[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5358 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5358

To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to clarify that 
  no Federal agency shall be required to consider the social cost of 
   carbon as a condition of compliance with such Act, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 31, 2014

 Mr. McKinley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to clarify that 
  no Federal agency shall be required to consider the social cost of 
   carbon as a condition of compliance with such Act, 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. AGENCIES NOT REQUIRED TO CONSIDER SOCIAL COST OF CARBON.

    Title I of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 
4331 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section:
    ``Sec. 106. (a) No Federal agency shall be required to consider the 
social cost of carbon as part of any cost-benefit or regulatory 
analysis of any program, project, activity, or administrative action of 
the agency as a condition of compliance with this Act.
    ``(b) In this section:
            ``(1) The term `Federal agency' has the meaning given the 
        term `Executive agency' in section 133 of title 41, United 
        States Code.
            ``(2) The term `social cost of carbon' means the social 
        cost of carbon as described in the technical support document 
        entitled `Technical Support Document: Technical 15 Update of 
        the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under 
        Executive Order No. 12866', published by the Interagency 
        Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, United States 
        Government, in May 2013, revised in November 2013, or any 
        successor or substantially related document, or any other 
        estimate of the monetized damages associated with an 
        incremental increase in carbon dioxide emissions in a given 
        year.''.
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