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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 246 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environ- |
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| 6 | 6 | | mental Protection Agency from imposing a fee on certain facilities for |
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| 7 | 7 | | methane emissions. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY10, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. E |
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| 11 | 11 | | STESintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee |
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| 12 | 12 | | on Energy and Commerce |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator |
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| 15 | 15 | | of the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing |
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| 16 | 16 | | a fee on certain facilities for methane emissions. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Marginal Well Protec-4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tion Act’’. 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | •HR 246 IH |
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| 25 | 25 | | SEC. 2. METHANE EMISSIONS AND WASTE REDUCTION IN-1 |
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| 26 | 26 | | CENTIVE PROGRAM FOR PETROLEUM AND 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | NATURAL GAS SYSTEMS. 3 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Section 136(d) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 4 |
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| 29 | 29 | | 7436(d)) is amended— 5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (1) by striking ‘‘section,’’ and inserting ‘‘sec-6 |
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| 31 | 31 | | tion:’’; 7 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through 8 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (9) as subparagraphs (A) through (I), respectively; 9 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (3) by striking ‘‘the term’’ and inserting the fol-10 |
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| 35 | 35 | | lowing: 11 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(1) The term’’; and 12 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (4) by adding at the end the following: 13 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘(2) The term ‘applicable facility’ does not in-14 |
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| 39 | 39 | | clude a facility that produces less than 15 barrels of 15 |
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| 40 | 40 | | oil per day and less than 90 thousand cubic feet of 16 |
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| 41 | 41 | | natural gas per day.’’. 17 |
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