the opportunity to review the management of the program and i anticipate and i am thankful that janet mccabe career joyous and i am lucky for to revisit this issue is now recognized the senior member. >> first i wish river not having this hearing today at which there is no question over the management of the epa ability to implement of a program as intended that we're in the place where the epa has created uncertainty to the biofuels producer from cellulosic ethanol producers and this lack of predictability is costing us investment environmentally and jobs. i am a strong supporter of all of the above energies upon - - policy along with senator paul lankford we are the leading producer i don't know where oklahoma is but number two in the production of oil and orange we have a lot of wind resources then certainly a lot of by a resource so this is a huge issue to my state and i do think all of the above policy is part of that. when we look at what it means to my state alone through a - - represents annual economic output in oklahoma the rff help to create 4300 jobs in wisconsin, 4.2 million abo

opportunity to review the epa's program and i anticipate an insightful hearing and i am pleased janet mccabe joined us. i recognize the ranking member for opening statement. >> thank you. i want to start by saying i wish we were not having this hearing chatty . i wish there was not a question over the epa's ability to implement the rfs as congress intended. but we are in a place where epa created, i can unknowninglyingly produced this. this is costing us investment. it is costing us environmentally and jobs. i am a strong support of this and my state is one of leader producers. we are number two. i don't know where oklahoma is on the rank but north dakota is number two for oil, we have gas and we have wind sources and a lot of bio resource. this is a huge issue to my state. i can tell you this is part of the all of the above. when we look at what rfs means to north dakota alone the industry represents $2 spa.billion in manual input and almost 9,000 jobs in oklahoma and 4300 in wisconsin and 4.2 million in economic output with over 19000 jobs. in iowa, obviously a major ethanol producer $19.3

energy and power we're set to hear from the acting assistant administrator for air and radiation, janet mccabe. se was scheduled to testify for a look at the epa's new role revising air quality standards for ground level ozone. a final decision on that by the way is expected in the fall. this was set to start at 9:30 eastern. a little bit of a delay in the start of this hearing as members are over on the house floor continuing debate on trade legislation this morning. we are expecting a 10:30 start now in this hearing. we'll have it for you when it gets underway live here on c-span 3. the house is debating trade legislation today. president obama was set to meet with the democratic caucus this morning. if there are any comments after the caucus meeting, we hope to have those here for you on the c-span networks. here's a little bit about what's happening in the house this morning. >> what's going to happen today? what's the plan? >> well, it looks like they're going to vote on three bills today but two really huge votes we're looking at. the first on trade adjustment assistance which is a democ

members heard from janet mccabe. this is about two hours. >> good morning, everyone. s i was privileged to chair two prior hearings on this topic, look forward to another regarding the fuel standard and the management. the ideals are laudable to improve our nation's energy security and secure the environment. the improved energy efficiency have lowered our emissions. for many years, the rfs has chased the annual mandates. since 2009, and we're awaiting the final version of the 2014 volumes even though the year in question has been over for six months. as reason they could not finalize volumes. seemingly and a mission that this program is unworkable in the current form and there's a tremendous amount of controversy around it, and there are a lot of opinions circling and a lot of emotions around this particular issue. in accordance with a court order, june 1st 2015, the proposed mandates for 2014 '15 and '16 were released together. although some might say better late than never, we need to take a serious look at whether these delays are unavoidable every year. the epa p

we're expected to hear from janet mccabe. oklahoma senator james lankford is chair of the hearing. looks like it could be a couple of minutes before it underway. we will have live coverage when it starts here on c-span3. >>> good morning. i want to welcome everyone on today's subcommittee hearing. i look forward to another important discussion regarding the renewable fuel standard and its management. since 2005 daily domestic royal production has nearly doubled. meanwhile other government regulations such as fuel economy standards combined with the recession led to lower demand that anticipated. the increased use of natural gas as lowered the greenhouse emissions. statutorily the epa is required to release the mandated volume by november 30th of the previous year. the epa has not met this deadline since 2009 and we're still waiting epa for the final version of the 2014 volumes even though the year in question has been over for six months. when the announcement was made in november of last year that we would not see a final rule until the calendar was over, the agent cited significa

coming here early this morning at 9:30 and we apologize for the delay, but we are delighted that janet mccabe is with us and the acting administrator of the epa and you are recognized for five minutes for your statement on the ozone rule. >> thank you, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on epa's proposed updates to the ozone national ambient air quality standards. i will try to be brief. the clean air act requires epa to review the standards every five years to make sure they continue to protect public health with an adequate margin of safety. for at risk groups, including as ranking member rush has noted, the estimated 29.5 million people that have asthma in the united states of whom 7.1 million are children, this is critical work. for this review epa examined the thousands of scientific studies including more than 1,000 new studies published since epa last provides the standards in 2008, and a thorough review of all of the science, the recommendation of the agency's independent scientific advisers and the assessment of epa scientists and technical experts the administrator's jud

. >> at this time we'll proceed with testimony from our witness janet mccabe. she previously served in the office of air and radiation's principal deputy to the assistant administrator. it's good to be able to see you again. we swear in all witnesses that appear before us. if you don't mind, i'd like to ask you to stand, raise your right hand. do you swear the testimony that you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. >> thank you. let the record reflect the witness answered in the affirmative. we will be using a timing system today, but you are the only witness in our conversation. we would like you to stay as close as you can to the five-minute time period. we've received your excellent statement for the record early on. you're welcome to build on that or be able to reinforce that or to be able to talk about a totally different thing if you'd like to as well and then we'll have some question time as we have done in the past. the first round will be set questions at five minutes each. after that,

. >> next, hearing with the epa's acting assistant administrator for air and radiation janet mccabe. the agency's proposed new rule to revise national air quality standards are ground-level ozone. heard about the economic impact of the new regulation on states of what technology is available to help them meet the new standard. this hearing is about two hours. >> i'd like to bring the hearing to order. this morning's hearing will be focused on epa's proposed ozone rule. the proposed -- i like to recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. the proposed rule would lower the standard from the current 75 parts per billion down to 65 or 70, but the agency is also taking comment on 60 parts per billion. these proposed levels are so low that in some parts of the country that are at or near background levels. the proposed levels are so low that even epa admits that it is not fully known in some areas how to achieve full compliance. in other words they have to use unknown controls to do it to meet those standards. the marginal cost of ratcheting down the existing standard goes

we're expected to hear from janet mccabe. oklahoma senator james lankford is chair of the hearing. looks like it could be a couple of minutes before it underway. we will have live coverage when it starts here on c-span3.