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RCED-84-201 1 (1984-09-27)

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'BY THE US, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE


Report To The Chairman, Subcommittee On

Oversight And Investigations,

Committee On Energy And Commerce,

House Of Representatives




Status Of EPA's Air Quality

Standards For Carbon Monoxide


The Clean Air Act requires the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to establish, and peri-
odically review and revise national air quality
standards. EPA established standards for carbon
monoxide in 1971 and in August 1980 proposed
updated revisions to those standards. Seven of
the eight key studies EPA used to support the
revisions were authored by a cardiologist em-
ployed by the Veterans Administration.

In March 1983 EPA was about to issue its revised
standards when it learned that the cardiologist
had been under investigation by the Food and
Drug Administration and the Veterans Admin-
istration since 1979 for, among other things,
alleged falsification of research. As a result, EPA
delayed issuing the standards, conducted an
audit of the research data, and concluded that it
could not rely on the cardiologist's research.
Even without this research, EPA believes that
there is a sufficient scientific basis to support
revised standards but has not yet decided what
those standards will be.






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