3.0.0 1203 2023-01-11T13:36:25Z 2023-01-11T13:36:25Z Senate S 2017-05-23 115 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-05-23T15:20:04Z 2017-05-23 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2017-05-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT N M001170 Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] Claire McCaskill D MO 2017-05-23 True D000607 Sen. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN] Joe Donnelly D IN 2017-12-06 False Environmental Protection Administrative law and regulatory procedures Air quality Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental regulatory procedures Intergovernmental relations State and local government operations Environmental Protection 00 2017-05-23 Introduced in Senate 2018-04-13T21:52:02Z This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish an 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.

The EPA must establish separate requirements relating to winter ozone levels for each early action compact plan.

]]> 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. Display Title 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. Official Title as Introduced 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. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1203is/xml/BILLS-115s1203is.xml 2017-05-23 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. 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.