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CED-79-115 1 (1979-09-21)

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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL /#to'7



Report To The Congress


OF THE UNITED STATES


Improving The Scientific And

Technical Information Available

To The Environmental Protection

Agency In Its Decisionmaking Process


Major constraints plague the Environmental Protection
Agency's ability to set standards and issue regulations The
most important factor is the inconclusive scientific evidence
on which it must often base decisions Numerous court suits
result

EPA should

    --finalize and issue its operating procedures on regula-
    tory decisionmaking and

    --make the Science Advisory Board an integral part of its
    decisionmaking process for all major actions involving
    scientific and technical information

The National Science Foundation should request proposals to
develop and test the science court concept This court would
not be a judicial court but a mechanism to ventilate scientific
disputes during the decisionmaking process

The Federal judicial system seems adequate to consider the
technical aspects of environmental cases in order to render
decisions on the process the Agency follows A separate ju-
dicial environmental court does not appear warranted


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                                  /CED 79115

                                  77     z~a  SEPTEMBER 21, 1979

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