Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Marginal Well Protection Act”.
Marginal Well Protection Act
A BILL
To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing a fee or reporting requirements on certain facilities for methane emissions.
Sec. 2 Methane fee and reporting requirements for petroleum and natural gas systems
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the owner or operator of a facility that produces fewer than 15 barrels of oil per day and less than 90,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day shall not, with respect to that facility, be subject to any fee or reporting requirements imposed by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in connection with reporting methane emissions pursuant to subpart W of part 98 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).