[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 959 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 959

 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
  from awarding any grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or other 
  financial assistance under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for any 
 program, project, or activity to occur outside the United States and 
                    its territories and possessions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 2013

  Mr. Whitfield (for himself, Mr. Barrow of Georgia, Mr. Griffith of 
 Virginia, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Murphy of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Ellmers, Mr. 
Pompeo, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Terry, Mr. Guthrie, and Mr. Olson) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
   Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
  from awarding any grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or other 
  financial assistance under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for any 
 program, project, or activity to occur outside the United States and 
                    its territories and possessions.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Accountability in Grants Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST FUNDING CERTAIN FOREIGN PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, 
              AND ACTIVITIES.

    Section 103 of the Clean Air Act is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(l) Prohibition Against Funding Foreign Programs, Projects, and 
Activities.--The Administrator shall not award any grant, contract, 
cooperative agreement, or other financial assistance under this section 
for any program, project, or activity to occur outside the United 
States and its territories and possessions.''.
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