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U.S.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
Calendar No. 579
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session JSENATE 1 115-422
TO ESTABLISH A COMPLIANCE DEADLINE OF MAY 15, 2023, FOR STEP 2
EMISSIONS STANDARDS FOR NEW RESIDENTIAL WOOD HEATERS, NEW
RESIDENTIAL HYDRONIC HEATERS, AND FORCED-AIR FURNACES
DECEMBER 6, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1857]
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1857) to establish a compliance deadline of May
15, 2023, for Step 2 emissions standards for new residential wood
heaters, new residential hydronic heaters, and forced-air furnaces,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without
amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
S. 1857 is a bipartisan bill that delays the compliance date for
Step 2 of the EPA's 2015 New Source Performance Standards
(NSPS)1 for New Residential Wood Heaters (i.e., woodstoves and
pellet stoves) and New Residential Hydronic Heaters and Forced-
Air Furnaces for three years-from May 15, 2020 to May 15, 2023.
Step 1 of the NSPS is now in effect. Step 2 would impose even
stricter limits. Prior to Step 1 going into effect, the federal emis-
sions requirements for wood and pellet stoves had not been
changed since 1988, and hydronic heaters and forced-air furnaces
had never been subject to federal standards.
180 Fed. Reg. 13672 (Mar. 16, 2015).
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