B-221421: Feb 28, 1986

THE HIGHWAY FUND SANCTION APPLIES ONLY WHEN EPA FINDS THAT THE GOVERNOR OF A NONATTAINMENT STATE HAS NOT SUBMITTED OR AT LEAST IS NOT MAKING REASONABLE EFFORTS TO SUBMIT A PART D SIP REVISION CONTAINING TRANSPORTATION CONTROLS. OUR VIEW IS THAT. USE OF THE SANCTION IS CONFINED TO CONTINUING MAJOR DEFICIENCIES IN THE JULY 1. SECS. 7501-08) ARE ALSO KNOWN AS PART D OF THE ACT. WAS ALLOWED IF A STATE...

B-221421: Oct 21, 1987

Courts that have considered similar issues have held that it is not necessary to create a public record of verbal input from OMB and have not disapproved of concurrent review. Your concern is that concurrent review may violate the requirements of section 307 (d)(4)(B)(ii) of the Clean Air Act. Whether a particular draft is sufficiently complete to be given external circulation is an agency decisio...

B-221421: Published: Oct 21, 1987. Publicly Released: Jan 12, 1988.

GAO commented on whether the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) practice of conducting concurrent reviews of proposed regulations violated a Clean Air Act requirement that agencies place in the public docket any draft submitted for interagency review. GAO found that, although the concurrent review process could make review revisions more difficult to trace, the pertinent section of the act di...

B-221421: Published: Feb 28, 1986. Publicly Released: Jul 9, 1986.

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO commented on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) draft memorandum of its legal conclusions supporting the liberal use of the highway funding sanction in the Clean Air Act to promote cooperation with its enforcement efforts for post-deadline attainments of national ambient air quality standards. The act states that no projects or grants shall be appr...