BREATHE Act

Bill: 114-hr-1548
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2015-03-23
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: 2015-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-03-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Bringing Reductions to Energy's Airborne Toxic Health Effects Act or the BREATHE Act</b></p> <p>This bill 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 the units are in a contiguous area or under common control, to determine whether the 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 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>The EPA must: (1) issue a final rule adding hydrogen sulfide to the list of hazardous air pollutants; and (2) revise the list within 365 days after issuing the rule to include categories and subcategories of major sources and area sources of hydrogen sulfide, including oil and gas wells.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1548 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 23, 2015 Mr. Polis (for himself, Ms. Bass , Mr. Blumenauer , Mr. Capuano , Ms. Castor of Florida , Ms. Clark of Massachusetts , Mr. Connolly , Mrs. Davis of California , Mr. DeFazio , Ms. DeGette , Ms. Edwards , Mr. Ellison , Ms. Eshoo , Mr. Farr , Mr. Grayson , Mr. Grijalva , Mr. Hastings , Mr. Honda , Mr. Huffman , Mr. Keating , Ms. Kuster , Mr. Langevin , Ms. Lee , Ms. Lofgren , Mr. Lowenthal , Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York , Mr. McDermott , Ms. Meng , Mr. Nadler , Ms. Norton , Mr. Peters , Ms. Pingree , Mr. Pocan , Mr. Cartwright , Mr. Price of North Carolina , Mr. Quigley , Mr. Rangel , Mr. Sarbanes , Ms. Schakowsky , Mr. Schiff , Ms. Slaughter , Mr. Swalwell of California , Mr. Takano , Mr. Tonko , Ms. Tsongas , and Mr. Van Hollen ) 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.