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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Mercury Emissions Control Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) mercury pollution is a serious hazard to human health
and the environment in the United States;
(2) more than 45 percent of the industrial mercury
emissions of the United States come from coal-fired power
plants;
(3) of the mercury deposited in the United States, 60
percent comes from United States sources;
(4) human exposure to methylmercury, the most toxic form of
mercury, comes almost exclusively from consuming fish and
shellfish;
(5) mercury released into the atmosphere is deposited into
waterways, where the mercury collects in the tissue of fish as
methylmercury at concentrations of up to 10,000,000 times that
of the mercury concentration in the surrounding water;
(6) each year, approximately 630,000 children are born
having been exposed to dangerous levels of methylmercury in the
womb, placing the children at risk of neurological problems,
including poor performance on neurobehavioral tests, especially
on tests of--
(A) fine motor function;
(B) attention;
(C) language;
(D) visual-spatial abilities; and
(E) memory;
(7) exposure of humans and animals of all ages to
methylmercury adversely impacts the cardiovascular system,
blood pressure regulation, and heart-rate variability, and
contributes to heart disease;
(8) the monetary benefit of reducing those health outcomes
is estimated to be in the billions of dollars;
(9) reducing coal-fired power plant mercury emissions by 90
percent is--
(A) feasible by calendar year 2010 using current
methods, such as activated carbon injection technology
and fabric filters; and
(B) projected to result in annual financial
benefits of up to $5,200,000,000;
(10) the addition of a scrubber can reduce mercury
emissions by up to 98 percent from a bituminous coal-fired
power plant;
(11) activated carbon injection technology has been
successfully used to control mercury emissions from municipal
waste incinerators, leading to reductions from 45.2 tons in
1990 to 2.2 tons in 2000;
(12) the capital cost of activated carbon injection
equipment is minimal, at less than $3 per kilowatt;
(13) the final rules of the Environmental Protection Agency
entitled ''Revision of December 2000 Regulatory Finding on the
Emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants From Electric Utility
Steam Generating Units and the Removal of Coal- and Oil-Fired
Electric Utility Steam Generating Units from the Section 112(c)
List'' (70 Fed. Reg. 15994 (March 29, 2005)) and ''Standards of
Performance for New and Existing Stationary Sources: Electric
Utility Steam Generating Units'' (70 Fed. Reg 28606) (May 18,
2005)) (commonly known as the ''Clean Air Mercury Rule''),
which were vacated by the United States Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia Circuit, would have reduced mercury
emissions by only 50 percent by 2020;
(14) in enacting Public Law 101-549 (commonly known as the
''Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990'') (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.),
Congress included a list of 188 hazardous air pollutants,
including mercury, to be regulated under section 112 of the
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412); and
(15) section 112 of that Act requires regulation of
hazardous air pollutants using maximum achievable control
technology.
(b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are--
(1) to require the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency to promulgate regulations to control
hazardous air pollutant emissions from electric utility steam
generating units; and
(2) to ensure that those regulations accurately reflect the
availability of highly effective controls.

SEC. 3. EMISSIONS FROM ELECTRIC UTILITY STEAM GENERATING UNITS.

Section 112(n)(1) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(n)(1)) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
''(D) Regulations.--
''(i) Proposal.--Not later than 180 days
after the date of enactment of the Mercury
Emissions Control Act, but in no case later
than October 1, 2008, the Administrator shall
propose regulations under subsection (d) to
control the emission from new and existing
electric utility steam generating units of
hazardous air pollutants, including mercury
pollutants.
''(ii) Requirement.--The regulations
adopted from the proposed regulations under
clause (i) shall require a reduction in
emissions of mercury from new and existing
electric utility steam generating units of not
less than 90 percent.''.
A:
Mercury Emissions Control Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to propose regulations to: (1) control the emission of hazardous air pollutants, including mercury pollutants, from electric utility steam generating units; and (2) require a reduction of not less than 90% in such mercury emissions.