I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5300 
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 or new 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 30, 2014 
Mrs. WAGNER (for herself, Mr. LUETKEMEYER, Mr. LONG, Mr. SMITH of Mis-
souri, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. MCKINLEY, and Mr. GUTHRIE) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce 
A BILL 
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency to primarily consider, and to separately re-
port, the domestic benefits of any rule that addresses 
emissions of carbon dioxide from any existing source 
or new 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘The EPA Regulatory 
Domestic Benefit Act of 2014’’. 
SEC. 2. RULES ADDRESSING CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS 
FROM 
ELECTRIC 
UTILITY 
GENERATING 
UNITS. 
(a) CONSIDERATION OF DOMESTIC BENEFITS.—The 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
may not issue, implement, or enforce any proposed or final 
rule addressing emissions of carbon dioxide from any new 
source or existing source that is an electric utility gener-
ating unit unless the Administrator in such rule, and in 
the regulatory impact analysis for such rule— 
(1) includes an analysis and an estimate of any 
domestic benefits of such rule that are reported sep-
arately from any analysis or estimate of the global 
benefits of such rule; 
(2) primarily considers the domestic benefits of 
such rule as opposed to the global benefits of such 
rule; and 
(3) includes an estimate of the difference be-
tween monetized benefits and costs of such rule that 
is based on analyses and estimates of domestic bene-
fits and domestic costs. 
(b) NULLIFICATION OF PROPOSED RULES.—The fol-
lowing rules of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 
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have no force or effect and shall be treated as if such rules 
had never been issued: 
(1) The proposed rule entitled ‘‘Standards of 
Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From 
New Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating 
Units’’ published at 79 Fed. Reg. 1430 (January 8, 
2014). 
(2) The proposed rule entitled ‘‘Carbon Pollu-
tion Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary 
Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units’’ pub-
lished at 79 Fed. Reg. 34830 (June 18, 2014). 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) EXISTING
SOURCE.—The term ‘‘existing 
source’’ has the meaning given such term in section 
111(a) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411(a)). 
(2) NEW SOURCE.—The term ‘‘new source’’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 111(a) of 
the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411(a)). 
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