Title: Science-Based Emissions Standards Act of 2021
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Science-Based Emissions Standards Act of 2021
This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from finalizing any rule to amend the new source performance standards for stationary sources under the Clean Air Act to reduce methane emissions from new and modified oil and natural gas facilities until the Department of Energy takes specified actions. Specifically, the Department of Energy must first (1) complete and publish the results of the study titled Quantification of Methane Emissions from Marginal (Small Producing) Oil and Gas Wells, and (2) provide a period of at least 90 days for public comment on the application of the study's results.
The EPA must take the results of the study into consideration when finalizing the rule.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5991 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5991

 To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
  ensure the completion of a marginal well study by the Secretary of 
Energy so as to inform the development of certain rules under the Clean 
                    Air Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 2021

  Mr. Arrington (for himself, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Williams of Texas, Mr. 
   Estes, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Cole, Mr. Weber of Texas, Ms. Cheney, Mr. 
   Stewart, and Mr. Babin) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
  ensure the completion of a marginal well study by the Secretary of 
Energy so as to inform the development of certain rules under the Clean 
                    Air Act, 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 ``Science-Based Emissions Standards 
Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. ENSURING COMPLETION OF MARGINAL WELL STUDY PRIOR TO REPLACEMENT 
              METHANE RULES.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency may not finalize any rule to amend the new source performance 
standards under section 111 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411) 
(including the regulations thereunder, including subpart OOOOa of part 
60 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations), to reduce methane 
emissions from new and modified oil and natural gas facilities until 
the Secretary of Energy--
            (1) completes and publishes the results of the study titled 
        ``Quantification of Methane Emissions from Marginal (Small 
        Producing) Oil and Gas Wells'' (project number DE-FE0031702); 
        and
            (2) provides a period of at least 90 days for public 
        comment on the application of the results of such study to 
        inform such rule.
    (b) Consideration of Marginal Well Study.--In finalizing any rule 
described in subsection (a), the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency shall take into consideration the results of such 
study.
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