Clean Air, Strong Economies Act

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5505 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5505

To improve the establishment of any lower ground-level ozone standards, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2014

Mr. Olson (for himself, Mr. Latta, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. 
Cassidy, Mr. Flores, Mr. Smith of Texas, Mr. Hall, Mr. McClintock, Mr. 
 Hultgren, Mr. Tipton, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Smith of Missouri, Mr. Jones, 
Mrs. Noem, Mrs. Lummis, Mr. Pompeo, Mr. Harper, Mr. Brady of Texas, Mr. 
 Long, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, and Mr. Cuellar) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To improve the establishment of any lower ground-level ozone standards, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 ``Clean Air, Strong Economies Act''.

SEC. 2. GROUND-LEVEL OZONE STANDARDS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including regulations), 
in promulgating a national primary or secondary ambient air quality 
standard for ozone, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency--
            (1) shall not propose 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, 2014), until at 
        least 85 percent of the counties that were nonattainment areas 
        under that standard as of January 1, 2014, achieve full 
        compliance with that standard;
            (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;
            (3) shall take into consideration feasibility and cost; and
            (4) shall include in the regulatory impact analysis for the 
        proposed and final rule at least 1 analysis that does not 
        include any calculation of benefits resulting from reducing 
        emissions of any pollutant other than ozone.
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