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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5275 

To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 

Liability Act of 1980 to provide an exemption from certain notice requirements and penalties for air emissions from animal waste at farms. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 14, 2018 

Mr. LONG (for himself, Mr. COSTA, Mr. CONAWAY, Mr. JONES, Mr. PERRY, 

Mr. CRAMER, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, Mrs. WAGNER, Mr. BOST, Mr. BIGGS, 

Mr. GOODLATTE, Ms. CHENEY, Mr. YOUNG of Iowa, Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. WOMACK, Mr. CUELLAR, Mr. KIND, Mr. 

CRAWFORD, Mr. GRAVES of Missouri, Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. 

VALADAO, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. THOMAS J. ROONEY of Florida, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. ABRAHAM, Mr. HARPER, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. 

O’HALLERAN, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. MCKINLEY, Mr. SHUSTER, Mr. ROKITA, 

Ms. JENKINS of Kansas, Ms. SINEMA, Mrs. HARTZLER, Mr. SCHRADER, 

Mr. LEWIS of Minnesota, Mr. EMMER, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. SMITH

of Missouri, Mr. SMUCKER, Mr. NEWHOUSE, Mr. COLLINS of New York, 

Mr. GALLAGHER, Mr. BUCK, Mr. DUFFY, Mr. BLUM, Mr. KING of Iowa, 

Mr. RATCLIFFE, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. KUSTOFF of Tennessee, Mr. 

BARTON, Mr. PETERSON, Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. 

BISHOP of Georgia, Ms. DELBENE, Mrs. NOEM, Mr. YODER, Ms. BLUNT

ROCHESTER, Mr. GROTHMAN, Mr. STIVERS, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. DAVIDSON, Mr. HUIZENGA, Mr. VELA, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. THORNBERRY, Mr. 

GONZALEZ of Texas, Mr. MITCHELL, Mr. WESTERMAN, Mr. RENACCI, 

Ms. KUSTER of New Hampshire, Mrs. ROBY, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. PANETTA, Mr. BYRNE, Mr. 

MARINO, Mr. DENHAM, Mr. MOOLENAAR, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. THOMPSON

of Pennsylvania, and Mr. GIBBS) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to 

the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be 

subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 

of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 


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A BILL 

To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to provide an exemption from certain notice requirements and penalties 

for air emissions from animal waste at farms. 

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 ‘‘Agricultural Certainty 

5 for Reporting Emissions Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. EXEMPTIONS FROM CERTAIN NOTICE REQUIRE7 MENTS AND PENALTIES. 

8 Section 103 of the Comprehensive Environmental Re9 sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 

10 U.S.C. 9603) is amended by adding at the end the fol11 lowing: 

12 ‘‘(g) APPLICABILITY TO AIR EMISSIONS FROM ANI13 MAL WASTE AT FARMS.— 

14 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—This section shall not apply 

15 to air emissions from animal waste at a farm. 

16 ‘‘(2) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 

17 ‘‘(A) ANIMAL WASTE.—The term ‘animal 

18 waste’— 

19 ‘‘(i) means feces, urine, or other ex20 crement, digestive emissions, or urea, that 


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1 is produced by animals (including fish); 

2 and 

3 ‘‘(ii) includes— 

4 ‘‘(I) waste described in clause (i) 

5 that is mixed or commingled with bed6 ding, compost, feed, soil, or other ma7 terial typically found with such waste; 

8 and 

9 ‘‘(II) waste described in clause 

10 (i), including such waste that is mixed 

11 or commingled with material described 

12 in subclause (I), that is decomposing. 

13 ‘‘(B) FARM.—The term ‘farm’ means a fa14 cility for the production of crops or raising or 

15 selling of animals (including fish) that under 

16 normal conditions produces or sells $1,000 or 

17 more of agricultural products during a year.’’. 

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