CHAPTER 220
HJR 24 - FINAL VERSION
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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 24
A RESOLUTION urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Congress to work with the northeastern states and gasoline refiners to authorize the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE additive and to promptly eliminate Clean Air Act requirements for oxygenates in gasoline.
SPONSORS: Rep. Bradley, Carr 8; Rep. MacGillivray, Hills 21; Rep. Norelli, Rock 31; Rep. Maxfield, Merr 9; Rep. M. Downing, Rock 26; Sen. Wheeler, Dist 21; Sen. Below, Dist 5; Sen. Johnson, Dist 3
This house joint resolution urges the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Congress to work with the northeastern states and gasoline refiners to authorize the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE additive, and to promptly eliminate Clean Air Act requirements for oxygenates in gasoline.
This house joint resolution is a request of the study committee established by 1999, 55.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
A RESOLUTION urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Congress to work with the northeastern states and gasoline refiners to authorize the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE additive and to promptly eliminate Clean Air Act requirements for oxygenates in gasoline.
Whereas, the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Blue Ribbon Panel on MTBE has recently examined oxygenates in gasoline in general, and methyl t-butyl ether (MTBE) in particular, and has concluded that the oxygenate requirement for gasoline of the federal Clean Air Act should be eliminated and that the use of MTBE in gasoline should be phased out; and
Whereas, state by state standards for gasoline composition would result in a complex and inefficient regulatory system for fuels, with negative financial effects on refiners and consumers; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
That the United States Congress should promptly eliminate the oxygenate requirement for gasoline of the federal Clean Air Act; and
That the United States Environmental Protection Agency should encourage the United States Congress to promptly eliminate the oxygenate requirement for gasoline of the federal Clean Air Act; and
That the United States Congress and the United States Environmental Protection Agency should work with the northeastern states and with gasoline refiners to promptly develop and approve a consistent, effective regional specification for gasoline containing significantly less or no MTBE additive; and
That copies of this resolution signed by the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate be forwarded by the house clerk to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the President of the United States Senate, the President of the United States, the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and to each member of the New Hampshire congressional delegation.
Approved June 1, 2000