S 2833 113th Congress Senate Environmental Protection Administrative law and regulatory procedures Air quality Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Environmental regulatory procedures

CASE Act

Introduced: September 17, 2014 Introduced by: Thune, John Republican · South Dakota See on congress.gov

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

Sep 17, 2014

Introduced in Senate

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Clean Air, Strong Economies Act or the CASE Act - Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from lowering its existing national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) until at least 85% of counties that are in nonattainment areas (counties that are exceeding the limit) have attained the standard.

Requires the EPA, in promulgating a primary or secondary NAAQS for ozone, to:

only consider a county to be a nonattainment area on the basis of direct air quality monitoring (rather than modeling);
take into consideration feasibility and cost; and
include in the regulatory impact analysis for the proposed and final rule at least one analysis that does not include any calculation of benefits resulting from reducing emissions of any pollutant other than ozone.

What's happening now September 17, 2014

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

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