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
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In committee
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Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 17, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Sep 17, 2014
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Committees of jurisdiction
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