[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2300 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2300

   To allow for a reasonable compliance deadline for certain States 
             subject to the Cross State Air Pollution Rule.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 18, 2012

Mr. Moran (for himself and Mr. Roberts) 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 allow for a reasonable compliance deadline for certain States 
             subject to the Cross State Air Pollution Rule.

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

SECTION 1. FINDING.

    Congress finds that an approximate 180-day period before which 
States and utilities are required to comply with certain new rules 
regarding maximum permissible emissions of ozone, sulfur dioxide, or 
nitrogen oxides under the Cross State Air Pollution Rule is 
insufficient for those States and utilities to achieve that compliance.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
        Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
            (2) Clean air interstate rule.--The term ``Clean Air 
        Interstate Rule'' means the final rule promulgated by the 
        Administrator entitled ``Rule To Reduce Interstate Transport of 
        Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone (Clean Air Interstate Rule); 
        Revisions to Acid Rain Program; Revisions to the NOX SIP Call'' 
        (70 Fed. Reg. 25162 (May 12, 2005)).
            (3) Cross state air pollution rule.--The term ``Cross State 
        Air Pollution Rule'' means the final rule promulgated by the 
        Administrator entitled ``Federal Implementation Plans: 
        Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone and 
        Correction of SIP Approvals'' (76 Fed. Reg. 48208 (August 8, 
        2011)) and revisions to that final rule entitled ``Revisions to 
        Federal Implementation Plans To Reduce Interstate Transport of 
        Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone'' (77 Fed. Reg. 10324 
        (February 21, 2012)).

SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF COMPLIANCE DEADLINE.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a State that was not 
required to reduce emissions or levels of ozone, sulfur dioxide, or 
nitrogen oxides under the Clean Air Interstate Rule shall not be 
required to comply with any requirement under the Cross State Air 
Pollution Rule before January 1, 2017.
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