WASHINGTON, DC – Since passing the House Energy and Commerce Committee in May, H.R. 4775, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016, sponsored by Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX), has achieved broad support from leading job creators across the country. The bill, which will be considered by the House this afternoon, will provide states with the time and tools they need to meet existing standards and address the agency’s overlapping regulations.

Below is a sampling of the growing support for the Ozone Standards Implementation Act:

Diverse Coalition of Over 200 Jobs Related Stakeholders
“This legislation provides a common-sense approach for implementing national ambient air quality standards, recognizes ongoing state efforts to improve air quality through a reasonable implementation schedule for the 2015 ozone standards, streamlines the air permitting process for businesses to expand operations and create jobs, and includes other reforms that bring more regulatory certainty to federal air quality standards. … H.R. 4775 and the related appropriations request provide a common-sense plan that maintains continued air quality improvement without unnecessarily straining state and local economic resources.”

60 Conservative Organizations
“Without changes to the ozone regulation and reform of the rulemaking process, economic activity could be brought to a standstill in many areas across the country. … By making the ozone standard stricter, the EPA has made it significantly harder for these counties to be in compliance and ignores their hard work at meeting the prior standard. … The legislation would push back the attainment deadline for states and require economic feasibility to be considered.”

American Chemistry Council
“Your bipartisan legislation will help ensure thoughtful, reasonable implementation of new air quality standards and will support U.S. manufacturing investment and job growth. … A sensible process would let states finish work on the 2008 standards first.”

Americans for Prosperity
“The EPA’s new ozone standard places a tremendous burden on communities across America. The result of nonattainment designation can be disastrous and bring economic activity to a halt.”

Industrial Energy Consumers of America
“Mounting EPA regulatory costs have made it very difficult for manufacturing companies to compete with global competitors, thereby impacting U.S. jobs. … IECA supports cost-effective action to reduce ozone emissions in a manner that will not impair manufacturing competitiveness. Thank you for your leadership on this important issue.”

National Association of Manufacturers
“EPA’s new rule will cost the economy billions of dollars each year… H.R. 4775 would ensure continued air quality improvements across the country, while better aligning the EPA’s regulatory requirements with the realities of the economy, technology and existing policies. Additionally, it would establish a more realistic ten-year review period for future ozone and other air quality standards reviews, and allow for the EPA to consider whether a new air quality standard is technically feasible or not, before further revising it.”

Portland Cement Association
“…PCA supports Committee consideration of the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016 (H.R. 4775) and its thoughtful approach to implementing the recently revised standards for ozone as well as future NAAQS. The proposed revisions will improve a program that has long been mired by overlapping and unnecessarily punitive regulatory requirements.”

San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District Environmental Justice Advocacy Group Members
“Given the large number of disadvantaged communities in the San Joaquin Valley, it is imperative that the limited resources available be used as efficiently as possible to improve air quality and public health while improving the economic vitality of our communities. … H.R. 4775 will enable the Valley to continue to focus resources on developing and implementing transformative measures that are necessary to meet the health-based air quality standards without wasting resources on unnecessary bureaucratic and administrative mandates.”

U.S. Chamber of Commerce
“… H.R. 4775 would allow for the sensible and efficient alignment of the implementation deadlines for the 2015 and 2008 ozone standards so that states have time to implement the 2008 ozone standard first, while still improving air quality. … The Chamber strongly supports H.R. 4775, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016…”

For a fact sheet on H.R. 4775, click here.

To view additional letters of support, click here.