[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3400 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3400

 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
from imposing a fee or reporting requirements on certain facilities for 
                           methane emissions.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 15, 2021

  Mr. Marshall (for himself, Mr. Moran, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Daines, Mr. 
  Cruz, and Mr. Inhofe) 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 prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
from imposing a fee or reporting requirements on certain facilities for 
                           methane emissions.

    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 ``Marginal Well Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. METHANE FEE AND REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR PETROLEUM AND 
              NATURAL GAS SYSTEMS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the owner or operator 
of a facility that produces fewer than 15 barrels of oil per day and 
less than 90,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day shall not, with 
respect to that facility, be subject to any fee or reporting 
requirements imposed by the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency in connection with reporting methane emissions 
pursuant to subpart W of part 98 of title 40, Code of Federal 
Regulations (or successor regulations).
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