[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5426 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5426

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
 finalize a proposed rule to amend the spill prevention, control, and 
 countermeasure rule to tailor and streamline the requirements for the 
                dairy industry, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 27, 2010

   Mrs. Miller of Michigan (for herself, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Graves, Mr. 
    Conaway, Mr. Moran of Kansas, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
Jenkins, Mr. Hoekstra, Mr. Luetkemeyer, and Mr. Neugebauer) introduced 
      the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                   Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
 finalize a proposed rule to amend the spill prevention, control, and 
 countermeasure rule to tailor and streamline the requirements for the 
                dairy industry, 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. REQUIREMENT.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
shall finalize the proposed rule as published in the Federal Register 
on January 15, 2009, beginning on page 2461 of volume 74, entitled 
``Oil Pollution Prevention; Spill Prevention, Control, and 
Countermeasure Rule Requirements--Amendments'' to exempt certain milk 
containers and associated piping and appurtenance from the Spill 
Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure program.
    (b) Forbearance.--Until the effective date of the rule finalized 
under subsection (a), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency may not take regulatory action against dairy and dairy product 
producers, processors, handlers, and distributors under the oil 
pollution prevention regulation in part 112 of title 40, Code of 
Federal Regulations, related to the exemptions in such proposed rule.
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