[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 246 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 246

    To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the 
    Environmental Protection Agency from imposing a fee on certain 
                   facilities for methane emissions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 10, 2023

  Mr. Estes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the 
    Environmental Protection Agency from imposing a fee on certain 
                   facilities for methane emissions.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Marginal Well Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. METHANE EMISSIONS AND WASTE REDUCTION INCENTIVE PROGRAM FOR 
              PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS SYSTEMS.

    Section 136(d) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7436(d)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``section,'' and inserting ``section:'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (9) as 
        subparagraphs (A) through (I), respectively;
            (3) by striking ``the term'' and inserting the following:
            ``(1) The term''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) The term `applicable facility' does not include a 
        facility that produces less than 15 barrels of oil per day and 
        less than 90 thousand cubic feet of natural gas per day.''.
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