[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1548 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1548

 To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation 
     of emissions from oil and gas sources, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2015

  Mr. Polis (for himself, Ms. Bass, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Capuano, Ms. 
Castor of Florida, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Connolly, Mrs. Davis 
of California, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. DeGette, Ms. Edwards, Mr. Ellison, Ms. 
 Eshoo, Mr. Farr, Mr. Grayson, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Honda, 
   Mr. Huffman, Mr. Keating, Ms. Kuster, Mr. Langevin, Ms. Lee, Ms. 
   Lofgren, Mr. Lowenthal, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. 
 McDermott, Ms. Meng, Mr. Nadler, Ms. Norton, Mr. Peters, Ms. Pingree, 
 Mr. Pocan, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Quigley, 
 Mr. Rangel, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Ms. Slaughter, 
Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Takano, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Tsongas, and Mr. 
 Van Hollen) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation 
     of emissions from oil and gas sources, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Bringing Reductions to Energy's 
Airborne Toxic Health Effects Act'' or the ``BREATHE Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF EXEMPTION FOR AGGREGATION OF EMISSIONS FROM OIL AND 
              GAS SOURCES.

    Section 112(n) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(n)) is amended 
by striking paragraph (4).

SEC. 3. HYDROGEN SULFIDE AS A HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT.

    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall--
            (1) not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 
        this Act, issue a final rule adding hydrogen sulfide to the 
        list of hazardous air pollutants under section 112(b) of the 
        Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(b)); and
            (2) not later than 365 days after a final rule under 
        paragraph (1) is issued, revise the list under section 112(c) 
        of such Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(c)) to include categories and 
        subcategories of major sources and area sources of hydrogen 
        sulfide, including oil and gas wells.
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