[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 19 (Tuesday, February 2, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S507]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3207. Mr. THUNE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2953 proposed by Ms. Murkowski to the bill S. 2012, to 
provide for the modernization of the energy policy of the United 
States, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. GROUND-LEVEL OZONE STANDARDS.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including 
     regulations), in implementing the final rule entitled 
     ``National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone'' (80 Fed. 
     Reg. 65292 (October 26, 2015)), the Administrator of the 
     Environmental Protection Agency--
       (1) shall not implement or enforce a national primary or 
     secondary ambient air quality standard for ozone that is 
     lower than the standard established under section 50.15 of 
     title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on 
     January 1, 2015), until at least 85 percent of the counties 
     that were nonattainment areas under that standard as of 
     January 30, 2015, achieve full compliance with that standard; 
     and
       (2) shall only consider all or part of a county to be a 
     nonattainment area under the standard on the basis of direct 
     air quality monitoring.
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