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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 Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce 
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, 
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. 
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, existing source, modified source, or reconstructed 
source that is an electric utility generating 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 associated 
with the carbon dioxide emission reductions pro-
jected to occur under such rule; 
(2) reports domestic benefits separately from 
any analysis or estimate of the global benefits of 
such rules; 
(3) primarily considers the domestic benefits of 
such rule as opposed to the global benefits of such 
rule; and 
(4) includes an estimate of the difference be-
tween monetized benefits and costs of such rule that 
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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 
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). 
(3) The proposed rule entitled ‘‘Carbon Pollu-
tion Standards for Modified and Reconstructed Sta-
tionary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units’’ 
published at 79 Fed. Reg. 34960 (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)). 
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(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)). 
(3) MODIFIED SOURCE AND RECONSTRUCTED 
SOURCE.—The terms ‘‘modified source’’ and ‘‘recon-
structed source’’ mean any stationary source the 
modification or reconstruction of which causes such 
source to be treated as a new source for purposes of 
section 111 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411). 
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