H.R. 6387
Revises Clean Air Act exceptional event rules
Changes how states can get exceptional events excluded from air quality violation findings and directs the Environmental Protection Agency to revise rules for wildfire risk actions and multi-state petitions.
- Lets human-caused events that copy natural events count as exceptional events
- Removes exclusions for high temperatures, lack of rain, and unusual air stagnation
- Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to revise rules for wildfire risk actions
- Requires regional modeling and analysis when multiple states petition on the same event
Passed the House · Senate's turn