Environmental Justice Air Quality Monitoring Act of 2022

United States117th CongressHR-6759House of Representatives
Updated: Feb 21, 2022

Summary

Environmental Justice Air Quality Monitoring Act of 2022 This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency to implement a pilot program to award, on a competitive basis, grants or contracts to state, local, and tribal air agencies to carry out specified projects for hyperlocal air quality monitoring systems in environmental justice communities (i.e., communities with significant representation of communities of color, low income communities, or tribal and indigenous communities that experience, or are at risk of experiencing, higher or more adverse human health or environmental effects). A project carried out using a grant or contract awarded under the pilot program may not exceed five years in duration.

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Timeline

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S-2476: Environmental Justice Air Quality Monitoring Act of 2021

Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held.

  1. Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

    House of Representatives

  2. Introduced in House

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.

    House of Representatives

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