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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3094 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3094

 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
   from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with 
      respect to emissions from vehicles, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 19, 2023

  Mr. Crapo (for himself, Mr. Ricketts, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Manchin, Mr. 
Risch, Mrs. Fischer, Ms. Lummis, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Tillis, 
 Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Budd, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Lee, 
Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Daines, Ms. 
Ernst, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Scott of 
  South Carolina, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Braun, and Mr. Cruz) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Environment and Public Works

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
   from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing a proposed rule with 
      respect to emissions from vehicles, 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 ``Choice in Automobile Retail Sales 
Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST FINALIZING, IMPLEMENTING, OR ENFORCING A 
              PROPOSED RULE WITH RESPECT TO EMISSIONS FROM VEHICLES.

    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not 
finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule of the Environmental 
Protection Agency entitled ``Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for 
Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles'' (88 
Fed. Reg. 29184 (May 5, 2023)).

SEC. 3. ENSURING TAILPIPE REGULATIONS DO NOT LIMIT THE AVAILABILITY OF 
              NEW MOTOR VEHICLES.

    (a) In General.--Section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7521(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(2) Any regulation'' and inserting 
        ``(2)(A) Any regulation''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(B) Any regulation, including a revision to a regulation, 
        prescribed under paragraph (1), including any regulation 
        prescribed after January 1, 2021, and any regulation proposed 
        after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, shall not--
                    ``(i) mandate the use of any specific technology; 
                or
                    ``(ii) result in limited availability of new motor 
                vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine 
                in such new motor vehicles.''.
    (b) Necessary Revisions to Regulations.--Not later than 24 months 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency shall promulgate such revisions to 
regulations as may be necessary to conform those regulations to 
subparagraph (B) of section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7521(a)(2)), as added by subsection (a).
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