Clean Air Act: Historical Information on EPA’s Process for Reviewing California Waiver Requests and Making Waiver Determinations

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• Alternative Title:
  Clean Air Act : historical information on Environmental Protection Agency's process for reviewing California waiver requests and making waiver determinations ; Historical information on EPA's process for reviewing California waiver requests and making waiver determinations
• Creators:
  Stephenson, John B.
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Air quality
  • Air quality management
  • Air pollution
  • Pollution control
  • Air quality management--Law and legislation--United States
  • Air--Pollution--Law and legislation--United States
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GAO-09-249R
• Resource Type:
  Presentations
• Geographical Coverage:
  California
• OCLC Number:
  686774996
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Government Accountability Office
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Air Quality ; NTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Environment Impacts
• Abstract:
  Emissions from mobile sources, such as automobiles and trucks, contribute to air ; quality degradation and can threaten public health and the environment. Under the ; Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates these emissions. ; The act generally allows one set of federal standards for new motor vehicle emissions ; and pre-empts states from adopting or enforcing their own standards. However, it ; also authorizes the EPA Administrator to waive this provision to allow the state of ; California1 to enact and enforce emission standards for new motor vehicles that are ; as protective, in the aggregate, as federal government standards. Other states may ; also adopt California’s standards if they choose. The waiver provision was added to ; the Federal Air Quality Act (one of the precursors of the current Clean Air Act) in ; 1967 because of California’s severe air pollution problems and because the state had ; already established its own emission standards for mobile sources.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17255/dot_17255_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 190.08 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:15da4976c0050a36ac0a27326953cd0780447975670a0909a818e4a15e920593