[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 645 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 645

To amend the Clean Air Act to waive the oxygen content requirement for 
   reformulated gasoline that results in no greater emissions of air 
   pollutants than reformulated gasoline meeting the oxygen content 
                              requirement.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 17, 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 amend the Clean Air Act to waive the oxygen content requirement for 
   reformulated gasoline that results in no greater emissions of air 
   pollutants than reformulated gasoline meeting the oxygen content 
                              requirement.

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

SECTION 1. WAIVER OF OXYGEN CONTENT REQUIREMENT FOR CERTAIN 
              REFORMULATED GASOLINE.

    Section 211(k)(2)(B) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545(k)(2)(B)) 
is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``The oxygen'' and 
        inserting the following:
                            ``(i) Requirement.--The oxygen''; and
            (2) in the second sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``The Administrator'' and inserting 
                the following:
                            ``(ii) Waivers.--The Administrator'';
                    (B) by striking ``area upon a'' and inserting the 
                following: ``area--
                                    ``(I) upon a'';
                    (C) by striking the period at the end and inserting 
                ``; or''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
                                    ``(II) if the Administrator 
                                determines, by regulation, that 
                                reformulated gasoline that contains 
                                less than 2.0 percent by weight oxygen 
                                and meets all other requirements of 
                                this subsection will result in total 
                                emissions of ozone forming volatile 
                                organic compounds and toxic air 
                                pollutants, respectively, that are not 
                                greater than the total emissions of 
                                those compounds and pollutants 
                                resulting from reformulated gasoline 
                                that contains at least 2.0 percent by 
                                weight oxygen and meets all other 
                                requirements of this subsection.''.
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