US Congress Senate Bill 496 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-3)
Status: Introduced on March 7 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-03-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Pending: Senate Environment And Public Works Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act or the FUELS Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in implementing the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure rule with respect to any farm, to require certification of compliance with such rule by: (1) a professional engineer for a farm with an individual tank with an aboveground storage capacity greater than 10,000 gallons, an aggregate aboveground storage capacity of at least 42,000 gallons, or a reportable oil discharge history; or (2) the owner or operator of the farm (via self-certification) for a farm with an aggregate aboveground storage capacity greater than 10,000 gallons but less than 42,000 gallons and no reportable oil discharge history of oil. Directs the Administrator to exempt from all requirements of such rule any farm with an aggregate aboveground storage capacity of 10,000 gallons or less and no reportable oil discharge history. Excludes from the aggregate storage capacity of a farm all containers on separate parcels that have a capacity of less than 1,320 gallons.

Farmers Undertake Environmental Land Stewardship Act

Sen. Mark Pryor [D-AR]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Saxby Chambliss [R-GA]	Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]
Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]	Sen. Deb Fischer [R-NE]	Sen. Heidi Heitkamp [D-ND]	Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]
Sen. Johnny Isakson [R-GA]	Sen. Mike Johanns [R-NE]	Sen. Mary Landrieu [D-LA]	Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-07	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

HB311 (Related) 2014-03-12 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/496/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s496/BILLS-113s496is.pdf