[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S. 1411 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1411

   To amend the Clean Air Act to establish within the Environmental 
  Protection Agency an office to measure and report on greenhouse gas 
                     emissions of Federal agencies.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 16, 2007

  Mr. Lautenberg (for himself and Ms. Snowe) 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 establish within the Environmental 
  Protection Agency an office to measure and report on greenhouse gas 
                     emissions of Federal agencies.

    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 ``Federal Government Greenhouse Gas 
Registry Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.

    The Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:

             ``TITLE VII--FEDERAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

``SEC. 701. DEFINITIONS.

    ``In this title:
            ``(1) Agency emission baseline.--The term `agency emission 
        baseline', with respect to a Federal agency, means such 
        quantity of the aggregate quantity of direct emissions, energy 
        indirect emissions, and indirect emissions used to calculate 
        the emission baseline as is attributable to the Federal agency.
            ``(2) Direct emission.--The term `direct emission' means an 
        emission of a greenhouse gas directly from a source owned or 
        controlled by the Federal Government, such as from a fleet of 
        motor vehicles.
            ``(3) Emission allowance.--The term `emission allowance' 
        means an authorization to emit, for any fiscal year, 1 ton of 
        carbon dioxide (or the equivalent quantity of any other 
        greenhouse gas, as determined by the Administrator).
            ``(4) Emission baseline.--The term `emission baseline' 
        means a quantity of greenhouse gas emissions equal to the 
        aggregate quantity of direct emissions, energy indirect 
        emissions, and indirect emissions for fiscal year 2005, as 
        determined by the Office in accordance with section 702(b)(3).
            ``(5) Energy indirect emission.--The term `energy indirect 
        emission' means an emission of a greenhouse gas resulting from 
        the production of electricity purchased and used by the Federal 
        Government.
            ``(6) Greenhouse gas.--The term `greenhouse gas' means any 
        of--
                    ``(A) carbon dioxide;
                    ``(B) methane;
                    ``(C) nitrous oxide;
                    ``(D) hydrofluorocarbons;
                    ``(E) perfluorocarbons; and
                    ``(F) sulfur hexafluoride.
            ``(7) Indirect emission.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The term `indirect emission' 
                means an emission of greenhouse gases resulting from 
                the conduct of a project or activity (including 
                outsourcing of a project or activity) by the Federal 
                Government (or any Federal officer or employee acting 
                in an official capacity).
                    ``(B) Inclusions.--The term `indirect emission' 
                includes an emission of a greenhouse gas resulting 
                from--
                            ``(i) employee travel; or
                            ``(ii) the use of an energy-intensive 
                        material, such as paper.
                    ``(C) Exclusion.--The term `indirect emission' does 
                not include an energy indirect emission.
            ``(8) Office.--The term `Office' means the Federal 
        Emissions Inventory Office established by section 702(a).
            ``(9) Protocol.--The term `protocol' means the Greenhouse 
        Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard 
        developed by the World Resources Institute and World Business 
        Council on Sustainable Development.

``SEC. 702. FEDERAL EMISSIONS INVENTORY OFFICE.

    ``(a) Establishment.--There is established within the Environmental 
Protection Agency an office to be known as the `Federal Emissions 
Inventory Office'.
    ``(b) Duties.--The Office shall--
            ``(1) as soon as practicable after the date of enactment of 
        this title, develop an emission inventory or other appropriate 
        system to measure and verify direct emissions, energy indirect 
        emissions, indirect emissions, and offsets of those emissions;
            ``(2) ensure that the process of data collection for the 
        inventory or system is reliable, transparent, and accessible;
            ``(3)(A)(i) not later than 1 year after the date of 
        enactment of this title, establish an emission baseline for the 
        Federal Government; or
            ``(ii) not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
        of this title, if the Office determines that Federal agencies 
        have not collected enough information, or sufficient data are 
        otherwise unavailable, to establish an emission baseline, 
        submit to Congress and the Administrator a report describing 
        the type and quantity of data that are unavailable; and
            ``(B) after establishment of an emission baseline under 
        subparagraph (A), periodically review and, if new information 
        relating to the base year becomes available, revise the 
        emission baseline, as appropriate;
            ``(4) upon development of the inventory or system under 
        paragraph (1), use the inventory or system to begin accounting 
        for direct emissions, energy indirect emissions, and indirect 
        emissions in accordance with the protocol;
            ``(5) ensure that the inventory or other appropriate system 
        developed under paragraph (1) is periodically audited to ensure 
        that data reported in accordance with the inventory or system 
        are relevant, complete, and transparent;
            ``(6) not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
        this title--
                    ``(A) develop such additional procedures as are 
                necessary to account for emissions described in 
                paragraph (3), particularly indirect emissions; and
                    ``(B) submit to Congress and the Administrator a 
                report that describes any additional data necessary to 
                calculate indirect emissions;
            ``(7) coordinate with climate change and greenhouse gas 
        registries being developed by States and Indian tribes; and
            ``(8) not later than October 1 of the year after the date 
        of enactment of this title, and annually thereafter, submit to 
        Congress and the Administrator a report that, for the preceding 
        fiscal year, for the Federal Government and each Federal 
        agency--
                    ``(A) describes the aggregate quantity of emissions 
                (including direct emissions, energy indirect emissions, 
                and indirect emissions); and
                    ``(B) specifies separately the quantities of direct 
                emissions, energy indirect emissions, and indirect 
                emissions comprising that aggregate quantity.

``SEC. 703. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    ``There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are 
necessary to carry out this title.''.
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