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              …·Page 103*NAS Endorses FGD Systems for Stationary Sources·                ….Page 104*California ARB Considers Ban on Catalysts                    ………·Page 105*Paper Industry Control Cost Set at $8-Billion-                     ··Page 107*Subpoenas Quashed in U.S.Steel Investigation-·                       -Page 107*NEPA Prompts Changes in 32%of Corps Projects·                     -Page 107*Summary of Recent Effluent Guideline Actions-·                      Page 108  \nSLANTS &TRENDS  \nENVIRONMENTAL ACTION ON CAPITOL Hill gained momentum last week with Senateapproval_of strip mine control legislation by an apparently veto-proof 84-13 vote.Beforesending S.7 to the House,the Senate passed an amendment permitting strip mining inalluvial valley floors where the land is not being used for crop or forage production,butvirtually all of the other environmental provisions which invited President Ford's pocketveto last year remain intact.House is expected to complete work on a 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Federal Trade Commission explaining in detail any increases in costsresulting from Federal regulations.Rosenthal's bill would then limit cost pass-throughs tothe actual dollar cost increases associated with those regulations.  \nTO SUPPORT HIS PROPOSAL,Rosenthal released the results of a study suggesting that\"business attacks on Federal_consumer and environmental regulations are little more thanself-serving attempts to use Federal requirements as a scapegoat for deeper economic pro-blems or managerial shortcomings.\"Where Federal regulatory programs are really inflation-ary,he said,\"they are invariably designed to protect one segment of the business com-munity against another,not to foster consumer and environmental protection.”Congress-ional action to eliminate that kind of regulation,he said,would not be obstructed byhis legislation.  \nMarch 17,1975        \n# ROGERS OPENS HEARINGS ON CLEAN AIR ACT AMENDMENTS\n\nHouse Commerce Committee opened hearings on proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act lastweek with members concentrating on Environmental Protection Agency's recommendation to postponestatutory automobile emission standards because of sulfuric acid emissions caused by catalytic converters.Congress must have the full record before it can either support or reject EPA's position,members said,while persistently querying EPA administrator Russell E.Train about the health effects of sulfuric acidemissions.Train admitted that the agency still does not have sufficient data to accurately quantify therisk to public health from the auto sulfuric acid emissions,but insisted that based on information avail-able,his action was needed to prevent a problem before it occurs.  \nThere is no disagreement on the health effects of breathing sulfuric acid mist,Train said.What isuncertain is the dispersion of sulfuric acid when it leaves an ","cbCaijL52bcRIWIO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijL52bcRIWIO","pdf",3754081,11,"English","# Rogers opens hearings on Clean Air Act 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