CLOSE Act

Closing Loopholes for Oil and other Sources of Emissions Act or the CLOSE Act

This bill repeals exemptions from the Clean Air Act under which (1) emissions from oil and gas wells and pipeline facilities are excluded from aggregation with emissions from other similar units for purposes of determining major sources, and (2) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) excludes oil and gas production wells from being listed as area sources.

Additionally, the bill requires the EPA to issue a final rule adding hydrogen sulfide to the list of hazardous air pollutants under the Clean Air Act and revising such list to include categories and subcategories of major sources and area sources of hydrogen sulfide, including oil and gas wells.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2302 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2302

 To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation 
     of emissions from oil and gas sources, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 2021

   Ms. Clarke of New York (for herself, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Beyer, Mr. 
 Blumenauer, Mr. Cartwright, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Hastings, 
 Mr. Khanna, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Morelle, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
   Raskin, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Smith of Washington, Ms. 
Velazquez, Mr. Welch, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Espaillat, 
Mr. Lynch, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Jones, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Sires, Mr. Connolly, 
  Mr. Neguse, Ms. Bonamici, and Mr. Huffman) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation 
     of emissions from oil and gas sources, 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 ``Closing Loopholes for Oil and other 
Sources of Emissions Act'' or the ``CLOSE Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF EXEMPTION FOR AGGREGATION OF EMISSIONS FROM OIL AND 
              GAS SOURCES.

    Section 112(n) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(n)) is amended 
by striking paragraph (4).

SEC. 3. HYDROGEN SULFIDE AS A HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT.

    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall--
            (1) not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 
        this Act, issue a final rule adding hydrogen sulfide to the 
        list of hazardous air pollutants under section 112(b) of the 
        Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(b)); and
            (2) not later than 365 days after a final rule under 
        paragraph (1) is issued, revise the list under section 112(c) 
        of such Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(c)) to include categories and 
        subcategories of major sources and area sources of hydrogen 
        sulfide, including oil and gas wells.
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