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Clean Air Rulemaking: Tracking System Would Help Measure Progress of Streamlining Initiatives

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 2, 1995
Report No. RCED-95-70
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Summary:

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 established ambitious milestones for protecting the nation's air quality. To translate the act's statutory mandates into workable rules and regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has had to develop and issue rules at an unprecedented pace. At the time of the act's passage, EPA's rulemaking process averaged more than three years and some rules took as many as nine years to complete. In response to congressional concerns that EPA has continued to miss statutory deadlines, this report (1) describes EPA's progress in streamlining the process for developing and issuing clean air rules and identifies ways to improve EPA's streamlining effort and (2) describes the Office of Management and Budget's corresponding efforts to reduce the time it takes to review EPA's rules.

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