Word: epa
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...plans, attached to an August 30 letter from the University Planning Office to the EPA, do not affect the current number of parking spaces alloted to students and resident personnel...
...Final decisions concerning development and preservation should be made by the people," says EPA Deputy Administrator John Quarles. "Their future is at stake, and they can make those decisions most effectively through the governments closest to them." Thus, under the EPA's plan, state and local governments will classify their land into three air-quality categories...
...Class III, for areas where major industrial developments (again with mandatory pollution controls) will be concentrated and where air pollution will be tolerated up to a national limit set by the federal EPA...
...help encourage economic growth, the EPA proposes to designate all regions where the air is relatively pure-namely, the more than 80% of the U.S. that is still nonindustrial-as Class II. The states would then be able to either upgrade or downgrade the designation after holding public hearings...
Environmentalists are appalled. Indeed, the Sierra Club, knowing that a Class II designation implies "significant deterioration" of clean air, threatens to go to court to overturn the EPA'S plan. Eventually, the increasingly complex issue may be tossed back into the lap of the Congress, where lawmakers may well amend the Clean Air Act to take into account an important factor ignored in the original legislation: economic needs. That kind of uniform federal regulation-coupled with continuing safeguards against overall deterioration of the air quality in the U.S.-would clearly be preferable to the legal confusion invited...