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S 490 104th Congress Senate Environmental Protection Agricultural industries Agricultural pollution Agriculture and Food Air pollution control Air pollution control equipment Air quality Commerce Feeds Grain storage Grain trade Law Licenses

A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to exempt agriculture-related facilities from certain permitting requirements, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 2, 1995 Introduced by: Grassley, Chuck Republican · Iowa See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Mar 2, 1995
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Clean Air Act to add specified definitions relating to agriculture-related facilities (grain elevators, grain, feed, or rice mills, or grain processing facilities). Defines "potential to emit" as the potential of a facility to emit during a one-year period under maximum realistic operation.

Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in determining the maximum realistic operation of an agriculture-related facility, to consider: (1) the cyclical or seasonal nature of the facility; and (2) the maximum hours of operation of the facility that actually occurred during any of the preceding five years in the case of a facility in operation on the date of determination. Requires the Administrator to consider the effect of control equipment and techniques in lowering the potential to emit of an agriculture-related facility.

Exempts a source from permitting requirements if the source is not a major source and is subject to emissions standards for new stationary sources or requirements for stationary sources of hazardous air pollutants.

What's happening now March 2, 1995

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

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