Ozone and Carbon Monoxide Standards: Nonattainment Issues : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Environmental Protection of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, March 26, 31, and April 9, 1987

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Página 97 - ... (3) that the prevention and control of air pollution at its source is the primary responsibility of States and local governments; and (4) that Federal financial assistance and leadership is essential for the development of cooperative Federal, State, regional, and local programs to prevent and control air pollution.
Página 617 - [w]hen a court reviews an agency's construction of the statute which it administers, it is confronted with two questions." (A) "First, always, is the question whether Congress has directly spoken to the precise question at issue.
Página 617 - Sometimes the legislative delegation to an agency on a particular question is implicit rather than explicit. In such a case, a court may not substitute its own construction of a statutory provision for a reasonable interpretation made by the administrator of an agency.
Página 95 - Attainment of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone and Carbon Monoxide...
Página 616 - When a court reviews an agency's construction of the statute which it administers, it is confronted with two questions. First, always, is the question whether Congress has directly spoken to the precise question at issue. If the intent of Congress is clear, that is the end of the matter; for the court, as well as the agency, must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress.
Página 628 - Interstate System", is essential to the national interest and is one of the most important objectives of this Act. It is the intent of Congress that the Interstate System be completed as nearly as practicable over the period of availability of the thirteen years...
Página 534 - We appreciate having had the opportunity of appearing before this committee. We sincerely hope that consideration will be given to the recommendations we have made. We trust that you will not hesitate to call upon us if we can be of any assistance.
Página 617 - If his choice represents a reasonable accommodation of conflicting policies that were committed to the agency's care by statute, we should not disturb it unless it appears from the statute or its legislative history that the accommodation is not one that Congress would have sanctioned.
Página 615 - EPA will go through notice and comment ruleraaking to approve or disapprove each submission of a committal SIP. 4. Periodic Findings of Reasonable Efforts and SIP Implementation. EPA periodically will evaluate the efforts of the state to determine whether those efforts are reasonable and whether the state is carrying out the SIP. - 12 5. Enforcement. If EPA determines that the state is failing to make reasonable efforts with respect to a particular area, it would undertake notice and comment rulemaking...
Página 624 - The conference agreement is founded on several major principles. First, and foremost, protection of the public health remains the paramount purpose and value under the Act .... 34/ More importantly, while it is true that Congress believed that it had secured the paramount goal of health protection without occasioning economic disruption, it is not at all clear that it intended EPA to make the value judgment on what amount of disruption is intolerable. Indeed, an argument can be made that the deadlines...

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