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[CITE: 42USC7625-1]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
            CHAPTER 85--AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
                   SUBCHAPTER III--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 7625-1. Exemptions for certain territories

    (a)(1) Upon petition by the governor \1\ of Guam, American Samoa, 
the Virgin Islands, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
the Administrator is authorized to exempt any person or source or class 
of persons or sources in such territory from any requirement under this 
chapter other than section 7412 of this title or any requirement under 
section 7410 of this title or part D of subchapter I of this chapter 
necessary to attain or maintain a national primary ambient air quality 
standard. Such exemption may be granted if the Administrator finds that 
compliance with such requirement is not feasible or is unreasonable due 
to unique geographical, meteorological, or economic factors of such 
territory, or such other local factors as the Administrator deems 
significant. Any such petition shall be considered in accordance with 
section 7607(d) of this title and any exemption under this subsection 
shall be considered final action by the Administrator for the purposes 
of section 7607(b) of this title.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be capitalized.
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    (2) The Administrator shall promptly notify the Committees on Energy 
and Commerce and on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives 
and the Committees on Environment and Public Works and on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the Senate upon receipt of any petition under this 
subsection and of the approval or rejection of such petition and the 
basis for such action.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any fossil 
fuel fired steam electric power plant operating within Guam as of 
December 8, 1983, is hereby exempted from:
        (1) any requirement of the new source performance standards 
    relating to sulfur dioxide promulgated under section 7411 of this 
    title as of December 8, 1983; and
        (2) any regulation relating to sulfur dioxide standards or 
    limitations contained in a State implementation plan approved under 
    section 7410 of this title as of December 8, 1983: Provided, That 
    such exemption shall expire eighteen months after December 8, 1983, 
    unless the Administrator determines that such plant is making all 
    emissions reductions practicable to prevent exceedances of the 
    national ambient air quality standards for sulfur dioxide.

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title III, Sec. 325, as added Pub. L. 98-213, 
Sec. 11, Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1461; amended Pub. L. 101-549, title 
VIII, Sec. 806, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2689; Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 15(s), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4594.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 325 of act July 14, 1955, was renumbered section 326 
by Pub. L. 98-213 and is classified to section 7625a of this title.
    Another prior section 325 of act July 14, 1955, was renumbered 
section 324 by Pub. L. 96-300 and is classified to section 7625 of this 
title.


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural 
Resources'' for ``Interior and Insular Affairs'' before ``of the 
House''.
    1990--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 101-549, which directed the insertion 
of ``the Virgin Islands,'' after ``American Samoa,'' in ``[s]ection 
324(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7625-1(a)(1))'', was executed 
by making the insertion in subsec. (a)(1) of this section to reflect the 
probable intent of Congress.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives and 
Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated as 
referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7545 of this title.
