[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1934 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1934

  To prevent catastrophic failure or shutdown of remote diesel power 
    engines due to emission control devices, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 5, 2017

 Mr. Sullivan (for himself and Ms. Murkowski) 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 prevent catastrophic failure or shutdown of remote diesel power 
    engines due to emission control devices, 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 ``Alaska Remote Generator Reliability 
and Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. REVISION OF REGULATIONS REQUIRED.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
shall revise section 60.4216(c) of title 40, Code of Federal 
Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this Act), by 
striking ``, except that for 2014 model year'' and all that follows 
through ``compared to engine-out emissions''.
    (b) Electricity and Energy Reliability.--A revision of section 
60.4216 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, may require the 
installation of emission control devices only if, after consultation 
with the Secretary of Energy, the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency determines that such a requirement will not 
negatively affect electricity or energy reliability in any remote area 
of the State of Alaska.
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