To allow for a reasonable compliance deadline for certain States subject to the Cross State Air Pollution Rule.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDING.
Congress finds that an approximate 180-day period before which States and utilities are required to comply with certain new rules regarding maximum permissible emissions of ozone, sulfur dioxide, or nitrogen oxides under the Cross State Air Pollution Rule is insufficient for those States and utilities to achieve that compliance.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act: (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (2) Clean air interstate rule.--The term ``Clean Air Interstate Rule'' means the final rule promulgated by the Administrator entitled ``Rule To Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone (Clean Air Interstate Rule); Revisions to Acid Rain Program; Revisions to the NOX SIP Call'' (70 Fed. Reg. 25162 (May 12, 2005)). (3) Cross state air pollution rule.--The term ``Cross State Air Pollution Rule'' means the final rule promulgated by the Administrator entitled ``Federal Implementation Plans: Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone and Correction of SIP Approvals'' (76 Fed. Reg. 48208 (August 8, 2011)) and revisions to that final rule entitled ``Revisions to Federal Implementation Plans To Reduce Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone'' (77 Fed. Reg. 10324 (February 21, 2012)).
SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF COMPLIANCE DEADLINE.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a State that was not required...