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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3015 

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 

primarily consider, and to separately report, the domestic benefits of 

any rule that addresses emissions of carbon dioxide from any existing 

source, new source, modified source, or reconstructed source that is 

an electric utility generating unit, in any such rule, and in the regulatory 

impact analysis for such rule, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 9, 2015 

Mrs. WAGNER (for herself, Mr. GUTHRIE, Mr. BARR, Mr. MCKINLEY, Mr. 

GRAVES of Missouri, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. LONG, and Mr. ROGERS of 

Kentucky) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to primarily consider, and to separately report, the domestic benefits of any rule that addresses 

emissions of carbon dioxide from any existing source, 

new source, modified source, or reconstructed source that 

is an electric utility generating unit, in any such rule, 

and in the regulatory impact analysis for such rule, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘The EPA Regulatory 

3 Domestic Benefit Act of 2014’’. 

4 SEC. 2. RULES ADDRESSING CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS 

5 FROM ELECTRIC UTILITY GENERATING 

6 UNITS. 

7 (a) CONSIDERATION OF DOMESTIC BENEFITS.—The 

8 Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 

9 may not issue, implement, or enforce any proposed or final 

10 rule addressing emissions of carbon dioxide from any new 

11 source, existing source, modified source, or reconstructed 

12 source that is an electric utility generating unit unless the 

13 Administrator in such rule, and in the regulatory impact 

14 analysis for such rule— 

15 (1) includes an analysis and an estimate of any 

16 domestic benefits of such rule that are associated 

17 with the carbon dioxide emission reductions pro18 jected to occur under such rule; 

19 (2) reports domestic benefits separately from 

20 any analysis or estimate of the global benefits of 

21 such rules; 

22 (3) primarily considers the domestic benefits of 

23 such rule as opposed to the global benefits of such 

24 rule; and 

25 (4) includes an estimate of the difference be26 tween monetized benefits and costs of such rule that 


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1 is based on analyses and estimates of domestic bene2 fits and domestic costs. 

3 (b) NULLIFICATION OF PROPOSED RULES.—The fol4 lowing rules of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 

5 have no force or effect and shall be treated as if such rules 

6 had never been issued: 

7 (1) The proposed rule entitled ‘‘Standards of 

8 Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From 

9 New Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating 

10 Units’’ published at 79 Fed. Reg. 1430 (January 8, 

11 2014). 

12 (2) The proposed rule entitled ‘‘Carbon Pollu13 tion Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary 

14 Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units’’ pub15 lished at 79 Fed. Reg. 34830 (June 18, 2014). 

16 (3) The proposed rule entitled ‘‘Carbon Pollu17 tion Standards for Modified and Reconstructed Sta18 tionary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units’’ 

19 published at 79 Fed. Reg. 34960 (June 18, 2014). 

20 (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 

21 (1) EXISTING SOURCE.—The term ‘‘existing 

22 source’’ has the meaning given such term in section 

23 111(a) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411(a)). 


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1 (2) NEW SOURCE.—The term ‘‘new source’’ has 

2 the meaning given such term in section 111(a) of 

3 the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411(a)). 

4 (3) MODIFIED SOURCE AND RECONSTRUCTED

5 SOURCE.—The terms ‘‘modified source’’ and ‘‘recon6 structed source’’ mean any stationary source the 

7 modification or reconstruction of which causes such 

8 source to be treated as a new source for purposes of 

9 section 111 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411). 

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