[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2427 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2427

  To amend the Clean Air Act to remove a provision limiting States to 
 proportionately less assistance than their respective populations and 
                tax payments to the Federal Government.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 1999

   Mr. Cox introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Clean Air Act to remove a provision limiting States to 
 proportionately less assistance than their respective populations and 
                tax payments to the Federal Government.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. POLICY.

    Federal assistance under the State and local clean air grant 
program established by section 105 of the Clean Air Act should be 
provided on the basis of environmental criteria. Arbitrary limits on 
the assistance that may be provided to States, particularly if such 
limits result in States with significant air pollution receiving 
proportionately less than their respective populations and tax payments 
to the Federal Government, are an interference with the environmental 
goals and policies of the Clean Air Act.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO STATES.

    Section 105(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act is amended by striking the 
first two sentences.
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