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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · May 9, 1997
Acid Deposition and Ozone Control Act of 1997 - Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to add to the single ozone transport region (comprised of the States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area including the District of Columbia) any State that contributed at least four parts per billion to ozone via aerial transport to the ozone level of any noncompliant area in the region for any one of the second through tenth worst ozone days that occurred during the previous ten years. Applies to any State so added, not later than 18 months after enactment of this Act, any control measure adopted under the ozone transport regions provisions. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions reductions in any State added under this Act to one-third of 1990 levels by the year 2003.
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Sen. D'Amato, Alfonse [R-NY] · R–NY
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4285-4286)
Introduced in Senate
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