[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 8 (Friday, January 16, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S241]
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SA 39. Mr. ENZI (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, and Mr. Flake) submitted
an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1, to
approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:
After section 2, insert the following:
SEC. __. REGIONAL HAZE PROGRAM.
(a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
(referred to in this section as the ``Administrator'') shall
not reject or disapprove, in whole or in part, a State
implementation plan addressing any regional haze regulation
of the Environmental Protection Agency (including the
regulations described in sections 51.308 and 51.309 of title
40, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations)),
if--
(1) the State--
(A) has submitted to the Administrator a State
implementation plan for regional haze that considers the
factors identified in section 169A of the Clean Air Act (42
U.S.C. 7491); and
(B) substantially applied the relevant laws (including
regulations) in determining the final plan to be selected;
(2) the Administrator cannot demonstrate, using the best
available science, that a Federal implementation plan action
governing a specific emissions source or emissions unit, when
compared to the State plan, will result in greater than a 1.0
deciview improvement from any new emissions control in any
single class I area (as classified under section 162 of the
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7472)), based on a 3-year average of
the maximum 98th-percentile impact; or
(3) implementation of the Federal implementation plan, when
compared to the State plan, will result in an economic cost
to the State or to the private sector of greater than
$100,000,000 in any fiscal year or $300,000,000 in the
aggregate.
(b) Applicability.--This section applies to all State
implementation plans described in subsection (a) submitted to
the Administrator before, on, or after the date of enactment
of this Act.
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