Report of the Committee on the Environment

In 1991 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) labored to develop an enormous body of rules to implement the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. While the EPA made progress, developing draft rules for some programs and publishing proposed rules for others, it did not issue final rules for the ozone nonattainment, toxics, and acid rain programs. Discussed in this report are the Acid Rain Permit Rule, the proposed Allowance System rule, the proposed Continuous Emissions Monitoring Rule, Wisconsin Electric Power Co. v. Reilly (WEPCO) rulemaking, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the National Energy Security Act of 1992, RCRA reauthorization and oil and gas explorations and production wastes, and congressional action