Superfund Program: Review of the EPA Inspector General's Report : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste Management of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session, on July 31, 2002

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Page 41 - ... fairly balanced in terms of the points of view represented and the functions to be performed...
Page 42 - The Honorable John D. Dingell Ranking Member Committee on Energy and Commerce US House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Congressman Dingell: Thank you for your letter of May 4, 2001, concerning the arsenic in drinking water standard.
Page 35 - EPA is now in the process of planning implementation of the provisions in the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (Public Law 107118).
Page 8 - Lakes, as agreed upon in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the United States and Canada. (The agreement was signed in 1972 and has been updated periodically since then.) Phosphorus had been identified as a principal catalyst for excessive algal development and subsequent "choking
Page 43 - The extraordinary protection embodied in subsection (c) permits an agency to respond to a request for such records as if the records in fact did not exist. (See discussion of the operation of these special provisions under Exclusions, below.) Subsection (d) makes clear that the FOIA was not intended to authorize any new withholding of information, including from Congress. While individual Members of Congress possess merely the rights of access guaranteed to "any person...
Page 34 - ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR, OFFICE OF SOLID WASTE AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE, US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Good morning Madam Chairman and members of the subcommittee.
Page 43 - ... Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies Re: Procedures Governing Responses to Congressional Requests for Information (Nov. 4, 1982) (requiring specific Presidential authorization for any invocation of executive privilege in response to a congressional access request). CONCLUSION In sum. when an agency receives a FOIA request from a Member of Congress, it should first determine whether it is a duly authorized request on behalf of Congress through a legislative committee...
Page 37 - Administration look forward to working with the members of this committee and the Congress...
Page 27 - STATEMENT OF HON. EDWARD M. KENNEDY, US SENATOR FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Senator KENNEDY.
Page 117 - WASHINGTON, July 30. — Short of money and struggling to end delays in cleaning up toxic waste sites, the Federal Super-fund program has entered an unusual arrangement with Florida in which the State will pay for work at a toxic site that would normally be handled by the Federal Government.

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