Environmental Justice Air Quality Monitoring Act of 2021
Summary
Environmental Justice Air Quality Monitoring Act of 2021 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.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jul 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jul 27, 2021
Last action Jul 13, 2022
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Jul 13, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee on Environment and Public Works. Hearings held.
upper
Jul 27, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
upper
Jul 27, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 8 co-sponsors
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