STATES FAULT EPA PUSH TO REDESIGNATE OZONE NONATTAINMENT AREAS

EPA is increasingly urging states to petition the agency to redesignate areas that previously failed to attain new ozone standards, in an effort that is designed to show air quality improvements but that state sources say further complicates their efforts to comply with major new clean air rules. State officials are complaining that they are facing looming deadlines for completing complicated state implementation plans (SIPs) for the new rules -- including the clean air visibility rule, the clean air interstate...