Title: Agency PAYGO for Greenhouse Gases Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Agency PAYGO for Greenhouse Gases Act
This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to include an offset in any proposed rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions and imposes increased costs on other agencies. The offset must be from funds available to the EPA and be for all projected increased costs imposed on other agencies.
Agencies may not pass on the cost imposed by the rule on to any rate payer of the agencies.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 453 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 453

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
 include in any proposed rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions and 
imposes increased costs on other Federal agencies an offset from funds 
 available to the Administrator for all projected increased costs that 
       the proposed rule would impose on other Federal agencies.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 27, 2017

  Mr. Flake (for himself, Mr. McCain, and Mr. Cotton) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
 include in any proposed rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions and 
imposes increased costs on other Federal agencies an offset from funds 
 available to the Administrator for all projected increased costs that 
       the proposed rule would impose on other Federal agencies.

    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 ``Agency PAYGO for Greenhouse Gases 
Act''.

SEC. 2. OFFSETS FOR INCREASED COSTS TO FEDERAL AGENCIES FOR REGULATIONS 
              LIMITING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.

    (a) In General.--If the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency proposes a rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions 
and imposes increased costs on one or more other Federal agencies, the 
Administrator shall include in the proposed rule an offset from funds 
available to the Administrator for all projected increased costs that 
the proposed rule would impose on other Federal agencies.
    (b) No Offsets.--If the Administrator proposes a rule that limits 
greenhouse gas emissions and imposes increased costs on one or more 
other Federal agencies but does not provide an offset in accordance 
with paragraph (1), the Administrator may not finalize the rule until 
the promulgation of the final rule is approved by law.
    (c) Restriction.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency proposes a 
rule described in subsection (a)--
            (1) a Federal agency on which the rule imposes increased 
        costs may not pass the costs imposed by the rule onto any rate 
        payer of the Federal agency; and
            (2) the proposed rule--
                    (A) shall be considered to be a rule that imposes 
                increased costs on a Federal agency; and
                    (B) shall be subject to this section.
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