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I think we may soon find Mexican food banned.....

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From: ghg@ecn.purdue.edu (George Goble)
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 14:32:40 -0500
Subject: 1990 clean air act text [farting to become illegal?]

Farting to become illegal?  The following text was extracted from an
electronic copy of the "1990 Clean Air Act", signed by Pres Bush last
month.  The whole file can be anonymous ftp'd from ei.ecn.purdue.edu
It is in "TITLE VI" (Ozone layer depletion & CFC's, etc)

   SEC. 603. METHANE STUDIES.

        (a) Economically  Justified  Actions._Not  later  than  2
years  after  enactment  of  this  Act,  the  Administrator shall
prepare and submit a  report  to  the  Congress  that  identifies
activities,  substances,  processes, or combinations thereof that
could reduce methane emissions  and  that  are  economically  and
technologically  justified  with  and  without  consideration  of
environmental benefit.

        (b) Domestic Methane Source  Inventory  and  Control._Not
later  than  2  years  after  the  enactment  of  this  Act,  the
Administrator,  in  consultation  and   coordination   with   the
Secretary  of  Energy  and  the  Secretary  of Agriculture, shall
prepare and submit  to  the  Congress  reports  on  each  of  the
following:

        (1)  Methane  emissions  associated  with   natural   gas
extraction,  transportation, distribution, storage, and use. Such
report shall include an inventory of methane emissions associated
with  such  activities  within  the United States. Such emissions
include, but are  not  limited  to,  accidental  and  intentional
releases  from  natural  gas and oil wells, pipelines, processing
facilities, and gas burners. The report  shall  also  include  an
inventory of methane generation with such activities.

        (2) Methane emissions associated  with  coal  extraction,
transportation, distribution, storage, and use. Such report shall
include an inventory of methane emissions  associated  with  such
activities  within the United States. Such emissions include, but
are not limited to,  accidental  and  intentional  releases  from
mining  shafts,  degasification  wells,  gas  recovery  wells and
equipment, and from the processing and use of  coal.  The  report
shall  also  include an inventory of methane generation with such
activities.

        (3) Methane emissions associated with management of solid
waste.   Such  report  shall  include  an  inventory  of  methane
emissions associated with all forms of waste  management  in  the
United States, including storage, treatment, and disposal.

        (4) Methane emissions associated with  agriculture.  Such
report shall include an inventory of methane emissions associated
with rice and livestock production in the United States.

        (5) Methane emissions associated  with  biomass  burning.
Such  report  shall  include  an  inventory  of methane emissions
associated with the intentional burning of  agricultural  wastes,
wood, grasslands, and forests.

        (6)  Other  methane  emissions  associated   with   human
							   ^^^^^^^^
activities.  Such  report  shall  identify  and  inventory  other
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domestic sources of methane emissions  that  are  deemed  by  the
Administrator and other such agencies to be significant.

        (c) International Studies._

        (1) Methane emissions._Not later than 2 years  after  the
enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall prepare and submit
to the Congress a report  on  methane  emissions  from  countries
other   than   the  United  States.  Such  report  shall  include
inventories of methane emissions associated with  the  activities
listed in subsection (b).

        (2) Preventing increases in  methane  concentrations._Not
later  than  2  years  after  the  enactment  of  this  Act,  the
Administrator shall prepare and submit to the Congress  a  report
that  analyzes  the  potential  for  preventing  an  increase  in
atmospheric concentrations of methane from activities and sources
in  other  countries. Such report shall identify and evaluate the
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technical options for reducing methane emission from each of  the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
activities  listed in subsection (b), as well as other activities
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or sources that are deemed by the Administrator  in  consultation
with  other  relevant  Federal  agencies  and  departments  to be
significant and shall include an evaluation of costs. The  report
shall  identify  the  emissions  reductions that would need to be
achieved to  prevent  increasing  atmospheric  concentrations  of
methane.  The  report  shall  also  identify  technology transfer
programs that  could  promote  methane  emissions  reductions  in
lesser developed countries.

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