An amendment numbered 7 printed in House Report 112-680 to reinforce the transparency and sound science requirements in the bill. Specifically, it would require EPA to make data and modeling inputs available to the public, and would require Regulatory Impact Analysis to undergo external peer review according to the agency's own peer review guidelines.

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   Change 1: Strikes “and”

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   Struck: and

   Original wording

   Page 21, line 18, strike “and”.

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   Change 2: Replaces the period on page 22, line 2 with new text

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   …[struck: .]

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   Page 22, line 2, strike the period and insert a semicolon.

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   Inserted: (iii) shall not issue any proposed or final rule under section 109 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7409) that relies upon scientific or technical data that have not been made available to the public; and

   Inserted: (iv) shall not issue any proposed or final rule under section 109 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7409), unless the accompanying regulatory impact analysis, as required under Executive Order 12866, is peer reviewed in a manner consistent with the Office of Management and Budget's "Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review" and the third edition of the Environmental Protection Agency's "Peer Review Handbook".

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   Page 22, after line 2, insert the following:

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