[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4120 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4120

To amend section 211 of the Clean Air Act to permit any State to waive 
  the oxygenate content requirement for reformulated gasoline if the 
   State implementation plan for the State is adequate to attain and 
 maintain the national ambient air quality standards in the absence of 
               that requirement, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 29, 2000

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 211 of the Clean Air Act to permit any State to waive 
  the oxygenate content requirement for reformulated gasoline if the 
   State implementation plan for the State is adequate to attain and 
 maintain the national ambient air quality standards in the absence of 
               that requirement, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe Water and Clean Air Attainment 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) MTBE (Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether) has been 
        increasingly discovered in groundwater throughout the United 
        States.
            (2) MTBE has been found in alarming concentrations in lakes 
        throughout the country.
            (3) MTBE has now been detected in drinking water supplies 
        in locales throughout the nation.
            (4) MTBE presents a potentially grave health threat to the 
        citizens of the United States.
            (5) The Clean Air Act of 1990's oxygenate requirement for 
        Federal reformulated gasoline (RFG) constrains States in their 
        efforts to attain cleaner air while trying to protect the 
        quality and safety of their water supplies.
            (6) MTBE's threat to health and safety through contaminated 
        water supplies is greater than the purported benefit which it 
        provides to air quality.

SEC. 3. STATE WAIVER OF OXYGENATE REQUIREMENT.

    Section 211(k)(2)(B) of the Clean Air Act is amended by adding the 
following at the end thereof: ``Any State may waive, in whole or in 
part, the application of this subparagraph and clause (v) of paragraph 
(3)(A) to any ozone nonattainment area if the applicable implementation 
plan for the State is revised, at the time of such waiver, to include 
such other measures as may be necessary to assure that the plan is 
adequate to attain and maintain the national ambient air quality 
standard for ozone.''.
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