Title: Revoking Engine and Vehicle Requirements Act of 2022
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Revoking Engine and Vehicle Requirements Act of 2022
This bill amends the Clean Air Act by repealing the provision that authorizes states (i.e., California) to be waived from the prohibition against adopting or attempting to enforce emission control standards on new motor vehicles.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8773 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8773

  To amend the Clean Air Act to repeal the waiver authority allowing 
California to enforce certain standards relating to federally regulated 
            motor vehicle emissions, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 6, 2022

  Mr. LaMalfa (for himself, Mr. Bost, and Mr. Ellzey) 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 repeal the waiver authority allowing 
California to enforce certain standards relating to federally regulated 
            motor vehicle emissions, 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 ``Revoking Engine and Vehicle 
Requirements Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF WAIVER AUTHORITY ALLOWING CALIFORNIA TO ENFORCE 
              CERTAIN STANDARDS RELATING TO FEDERALLY REGULATED MOTOR 
              VEHICLE EMISSIONS.

    (a) New Motor Vehicles or New Motor Vehicle Engines.--
            (1) Repeal.--Section 209(b) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
        7543(b)) is hereby repealed.
            (2) Conforming changes.--
                    (A) Section 202(i)(2)(A) of the Clean Air Act (42 
                U.S.C. 7521(i)(2)(A)) is amended by striking ``, taking 
                into consideration the waiver provisions of section 
                209(b)''.
                    (B) Section 209(c) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
                7543(c)) is amended by striking ``The preceding 
                sentence shall not apply in the case of a State with 
                respect to which a waiver is in effect under subsection 
                (b).''.
                    (C) Section 211 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
                7545) is amended--
                            (i) in subsection (c)(4), by striking 
                        subparagraph (B);
                            (ii) in subsection (k)(1)(B)(ii), by 
                        striking ``(other than a refiner or importer in 
                        a State that has received a waiver under 
                        section 209(b) with respect to gasoline 
                        produced for use in that State)''; and
                            (iii) in subsection (o)(6), by striking 
                        subparagraphs (E) and (F).
                    (D) Section 243 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
                7583) is amended by striking subsections (e), (f), and 
                (g).
                    (E) Section 244 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
                7584) is amended--
                            (i) by striking the comma at the end of 
                        paragraph (2) and inserting a period; and
                            (ii) by striking ``unless the Administrator 
                        determines (in promulgating the rules 
                        establishing the clean fuel vehicle program 
                        under this section) that any such 
                        administration and enforcement would not meet 
                        the criteria for a waiver under section 209.''.
    (b) Nonroad Engines or Vehicles.--
            (1) Repeals.--Section 209(e) of the Clean Air Act (42 
        U.S.C. 7543(e)) is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``from either of 
                the following new nonroad engines or nonroad vehicles 
                subject to regulation under this Act'' and all that 
                follows through the end of paragraph (1) and inserting 
                ``from nonroad engines or nonroad vehicles subject to 
                regulation under this chapter.''; and
                    (B) by repealing paragraph (2).
            (2) Conforming change.--Subsection (e) of section 209 of 
        the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7543), as amended, is further 
        amended by striking the continuation text at the end of the 
        subsection and inserting at the end of subsection the 
        following:
            ``(2) Regulations.--The Administrator shall issue 
        regulations to implement this subsection.''.
    (c) Administrative Action.--Not later than the effective date 
specified in subsection (d), the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection shall terminate any waiver or authorization granted under a 
provision stricken or repealed by subsection (a)(1) or (b)(1).
    (d) Delayed Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsections (a) 
and (b) shall take effect on the date that is 30 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act.
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