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Although this report and the resultant hearings on this issue held by the Senate Public Works Committee on November 5 and 6, 1973 did not prevent the use of catalysts on 1975 vehicles, it certainly precipitated a considerable budget increase for the EPA unit at Research Triangle Park (RTP) in North Carolina (34), which had "gone public" with this concern, and resulted in the expenditure of many million of dollars by automobile and catalyst manufacturers and unidentified other taxpayers. Early studies were presented at the February 1974 SAE meeting and at a symposium at RTP in April of 1974. Proponents of catalysts pointed out that alternative calculations based on the use of surrogates (CO, Pb), for which emission levels and roadside concentrations were both known. 

S. 1480, the original Bill reported by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (2 ) was a zero-release, zero-risk bill. It contemplated clean-up of spills and old dump sites down to a no-detectable-presence, zero-risk, level. No allowance was made for risk analysis, comparative risk analysis, or balanced decision-making where response action and its cost would bear a reasonable relationship to the risk. Instead, cost factors were put aside in favor of a liability scheme to tap deep corporate pockets for whatever expense would arise. 

Page 144. A casual observer can see. .. Testimony of Gordon Danby before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, February 26, 1988. 

Efforts to develop comprehensive national security regulations for chemical facilities remain on a back burner. The first comprehensive chemical plant security legislation (S 1602) proposed by Senator Jon Corzone was blocked after it had been unanimously approved in the Senate industry currently supports a bill first proposed by Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate s Environmental and Public Works Committee. 

Plant Security and Safety. Presented at the United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Washington, DC, USA, June 21. 

Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine now stepped forward to seek legislative expression for what was already more than an issue but not quite yet a movement. The Public Works Committee in 1963 established a subcommittee under his chairmanship to deal with air and water pollution. His first initiative was a water pollution bill, enacted in weaker form two years later. 

U.S. Senate, Report of the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution of the Committee on Public Works. Washington, DC, June 17-15, 1966. Source for Muskie hearings and Stockinger letter. 

Kinner, N.E., Fate, Transport and Remediation of MTBE, Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Salem, NH, April 23, 2001. 

Mielke HW. 1984. Hearing before the committee on environment and public works, United States Senate. Ninety-eighth Congress. Second session. Washington, DC. 

Toxic Substances, Environmental Oversight, Research and Development of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Washington D. C. US General Accounting Office. 

Calvert, J. G. Interactions of air pollutants, pp. 19-101. In National Academy of Sciences-National Research Coundl, Assembly of Life Sciences. Proceedings of the Conference on Health Effects of Air Pollutants. October 3-5, 1973. Prepared for the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate. Committee Print Serial No. 93-15. Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973. 

U.S. Senate Committee on Public Works Print Serial No. 93-15. Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973. 

The data base on health effects of photochemical oxidants and ozone was reviewed by the Subcommittee on Ozone and Other Photochemical Oxidants in a report prepared in September 1974 for the Committee on Public Works, U.S. Senate.The following discussion repeats some of the material in that report, to exemplify the need for further work, including controlled human studies. 

Epstein, Samuel S. 1968. Testimony on cancer and mutation-producing chemicals in polluted urban air, U.S. Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Air and Water Pollution of the Committee of Public Works. July 29-31, Washington, D.C. 

Crocker, T.D., Statement, Select Committee on Small Business and Committee on Environment and Public Works, Economic Impact of Acid Rain, U.S. Senate, 96th Cong., 2nd Sess. (Sept. 23, 1980), 100-111. 

See Testimony of David G. Hawkins, Director, NRDC Climate Center, Hearings on S. 385, Clear Skies Act of 2003 , U.S. Senate Committee on Environment Public Works, Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety, April 8, 2003 National Environmental Trust http //www.cleartheair.org/mercury/mercuryhurts. 

Emission Control, prepared for the United States Senate Committee on Public Works, August (1973). 

U.S. Congress, Senate. 1978. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, C4-4170. Committee on Environmental and Public Works. 

General Accounting Office. Wastewater Facilities Experts Views on How Federal Funds Should Be Spent to Improve Security. Report to the Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate January 2005 Available from . 

Abrams, R. Acid Rain, Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate, 1982 pp 170-171. 

When the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works looked at the Airborne Lead Reduction Act of 1984, a proposed amendment to the CAA that would ban the sale of leaded gasoline for general use, medical experts reviewed the medical research on health effects of lead exposme... 

R. Mouee-Eeaso, Written Testimony Submitted by U.S. Chemical Scfety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso to the Joint Committee Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing entitled, Oversight of the Implementation of the President s Executive Order on Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security , December 11,2014, found at http //www.csb.gOv/assets/l/16/December l lth hearing Final.pdf (accessed December 20, 2014). 

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