Keeping Oil and Natural Gas Flowing for Consumers Act

Bill: 114-hr-4037
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Fleming, John [R-LA-4]
Introduced: 2015-11-17
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Air quality

Climate change and greenhouse gases

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Environmental regulatory procedures

Oil and gas

Pipelines
Latest action: action_date: 2015-11-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-11-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Keeping Oil and Natural Gas Flowing for Consumers Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from proposing, implementing, or enforcing restrictions under the Clean Air Act on methane emissions from: (1) crude oil production; or (2) natural gas production, processing, transmission, and storage.</p> <p>The EPA may not finalize or enforce the proposed rule entitled, &quot;Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New and Modified Sources,&quot; which proposes to amend the new source performance standards for oil and gas production by setting standards for methane and volatile organic compounds.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4037 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 17, 2015 Mr. Fleming introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from proposing, finalizing, implementing, or enforcing any prohibition or restriction under the Clean Air Act with respect to the emission of methane from the oil and natural gas source category.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Keeping Oil and Natural Gas Flowing for Consumers Act . 2. Prohibition against EPA regulation of methane emissions from oil and natural gas source category (a) In general The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not propose, finalize, implement, or enforce any prohibition or restriction under the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq. ) with respect to the emission of methane from the oil and natural gas source category. (b) Proposed rule The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may not finalize, implement, or enforce— (1) the proposed rule entitled Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New and Modified Sources , published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register on September 18, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 56593); or (2) any substantially similar rule. (c) Definition In this section, the term oil and natural gas source category means— (1) crude oil production, including the well and extending to the point of custody transfer to the crude oil transmission pipeline; and (2) natural gas production, processing, transmission, and storage, including the well and extending to, but not including, the city gate.