Wildfire Air Quality Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7193 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7193

  To amend the Clean Air Act to provide for exclusion of air quality 
 monitoring data that is directly due to a catastrophic or beneficial 
use wildfire from use in determinations with respect to exceedances or 
  violations of the national ambient air quality standard for any air 
                   pollutant, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2024

  Mr. Curtis 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 provide for exclusion of air quality 
 monitoring data that is directly due to a catastrophic or beneficial 
use wildfire from use in determinations with respect to exceedances or 
  violations of the national ambient air quality standard for any air 
                   pollutant, 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 ``Wildfire Air Quality Act''.

SEC. 2. AIR QUALITY MONITORING DATA EXCLUDED DURING A WILDFIRE EVENT.

    (a) In General.--Section 319 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7619) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Air Quality Monitoring Data Excluded During a Wildfire 
Event.--In the event of a catastrophic or beneficial use wildfire 
determined by the Administrator to have a significant impact on air 
quality, the Administrator shall exclude air quality monitoring data 
that is directly due to such wildfire from use in determinations by the 
Administrator with respect to exceedances or violations of the national 
ambient air quality standard for any air pollutant.''.
    (b) Rulemaking.--Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
shall publish a final rule to carry out the amendment made by 
subsection (a).
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