CASE Act

Bill: 114-s-751
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2015-03-17
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Air quality

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Environmental assessment, monitoring, research

Environmental regulatory procedures
Latest action: action_date: 2015-06-03
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 114-47.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-03-17
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p> <b>Clean Air, Strong Economies Act or the Case Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from lowering its national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ozone until at least 85% of counties that are in nonattainment areas (counties that are exceeding the limit) have attained the standard.</p> <p>In promulgating a primary or secondary NAAQS for ozone, the EPA must: </p> <ul> <li> only consider a county to be a nonattainment area on the basis of direct air quality monitoring (rather than modeling); </li> <li> take into consideration feasibility and cost; and </li> <li> include in the regulatory impact analysis for the proposed and final rule at least one analysis that does not include any calculation of benefits resulting from reducing emissions of any pollutant other than ozone.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 751 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 17, 2015 Mr. Thune (for himself, Mr. Manchin , Mr. Blunt , Mr. Boozman , Mrs. Capito , Mr. Cassidy , Mr. Coats , Mr. Cornyn , Mr. Cotton , Mr. Enzi , Mrs. Fischer , Mr. Flake , Mr. Hatch , Mr. Inhofe , Mr. Isakson , Mr. McConnell , Ms. Murkowski , Mr. Perdue , Mr. Rounds , Mr. Scott , Mr. Vitter , and Mr. Wicker ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works A BILL To improve the establishment of any lower ground-level ozone standards, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Clean Air, Strong Economies Act or the CASE Act . 2. Ground-level ozone standards Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including regulations), in promulgating a national primary or secondary ambient air quality standard for ozone, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency— (1) shall not make final a national primary or secondary ambient air quality standard for ozone that is lower than the standard established under section 50.15 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on January 1, 2015), until at least 85 percent of the counties that were nonattainment areas under that standard as of January 30, 2015, achieve full compliance with that standard; (2) shall only consider all or part of a county to be a nonattainment area under the standard on the basis of direct air quality monitoring; (3) shall take into consideration feasibility and cost; and (4) shall include in the regulatory impact analysis for the proposed and final rule at least 1 analysis that does not include any calculation of benefits resulting from reducing emissions of any pollutant other than ozone.