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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2886 
To require agency notice and receipt of public comment before using any 
estimate for the social cost of carbon, to require reports on the results 
of and methods used to calculate any cost-benefit or regulatory impact 
analysis, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 31, 2013 
Mr. HUNTER (for himself and Mr. CULBERSON) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Re-
form, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To require agency notice and receipt of public comment 
before using any estimate for the social cost of carbon, 
to require reports on the results of and methods used 
to calculate any cost-benefit or regulatory impact anal-
ysis, 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 ‘‘Social Cost of Carbon 
Transparency Enhancement Act of 2013’’. 
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SEC. 2. NOTICE AND RECEIPT OF PUBLIC COMMENT FOR 
SOCIAL COST OF CARBON. 
The head of an agency may not use an estimate for 
the social cost of carbon until completion of notice and 
receipt of public comment with regard to such estimate. 
SEC. 3. COST-BENEFIT AND REGULATORY IMPACT REPORT 
REQUIREMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after the 
completion by an agency of any cost-benefit or regulatory 
impact analysis used to promulgate rules or guidelines or 
to determine administrative actions, the head of the agen-
cy, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget— 
(1) shall submit to the relevant committees of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate a re-
port on the result of and methods (including any key 
method) used to calculate the cost-benefit or regu-
latory impact analysis; and 
(2) shall publish such report in the Federal 
Register. 
(b) INTERIM PERIOD.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Any cost-benefit or regu-
latory impact analysis that is the subject of a report 
submitted pursuant to subsection (a) may not be fi-
nalized during the 60-day period starting on the 
date of submission of the report. 
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(2) WAIVER
AUTHORITY.—The head of the 
agency concerned may waive the 60-day period de-
scribed in paragraph (1) in an emergency situation 
or if required by law to act more quickly. 
(c) VALUATION OF BENEFITS.—During the 60-day 
period described in subsection (b)(1), the head of each 
agency shall evaluate the potential benefits of each cost- 
benefit or regulatory impact analysis through the fol-
lowing: 
(1) Providing an opportunity for public com-
ment on the results of the cost-benefit or regulatory 
impact analysis. 
(2) Consideration of public comments. 
(3) Publishing a summary of the public com-
ments received and the agency responses to such 
comments in the Federal Register. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 551 of title 5, 
United States Code, except that the term does not 
include an independent regulatory agency as defined 
by section 3502(5) of title 44, United States Code. 
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(2) KEY METHOD.—The term ‘‘key method’’ in-
cludes any method that determines the social cost of 
carbon. 
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