This bill would amend the Clean Air Act to exempt small oil and natural gas operations, known as "marginal wells," from federal air quality standards and related requirements. Specifically, the legislation defines marginal wells as oil wells producing 15 barrels or less per day and natural gas wells producing 90,000 cubic feet or less per day, and would exclude these operations from EPA regulations regarding emissions monitoring, reporting, leak detection, and repair requirements. The bill would also prevent states from imposing their own air quality standards on these marginal wells, and it would require the EPA to approve or deny state plan revisions within 180 days or automatically deem them approved. Any existing EPA enforcement actions against marginal wells for violating air quality standards would be immediately terminated, and the EPA would have 180 days to update its regulations to implement these exemptions.
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