Outlook 2005 Clean Air Tracking

REGULATION Air Rule For Region X Indian Reservations EPA is expected to finalize in 2005 a first-time federal implementation plan (FIP) that contains basic air rules that would apply to all Native American reservations in the Region X states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. EPA says the rules are needed "to establish a level playing field and create basic federally enforceable rules" under the air act for sovereign Native American lands, which presently have no clean air restrictions. But opponents...