BREATHE Act

Bill: 113-hr-1154
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2013-03-14
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Air quality

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Environmental regulatory procedures

Hazardous wastes and toxic substances

Oil and gas
Latest action: action_date: 2013-03-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-03-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Bringing Reductions to Energy's Airborne Toxic Health Effects Act or the BREATHE Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to repeal prohibitions against: (1) aggregating emissions from any oil or gas exploration or production well and emissions from any pipeline compressor or pump station with emissions from other similar units, whether or not such units are in a contiguous area or under common control, to determine whether such units or stations are major sources of listed toxic air pollutants under such Act; (2) aggregating such emissions for any purpose under such Act, in the case of any oil or gas exploration or production well; and (3) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) listing an oil and gas production well as an area source category of toxic air pollutants under such Act.</p> <p>Requires the Administrator to: (1) issue a final rule adding hydrogen sulfide to the list of hazardous air pollutants; and (2) revise such list within 365 days after issuing such rule to include categories and subcategories of major sources and area sources of hydrogen sulfide, including oil and gas wells.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1154 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 14, 2013 Mr. Polis (for himself, Mr. Cartwright , Mr. Holt , Mr. Blumenauer , Mr. Capuano , Ms. Chu , Mr. Connolly , Mr. Ellison , Mr. Grijalva , Mr. Hastings of Florida , Mr. Honda , Mr. Huffman , Mr. Keating , Mr. Langevin , Ms. Lee of California , Ms. Lofgren , Mr. Lowenthal , Mrs. Lowey , Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York , Mr. McDermott , Ms. Meng , Mr. Moran , Mr. Nadler , Ms. Norton , Mr. Peters of Michigan , Ms. Pingree of Maine , Mr. Pocan , Mr. Price of North Carolina , Mr. Quigley , Mr. Sarbanes , Ms. Schakowsky , Ms. Slaughter , Mr. Smith of Washington , Mr. Tonko , Ms. Tsongas , Mr. Farr , Mr. Van Hollen , and Ms. Edwards ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Bringing Reductions to Energy’s Airborne Toxic Health Effects Act or the BREATHE Act . 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). 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.