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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 995 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To repeal a rule of the Environmental Protection Agency with respect to |
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| 6 | 6 | | multi-pollutant emissions standards, to amend the Clean Air Act to |
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| 7 | 7 | | ensure that tailpipe regulations do not limit the availability of new |
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| 8 | 8 | | motor vehicles, and for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 10 | 10 | | MARCH12, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. C |
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| 12 | 12 | | RAPO(for himself, Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. MULLIN, Mr. TUBERVILLE, Mr. |
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| 13 | 13 | | R |
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| 14 | 14 | | ISCH, Mrs. BRITT, Mr. BUDD, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. RICKETTS, Mr. MAR- |
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| 15 | 15 | | SHALL, Mr. DAINES, Mr. CRAMER, Ms. ERNST, Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. BAR- |
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| 16 | 16 | | RASSO, Mr. CRUZ, Mr. SCOTTof Florida, Mr. HOEVEN, Mr. JUSTICE, |
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| 17 | 17 | | Mrs. C |
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| 18 | 18 | | APITO, Ms. LUMMIS, and Mr. LANKFORD) introduced the following |
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| 19 | 19 | | bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment |
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| 20 | 20 | | and Public Works |
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| 21 | 21 | | A BILL |
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| 22 | 22 | | To repeal a rule of the Environmental Protection Agency |
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| 23 | 23 | | with respect to multi-pollutant emissions standards, to |
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| 24 | 24 | | amend the Clean Air Act to ensure that tailpipe regula- |
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| 25 | 25 | | tions do not limit the availability of new motor vehicles, |
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| 26 | 26 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 27 | 27 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Choice in Automobile 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Retail Sales Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | •S 995 IS |
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| 35 | 35 | | SEC. 2. REPEAL OF MULTI-POLLUTANT EMISSIONS STAND-1 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ARDS FOR LIGHT-DUTY AND MEDIUM-DUTY 2 |
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| 37 | 37 | | VEHICLES. 3 |
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| 38 | 38 | | The final rule of the Environmental Protection Agen-4 |
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| 39 | 39 | | cy entitled ‘‘Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for 5 |
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| 40 | 40 | | Model Years 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium- 6 |
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| 41 | 41 | | Duty Vehicles’’ (89 Fed. Reg. 27842 (April 18, 2024)) 7 |
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| 42 | 42 | | shall have no force or effect. 8 |
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| 43 | 43 | | SEC. 3. ENSURING TAILPIPE REGULATIONS DO NOT LIMIT 9 |
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| 44 | 44 | | THE AVAILABILITY OF NEW MOTOR VEHI-10 |
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| 45 | 45 | | CLES. 11 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (a) I |
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| 47 | 47 | | NGENERAL.—Section 202(a)(2) of the Clean 12 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7521(a)(2)) is amended— 13 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (1) by striking ‘‘(2) Any regulation’’ and insert-14 |
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| 50 | 50 | | ing ‘‘(2)(A) Any regulation’’; and 15 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 16 |
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| 52 | 52 | | ‘‘(B) Any regulation, including a revision to a 17 |
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| 53 | 53 | | regulation, prescribed under paragraph (1), includ-18 |
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| 54 | 54 | | ing any regulation prescribed after January 1, 2021, 19 |
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| 55 | 55 | | and any regulation proposed after the date of enact-20 |
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| 56 | 56 | | ment of this subparagraph, shall not— 21 |
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| 57 | 57 | | ‘‘(i) mandate the use of any specific tech-22 |
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| 58 | 58 | | nology; or 23 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘(ii) result in limited availability of new 24 |
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| 60 | 60 | | motor vehicles based on the type of new motor 25 |
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| 61 | 61 | | vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.’’. 26 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (b) NECESSARYREVISIONS TOREGULATIONS.—Not 1 |
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| 66 | 66 | | later than 24 months after the date of enactment of this 2 |
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| 67 | 67 | | Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 3 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Agency shall promulgate such revisions to regulations as 4 |
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| 69 | 69 | | may be necessary to conform those regulations to subpara-5 |
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| 70 | 70 | | graph (B) of section 202(a)(2) of the Clean Air Act (42 6 |
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| 71 | 71 | | U.S.C. 7521(a)(2)) (as added by subsection (a)). 7 |
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