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SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION. Under recent court interpretations of the 1970 act, the EPA must not only "protect and enhance" the nation's air but take active steps to prevent "significant deterioration" where air is still relatively pure. Environmentalists see these steps as safeguards against further despoliation by belching factories and power plants. But industry is sure that they will, as a Chamber of Commerce spokesman says, only "mandate undeveloped areas into eternal poverty." The House version would leave enforcement to the jurisdiction of the states and allow up to 18 days a year of pollution in those areas. By contrast...
NONATTAINMENT. Because areas that do not meet the 1970 act's minimal clean-air requirements cannot legally attract more polluting industry, the EPA last fall announced a Solomonic compromise: it would permit new factories and power plants in a "nonattainment" area if their pollution was offset by curbs on existing emissions. It is under such an arrangement that Volkswagen is building its first U.S. assembly plant-in New Stanton, Pa. Yet the imaginative offset policy has touched off howls from industry, and the Carter Administration wants another year to study its effects. In a surprising reversal, the House voted...
Since Carter took office, Drayton has worked in the administration office of the EPA...
Drayton joined the Carter staff in June, 1976 to prepare campaign issue papers on "everything from nuclear proliferation and plutonium development to the weakening of the American family," the EPA spokesman said...
...Senate Public Works Committee will review Drayton's nomination and the Senate must approve his nomination before he can assume office. The EPA spokesman said he did not believe there would be any opposition to his nomination...