II 110th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1411 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 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.
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Short title
This Act may be cited as the Federal Government Greenhouse Gas Registry Act of 2007.
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Federal Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: <enum>VII</enum><header>Federal Greenhouse Gas Emissions</header> <section id="idFE8240D1CBC64EA4BE4EA1348333F1E0"><enum>701.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text> <paragraph id="id523FAC4622864BD594AAD202763EE779"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Agency emission baseline</header><text>The term <term>agency emission baseline</term>, 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.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id6ECD821EDDB447BEB18AD8CAD450576E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Direct emission</header><text>The term <term>direct emission</term> 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.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idAFA8324458004F10AE09BA414873A5D4"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Emission allowance</header><text>The term <term>emission allowance</term> 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).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="idDCAF23C533ED4AB4A36360F5EAA4E5CF"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Emission baseline</header><text>The term <term>emission baseline</term> 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).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id6195BF880C2944699A343F43F180F089"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Energy indirect emission</header><text>The term <term>energy indirect emission</term> means an emission of a greenhouse gas resulting from the production of electricity purchased and used by the Federal Government.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id685C6262B1204D98BEDB3C12BBBBF453"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Greenhouse gas</header><text>The term <term>greenhouse gas</term> means any of—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="ID3c9ba37e7dee4686952b478d98365b43"><enum>(A)</enum><text>carbon dioxide;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="IDb38d2673b4454eeaba96653820f3996b"><enum>(B)</enum><text>methane;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ID190dc97d3bad4a4b903f18074f55e534"><enum>(C)</enum><text>nitrous oxide;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="IDa3f1c130617b431c8d8bd1b19ca6471a"><enum>(D)</enum><text>hydrofluorocarbons;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ID8604951378c747088de45ae2b25a2afe"><enum>(E)</enum><text>perfluorocarbons; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="ID37039d7fa5464911b9c3366d159e7531"><enum>(F)</enum><text>sulfur hexafluoride.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id6F332F94B4574E32AF29F3F7B3D7FCE3"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Indirect emission</header> <subparagraph commented="no" id="id48E860D781F7472999539371A2289766"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The term <term>indirect emission</term> 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).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idBD3E97E8178B4099AB74893C25B226FF"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Inclusions</header><text>The term <term>indirect emission</term> includes an emission of a greenhouse gas resulting from—</text> <clause commented="no" id="id9F3BA2862627464C8BC81C61CDFF77AA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>employee travel; or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" id="id4325F6A4A3FC4DDA8F8A3369B9F241F0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the use of an energy-intensive material, such as paper.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idAF7E9ED6FD9F48D1AC81F8681C4B2C69"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Exclusion</header><text>The term <term>indirect emission</term> does not include an energy indirect emission.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="idE0A8117C09D043919D7D4633699E4065"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Office</header><text>The term <term>Office</term> means the Federal Emissions Inventory Office established by section 702(a).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="idF6D209D40DB14DEEB11EC3E09A105353"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Protocol</header><text>The term <term>protocol</term> means the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard developed by the World Resources Institute and World Business Council on Sustainable Development.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="idDF3BEEBCC1204CFC9FB6F3167F87D37C"><enum>702.</enum><header>Federal Emissions Inventory Office</header> <subsection id="id8F848492EBE3494C952B0C375B4E610E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There is established within the Environmental Protection Agency an office to be known as the <term>Federal Emissions Inventory Office</term>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="idBBB811BB2E4F4ADEAC4C4ED8E1874971"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Duties</header><text>The Office shall—</text> <paragraph id="idE83D8C10D1AA4609A129F1401B336CE7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>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;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id6DCCB091177D4F66BE531527DF22C1EA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>ensure that the process of data collection for the inventory or system is reliable, transparent, and accessible;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id0CCD23EFF4AC4940B7CF4A5A3B357448"><enum>(3)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idD53D802A12874EC18373D378036A1551"><enum>(A)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id47559FEF9E154BB2B4A078D55BF870FC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this title, establish an emission baseline for the Federal Government; or</text> </clause><clause id="idE76AF537BB874E8C81B36B7E10806DAA" indent="up2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>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</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id518C7FFF3305434688830EBA2DC01901" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idEB0D5BA0FB6047D3BA191F9507CDC255"><enum>(4)</enum><text>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;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id51CB9A86FE1640C38124DF280BA64089"><enum>(5)</enum><text>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;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id906D6A823E714CB5992C5AFDB15D40D1"><enum>(6)</enum><text>not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this title—</text> <subparagraph id="id5C76987075494531A8B2031E90055DA0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>develop such additional procedures as are necessary to account for emissions described in paragraph (3), particularly indirect emissions; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id2E735A0E2EF04688859CFFDA281EF7E2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>submit to Congress and the Administrator a report that describes any additional data necessary to calculate indirect emissions;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id9E2FA048BA544E8E8C63F558F4DDB034"><enum>(7)</enum><text>coordinate with climate change and greenhouse gas registries being developed by States and Indian tribes; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="id270E4C9311AF40E5922D39BFFFB9E231"><enum>(8)</enum><text>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—</text> <subparagraph id="id17B3BC7613504DE0ACD0E2F7940F0A53"><enum>(A)</enum><text>describes the aggregate quantity of emissions (including direct emissions, energy indirect emissions, and indirect emissions); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="id36A28C218B974FECB4AE0131EB426634"><enum>(B)</enum><text>specifies separately the quantities of direct emissions, energy indirect emissions, and indirect emissions comprising that aggregate quantity.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id113BF59F85FE4AD7B5E635BA49FBD5A9"><enum>703.</enum><header>Authorization of appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this title.</text> </section>.