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CRS85-517ENRp040
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. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Clean Air Act Amendments of 1983. Hearings. 98th Cong., lst sess., Nov. l5, 17, 1983. S. Hrg. 98-543. Part 1, 605 p.; Part 2. 162 p. U.S. General Accounting Office. Problems in air quality monitoring system affect data reliabiliti. GAO/CED-82-101. Sent. 22, 1982. 4A 9.
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CRS-32 Walsh, Michael. The costs and benefits of diesel particulate control. II. Reprint #840177, Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. 1984. White, Lawrence J. The regulation of air pollutant emissions from motor vehicles. American Enterprise Institute, 1982. EPA proposes 91 percent reduction of lead in gasoline. Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, v. 34, Sept. 1984, pp. 958
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problems for existing coal-burning sources that cannot retrofit and must compete with new, low-sulfur coal burning installations. To remedy this situation, the 1977 Amendments required that NSPS be expressed both as a numerical emission limit (e.g., pounds/pollutant/hour) and a mandatory percentage reduction of the pollutant content of untreated fuel (a range between 70-90 percent of sulfur dioxide
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and Commerce, would have limited percentage reduction to those source categories to which NSPS applied on December 31, 1981. __ _, . , . ,_ _,__ _ - ..........- .....-.-..--_ - :"-.":..: _. _-- . ._ _ _. .
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by technology which would. obtain Lowest Achievable Emission Rates (LAER). However, on October 14, 1981 EPA revised its definition of source in a nonattainment area by permitting the use of the "bubble concept" in such areas. (The bubble concept, according to EPA, treats all pollution-emitting devices within the same industrial grouping as though they were encased in a bubble, thus representing all
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CRS-35 References American Enterprise Institute. The Clean Air Act. Proposals for revisions. Nov. l98l, pp. 29-30. National Commission on Air Quality (NCAQ). To breathe clean air. March 1981. pp. 223-226. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Clean Air Act Oversight. Hearings. April, May, June 1981. 97th Cong., lst sess. Part 1, pp. 455-468.
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amendment. This amendment would have required over half the l0-million ton reduction in sulfur oxide emissions to be achieved by scrubbing the 50 most polluting coal-fired utility plants, and it would have financed the clean- up by taxing all nonnuclear power produced in the U.S. However, the acid precipitation portion of H.R. 53l& was struck in subcommittee on a 20-? vote. Several forces suggest
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CRS-37 regulations must be aimed at reaching standards as expeditiously as possible, a bubble mechanism could not be permitted (NRDC v Gorsuch, 17 ERC 1825). On June 25, 1984 the Supreme Court reversed the lower court's decision and upheld EPA's revised definition of "source" by ruling that the Agency's decision was a permissible and reasonable construction of the Act
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CRS-38 References U.S. Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Clean Air Act: can nonattainment be cured? MB 84201, 1/3/84 (regularly updated). Pulse Part D, deCo Supreme Court of the U.S. Chevron USA, Inc. v. NRDC, Inc. et al. No. 82-1005, 82-1247 and 82-1591. June 25, 1984.
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in place, or are being considered. - ' Background In contrast to the regulatory activities and resources allocated to im- prove and maintain outdoor ambient air quality in the past 20 years, indoor air quality has received comparatively less attention, except for industrial environments. However, studies have demonstrated that - most people spend 70-80% of their time indoors; - indoor pollutant
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, Federal mandatory regulations to be enforced by States and localities, or a voluntary compliance program which includes tax credits and other incentives? - Can research programs currently underway or planned answer these questions? References National Academy of Sciences. Indoor pollutants. Wational Academy Fress, 1981. 538 2. NCAQ. To breathe clean air. Mach 1981. pp. 11; 56, 33. U.S. Congress. House
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of acid precipitation? Would controls on utilities emitting sulfur dioxide in the Midwest mitigate acid precipitation in the Northeast? To answer these questions, the 96th Congress enacted the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980 (Title VII; Energy Security Act, P.L. 96-294). This research program is beginning to produce results, with a major interim report scheduled for 1985. Now, the second round of acid
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own regulatory mandate which has sometimes resulted in duplication of research efforts and occasional conflicts regarding pro- posed measures. However, EPA, DOE, HHS and CPSC co-chair a 13-member in- teragency Committee for Indoor Air Quality which has recently completed a Federal indoor air strategy, to be transmitted to Congress after review and approval by the Office of Management and Budget
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CRS-42 8. ACID PRECIPITATION Issue Over the past Congress, acid precipitation was the most actively debated air quality issue. Points of contention included the urgency of the problem and who should pay the costs of reduction. For the present, the Administration is supporting an accelerated research program, saying that imposing costly con- trol actions is premature. And even if the questions of urgency and financing cleanup are resolved, any acid precipitation legislation is likely to be just one ingredient of a more comprehensive debate on Clean Air Act amendments. Background ’Acid precipitation results from oxides of sulfur and nitrogen reacting with water vapor in the atmosphere. It has the potential--either alone or together with other pollutants-to-damage lakes and fish populations, forests, crops, soil fertility, and manmade materials. The precursor pollutants are produced primarily by the combustion of fossil fuels in powerplants, industrial boilers, and automobiles; and by smelting processes. The single greatest source of acid precipitation is believed to be sulfur in coal burned by electric utilities. Mationally emissions of sulfur dioxide are running at about 26 million tons per year. In North America, the area most vulnerable to acid precipitation appears to be our Northeast, especially New York State and New England and Canada's eastern Provinces. These areas are affected both by local sources and, it is generally believed, by emissions originating from high-sulfur coal burning utilities in the Midwest. While lake and fish damage has generated the most concern, forest decline is attracting increasing attention, with acid pre- cipitation one of the postulated causes.
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CRS-49 a) MANAGING NONPOINT SOURCE WATER POLLUTION Issue In many parts of the United States, nonpoint sources of water pollution (pollution not discharged from a discrete, identifiable pipe or conveyance) contribute significantly to water quality problems. At issue are the adequacy of voluntary efforts to curb nonpoint source pollution, whether a more active Federal role is needed, and the appropriateness of incentives or penalties to ensure abatement. Background an estimated 30 percent of :he Nation’3 remaining water pollution problems are associated with nonpoint sources, such as agricultural and forestry lands, urban and suburban sites. Runoff from these nonpoint sources transports con- ventional and toxic pollutants into waterways. The relative importance of abating uncontrolled nonpoint sources has become more evident as, over the last’ decade, industrial and municipal point sources have achieved greater compliance with control requirements of the Clean Water Act. The principal Federal legislative mechanism for dealing with nonpoint source pollution has been section 208 of the Act, a planning tool for compre- hensive waste management. Historically, public and private interest in this program languished behind attention to point source controls. Consequently, the results of section 208 planning efforts have been mixed nationwide, as has implementation of control measures by State and local governments. Yet, State officials contend that differing degrees of attention to nonpoint pollution reflect differences in the relative importance of those sources to a State's water quality problems, rather than lack of commitment.
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CRS-50 In considering bills to reauthorize the Clean Water Act, the 98th Congress examined the possible need for a new nonpoint source management program and, if needed, the features it might include. Senate and House committees approved bills to establish new management programs (S. 2006 and H.R. 3282); the House passed H.R. 3282 in June 1984. Three key questions raised during the debate
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is distributed to States 9 under a statutory allotment formula. The grants program was last reauthorized in 1981 (P.L. 97-117), when Congress extended it through 7? 1985 at an annual funding level of $2.4 billion and made changes to limit Federal spending and focus the program on water quality problems. In the 98th Congress the House passed legislation (H.R. 3282) that would have increased the program
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CRS-45 References U.S. Library of Contress. Congressional Research Service. Acid rain. IP 0134. U.S. Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Acid rain: issues of the 99th Congress. IB 85-008. National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program. Annual report, 1983, to the President and Congress. Washington: Interagency Task Force on Acid Precipitation (1984). 72 p. U.S. Congress. House
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on Public Works and Transportation. Water Quality Renewal Act of 1984; report together with additional and supplemental views to accompany H.R. 3282. Washington, U.S- Govt. Print. Off., 198$. 91 p.— (98th Congress, 2d session. Eouse. Report no. 98-827).
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-based approach to water pollution, especially i« the control of so-called conventional pollutants such as bacteria and nutrients. Other elements of the cleanup job envisioned by Congress when it enacted the law in 1972 (P.L. 92-S00) remain unfinished, including control of toxic pollutant discharges-where the regulatory framework is still incomplete--and nonpoint sources of pollution, which are not regulated

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