Right to Know About Airport Pollution Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3597
Sponsor: Rep. Rothman, Steven R. [D-NJ-9]
Introduced: 2005-07-28 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Air routes
Aircraft engines
Airlines
Airports
Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Commercial aircraft
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental assessment
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Hazardous wastes
Hydrocarbons
Interstate commerce
Law
Military aircraft
Military bases
Motor vehicle pollution control
Noise
Ozone
Pollution measurement
Recycling of waste products
Refuse and refuse disposal
Standards
Transportation and Public Works
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: 
Right to Know About Airport Pollution Act of 2005 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study, and report to Congress on: (1) the feasibility of regulating air, noise, water, and solid waste pollution from all sources in and around airports using airport bubbles; and (2) the feasibility and desirability of strengthening EPA air pollutant emissions standards for airplane engines. Defines an &quot;airport bubble&quot; as an area: (1) in and around an airport (or other facility using aircraft) within which sources of pollution and levels of pollution from those sources are to be identified and reduced; and (2) containing a variety of types of air, noise, water, and solid waste sources of pollution in which the aggregate of each type of pollutant from the respective sources is regulated as if the various sources were a single source.
 
Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring each airport that regularly serves commercial or military jet aircraft to report, under toxic chemical release reporting provisions of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 and source reduction and recycling data collection provisions of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990, releases and other waste management activities associated with the manufacturing, processing, or other use of toxic chemicals listed under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2005-07-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-28
text: Introduced in House