3.0.0 4369 2023-01-11T13:45:33Z 2023-01-11T13:45:33Z Senate S 2020-07-29 116 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-07-29T22:38:34Z Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020 116 7822 HR 2020-07-29 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Identical bill CRS 2020-07-29 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2020-07-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000622 Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] Tammy Duckworth D IL N B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2020-07-29 True W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2020-07-29 True M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2020-07-29 True M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2020-07-29 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2020-07-29 True 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 Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Environmental health 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 Environmental Protection 00 2020-07-29 Introduced in Senate 2020-12-23T18:56:40Z 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.

]]> Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020 Display Title Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020 Short Title(s) as Introduced Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill 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. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s4369is/xml/BILLS-116s4369is.xml 2020-07-29 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.