| Please Note: You may need to use the scroll bar on the right hand side of the screen to read all the information on a page. The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) is an agency that assists the U.S. Congress in evaluating federal programs. Recognizing the key role that states and local agencies play in implementing the Clean Air Act, members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works have asked us to collect information on the anticipated effects of the final and proposed rules for the New Source Review (NSR) Program, including the environmental implications and challenges that state and local agencies may face in integrating the changes into existing programs. We need your help in completing this survey so that we can provide congressional decisionmakers with the information they need. We are asking you to provide information on the potential impacts of the final rule and proposed rule (which were published in the Federal Register on December 31, 2002, 67 Fed. Reg. 80186, 80290) on your air pollution control programs. We believe that you can make an important contribution to this study, and ask that you respond to this survey so that we may provide the most complete information to the Congress. The survey should take 1 to 2 hours to complete. The information that you provide will be reported by GAO in aggregate form and will be attributed to state and local air quality personnel as a group. GAO will not disclose individually identifiable data from this survey unless requested by Congress or otherwise compelled by law. Part I of the survey collects general information on your state or local air quality program. Part II contains questions about challenges that you foresee in adopting the final NSR revisions. Part III collects information on the potential impacts of the final NSR revisions on your program, including impacts on permitting and emissions levels. Part IV collects similar information on the potential impacts of the proposed NSR revisions. When answering the questions in this survey, please coordinate with the appropriate officials within your state or local agency who have the best understanding of how the final and proposed NSR revisions may affect your air quality program. |
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