To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to clarify that no Federal agency shall be required to consider the social cost of carbon as a condition of compliance with such Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-5358
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. McKinley, David B. [R-WV-1]
Introduced: 2014-07-31
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Air quality

Climate change and greenhouse gases

Environmental assessment, monitoring, research

Environmental regulatory procedures

Government studies and investigations
Latest action: action_date: 2014-08-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-07-31
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to prohibit a federal agency from being required to consider the social cost of carbon (an estimate of the monetized damages associated with an incremental increase in carbon dioxide emissions in a given year) as part of any cost-benefit or regulatory analysis of any program, project, activity, or administrative action of the agency as a condition of compliance with NEPA.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5358 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 31, 2014 Mr. McKinley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to clarify that no Federal agency shall be required to consider the social cost of carbon as a condition of compliance with such Act, and for other purposes.

1. Agencies not required to consider social cost of carbon Title I of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4331 et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 106. (a) No Federal agency shall be required to consider the social cost of carbon as part of any cost-benefit or regulatory analysis of any program, project, activity, or administrative action of the agency as a condition of compliance with this Act. (b) In this section: (1) The term Federal agency has the meaning given the term Executive agency in section 133 of title 41, United States Code. (2) The term social cost of carbon means the social cost of carbon as described in the technical support document entitled Technical Support Document: Technical 15 Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order No. 12866 , published by the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, United States Government, in May 2013, revised in November 2013, or any successor or substantially related document, or any other estimate of the monetized damages associated with an incremental increase in carbon dioxide emissions in a given year. .