Title: Natural Gas Pipeline Public Health Protection Act of 2017
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Natural Gas Pipeline Public Health Protection Act of 2017
This bill suspends construction of natural gas facilities that have been issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission until violations relating to air quality are remediated.
It applies to a holder of a certificate that has not commenced construction of a facility for which such certificate was issued within the previous two years.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4381 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4381

 To require certain holders of a certificate of public convenience and 
   necessity issued under the Natural Gas Act to suspend activities 
authorized by the certificate until violations relating to air quality 
                are remediated, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 13, 2017

  Mr. Lynch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require certain holders of a certificate of public convenience and 
   necessity issued under the Natural Gas Act to suspend activities 
authorized by the certificate until violations relating to air quality 
                are remediated, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Natural Gas Pipeline Public Health 
Protection Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. SUSPENSION OF CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY 
              IN AREAS WITH PRE-EXISTING UNSAFE AIR POLLUTANT LEVELS.

    (a) In General.--Where certified independent air quality testing 
demonstrates an existing violation of a national ambient air quality 
standard promulgated under section 109 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7409), or of a requirement relating to a hazardous air pollutant listed 
under section 112 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412), at a site 
(including any community surrounding such site) that is identified as 
the proposed location of a project for which a certificate of public 
convenience and necessity has been issued to a covered holder, until 
such time as the State environmental authority with jurisdiction over 
the project site conducts certified independent air quality testing (or 
other air quality testing using methods that have been approved by the 
State environmental authority or the Environmental Protection Agency) 
and certifies to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that any such 
violation has been remediated--
            (1) the covered holder shall suspend all activities 
        authorized by the certificate of public convenience and 
        necessity of the covered holder; and
            (2) the Commission may not issue any new certificate of 
        public convenience and necessity under section 7 of the Natural 
        Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717f) to the covered holder with respect to 
        the applicable project or project site (including any community 
        surrounding such site).
    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``covered holder'' means 
a holder of a certificate of public convenience and necessity, issued 
under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, during the two-year period 
ending on the date of enactment of this Act, that has not commenced 
construction of the project for which such certificate was issued by 
such date of enactment.
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