, by adjusting the value to reflect the average annual total compensation of individuals, the average capital that may be liquidated upon the death of an individual, and the value of nonpaid activities, including the relevant activities described in the American Time Survey Results published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.

Prohibits the Administrator from decreasing the value of statistical life based on age, income, race, illness, disability, date of death, or any other personal attribute or relativistic analysis of the value of life.

Requires the Administrator to: (1) ensure that the process for establishing a value of statistical life is open to the public; and (2) provide to specified congressional committees, concurrently with public notice, any proposed revision of a value of a statistical life.

Declares that nothing in this Act: (1) expresses on behalf of Congress an endorsement of any use of value of statistical life analysis as a decisionmaking criterion, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory decisionmaking threshold, or single process of agency decisionmaking; (2) creates a duty to make or revise any standard under any other law; or (3) affects any substantive standard for promulgating regulations under any other law.

]]> 80 2008-09-24 Reported to Senate without amendment 2009-01-09T20:29:47Z (This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Restoring the Value of Every American in Environmental Decisions Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), when using in decisionmaking any value of statistical life, including the life of pregnant women, infants, children, and the elderly, to: (1) not reduce that value below the highest value of statistical life used in a decisionmaking before the enactment of this Act; and (2) increase that value at least once each year, by adjusting the value to reflect the average annual total compensation of individuals, the average capital that may be liquidated upon the death of an individual, and the value of nonpaid activities, including the relevant activities described in the American Time Survey Results published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.

Prohibits the Administrator from decreasing the value of statistical life based on age, income, race, illness, disability, date of death, or any other personal attribute or relativistic analysis of the value of life.

Requires the Administrator to: (1) ensure that the process for establishing a value of statistical life is open to the public; and (2) provide to specified congressional committees, concurrently with public notice, any proposed revision of a value of a statistical life.

Declares that nothing in this Act: (1) expresses on behalf of Congress an endorsement of any use of value of statistical life analysis as a decisionmaking criterion, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory decisionmaking threshold, or single process of agency decisionmaking; (2) creates a duty to make or revise any standard under any other law; or (3) affects any substantive standard for promulgating regulations under any other law.

]]> Restoring the Value of Every American in Environmental Decisions Act Short Titles as Introduced Restoring the Value of Every American in Environmental Decisions Act Short Titles as Reported to Senate Restoring the Value of Every American in Environmental Decisions Act S Senate Display Title Restoring the Value of Every American in Environmental Decisions Act Official Title as Introduced An original bill to restore the value of every American in environmental decisions, and for other purposes. Placed on Calendar Senate 2008-09-24T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3564pcs/xml/BILLS-110s3564pcs.xml 2008-09-24 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1077. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.