Title: EPA Regulatory Authority Act of 2022
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
EPA Regulatory Authority Act of 2022
This bill provides that in identifying the best system of emission reduction for purposes of a standard performance under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency may include measures that apply beyond an individual stationary source or category of stationary sources. Additionally, the bill provides that each determination in the Clean Power Plan (i.e., the final rule titled Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units published in the Federal Register on October 23, 2015) with respect to a best system of emission reduction is deemed as authorized.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8395 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8395

     To amend the Clean Air Act to allow the Administrator of the 
  Environmental Protection Agency, in identifying the best system of 
   emission reduction for purposes of a standard of performance, to 
 include measures that apply beyond an individual stationary source or 
                    category of stationary sources.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 2022

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez 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 allow the Administrator of the 
  Environmental Protection Agency, in identifying the best system of 
   emission reduction for purposes of a standard of performance, to 
 include measures that apply beyond an individual stationary source or 
                    category of stationary sources.

    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 ``EPA Regulatory Authority Act of 
2022''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF CONTROL MEASURES BEYOND AN INDIVIDUAL SOURCE OR 
              CATEGORY OF SOURCES IN IDENTIFYING THE BEST SYSTEM OF 
              EMISSION REDUCTION.

    (a) In General.--Section 111(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7411(a)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``For 
purposes of identifying the best system of emission reduction, a system 
of emission reduction may include measures that apply beyond an 
individual stationary source or category of stationary sources, 
including measures that would reduce emissions by altering the relative 
market share of such sources or categories.''.
    (b) Determinations Authorized by Section 111.--
            (1) Deemed authorization.--Each determination of the 
        Environmental Protection Agency in the Clean Power Plan with 
        respect to a best system of emission reduction for purposes of 
        section 111 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411) is deemed to 
        be authorized by such section 111, as amended by subsection 
        (a).
            (2) Clean power plan defined.--In this subsection, the term 
        ``Clean Power Plan'' means the final rule titled ``Carbon 
        Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: 
        Electric Utility Generating Units'' published in the Federal 
        Register by the Environmental Protection Agency on October 23, 
        2015 (80 Fed. Pub. 64662 et seq.).
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