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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4654 

To delay implementation of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 9, 2014 

Mr. YODER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To delay implementation of the Mercury and Air Toxics 

Standards, 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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lower Electric Bill 

5 Act of 2014’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 The Congress finds the following: 

8 (1) Certain Environmental Protection Agency 

9 environmental regulations are issued without any 

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1 ation the costs to comply with such regulations and 

2 the impact of such regulations on the local economy 

3 and jobs. 

4 (2) Certain Environmental Protection Agency 

5 environmental regulations are issued without any 

6 analysis of the feasibility of compliance with dead7 lines. 

8 (3) It will cost local communities billions of dol9 lars to comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics 

10 Standards. 

11 (4) Communities throughout the Nation will 

12 therefore face large increases in their electric utility 

13 bills, on top of rising water and wastewater bills, 

14 and in some cases these increases in electricity bills 

15 could be nearly 20 percent. 

16 (5) The economic impact of such Standards has 

17 the potential to be devastating, especially in commu18 nities with a high percentage of residents living at 

19 or below the poverty line, a factor which is not con20 sidered in cost/benefit analyses. 

21 (6) Higher energy costs also threaten all types 

22 of businesses, including manufacturing and other in23 dustries that employ thousands throughout the Na24 tion. 


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1 SEC. 3. DELAYED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MERCURY 

2 AND AIR TOXICS STANDARDS. 

3 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Ad4 ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may 

5 not implement, administer, or enforce the emission stand6 ards for hazardous air pollutants from coal- and oil-fired 

7 electric utility steam generating units established pursuant 

8 to section 112 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412) and 

9 promulgated in the final rule entitled ‘‘National Emission 

10 Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Coal- and 

11 Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and 

12 Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric 

13 Utility, Industrial-Commercial-Institutional, and Small In14 dustrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating 

15 Units’’, published at 77 Fed. Reg. 9304 (February 16, 

16 2012), or any revisions or supplements thereto before the 

17 later of— 

18 (1) the date that is 5 years after the date of en19 actment of this Act; and 

20 (2) the date on which the Administrator com21 pletes a study on the economic impacts of such 

22 standards on local communities. 

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