Word: epa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the law, the states have until 1972 to present plans for compliance, and if accepted by the EPA, they have until 1975 to carry them out. Auto manufacturers have until 1975 to reduce 1970-level emissions by 90%. Last week they told Ruckelshaus that no matter how much Government pressure is exerted, Detroit will be unable to meet the 1975 deadline...
...This authorized the Government to supersede state boat-pollution laws. But the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water Quality has not yet decided what the nationwide standards should be. Although the 1970 law called for the best devices "within the limits of available technology," the EPA is caught between state officials, who reject all macerater-chlorinators, and boatmen, who point out that these devices are now so efficient (and superior to many land-based sewage plants) that they should be acceptable nationally. Until the issue is resolved, boatmen in New York and similar states may be marooned...
Nixon told Congress that his big gun will be his new enforcer, the Environmental Protection Agency, for which he requested a 1972 outlay of $2.45 billion, nearly double its current budget. The agency's chief target: big industrial polluters. The President seeks power for EPA to impose fines of up to $25,000 a day on industries that pollute waterways in violation of federal-state water-quality standards. In addition, violators would be subject to court-imposed fines of up to $25,000 a day. Repeated violations would draw fines...
...EPA would also be empowered to restrict the use or distribution of "any" substance deemed hazardous to health or the environment. It would set standards for noise abatement, enforce new ones for strip mining, establish a national policy to curb ocean pollution, and crack down on pesticides. The most dangerous chemicals would reach the public only through Government-approved pest-control consultants...
...backbone of the law will be new air-quality standards to be set by the Environmental Protection Agency. It will specify allowable nationwide levels of such major pollutants as soot and sulfur dioxide. Though states will translate the standards into emission tolerances for individual factories, the EPA can take over such policing on 120 days' notice if states fail to follow through. As an alternative, the EPA may sue polluters directly. In a remarkable expansion of the power of ordinary Americans to combat bureaucratic diffidence, the law also authorizes citizen suits against alleged violators or, for lax enforcement, against...