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HR 3886 107th Congress House

Right to Know About Airport Pollution Act of 2002

Official title: To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a feasibility study for applying airport bubbles as a method of identifying, ass… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a feasibility study for applying airport bubbles as a method of identifying, assessing, and reducing the adverse environmental impacts of airport ground and flight operations and improving the overall quality of the environment, and for other purposes.

Introduced: October 3, 2002 See on congress.gov
Environmental Protection Administrative procedureAir basesAir pollution controlAir pollution measurement
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Air qualityAir routesAircraft enginesAirlinesAirportsArmed Forces and National SecurityCommerceCommercial aircraftCongressCongressional reporting requirementsEnvironmental Protection AgencyEnvironmental assessmentForeign Trade and International FinanceGovernment Operations and PoliticsGovernment paperwork
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This bill died when the 107th Congress ended
It never became law before the 107th Congress (2001–2002) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 13, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
Mar 8, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
Mar 6, 2002
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 6, 2002
Introduced in House
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 Latest action March 13, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Right to Know About Airport Pollution Act of 2002 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study, and report to Congress on: (1) the feasibility of regulating air, noise, water, and solid waste pollution from all sources in and around airports using airport bubbles; and (2) the feasibility and desirability of strengthening EPA air pollutant emissions standards for airplane engines. Defines an "airport bubble" as an area: (1) in and around an airport (or other facility using aircraft) within which sources of pollution and levels of pollution from those sources are to be identified and reduced; and (2) containing a variety of types of air, noise, water, and solid waste sources of pollution in which the aggregate of each type of pollutant from the respective source is regulated as if the various sources were a single source.

Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring each airport that regularly serves commercial or military jet aircraft to report, under toxic chemical release reporting provisions of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 and source reduction and recycling data collection provisions of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990, releases and other waste management activities associated with the manufacturing, processing, or other use of toxic chemicals listed under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Oct 3, 2002
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3886: Right to Know About Airport Pollution Act of 2002. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-3886/
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"H.R. 3886: Right to Know About Airport Pollution Act of 2002." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-3886/.
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H.R. 3886, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-3886/.
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