Accountability in Grants Act of 2012

Accountability in Grants Act of 2012 - Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from awarding grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or other financial assistance under the national research and development program for the prevention and control of air pollution for any program, project, or activity to occur outside the United States and its territories and possessions.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4255 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4255

 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
  from awarding any grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or other 
  financial assistance under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for any 
 program, project, or activity to occur outside the United States and 
                    its territories and possessions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 22, 2012

   Mr. Whitfield (for himself, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mr. Barrow, Mr. 
Sullivan, Mr. Coble, Mr. Carter, Mr. Griffith of Virginia, Mr. Harris, 
   Mrs. Lummis, Mr. Long, Mr. Cravaack, Mr. Latta, Mr. Burgess, Mr. 
McKinley, Mr. Rogers of Michigan, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Pompeo, 
Mr. Westmoreland, and Mr. Brooks) introduced the following bill; which 
 was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition 
to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
  from awarding any grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or other 
  financial assistance under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for any 
 program, project, or activity to occur outside the United States and 
                    its territories and possessions.

    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 ``Accountability in Grants Act of 
2012''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST FUNDING CERTAIN FOREIGN PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, 
              AND ACTIVITIES.

    Section 103 of the Clean Air Act is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(l) Prohibition Against Funding Foreign Programs, Projects, and 
Activities.--The Administrator shall not award any grant, contract, 
cooperative agreement, or other financial assistance under this section 
for any program, project, or activity to occur outside the United 
States and its territories and possessions.''.
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