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\nHouse Subcommittee Questions Gorsuch About R&D...    …       …     ..Page 412  \nFormer EPA Employee Predicts Lay Off of Environmental Scientists....          ..Page 412  \nCanadian Acid Rain Position Tied to Internal Politics.....  .   ..    .Page 413  \nIndustry Group Recommends Revisions to Air Act.............      ....Page 414  \n*Dingell Queries Gorsuch on Personnel Cuts..............  ..  .....Page 415  \nSLANTS&TRENDS  \nANOTHER TOUGH WEEK FOR ANNE GORSUCH.State organizations and the League of Women Votersjoined Congressmen last week in criticizing the EPA Administrator and planned budget and personnel cuts.The “they speak and we listen approach\"to program management now being used by EPA is “clearly unac-ceptable to the state administrators who will soon be responsible for the implemehtation of the federallymandated environmental program,\"asserted an organization of state water pollution control administrators.Earlier,state air pollution administrators commented that“EPA's inexplicable rush to cut its own throatwill do the same to us.\"See stories,pages 412,415.  \n*本  \nVICE PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH MET WITH KEY CONGRESSIONAL leaders last week to discuss thefuture of the Clean Air Act.All agreed to try to complete reauthorization this year.However,sweepingchanges in the act are not considered likely.Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ChairmanRobert Stafford(R.-Vt.)told A/WPR that efforts this year would be aimed at a “modest bill.”The substanceof that bill has yet to be determined.He also said that Bush was trying to act as a “catalyst”to get actionfinished this year.The other participants were Sens.Jennings Randolph(D.-W.Va.),John Chafee(R.-R.I.),George Mitchell(D.-Me.),Reps.John Dingell(D.-Mich.),Henry Waxman(D.Calif.),James Broyhill (R.-N.C.),Edward Madigan(R.-IIl.)and Gorsuch.  \nUSER CHARGES IN LIEU OF REGULATION may again be proposed by Sen.Pete Domenici(R.-N.M.)during Clean Air Act deliberations this year.\"Ifind a real attraction in this concept,\"Domenici told a con-ference on “Market Alternatives to Regulation and Subsidies”last week.“It allows industry the opportunityto determine its own cost-effective trade-offs.”Acknowledging the difficulty in taxing industry into extinc-tion,\"Domenici insisted the attempt must be made.  \nCLEAN WATER ACT AMENDMENTS were still awaiting floor action in both the House and Senate at presstime last week.Senate bill,S.1716,was expected to be taken up late last week or early this week,while theHouse bill,H.R.4503,is scheduled for action Monday or Tuesday of this week.Some amendments are ex-pected to be offered to the House bill,including one striking provisions easing ocean waiver requirements(A/WPR,Oct.5,1981,p.383).Negotiations have already been initiated between House and Senate staffersto smooth the way for a conference on the two bills.  \nFIRST STEPFOR SUPERFUND'was the billing Gorsuch gave last week to her announcement of the top114 sites to be given priority treatment under the chemical dump cleanup program.The 10 overall worstsites,in alphabetical order,are:Commencement Bay,Takoma,Wash.;Keefe Environmental Services,Epping,  \nN.H.;Lipari Landfill,Pitman,N.J.;Mark Phillip Trust,Woburn,Mass.;McAdoo Associates,McAdoo,Pa.;Nyanza Chemical Waste Dump,Ashland,Mass.;Pollution Abatement Services,Oswego,N.Y.;Price Landfill,Pleasantville,N.J.;Tar Creek,Ottawa,Okla;and Tybouts Corners,New Castle,Del.Meanwhile,the agency'slong-awaited national contingency plan has been forwarded to Congress.Details next issue.        \n# HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE CONCERNED ABOUT R&D,GORSUCH PROMISES TO DO MORE WITH LESS\n\ncomplex and cumbersome management system and a budget planning process that seem more to frustratethan support their efforts,\"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch stated last week.In testimony before the House Science Subcommittee on Natural Resources,Gorsuch ou","cbCaipn4mCR33KWi","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipn4mCR33KWi","pdf",4021692,11,"English","# 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