Generator Regulatory Relief Act of 2011

Generator Regulatory Relief Act of 2011 - Provides that: (1) the final rule published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 3, 2010, entitled "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines" and any subsequent regulation that is substantially the same shall have no force or effect with respect to existing stationary compression ignition reciprocating internal combustion engines operated for generating electricity for emergency or demand response purposes or operating a water pump; and (2) the final rule of the same title published by EPA on August 20, 2010, the direct final action published by the EPA on March 9, 2011, entitled "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines," and any subsequent regulation that is substantially the same shall have no force or effect with respect to existing stationary spark ignition reciprocating internal combustion engines operated for such purposes.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3616 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3616

   To provide that the rules of the Environmental Protection Agency 
entitled ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for 
  Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines'' have no force or effect 
  with respect to existing stationary compression and spark ignition 
    reciprocating internal combustion engines operated to generate 
   electricity for emergency or demand response purposes, or for the 
                   purpose of operating a water pump.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2011

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide that the rules of the Environmental Protection Agency 
entitled ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for 
  Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines'' have no force or effect 
  with respect to existing stationary compression and spark ignition 
    reciprocating internal combustion engines operated to generate 
   electricity for emergency or demand response purposes, or for the 
                   purpose of operating a water pump.

    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 ``Generator Regulatory Relief Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. EXISTING STATIONARY COMPRESSION IGNITION RECIPROCATING INTERNAL 
              COMBUSTION ENGINES.

    The final rule published by the Environmental Protection Agency on 
March 3, 2010, entitled ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air 
Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines'' (75 Fed. 
Reg. 9648), and any subsequent regulation that is substantially the 
same shall have no force or effect with respect to existing stationary 
compression ignition reciprocating internal combustion engines (as that 
term is used in the rule) that are operated--
            (1) to generate electricity for emergency or demand 
        response purposes; or
            (2) for the purpose of operating a water pump.

SEC. 3. EXISTING STATIONARY SPARK IGNITION RECIPROCATING INTERNAL 
              COMBUSTION ENGINES.

    The final rule published by the Environmental Protection Agency on 
August 20, 2010, entitled ``National Emission Standards for Hazardous 
Air Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines'' (75 Fed. 
Reg. 51570), the direct final action published by the Environmental 
Protection Agency on March 9, 2011, entitled ``National Emission 
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Reciprocating Internal 
Combustion Engines'' (76 Fed. Reg. 12863), and any subsequent 
regulation that is substantially the same shall have no force or effect 
with respect to existing stationary spark ignition reciprocating 
internal combustion engines (as that term is used in the rules) that 
are operated--
            (1) to generate electricity for emergency or demand 
        response purposes; or
            (2) for the purpose of operating a water pump.
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