S.Amdt. 1489

SA 1489. Mr. UDALL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 1407 proposed by Ms. Murkowski to the bill S. 2657, to
support innovation in advanced geothermal research and development, and
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF NEW PLASTIC
PRODUCTION FACILITIES.

(a) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Covered facility.--The term ``covered facility''
means--
(A) an industrial facility that transforms natural gas
liquids into ethylene and propylene for later conversion into
plastic polymers;
(B) a plastic polymerization or polymer production
facility; and
(C) an industrial facility that repolymerizes plastic
polymers into chemical feedstocks for use in new products or
as fuel.
(2) Covered products.--The term ``covered plastic'' means--
(A) ethylene;
(B) propylene;
(C) polyethylene in any form (including pellets, resin,
nurdle, powder, and flakes);
(D) polypropylene in any form (including pellets, resin,
nurdle, powder, and flakes);
(E) polyvinyl chloride in any form (including pellets,
resin, nurdle, powder, and flakes); or
(F) other plastic polymer raw materials in any form
(including pellets, resin, nurdle, powder, and flakes).
(3) Environmental justice.--The term ``environmental
justice'' means the fair treatment and meaningful involvement
of all individuals, regardless of race, color, national
origin, educational level, or income, with respect to the
development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental
laws, regulations, and policies to ensure that--
(A) communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-
income communities have access to public information and
opportunities for meaningful public participation with
respect to human health and environmental planning,
regulations, and enforcement;
(B) no community of color, indigenous community, or low-
income community is exposed to a disproportionate burden of
the negative human health and environmental

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impacts of pollution or other environmental hazards; and
(C) the 17 principles described in the document entitled
``The Principles of Environmental Justice'', written and
adopted at the First National People of Color Environmental
Leadership Summit held on October 24 through 27, 1991, in
Washington, DC, are upheld.
(b) Study.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary shall offer to enter into an
agreement with the National Academy of Sciences and the
National Institutes of Health to conduct a study of--
(A) the existing and planned expansion of the industry of
the producers of covered products, including the entire
supply chain, end uses, disposal fate, and lifecycle impacts
of covered products;
(B) the environmental justice and pollution impacts of
covered facilities and the products of covered facilities;
(C) the existing standard technologies and practices of
covered facilities with respect to the discharge and emission
of pollutants into the environment; and
(D) the best available technologies and practices that
reduce or eliminate the environmental justice and pollution
impacts of covered facilities and the products of covered
facilities.
(2) Requirements.--The study under paragraph (1) shall--
(A) consider--
(i) the direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental
impacts of the industries of covered facilities to date; and
(ii) the impacts of the planned expansion of those
industries, including local, regional, national, and
international air, water, waste, climate change, public
health, and environmental justice impacts of those
industries; and
(B) recommend technologies, standards, and practices to
remediate or eliminate the local, regional, national, and
international air, water, waste, climate change, public
health, and environmental justice impacts of covered
facilities and the industries of covered facilities.
(3) Report.--Not later than 18 months after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress
a report describing the results of the study under paragraph
(1).
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