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--Pollution--Law And Legislation--United States Air Pollution Air Quality Air Quality Management Air Quality Management--Law And Legislation--United States Pollution Control
• 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.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:15da4976c0050a36ac0a27326953cd0780447975670a0909a818e4a15e920593
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/17255/dot_17255_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 190.08 KB ]