To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit unless and until carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and economically feasible.

Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from finalizing any rule imposing a standard of performance for carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit unless and until three of four specified officials (the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, the Comptroller General, the Director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory, and the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology) publish and submit to Congress a report finding that carbon capture and storage is technologically and economically feasible for such units.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6172 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6172

 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
   from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for 
  carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a 
  fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit unless and until 
     carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and 
                         economically feasible.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2012

 Mr. McKinley (for himself, Mr. Rahall, Mr. Griffith of Virginia, Mr. 
Holden, Mrs. Lummis, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Altmire, Mr. 
  Costello, and Mr. Cardoza) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
   from finalizing any rule imposing any standard of performance for 
  carbon dioxide emissions from any existing or new source that is a 
  fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating unit unless and until 
     carbon capture and storage is found to be technologically and 
                         economically feasible.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. NO FINALIZATION OF ANY STANDARD OF PERFORMANCE FOR CARBON 
              DIOXIDE EMISSIONS FROM ANY EXISTING OR NEW FOSSIL FUEL-
              FIRED ELECTRIC UTILITY GENERATING UNIT UNTIL COMPLIANCE 
              TECHNOLOGY IS FEASIBLE.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency shall not finalize any rule imposing any standard of performance 
under section 111 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411) for emissions 
of carbon dioxide from any existing or new source that is a fossil 
fuel-fired electric utility generating unit unless and until at least 3 
of the 4 officials listed in subsection (b) publish in the Federal 
Register, and submit to the Congress, a report finding that carbon 
capture and storage is technologically and economically feasible for 
fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating units.
    (b) Listed Officials.--The officials listed in this subsection 
are--
            (1) the Administrator of the Energy Information 
        Administration;
            (2) the Comptroller General of the United States;
            (3) the Director of the National Energy Technology 
        Laboratory; and
            (4) the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and 
        Technology.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``existing source'' 
and ``new source'' have the meanings given such term in section 111(a) 
of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7411(a)).
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