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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 990
To prohibit the enforcement of a rule with respect to emissions, to amend
the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe regulations do not limit the
availability of new motor vehicles, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH12, 2025
Mr. S
ULLIVAN(for himself, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. MULLIN, Mr.
B
UDD, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. RICKETTS, Mr. DAINES, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr.
R
ISCH, Mr. CRAMER, Ms. ERNST, Mr. SCOTTof Florida, Mr. HOEVEN,
Mr. J
USTICE, and Mr. LEE) introduced the following bill; which was read
twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works
A BILL
To prohibit the enforcement of a rule with respect to emis-
sions, to amend the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe
regulations do not limit the availability of new motor
vehicles, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Freedom to Haul Act 4
of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST IMPLEMENTING OR EN-1
FORCING PHASE 3 EMISSION RULES. 2
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 3
Agency may not implement or enforce the final rule of the 4
Environmental Protection Agency entitled ‘‘Greenhouse 5
Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles— 6
Phase 3’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 29440 (April 22, 2024)). 7
SEC. 3. ENSURING TAILPIPE REGULATIONS DO NOT LIMIT 8
THE AVAILABILITY OF NEW MOTOR VEHI-9
CLES. 10
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 202(a)(2) of the Clean 11
Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7521(a)(2)) is amended— 12
(1) by striking ‘‘(2) Any regulation’’ and insert-13
ing the following: 14
‘‘(2)(A) Any regulation’’; and 15
(2) by adding at the end the following: 16
‘‘(B) Any regulation, including a revision to a 17
regulation, prescribed under paragraph (1), includ-18
ing any regulation prescribed after January 1, 2021, 19
and any regulation proposed after the date of enact-20
ment of this subparagraph, shall not— 21
‘‘(i) mandate the use of any specific tech-22
nology; or 23
‘‘(ii) result in limited availability of new 24
motor vehicles based on the type of new motor 25
vehicle engine in that new motor vehicle.’’. 26
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(b) NECESSARYREVISIONS TOREGULATIONS.—Not 1
later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, 2
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agen-3
cy shall promulgate such revisions to regulations as may 4
be necessary to conform those regulations to subparagraph 5
(B) of section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 6
7521(a)(2)) (as added by subsection (a)(2)). 7
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