About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

GGD-78-116 1 (1978-10-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazwz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RET~TD-riot -0 t, 'r,, o'de fqe e. /O.?2b. by th-e i ~ ~ - COMPTROLLER GERAL OF T&T4 STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 RELEASED B-163:7LM110802 B-1637~OCT 4 1978 The Honorable Paul G. Rogers Chairman, Subcommittee on Health and the Environment Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce 110802 House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Your letter of June 14, 1978, asked for our opinion on the role of the Executive Office economic units and the legality and adequacy of the intervention of .such units-- the Council of Economic Advisers, Council on Wage and Price Stability, and the Regulatory Analysis Review Group--in rule- making by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Admini-. stration (OSHA). More specifically, we examined into, as agreed with your Office, (1) why the economic units intervene in Federal rule- making proceedings; (2) the efforts to develop regulations on a cost-benefit basis and the extent to which the intervening units have assessed the total direct and indirect costs of preventable, environmentally related diseases; (3) the legality of the Wage and Price Council's intervention if it does not measure the inflationary impact of the failure to undertake maximum feasible efforts to prevent such diseases; (4) the steps taken or being taken to improve the intervention process; (5) the nature, extent, and legality of the economic units' efforts to influence OSHA and EPA rulemaking other than filing formal submissions for the rulemaking record; and (6) the ex- tent to which the Wage and Price Council reviews its proposals to insure that they could be lawfully implemented by EPA and OSHA. As agreed, we examined the economic units intervention in OSHA's coke oven and cotton dust standards and EPA's fossil fuel-fired boilers standard. We also examined the interaction between the economic units and OSHA on its acrylonitrile regula- tion because, according to all involved, it represents a good case of the process working in accordance with established procedures. GGD-78-116 (41910)

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most