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

B-164031(2) 1 (1970-06-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkse0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTRICTED -Not to be wevesee oUtswde the 5fGene5a ,4-Ago .3 ( Acconing Office except on the bsis of Spealfc aPProv31 by the Office of Legisl&Vvo. Liaison, a record og which is kept by the Distbibution Sectiong Publications Branch, OAS COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES C - WASHINGTON, D C 20548 RELEASED B- 164031(2) JUN 12 1970 Dear Mr. Chairman: In response to a request by Mr Richard Royce, Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Public Works, in a meeting with representa- tives of the General Accounting Office on April 9, 1970, we have ob- tained for your Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution certain infor- mation on air pollution control grants awarded to local agencieswithin four air quality cont rolr egons hytheNationaL Air PollutionC-ont rol Administration, Environmental Health S ervice, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). In our meeting with Mr Royce and other members of the Commit- tee staff, we discussed our past review of HEW~s policies and practices of awarding grants to air pollution control agencies for promoting re- gional control programs for which the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 1857) provided special incentives in the form of higher Federal cost- sharing rates than were applicable to other than regional control programs In that review we had observed that such incentives might not have been as effective as intended by the act and that legislative action might be desirable to give the regional approach greater impetus. The Clean Air Act encourages the development, establishment, or maintenance of regional air pollution control agencies by authorizing a higher rate of Federal grant support to regional agencies than to a single State or municipality Regional agencies are defined :n the law as those established by two or more States and having substantial powers or duties pertaining to the prevention and control of air pollution or as agencies of two or more municipalities located in the same State or in different States and having substantial powers or duties pertaining to the prevention and control of air pollution The act authorizes the Secretary to participate in the cost of air pollution control programs up to the following rates:

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