[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 104 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 104

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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 25 (legislative day, January 5), 2011

  Mr. Johanns (for himself, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Crapo, Mr. 
 Risch, Mr. Coburn, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Moran, Ms. Klobuchar, and Mr. 
   Franken) 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 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 entitled ``Oil Pollution Prevention; 
Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule Requirements--
Amendments'' (74 Fed. Reg. 2461 (January 15, 2009)) 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 the proposed rule 
described in subsection (a).
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