I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4265 
To amend the Clean Air Act with respect to national ambient air quality 
standards, including the 2015 ozone standards, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 16, 2015 
Mr. OLSON (for himself, Mr. LATTA, Mr. CUELLAR, and Mrs. KIRKPATRICK) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Clean Air Act with respect to national ambient 
air quality standards, including the 2015 ozone stand-
ards, 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 ‘‘Clean Air Implementa-
tion Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents of this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. Timeline for review of national ambient air quality standards. 
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Sec. 4. Consideration of technological feasibility. 
Sec. 5. Emissions emanating from outside of the United States. 
SEC. 3. TIMELINE FOR REVIEW OF NATIONAL AMBIENT AIR 
QUALITY STANDARDS. 
Section 109(d) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7409(d)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraphs (1) and (2)(B), by striking 
‘‘at five-year intervals’’ each place it appears and in-
serting ‘‘at 8-year intervals’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking the last sen-
tence; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) Whenever the national ambient air quality 
standard for an air pollutant is revised pursuant to this 
subsection, the next 8-year interval for such air pollutant 
under paragraphs (1) and (2)(B) shall be calculated begin-
ning on the date of finalization of such revised standard. 
‘‘(4) The Administrator, in consultation with relevant 
State air quality officials, may review and revise criteria 
or promulgate new standards earlier or more frequently 
than required under paragraph (1).’’. 
SEC. 4. CONSIDERATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL FEASIBILITY. 
Section 109(b)(1) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7409(b)(1)) is amended by inserting after the first sen-
tence the following: ‘‘If the Administrator, in consultation 
with the independent scientific review committee under 
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subsection (d), finds that a range of levels of air quality 
for an air pollutant are requisite to protect human health 
with an adequate margin of safety, as described in the 
preceding sentence, the Administrator may consider, as a 
secondary consideration, likely technological feasibility in 
establishing and revising the national primary ambient air 
quality standard for such pollutant.’’. 
SEC. 5. EMISSIONS EMANATING FROM OUTSIDE OF THE 
UNITED STATES. 
(a) CONSIDERATION OF STATE PETITIONS.—Section 
179B of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7509a) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (b) through (d) 
as (c) through (e), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(b) BALANCE OF EVIDENCE.—If a State submits a 
petition to demonstrate that the standard described in 
(a)(2) or (c) is met, the Administrator shall consider such 
petition to be approvable if the preponderance of the evi-
dence indicates that such standard is satisfied.’’. 
(b) REPORT
TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 24 
months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in 
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coordination with the National Academy of Science, shall 
submit a report to the Congress on— 
(1) the extent to which foreign sources of air 
pollution impact achievement and maintenance of 
national ambient air quality standards under the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.); and 
(2) the extent to which such Act successfully 
takes such impact into account. 
(c) SUSPENSION OF 2015 OZONE STANDARDS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency shall— 
(A) suspend the application and implemen-
tation of the 2015 ozone standards until the 
date on which the report required by subsection 
(b) is submitted to the Congress; and 
(B) extend each deadline in the rule cited 
in paragraph (2) for a period equal to the pe-
riod beginning on the date of enactment of this 
Act and ending on the date on which the report 
required by subsection (b) is submitted to the 
Congress. 
(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘‘2015 ozone standards’’ means the national ambient 
air quality standards for ozone published in the rule 
entitled ‘‘National Ambient Air Quality Standards 
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for Ozone’’ published in the Federal Register on Oc-
tober 26, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 65292). 
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