I 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lower Electric Bill 
Act of 2014’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Certain Environmental Protection Agency 
environmental regulations are issued without any 
economic impact analysis that takes into consider-
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ation the costs to comply with such regulations and 
the impact of such regulations on the local economy 
and jobs. 
(2) Certain Environmental Protection Agency 
environmental regulations are issued without any 
analysis of the feasibility of compliance with dead-
lines. 
(3) It will cost local communities billions of dol-
lars to comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics 
Standards. 
(4) Communities throughout the Nation will 
therefore face large increases in their electric utility 
bills, on top of rising water and wastewater bills, 
and in some cases these increases in electricity bills 
could be nearly 20 percent. 
(5) The economic impact of such Standards has 
the potential to be devastating, especially in commu-
nities with a high percentage of residents living at 
or below the poverty line, a factor which is not con-
sidered in cost/benefit analyses. 
(6) Higher energy costs also threaten all types 
of businesses, including manufacturing and other in-
dustries that employ thousands throughout the Na-
tion. 
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SEC. 3. DELAYED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MERCURY 
AND AIR TOXICS STANDARDS. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may 
not implement, administer, or enforce the emission stand-
ards for hazardous air pollutants from coal- and oil-fired 
electric utility steam generating units established pursuant 
to section 112 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412) and 
promulgated in the final rule entitled ‘‘National Emission 
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Coal- and 
Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and 
Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric 
Utility, Industrial-Commercial-Institutional, and Small In-
dustrial-Commercial-Institutional 
Steam 
Generating 
Units’’, published at 77 Fed. Reg. 9304 (February 16, 
2012), or any revisions or supplements thereto before the 
later of— 
(1) the date that is 5 years after the date of en-
actment of this Act; and 
(2) the date on which the Administrator com-
pletes a study on the economic impacts of such 
standards on local communities. 
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