Agricultural Certainty for Reporting Emissions Act

Agricultural Certainty for Reporting Emissions Act

This bill amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to exempt air emissions from animal waste at a farm from specified release notification requirements, recordkeeping requirements, and associated penalties.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5275 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5275

 To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
   Liability Act of 1980 to provide an exemption from certain notice 
   requirements and penalties for air emissions from animal waste at 
                                 farms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 14, 2018

 Mr. Long (for himself, Mr. Costa, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Jones, Mr. Perry, 
  Mr. Cramer, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mrs. Wagner, Mr. Bost, Mr. Biggs, Mr. 
 Goodlatte, Ms. Cheney, Mr. Young of Iowa, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. 
 Marshall, Mr. Womack, Mr. Cuellar, Mr. Kind, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Graves 
   of Missouri, Mr. Rogers of Alabama, Mr. Valadao, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. 
Thomas J. Rooney of Florida, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Abraham, Mr. 
   Harper, Mr. Harris, Mr. O'Halleran, Mr. Rouzer, Mr. McKinley, Mr. 
Shuster, Mr. Rokita, Ms. Jenkins of Kansas, Ms. Sinema, Mrs. Hartzler, 
 Mr. Schrader, Mr. Lewis of Minnesota, Mr. Emmer, Mr. Bishop of Utah, 
 Mr. Smith of Missouri, Mr. Smucker, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Collins of New 
 York, Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Buck, Mr. Duffy, Mr. Blum, Mr. King of Iowa, 
Mr. Ratcliffe, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. Kustoff of Tennessee, Mr. Barton, 
   Mr. Peterson, Mr. Collins of Georgia, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Bishop of 
 Georgia, Ms. DelBene, Mrs. Noem, Mr. Yoder, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. 
Grothman, Mr. Stivers, Mr. Fortenberry, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Huizenga, Mr. 
Vela, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Thornberry, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Mitchell, 
Mr. Westerman, Mr. Renacci, Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, Mrs. Roby, Mr. 
  David Scott of Georgia, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Panetta, Mr. 
Byrne, Mr. Marino, Mr. Denham, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Walberg, Mr. Thompson 
 of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Gibbs) introduced the following bill; which 
 was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition 
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
   Liability Act of 1980 to provide an exemption from certain notice 
   requirements and penalties for air emissions from animal waste at 
                                 farms.

    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 ``Agricultural Certainty for Reporting 
Emissions Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTIONS FROM CERTAIN NOTICE REQUIREMENTS AND PENALTIES.

    Section 103 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9603) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Applicability to Air Emissions From Animal Waste at Farms.--
            ``(1) In general.--This section shall not apply to air 
        emissions from animal waste at a farm.
            ``(2) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) Animal waste.--The term `animal waste'--
                            ``(i) means feces, urine, or other 
                        excrement, digestive emissions, or urea, that 
                        is produced by animals (including fish); and
                            ``(ii) includes--
                                    ``(I) waste described in clause (i) 
                                that is mixed or commingled with 
                                bedding, compost, feed, soil, or other 
                                material typically found with such 
                                waste; and
                                    ``(II) waste described in clause 
                                (i), including such waste that is mixed 
                                or commingled with material described 
                                in subclause (I), that is decomposing.
                    ``(B) Farm.--The term `farm' means a facility for 
                the production of crops or raising or selling of 
                animals (including fish) that under normal conditions 
                produces or sells $1,000 or more of agricultural 
                products during a year.''.
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