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CRS-77 16. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Issue Despite a requirement that EPA's environmental R&D be annually authorized separately from the Agency's other authorities, the last EPA R&D authorization bill enacted into law was for FY1982. (A bill authorizing appropriations for FYsl983 and 1984 was vetoed.) Appropriations have continued, however, under waivers allowing
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CRS-74 15. FUNDING THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Issue After assessing the programs of the Environmental Protection Agency and weighing those against other national programs, Congress annually appropriates funding. In determining the annual EPA total and allocating portions to in- dividual programs, Congress ranks environmental programs comparing their pri- ority to other national programs
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. , The construction grants program also expires in 1985. Its enormity- $2.4 billion annually-makes it an obvious target for cost savings proposals, some of which are alreadv being debated. While it has not been a major budget issue during the past budget debates, the 99th Congress will probably consider alternative financing arrangements for this program. References National Issues Forum. Difficult choices about
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STRUCTURAL FACTORS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONMAKING - -—r~.:-g-.rr_~:-ta tvr‘:-tn-.'.'1'*-~r.".‘.' ‘ '
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CRS-79 at least partly out of concern that the research might identify new problems that would lead to calls for new regulatory programs. But at other times, this community of interests has urged R&D to ensure technically-valid regulations. It has been suggested that the former views were behind the R&D cuts at EPA during FYs1982-1983, despite protests that the Administration wanted
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procedures are a variety of debatable assump- tions and somewhat arbitrary decisions presumably based on the idea of "prudent public policy." Some critics charge that between 1981-1983, EPA changed previously established cancer risk assessment policies in ways that increase public risk. Among the alleged changes in po’icies on cancer risk assessment were (1) easing acceptable levels of increased
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CRS-81 17. RISK MANAGEMENT Issue Existing environmental protection statutes developed piecemeal and ad hoc. In recent years, considerable attention has been devoted to "risk management" as a way of making more consistent and more cost-effective decisions. Proposals for coordinating risk assessment and risk management policies also have been intended to helpallocate scarce budgetary
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CRS-80 U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. EPA's Office of Research and Development and related issues. Hearings, 98th Congress, 2d session. March 14, 1984. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1984. (Serial No. 80), 176 p.
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wants restriction imposed on environmental policy laws. Washington Post, Federal Report. December 20, 1984, p. A17. UBRARY 5 OF VVASHINGTON UNNERSITY __ ST.-LOLMS - MO.
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1981, the number of personnel assigned to the council has dropped to 11 full-time permanent positions in Fiscal Year 1985. Eoreover, funding that averaged $2.6 million each year between 1970 and 1980 dropped to $750,000 for each of the past four years. The potential abolition of CEQ raises a number of questions for congres- sional consideration. Broadly, Congress may undertake a review to determine
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responsibility and new items on their agendas, such as toxic pollutant regulation and groundwater protection, require more dollars, not fewer. Although the Administration has targeted State environmental grants for ;utsacks since 1381, Ssngress mas generally resisted these proposals. For example, for FY 1985 the Administration requested $238 million for State management grants, while Congress appropriated $273
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CRS-86 pace in establishing environmental regulations has left voids that States have tried to fill. EPA has not issued any new hazardous air pollutant regulations for over five years; meanwhile, at least l9 States and 21 local agencies have developed programs, with others working on the problem. As a result, a firm with facilities in more than one political jurisdiction may find itself having to meet different pollution control requirements for the same pollutants emitted from comparable plants in separate locations. Similarly, other independent regulatory actions are occurring: one State and at least two cities are considering proposals to ban sale of leaded gasoline, and various States are implementing separate programs in areas such as control of leaking underground storage tanks and pesticide regulation. This general trend raises questions of equity and efficiency on administra- tive and economic levels. In several areas, however, the presumed greater efficiency of State and- local controls has been contradicted by regulatory inconsistencies that ap- peared to burden interstate commerce, especially for nationally distributed products. Thus, the Administration has also supported Federal preemption in such areas as product liability legislation. Following the Administration's lead, the 97th Congress enacted legislation preempting State regulation of twin-trailer trucks. The 99th Congress is likely to examine the current status of the Federal- State partnership for environmental protection, as that partnership has been \ affected by policy and budgetary actions taken over the last four years. The shifting Federal-State partnership raises several questions related to such an examination. - Is the concept of minimum national standards and regulatory uniformity still valid in this area?
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CRS-84 18. FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS Issue The Reagan Administration has actively promoted devolution of responsi- bility from Federal to State and local levels of government in order to promote efficiency and accountability. As this has occurred with environmental pro- grams, two questions have arisen: (1) Is there continued need for aid (financial, technical or other) to States to implement
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CRS-88 19. PHASE-OUT OF THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Issue The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), created by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, is responsible for developing policy initiatives that will promote environmental quality. The statute specifies a number of functions including (1) advising the President on environmental policy, (2) coordinating data
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. 28, 1983. ‘Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1983. 428 p. U.S. General Accounting Office. EPA needs to improve its oversight of air pollution control grant expenditures. Washington, 1984. (GAO/RCED-84-163, Sept. 28, 1984) ° State regulators rush in where Washington no longer treads. Business Week, Sept. 19, 1983. pp. 124, 128, 131.
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controversies, and some, if not all, can be expected to con- tinue to play a role in these debates about risk assessment and risk manage- ment. “ References National Research Council. Commission on Life Sciences. Sommittee on the Institutional Means for Assessment of Risks to Public Health. Risk assessment in the Federal Government: managing the process. Washington, National Academy Press, 1983. U.S. Office
Environmental protection issues of the 99th Congress
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Environmental protection issues of the 99th Congress
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1985
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