Title: BREATHE Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Bringing Reductions to Energy's Airborne Toxic Health Effects Act or the BREATHE Act
This bill amends the Clean Air Act to revise requirements for hazardous air pollutants. Specifically, the bill allows: (1) emissions from oil or gas exploration or production wells and emissions from pipeline compressors or pump stations to be aggregated with emissions from other similar sources and regulated as a major source of toxic air pollutants, (2) emissions from those wells to be aggregated for purposes of emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants, and (3) emissions from oil or gas production wells to be regulated as an area source of toxic air pollutants.
The Environmental Protection Agency must: (1) issue a final rule adding hydrogen sulfide to the list of hazardous air pollutants; and (2) revise the list of air pollution sources within 365 days after issuing the rule to include categories and subcategories of major sources and area sources of hydrogen sulfide, including oil and gas wells.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2059 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2059

 To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation 
     of emissions from oil and gas sources, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 2017

  Mr. Polis (for himself, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Capuano, Ms. 
 Judy Chu of California, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Connolly, Ms. 
    DeGette, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Huffman, Mr. 
   Keating, Mr. Langevin, Ms. Lee, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Lowenthal, Mrs. 
 Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Ms. McCollum, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Meng, 
 Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Norton, Mr. Perlmutter, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Pocan, 
Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Scott of 
 Virginia, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Soto, Ms. Speier, Mr. Takano, 
Mr. Tonko, Ms. Tsongas, and Ms. Maxine Waters of California) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation 
     of emissions from oil and gas sources, 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 ``Bringing Reductions to Energy's 
Airborne Toxic Health Effects Act'' or the ``BREATHE Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF EXEMPTION FOR AGGREGATION OF EMISSIONS FROM OIL AND 
              GAS SOURCES.

    Section 112(n) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(n)) is amended 
by striking paragraph (4).

SEC. 3. HYDROGEN SULFIDE AS A HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANT.

    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall--
            (1) not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 
        this Act, issue a final rule adding hydrogen sulfide to the 
        list of hazardous air pollutants under section 112(b) of the 
        Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(b)); and
            (2) not later than 365 days after a final rule under 
        paragraph (1) is issued, revise the list under section 112(c) 
        of such Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(c)) to include categories and 
        subcategories of major sources and area sources of hydrogen 
        sulfide, including oil and gas wells.
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