[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 268 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 268

To specify the effective date of and require an amendment to the final 
    rule of the Environmental Protection Agency regulating exhaust 
       emissions from new spark-ignition gasoline marine engines.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 20, 1999

Mrs. Feinstein introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To specify the effective date of and require an amendment to the final 
    rule of the Environmental Protection Agency regulating exhaust 
       emissions from new spark-ignition gasoline marine engines.

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

SECTION 1. REGULATION OF EXHAUST EMISSIONS FROM NEW SPARK-IGNITION 
              GASOLINE MARINE ENGINES.

    (a) Applicability of Final Rule.--The final rule regulating exhaust 
emissions from new spark-ignition gasoline marine engines promulgated 
by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under 
section 213 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7547), published at 61 Fed. 
Reg. 52088 (October 4, 1996), shall become fully applicable to engines 
beginning with engines manufactured for model year 2001.
    (b) Labeling.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
shall amend the final rule referred to in subsection (a) to require a 
manufacturer of an engine to which the final rule applies to place on 
the exterior of the engine cowling or on the hull of a personal 
watercraft powered by such an engine a label that indicates the 
emission level of the engine relative to that of similar engines by 
identifying the engine as a low emission, very low emission, or ultra 
low emission engine.
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