EPA RELEASES PLANS FOR IMPLEMENTING NEW CLEAN AIR OZONE STANDARD

August 21, 1998
EPA has sketched out a preliminary plan for implementing the nation's new "eight-hour" ozone standard that calls for most nonattainment areas to come into compliance by the end of 2003 and a handful of others to reach attainment on a sliding schedule before 2010. The proposed policy, which was released Aug. 19, largely tracks a 1997 presidential directive and stresses that most ozone nonattainment areas will be spared from having to implement local control measures so long as they support...


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