[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7231 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7231

To provide regulatory relief for conventional marginally producing oil 
  and gas wells from the Environmental Protection Agency's ``Methane 
                                Rule''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 10, 2018

 Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide regulatory relief for conventional marginally producing oil 
  and gas wells from the Environmental Protection Agency's ``Methane 
                                Rule''.

    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 ``Methane Rule Relief Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF METHANE RULE.

    The final rule titled ``Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission 
Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources'' (81 Fed. Reg. 
35824, June 3, 2016), and the document titled ``Control Techniques 
Guidelines for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry'' (October 2016), 
published by the Environmental Protection Agency, shall not apply with 
respect to--
            (1) any oil well that has a maximum daily average oil 
        production, during any 12-month consecutive time period, that 
        does not exceed 15 barrels of oil per day;
            (2) any natural gas well that has a maximum daily average 
        gas production, during any 12-month consecutive time period, 
        that does not exceed 90,000 cubic feet per day; or
            (3) any emissions source covered by the rule that is 
        associated with an oil well described in paragraph (1) or a 
        natural gas well described in paragraph (2).
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